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What if they decide they want to gobble up Taiwan, Vietnam, Japan, Australia, etc? Should we just sit back and say "it's not us, so this is fine?"
Does Taiwan have nukes? EDIT: google thinks no.
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Eh, you see a headline every so often alleging this but they're pretty far off the mark. CSGs are defended by the entire system operating in layers. During conflict conditions they'll have airborne early warning radar flying to see threats coming a long way out. There's usually at least 4 AEGIS equipped ships. The carrier air wing will be doing patrols and intercepting threats at great distance. The carrier itself wi…
Has the belief that these platforms are survivable ever been tested in a meaningful scenario (ie, a conflict between two carrier-group-capable adversaries)? I get that the Navy does a lot of stuff to mitigate this threat, but it's a hell of a threat to mitigate.
would a MARV-tipped ICBM be able to reach a target faster than flying straight at it at Mach 5? I was looking for MARV reentry velocities, couldn't find any numbers. A regular ballistic missile hits mach 20+ on reentry but I don't know if it maintains that speed all the way to the target.
What does hypersonic mean? I thought all missiles were largely supersonic, except for maybe cruise missiles.
Though it means mach 5+ in terms of weapons systems it indicates a capability for a long highly maneuverable period at those speeds. https://www.gao.gov/blog/faster-speed-sound-u.s.-efforts-dev...
These weapons represent an ability for both the US and China to conventionally intervene from their mainlands to any location within the Pacific.
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From what I understand, we aren't particularly afraid of hypersonic missiles because nobody even has defenses against conventional ICBMs.
Perhaps hypersonic missiles could play a part in ICBM defense. You need something very fast and maneauverable.
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Every time the navy is asked about the survivability of the carrier groups they seem to start talking about the “whole kill-chain” of the enemy weapons. It sounds like they plan to knock out the targeting satelites before they could target them instead of trying to catch the missiles. Or at least thats how I read the tea leaves.
They're not going to target one link. They're going to target the whole kill chain. Satellites, sure, and the satellite ground stations, and the missile launch sites, and the update path from the satellite ground stations to the missile launch sites, and jamming radio reception for the missiles in flight, and optical chaff or some other kind of confusion, and radar chaff, and probably some I haven't thought of.
So, their plan in the event of war is to make space inaccessible for all of humanity, by filling it with debris from killed satellites?
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It's a speed regime. Under Mach 1 is subsonic. From Mach 0.9 through 1.2 or so is transsonic. 1.0 and greater is supersonic. Above Mach 5ish is hypersonic. Mach 25 is approximately orbital velocity, but since Mach is actually related to air pressure, it's not a very meaningful comparison except to note that anything moving that fast isn't going to be in-atmosphere for very long.
In subsonic flight, the air behaves as if it's incompressible (like a liquid). In transonic flight, some parts of the airflow are starting to become supersonic, and compressibility starts to become a factor. Something called "wave drag" is important in this regime, as the compression wave is moving along with the aircraft. In supersonic flow, compressibility of the air becomes the main thing and the flow is defined b…
0 - The reasons are due to maximum allowable pressures, and barrel rifling. At max pressure for a 40gr bullet you’re going to get maybe Mach 1.1, maybe. If you want to go faster without increasing pressure above spec, the solution is a lighter bullet. But lighter bullets often like different rifling, and virtually all off the shelf 22lr barrels come with 1:16 rifling, unsuitable for extra light bullets. Also, lighter bullet get pushed around by the wind more; you’d often rather compensate for more drop than wind, since drop is more predictable.
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Eh, you see a headline every so often alleging this but they're pretty far off the mark. CSGs are defended by the entire system operating in layers. During conflict conditions they'll have airborne early warning radar flying to see threats coming a long way out. There's usually at least 4 AEGIS equipped ships. The carrier air wing will be doing patrols and intercepting threats at great distance. The carrier itself wi…
Has the belief that these platforms are survivable ever been tested in a meaningful scenario (ie, a conflict between two carrier-group-capable adversaries)? I get that the Navy does a lot of stuff to mitigate this threat, but it's a hell of a threat to mitigate.
Not since WW2.....but the US Navy built up a LOT of invaluable experience on damage control practices and ship design based on the pounding our carriers took fighting the Japanese. Our current Ford and Nimitz CVNs are the refined iterations of a design lineage going back to the very durable Essex class. That said, the recent destruction of the Bonhomme Richard amphibious assault ship, which sustained cost-prohibitive damage in port due to a single arsonist, is disturbing.
There are wargames where we lose carriers against China.....and there are wargames where we don't. They're not invulnerable, but they never have been against a true peer anyway. Often it boils down to the CSG Commander not being overly cocky in terms of how he maneuvers his force.
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there is no chance a US carrier could be nuked without a proportional response
The hypersonic missle won't carry nuclear war head. The impact is enough to render a CV lose combat capability. The modern weaponry are delicate machines. A 50s computer might withstand an earthquake. The modern one probably won't survive a drop less than 1 meter.
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/41181/shocking-images-...
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In subsonic flight, the air behaves as if it's incompressible (like a liquid). In transonic flight, some parts of the airflow are starting to become supersonic, and compressibility starts to become a factor. Something called "wave drag" is important in this regime, as the compression wave is moving along with the aircraft. In supersonic flow, compressibility of the air becomes the main thing and the flow is defined b…
Fun, unrleated fact. Transsonic is very bad for rifle accuracy, as it tends to be somewhat unpredictable. For most rifle calibers this isn't a big deal, because they spend their entire flight time in the supersonic flight regime. But for 22lr, this is an issue because even the fastest 22lr around is going to be subsonic within 100 yards or so for reasons[0]. The result is a shot that’s laser accurate until 100 yards…
