Reputable sources??? WTF is that?? Like your B.S. here???
LMAO... Who said passive stealth radars??
http://military.people.com.cn/n1/2018/0404/c1011-29907679.html
How many of your type-23 frigates have been retrofitted with those radars and missiles??? Can you provide the 'reputable source' lol... that you have refitted all of your type-23 frigates rather than one or two??? No you can not. And 25 km is still shitty...you got seconds to respond to our hyper sonic missiles before your ships turning into ashes...conservative??? 60 km in trail... LMAO...Self claimed shxt again... We can claim we killed an alien in trail...Who knows...
'tell me for free'?? No thanks, lol....
Full generation ahead? Your daddy told you that?? Just stop bragging with no substance...
Simple logic:
Your anti-ship missiles are shitty and little few in quantity which make you can do nothing to our ships no matter it's from the air or from the sea:
https://www.savetheroyalnavy.org/mo...replace-royal-navy-harpoon-anti-ship-missile/
Our air defense missile system cover the whole range over 300+ km with multiple layers of defense and overwhelming quantity... You got no chance to get through.
Your air defense missile is shitty as well and little few in quantity...It has no chance against our overwhelming numbers of anti-ship missiles which are generations ahead of yours, with 400km/1000+km range and 4 mach in speed make your air defense system a joke...lol...
1000 DF26s can kill 100 carriers, but you just have 2...
Metre wave radar is not magic that somehow makes stealth aircraft like F-35 "visible".
It will not give enough accuracy to pinpoint a firing solution as lots again need to be put at multiple points and at multiple axis to be able to do this.
I am not even going to talk about the F-35s spoofing and jamming techniques that are the most advanced on any fighter aircraft.
Yes it is better than not having it at all but China needs much more to be able to defeat stealth aircraft like F-35.
Enough Type-23 frigates have got the Artisan 3D radar and the 32-cell Sea Ceptor system to provide a virtually impenetrable ring around the 2 carriers and that is all that matters.
The others with Sea-Wolf SAMs(32 cell VLS) are again formidable and can shoot down any anti-ship missile that China manages to throw at them.
Type-054A/HQ-16 is thought to be 1990s Western tech level and the Artisan/Sea Ceptor combo is 2010s and so that makes them a full generation ahead.
Air-defence - the F-35s and Astutes will be the first line of defence by launching stealthy attacks on your fleet from the air and under the sea.
The 6 Type-45 destroyers are even reckoned by the US as the best air defence destroyers on the planet and nothing will get through them as long as they do not exhaust their 48 missile load. The SAMPSON MFR is perched 25m in the air and will "see" any Chinese missiles sea-skimming from 25 kms and then dispatch them with a single SAM.
If your missiles get past the Type-45s then it will be Type-23s that will be waiting with the Artisan/Sea Ceptor combo.
Last line of defence for the carriers is the 3 CIWS that each of them has.
All in all you will need to do the below to hit one of the carriers:
1. Survive Astute and F-35B attacks
2. Get past the 6 Type-45 destroyers
3. Get past the 13 Type-23 frigates
4. Get past the 3 CIWS that each carrier has
I would say that China's chances are almost zero and you have more chance of a lucky hit by launching 100 DF-21Ds - be careful to leave enough of your Navy to protect them against UK cruise missile attacks from submarines!