Even if it were half that (i.e. 120km) it could be air-launched well beyond most ships' SAM range, effectively making interception by land- or carrier-aviation the only possible hard-counter.
But ship board SAMs are only one of the last defence capabilities, the first the launch fighter must get close enough without beeing detected by air defence fighters of the carrier and even if launched, the fighters still will be the first choice to incetept them. Not to forget that Barak 8 most likely would intercept it before it reaches it's terminal stage too.
Compare that to a Brahmos launched from an MKI at high speed and altitude, with supersonic speed of the missile itself and extended range. Simply a whole different case, but Safiriz still desperately triese to find similarities and that was the point.
But even then, she would carry a maximum of 16 Mig-29K, of which only some would be on CAP...
...That plus flying as a package would provide some capability against a carrier even in the face of resistance.
That's not correct, the carrier is aimed on up to 30 aircrafts, of which around 22 are estimated to be fighters. 16 was only the first order in combination with the carrier procurement, but as you know, the final air wing is meant to operate N-LCAs as well.
The attack package would still need to get close enough to fire the missiles, but with CAPs and AEWs that will more difficult and Indo-Pak scenario is not comparable to the Falkland war either. IN carriers would be supported by IAFs shorebased capabilities as well, be it UAVs, AWACS, or maritime attack fighters, like the upgraded Mig 29s too. So to effectively pose a threat to an Indian carrier, you have to have not only a pretty good ammount of fighters, which is unlikely, since PAF will need them to keep IAF in check and other weaponary.
Besides the hype about this missile, Raad and C802 will be the first choices imo, while this missile will be mainly used for cross border air to ground attacks, as the Chinese sources suggest as well, since it is advertised as an air to ground missile, not an anti ship missile.
You're essentially disqualifying IN's main submarine launched anti-ship missile....
Not really, because your country men compared it to Brahmos and not to the Klub missiles for example, like you corretly did. So the speed is a disadvantage compared to the earlier and that was my point!
CM-400AKG is a derivative of YJ-12 and CM-400AKG has a reduced range of 180 to 250 km in order to meet the export restriction of Missile Technology Control Regime.
How is that possible, since both are different missiles with different propulsion systems? YJ-12 is supposed to have a Ramjet propulsion and depending on which picture we take as a source, it is either base on the Russian Kh 31 propulsion, or copied from the French ASMP-A.
