Step aboard the USS Ronald Reagan alongside the 5,000 highly skilled sea and air personnel conducting flight operations in the midst of simulated war exercises.
Note the DF100s antiship missiles . Revealed only in Oct 2019. Mach 5 and range of 1000 km.
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/chinas-df-100-missile-good-enough-kill-americas-navy-96476
China got 3000++ of Mach 3s YJ-12 and YJ18 to throw against the 11 carriers USA want to bring to their self declared FONOP.
Or at least 300++ Mach 3s on each carrier group.
Assuming only 20 % of those will hit. So be assured that at least 10 missiles will hit the carrier and not just 1 missile.
And not just the warhead, there will be 2–3 tons of missiles coming behind the warhead at Mach 3 tearing into the bulkheads and ordnance and aviation fuel and the poor men and women in the carrier. Those 2–3 tons of missile body will be tearing in the bulkheads faster and more deadly then APFSDS. Andf carrying its own unburned fuel to add to the fun.
Just watch the video of an AShCM hitting a ship. That was a Russian AShCM. Chinese AShCMs got those genes to start off with, and with a more powerful warhead and better guidance system and more powerful propellent.
See where the missile hit, around the bow. See the hot gases from that missile exited from near the stern as can be expected from a shape charge with hundreds of kg of explosive typical of anti ship shaped charge war head .
See the entire ship interior could not contain the blast and hellfire from that hit. So talking of bulkheads and empty spaces in carrier to contain the blast is nothing but hot air.
Explosives of WW2 nothing like the power of modern days explosive , especially of latest Chinese N15 , ten times more powerful then Semtex or RDX. The hell fire released by just one Chinese ASCM , even if just 300kg, into that carrier will set off all the bombs and ordnance and aviation fuel inside the carrier.
Even steel will burn when hit with hell fire and tons of steel and debris coming in at Mach 3. The aviation fuel, and paint on walls, the bombs and ordnance will all cook off and add to the huge huge fire inside the carrier. Regardless if carrier under Condition Zebra or Donkey or Jackass.
The brave sailors in those carriers will not care or worry and be happy that their carrier not sinking. And only burning and burning from one end to the other end.
China got 3000+++ Mach 3+ YJ12s YJ18s good enough to burn USA 100,000 ton carriers from end to end , not to talk about taking out USA Burkes and Ticos.
And a whole hosts of other smaller YJs numbered in thousands.
And CM401s
And CM401 big brothers DF21Ds and DF26Bs
China controlled the sky over not just South China Sea, the entire Pacific Ocean , at least to the 2nd Island Chain and beyond and China more than able to take on the Americans.
https://www.quora.com/What-would-a-naval-war-between-China-and-the-U-S-look-like/answer/Husuo-Batao
