[POLL] Type 055 vs Ticomderoga. Battle of the mighty beasts. Which more powerful?

[XTQ1999]

The missile are low speed 0.8 Mach. Once detected, they are dead meat and can easily show down by CWIS.. Unlike Chinese YJ-18 going at terminal speed of mach 3 and doing aggressive evasive measure to shake off CWIS tracking. Plus if enemy radar detected it late, they will not have enough time to do countermeasure becos the missile leaves very little window time unlike a 0.8 Mach ASHM. It does not matter even the range is 10000km for tomahawk anti-ship missile.

Lol, CIWS have less than 20 to 30 seconds to respond to such incoming threats even at low speeds due to their range, and if US Navy, with thousands of VLS, decides to use 2 to 3 missiles per target, CIWS will be lucky to even take out 1 out of those incoming threats. That is if the ship is even out at sea, at such ranges, missile can target the ship all the way at its home port.

The block IV TLAM D tomahawk anti-ship variant will have a range of 1700 kms, scheduled to enter service in 2021.

As mentioned by LeGend, the SM-6 has anti-ship capabilities at ranges up to 460kms.

AGM-158C LRASM is a much better option, and already operated by Air Force, 2019 for Navy with no news about use of it in ships.

 

[patero]

@XTQ1999, didn't the US navy pass on the LRASM, opting for the Naval strike missile for short to medium range? I think they'll use an updated Harpoon for short range anti ship, AGM Mavericks for close range/fast moving, the Naval strike missile for medium range, SM-6s for long range and block IV Tomahawk-d for extremely long range.

 

[Beast]

Lol, CIWS have less than 20 to 30 seconds to respond to such incoming threats even at low speeds due to their range, and if US Navy, with thousands of VLS, decides to use 2 to 3 missiles per target, CIWS will be lucky to even take out 1 out of those incoming threats. That is if the ship is even out at sea, at such ranges, missile can target the ship all the way at its home port.



AGM-158C LRASM is a much better option, and already operated by Air Force, 2019 for Navy with no news about use of it in ships.

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CWIS is not only the solution... ECM, follow by intercepting missile , chaff before CWIS as last ditch effort.. But that is provided, you have already detected inbound missile once it launched which gives u ample time.. A high speed 3 mach inbound missile will leaves very little window time. Against a modern navy 2-3 slow flying 0.8 mach anti-ship missile is not enough to defeat a modern large warship. Against a second rated small frigate may be enough but definitely not 055 destroyer with latest S-band AESA and multi-tracking sensor.

 

[XTQ1999]

@XTQ1999, didn't the US navy pass on the LRASM, opting for the Naval strike missile for short to medium range? I think they'll use an updated Harpoon for short range anti ship, AGM Mavericks for close range/fast moving, the Naval strike missile for medium range, SM-6s for long range and block IV Tomahawk-d for extremely long range.

Naval Strike is for Littoral Combat Ships

I don't think Navy has picked its long range replacement for harpoons yet, but LRASM will be used by Navy Aircraft and Air Force. Just based on that, I would say its a front-runner in that competition.