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What It Would Really Take To Sink A Modern Aircraft Carrier

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Robert Farley and Jalopnik
Apr 24, 2017,


The modern aircraft carrier is a global symbol of US dominance, hegemony, peace, even empire. But at over 300m long, and displacing more than 100,000 tons, is it a sitting duck? Is the massive emblem of American greatness just an obsolete, vulnerable hunk of steel?

Pre-Commissioning Unit Gerald R. Ford heads out to sea for the first time under its own power for builder's trials. The future USS Gerald R. Ford is the first in a new class of American supercarriers. Photo credit: United States Department of Defence

There's a lot of consternation about whether or not the United States should even have massive supercarriers anymore. Obviously, the answer here is "depends on how much explosives you've got." But while sinking an aircraft carrier is difficult, it's not impossible. The key is what it's used for, and who it's used against. But if you wanted to sink one, here's what you'd have to do, and what you'd be up against.




(Professor Robert Farley is a specialist in military diffusion, maritime affairs, and national security at the Patterson School of Diplomacy and International Commerce at the University of Kentucky. He took exception to our original piece on carrier vulnerability, and seeing as how he's an expert, we offered him a chance to do us one better. — M.B.)

A History Of The Modern American Aircraft Carrier
The U.S. defence community has debated whether or not aircraft carriers are a bit pointless since the late 1940s. In World War II, aircraft carriers became the decisive weapons of naval warfare. Technological developments at the end of the war put the carrier's survivability into question, however. Precision-guided missiles (unmanned Kamikazes, in a sense) and high performance "true" submarines threatened to make carriers impossible to defend, especially in combination with nuclear weapons.

Nuke a carrier and it's sort of game over, really. Nuke anything and things tend to be over.

The first crisis over the future of the carrier came with 1949's "Revolt of the Admirals," in which the U.S. Air Force argued that aircraft carriers were so vulnerable that they represented an unwarranted expense; the Navy's admirals, as the name suggests, practically revolted at this idea.

Eventually the United States would build its Cold War navy around families of "super-carriers," each over 300m long, that began with USS Forrestal (CV-59) in 1955 and continues to this day with the USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78).

These ships have become extraordinarily expensive, and they concentrate an enormous degree of firepower in one (potentially vulnerable) platform. Both during and after the Cold War, plenty of analysts — not to mention taxpayers — criticised the Navy's fixation with the huge ships and suggested that smaller, cheaper vessels could perform many of the same tasks.

For their part, the Soviets spent a great deal of time and money figuring out the best way to kill American carriers, especially after the Navy equipped its carriers with nuclear weapons. Today, China's system of anti-access systems has made US carriers the focus of its attention.

The Importance Of Aircraft Carriers
The core problem for every system dedicated to sinking aircraft carriers is the link between reconnaissance assets, or the things that can spot a carrier, and shooters, the things that can take one down. Submarines, aircraft and surface vessels can't kill carriers at range if they don't know where those carriers are, and one of the notable differences between an aircraft carrier and an airbase is that the former, obviously, is mobile.

Even a supersonic cruise missile can take twenty minutes to reach its target area at maximum range, and a carrier manoeuvring at high speed can move ten miles in the same period of time. A massive aircraft carrier can move surprisingly fast for something weighing over 100,000 tons, with a top speed of more than 30 knots, or about 56km an hour, which is what you get when you go for nuclear power.

The problem is complicated by the fact that the surface ships and submarines firing at such ranges cannot detect the carrier themselves; they need to operate off data provided by other assets, which tends to increase the time and uncertainty associated with targeting decisions.

The United States has spent, essentially, 30 years developing and working out a reconnaissance strike complex that includes multiple redundant systems of surveillance and communication, resulting in a kill chain that transfers information in real time from advanced sensor platforms (satellites, submarine listening posts, drones, patrol aircraft) through communications nodes (satellites, aircraft) to ships, planes, and submarines that can launch and guide missiles to targets.

No other country has similar capabilities, even Russia and China.

Nevertheless, the Russians and the Chinese continue to try. Here are some of the measures that foes have taken to destroy aircraft carriers, and the countermeasures intended to defeat those foes.

THREAT: Torpedoes
image: https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/t_original/rr4u1tpjowpf3mbib9tp.jpg


A portion remains of the North Korean torpedo believed to have sunk the South Korean warship ROKS Cheonan in 2010. Photo credit: Getty Images

No aircraft carrier has ever been hit by a modern torpedo of any sort, so we lack good evidence on how resilient a 90,000-ton ship might be to this kind of attack. The Navy tested a variety of underwater attack mechanisms against the retired Kitty Hawk-class carrier USS America in 2005, but the exact nature of the tests, and their results, remains confidential.

In World War II, submarines sank a total of eight fleet carriers from Japan, the United States, and the United Kingdom, beginning with HMS Courageous in 1939. And during the Cold War, the Navy identified Soviet nuclear submarines as a critical problem for carrier battle groups. As evidence from exercises indicates, submarines continue to pose a threat to aircraft carriers.

To kill a carrier, a submarine needs to avoid escorts and patrol aircraft by either remaining stationary and waiting for a carrier to happen along, or by approaching a carrier quietly. In the open sea the latter is a difficult task, as carriers move at roughly the same speed as modern subs.

Navies closely guard the effective ranges of standard homing torpedoes, but most sources agree on 35 to 40 miles at maximum. Modern torpedoes explode underneath a ship in order to break its back and cause extensive, fatal flooding. The Russian Navy has developed extremely fast "supercavitating" torpedoes, but details on their operational status and practical effectiveness remains thin.

Counter-measures
The main solution to the submarine problem is to prevent submarines from moving into attack positions. Historically, this has involved multiple ways to detect and destroy enemy submarines, including carrier-borne anti-submarine aircraft, helicopters launched from escorts, land-based aircraft and escorts themselves (including both surface ships and submarines).

During the Cold War, the US Navy had enough confidence in its ability to find and kill Soviet subs that it could envision using carriers in major offensive operations against Soviet territory in the Arctic and in the Pacific.

image: https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/t_original/qy4cr0x8ai2yzjkwqhxs.jpg


A Chinese sub transits during a 2009 fleet review. Photo credit: AP

The Navy's anti-submarine warfare (ASW) capability has decayed since the Cold War with the retirement of the S-3 Viking patrol aircraft and the Oliver Hazard Perry class frigates, but then Russia has fewer subs than it did during the Soviet period, and China's long-range nuclear submarines are considered relatively loud and easy to track. Quieter diesels lack the legs to remain on station in the areas that aircraft carriers will operate, and the speed to keep up with the battle groups.

Submarines are not as easy to link into a system of command and control as aircraft and surface ships, either, and hence tend to react more slowly to intelligence. Nevertheless, a sufficient number of carefully deployed submarines can pose a significant threat to any carrier group. If all else fails, most submarines and surface ships carry a variety of counter-measures designed to confuse homing torpedoes. These include noisemakers and decoys intended to distract the torpedo; the Russians and Chinese have wake-homing torpedoes designed to defeat these defences.

THREAT: Cruise Missiles
image: https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/t_original/lxvuqmxyycwdcztqqusw.jpg


The Yakhont, a Russian supersonic anti-ship cruise missile. Photo credit: Russian Ministry of Defence

The first naval cruise missiles saw duty in World War II, when German aircraft used precision-guided glider bombs to attack Allied and Italian ships. In the Cold War, the Soviets developed an array of platforms to launch cruise missiles against US carrier battle groups, including submarines, surface ships, and aircraft. The USSR developed the Tu-22M "Backfire" bomber specifically to conduct cruise missile attacks against Navy carrier battle groups.

China has taken a similar approach, using a variety of different cruise missiles launched from different platforms to threaten US carrier groups. Most of these missiles travel to their target near sea level in order to avoid detection, popping up towards the end of flight in order to inflict maximum damage. This profile makes the missiles difficult, although not impossible, to engage with surface-to-air missiles and defensive fighter aircraft.

Most cruise missiles require programming at launch, getting them to a specific area before they can identify and select targets on their own, but some missiles have more advanced systems that allow them to detect and discern between targets at long range.

Counter-measures
As with torpedoes, the way to avoid cruise missile attacks has been to prevent platforms from coming close enough to aircraft carriers to reliably launch their missiles. For surface ships the problem is relatively simple, and few expect that Chinese or Russian surface vessels can close to within reliable firing distance of a U.S. carrier before being destroyed, what with the wide-reaching net that American naval aviation can cast far in advance of a carrier group.

Cruise missiles complicate the threat posed by submarines, but the principle remains the same; destroy the submarines before they can close within firing range. Aircraft launched cruise missiles (ALCMs) pose a different problem, as aircraft (due to altitude and the curvature of the earth) can identify a carrier group from greater distance than a sub or ship. To defeat aircraft, carrier groups rely on a combination of surface-to-air missiles (launched from Aegis cruisers and destroyers) and fighters flying combat air patrol.

In the Cold War, this evolved into a complex game between the U.S. and the USSR; the Soviets needed good intelligence to justify the launch of a large number of bombers, many of which they expected to lose. The Navy developed decoy techniques to trick the Russians into launching mass sorties, intended to gut Soviet capabilities and deter the Soviets from launching at all.

The Navy developed the F-14 Tomcat to counter the threat of ALCMs; with a big radar and a long range air-to-air missile AAM, the F-14 could provide distant protection for a carrier battle group.

The Navy no longer operates F-14s, but the carrier air group still has combat air patrol responsibilities that include not only the destruction of attacking bombers, but also any drones and patrol aircraft that can report real-time data on the location and orientation of an aircraft carrier.

No cruise missile has ever struck an aircraft carrier, although missiles have had mixed results against smaller warships. Anti-ship missiles were used extensively during the Iran-Iraq War, and generally failed to sink large oil tankers. But a cruise missile can cripple a carrier by damaging its flight deck, even without sinking the ship.

THREAT: Go-Fast Boats
image: https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/t_original/lepk2phwtpw4xvblfonw.jpg


Iranian naval speedboats. Photo credit: Iranian State Television

While the threat that small boats pose to major warships has been apparent for some time, the Pentagon's Millennium Challenge 2002 exercise brought the issue to mainstream attention. In that controversial exercise, small fast boats carrying suicide payloads inflicted heavy damage on U.S. naval forces. "Red" strategy built off of the successful Al Qaeda attack against the destroyer USS Cole in 2000, as well as the history of Iranian small boat operations during the Iran-Iraq War.

Referees eventually prohibited some of the most effective Red techniques in order to give U.S. forces a fighting chance. Even a heavily laden suicide boat would struggle to sink a supercarrier, but they could give the crew a very bad day and reduce the ship's effectiveness for an extended period of time.




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my safest bet is if a missile hit on Ammunition storage room in A/C it might explode resulting slow sinking but again not an easy task to sink a A/C ..
 
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didn't get your tag for some reason.

There are only one way to sink an aircraft carrier. That is to break into the complex defence system that cover sea, air and information.

An aircraft carrier is protected in 4 tiers defences. The first tier is information.

Information is about threat detection and threat management, it may not be preform by the Carrier Group itself, it can be done by any of the ISTAR platform, ground radar, AWACS, maritime surveillance aircraft, naval surveillance ship, escorts and so on. The first battle is for the attacker to by-pass the detection, and the defender to sniff out attackers, both surface and sub-surface.

The second tier is the defence from the on broad air groups, they can reach out over the reach of the escort ship defences, and they can also detect and attack any threat present in the immediate area, each carrier carry about 50 F-18E/F and in between all those aircraft, they carry 200-400 AAM/ASM as a whole. Couple with AWACS like E-2D and other AWACS/AEWS platform, their job is to seek out the enemy before the enemy can enter the next phase.

The third tier is the defence form escort ship, a CBG would usually travel with 5-6 DDG and 1-2 CG, which mean at any time, the whole 220nm radius will be covered with 700 - 900 cell Mk41 VLS, which can be potential launching a mix of AAM like SM-2 and SM-6, ASM like Harpoon and BMD like SM-3 Travelling with a CBG would also include some Submarine and other assorted ship. Also with 5 inch gun, 3 inch gun and any sort of CWIS, Bushmaster and Machinegun.

When the threat can penetrate all that, then it will the forth tier, which is on broad ship defence. Which will be a mix of sea sparrow, RAM launcher, and CIWS.

That is what it take to sink a Carrier.
 
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didn't get your tag for some reason.

There are only one way to sink an aircraft carrier. That is to break into the complex defence system that cover sea, air and information.

An aircraft carrier is protected in 4 tiers defences. The first tier is information.

Information is about threat detection and threat management, it may not be preform by the Carrier Group itself, it can be done by any of the ISTAR platform, ground radar, AWACS, maritime surveillance aircraft, naval surveillance ship, escorts and so on. The first battle is for the attacker to by-pass the detection, and the defender to sniff out attackers, both surface and sub-surface.

The second tier is the defence from the on broad air groups, they can reach out over the reach of the escort ship defences, and they can also detect and attack any threat present in the immediate area, each carrier carry about 50 F-18E/F and in between all those aircraft, they carry 200-400 AAM/ASM as a whole. Couple with AWACS like E-2D and other AWACS/AEWS platform, their job is to seek out the enemy before the enemy can enter the next phase.

The third tier is the defence form escort ship, a CBG would usually travel with 5-6 DDG and 1-2 CG, which mean at any time, the whole 220nm radius will be covered with 700 - 900 cell Mk41 VLS, which can be potential launching a mix of AAM like SM-2 and SM-6, ASM like Harpoon and BMD like SM-3 Travelling with a CBG would also include some Submarine and other assorted ship. Also with 5 inch gun, 3 inch gun and any sort of CWIS, Bushmaster and Machinegun.

When the threat can penetrate all that, then it will the forth tier, which is on broad ship defence. Which will be a mix of sea sparrow, RAM launcher, and CIWS.

That is what it take to sink a Carrier.

Countries like Russia and China can handle US Navy if attacked but it will be bloody for all sides.
 
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Juicero: The Story So Far

What It Would Really Take To Sink A Modern Aircraft Carrier

cad68bd80291df581343a754b855d0f8

Robert Farley and Jalopnik
Apr 24, 2017,


The modern aircraft carrier is a global symbol of US dominance, hegemony, peace, even empire. But at over 300m long, and displacing more than 100,000 tons, is it a sitting duck? Is the massive emblem of American greatness just an obsolete, vulnerable hunk of steel?

Pre-Commissioning Unit Gerald R. Ford heads out to sea for the first time under its own power for builder's trials. The future USS Gerald R. Ford is the first in a new class of American supercarriers. Photo credit: United States Department of Defence

There's a lot of consternation about whether or not the United States should even have massive supercarriers anymore. Obviously, the answer here is "depends on how much explosives you've got." But while sinking an aircraft carrier is difficult, it's not impossible. The key is what it's used for, and who it's used against. But if you wanted to sink one, here's what you'd have to do, and what you'd be up against.




(Professor Robert Farley is a specialist in military diffusion, maritime affairs, and national security at the Patterson School of Diplomacy and International Commerce at the University of Kentucky. He took exception to our original piece on carrier vulnerability, and seeing as how he's an expert, we offered him a chance to do us one better. — M.B.)

A History Of The Modern American Aircraft Carrier
The U.S. defence community has debated whether or not aircraft carriers are a bit pointless since the late 1940s. In World War II, aircraft carriers became the decisive weapons of naval warfare. Technological developments at the end of the war put the carrier's survivability into question, however. Precision-guided missiles (unmanned Kamikazes, in a sense) and high performance "true" submarines threatened to make carriers impossible to defend, especially in combination with nuclear weapons.

Nuke a carrier and it's sort of game over, really. Nuke anything and things tend to be over.

The first crisis over the future of the carrier came with 1949's "Revolt of the Admirals," in which the U.S. Air Force argued that aircraft carriers were so vulnerable that they represented an unwarranted expense; the Navy's admirals, as the name suggests, practically revolted at this idea.

Eventually the United States would build its Cold War navy around families of "super-carriers," each over 300m long, that began with USS Forrestal (CV-59) in 1955 and continues to this day with the USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78).

These ships have become extraordinarily expensive, and they concentrate an enormous degree of firepower in one (potentially vulnerable) platform. Both during and after the Cold War, plenty of analysts — not to mention taxpayers — criticised the Navy's fixation with the huge ships and suggested that smaller, cheaper vessels could perform many of the same tasks.

For their part, the Soviets spent a great deal of time and money figuring out the best way to kill American carriers, especially after the Navy equipped its carriers with nuclear weapons. Today, China's system of anti-access systems has made US carriers the focus of its attention.

The Importance Of Aircraft Carriers
The core problem for every system dedicated to sinking aircraft carriers is the link between reconnaissance assets, or the things that can spot a carrier, and shooters, the things that can take one down. Submarines, aircraft and surface vessels can't kill carriers at range if they don't know where those carriers are, and one of the notable differences between an aircraft carrier and an airbase is that the former, obviously, is mobile.

Even a supersonic cruise missile can take twenty minutes to reach its target area at maximum range, and a carrier manoeuvring at high speed can move ten miles in the same period of time. A massive aircraft carrier can move surprisingly fast for something weighing over 100,000 tons, with a top speed of more than 30 knots, or about 56km an hour, which is what you get when you go for nuclear power.

The problem is complicated by the fact that the surface ships and submarines firing at such ranges cannot detect the carrier themselves; they need to operate off data provided by other assets, which tends to increase the time and uncertainty associated with targeting decisions.

The United States has spent, essentially, 30 years developing and working out a reconnaissance strike complex that includes multiple redundant systems of surveillance and communication, resulting in a kill chain that transfers information in real time from advanced sensor platforms (satellites, submarine listening posts, drones, patrol aircraft) through communications nodes (satellites, aircraft) to ships, planes, and submarines that can launch and guide missiles to targets.

No other country has similar capabilities, even Russia and China.

Nevertheless, the Russians and the Chinese continue to try. Here are some of the measures that foes have taken to destroy aircraft carriers, and the countermeasures intended to defeat those foes.

THREAT: Torpedoes
image: https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/t_original/rr4u1tpjowpf3mbib9tp.jpg


A portion remains of the North Korean torpedo believed to have sunk the South Korean warship ROKS Cheonan in 2010. Photo credit: Getty Images

No aircraft carrier has ever been hit by a modern torpedo of any sort, so we lack good evidence on how resilient a 90,000-ton ship might be to this kind of attack. The Navy tested a variety of underwater attack mechanisms against the retired Kitty Hawk-class carrier USS America in 2005, but the exact nature of the tests, and their results, remains confidential.

In World War II, submarines sank a total of eight fleet carriers from Japan, the United States, and the United Kingdom, beginning with HMS Courageous in 1939. And during the Cold War, the Navy identified Soviet nuclear submarines as a critical problem for carrier battle groups. As evidence from exercises indicates, submarines continue to pose a threat to aircraft carriers.

To kill a carrier, a submarine needs to avoid escorts and patrol aircraft by either remaining stationary and waiting for a carrier to happen along, or by approaching a carrier quietly. In the open sea the latter is a difficult task, as carriers move at roughly the same speed as modern subs.

Navies closely guard the effective ranges of standard homing torpedoes, but most sources agree on 35 to 40 miles at maximum. Modern torpedoes explode underneath a ship in order to break its back and cause extensive, fatal flooding. The Russian Navy has developed extremely fast "supercavitating" torpedoes, but details on their operational status and practical effectiveness remains thin.

Counter-measures
The main solution to the submarine problem is to prevent submarines from moving into attack positions. Historically, this has involved multiple ways to detect and destroy enemy submarines, including carrier-borne anti-submarine aircraft, helicopters launched from escorts, land-based aircraft and escorts themselves (including both surface ships and submarines).

During the Cold War, the US Navy had enough confidence in its ability to find and kill Soviet subs that it could envision using carriers in major offensive operations against Soviet territory in the Arctic and in the Pacific.

image: https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/t_original/qy4cr0x8ai2yzjkwqhxs.jpg


A Chinese sub transits during a 2009 fleet review. Photo credit: AP

The Navy's anti-submarine warfare (ASW) capability has decayed since the Cold War with the retirement of the S-3 Viking patrol aircraft and the Oliver Hazard Perry class frigates, but then Russia has fewer subs than it did during the Soviet period, and China's long-range nuclear submarines are considered relatively loud and easy to track. Quieter diesels lack the legs to remain on station in the areas that aircraft carriers will operate, and the speed to keep up with the battle groups.

Submarines are not as easy to link into a system of command and control as aircraft and surface ships, either, and hence tend to react more slowly to intelligence. Nevertheless, a sufficient number of carefully deployed submarines can pose a significant threat to any carrier group. If all else fails, most submarines and surface ships carry a variety of counter-measures designed to confuse homing torpedoes. These include noisemakers and decoys intended to distract the torpedo; the Russians and Chinese have wake-homing torpedoes designed to defeat these defences.

THREAT: Cruise Missiles
image: https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/t_original/lxvuqmxyycwdcztqqusw.jpg


The Yakhont, a Russian supersonic anti-ship cruise missile. Photo credit: Russian Ministry of Defence

The first naval cruise missiles saw duty in World War II, when German aircraft used precision-guided glider bombs to attack Allied and Italian ships. In the Cold War, the Soviets developed an array of platforms to launch cruise missiles against US carrier battle groups, including submarines, surface ships, and aircraft. The USSR developed the Tu-22M "Backfire" bomber specifically to conduct cruise missile attacks against Navy carrier battle groups.

China has taken a similar approach, using a variety of different cruise missiles launched from different platforms to threaten US carrier groups. Most of these missiles travel to their target near sea level in order to avoid detection, popping up towards the end of flight in order to inflict maximum damage. This profile makes the missiles difficult, although not impossible, to engage with surface-to-air missiles and defensive fighter aircraft.

Most cruise missiles require programming at launch, getting them to a specific area before they can identify and select targets on their own, but some missiles have more advanced systems that allow them to detect and discern between targets at long range.

Counter-measures
As with torpedoes, the way to avoid cruise missile attacks has been to prevent platforms from coming close enough to aircraft carriers to reliably launch their missiles. For surface ships the problem is relatively simple, and few expect that Chinese or Russian surface vessels can close to within reliable firing distance of a U.S. carrier before being destroyed, what with the wide-reaching net that American naval aviation can cast far in advance of a carrier group.

Cruise missiles complicate the threat posed by submarines, but the principle remains the same; destroy the submarines before they can close within firing range. Aircraft launched cruise missiles (ALCMs) pose a different problem, as aircraft (due to altitude and the curvature of the earth) can identify a carrier group from greater distance than a sub or ship. To defeat aircraft, carrier groups rely on a combination of surface-to-air missiles (launched from Aegis cruisers and destroyers) and fighters flying combat air patrol.

In the Cold War, this evolved into a complex game between the U.S. and the USSR; the Soviets needed good intelligence to justify the launch of a large number of bombers, many of which they expected to lose. The Navy developed decoy techniques to trick the Russians into launching mass sorties, intended to gut Soviet capabilities and deter the Soviets from launching at all.

The Navy developed the F-14 Tomcat to counter the threat of ALCMs; with a big radar and a long range air-to-air missile AAM, the F-14 could provide distant protection for a carrier battle group.

The Navy no longer operates F-14s, but the carrier air group still has combat air patrol responsibilities that include not only the destruction of attacking bombers, but also any drones and patrol aircraft that can report real-time data on the location and orientation of an aircraft carrier.

No cruise missile has ever struck an aircraft carrier, although missiles have had mixed results against smaller warships. Anti-ship missiles were used extensively during the Iran-Iraq War, and generally failed to sink large oil tankers. But a cruise missile can cripple a carrier by damaging its flight deck, even without sinking the ship.

THREAT: Go-Fast Boats
image: https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/t_original/lepk2phwtpw4xvblfonw.jpg


Iranian naval speedboats. Photo credit: Iranian State Television

While the threat that small boats pose to major warships has been apparent for some time, the Pentagon's Millennium Challenge 2002 exercise brought the issue to mainstream attention. In that controversial exercise, small fast boats carrying suicide payloads inflicted heavy damage on U.S. naval forces. "Red" strategy built off of the successful Al Qaeda attack against the destroyer USS Cole in 2000, as well as the history of Iranian small boat operations during the Iran-Iraq War.

Referees eventually prohibited some of the most effective Red techniques in order to give U.S. forces a fighting chance. Even a heavily laden suicide boat would struggle to sink a supercarrier, but they could give the crew a very bad day and reduce the ship's effectiveness for an extended period of time.




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I think this is the best ANTI AIRCRAFT CARRIER weapon
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torpedo_Shkval_russia.jpg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VA-111_Shkval
 
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That assumes you can get within 15km. Besides, Shkval is intended as a countermeasure against torpedoes launched by undetected enemy submarines.

I recommend Type 65 650mm wakehoming torpedo

650 mm (25.6") 65-73
Date In Service 1973
Weight 8,820+ lbs. (4,000+ kg)
Overall Length 433 in (11.000 m)
Explosive Charge Nuclear
Range / Speed 54,700 yards (50,000 m) / 50 knots
Power Kerosene-Hydrogen Peroxide Turbine

Non-homing torpedo. Designed for killing aircraft carriers or coastal targets with a single torpedo.

650 mm (25.6") 65-76 "Kit" (Whale)
Date In Service 1976
Weight 8,820+ lbs. (4,000+ kg)
Overall Length 433 in (11.000 m)
Explosive Charge 992 lbs. (450-557 kg)
Range : Speed 54,700 yards (50,000 m) / 50 knots*
Power Kerosene-Hydrogen Peroxide Turbine

The conventional warhead version of the 65-73. Long range anti-ship submarine wake following torpedo. Operates at 20 m depth. Sensor points upwards to detect the ships wake, the torpedo sweeps from side to side to find the edges of the wake. It is believed that the submarine Kursk was destroyed by the explosion of hydrogen peroxide in a 65-76 torpedo.
* Range: 50 km at 93 km/h, 100 km at 56 km/h
http://www.navweaps.com/Weapons/WTRussian_post-WWII.php
 
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This is how a modern Aircraft Carrier Fleet look like. Mostly the AC is called mother ship. Surrounded by distroyers and Frigates. An attack submarine will be for underwater surveillance is deployed. How many submarines, depends on the availability. So, in any case you need to tackle all these to get to the AC.
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Yeah there is a small problem with that. Since it travels at high speeds, it can't maneuver. Drastic direction change is not possible even though they travel through air bubbles.
 
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This is how a modern Aircraft Carrier Fleet look like. Mostly the AC is called mother ship. Surrounded by distroyers and Frigates. An attack submarine will be for underwater surveillance is deployed. How many submarines, depends on the availability. So, in any case you need to tackle all these to get to the AC.View attachment 392817 View attachment 392817


Yeah there is a small problem with that. Since it travels at high speeds, it can't maneuver. Drastic direction change is not possible even though they travel through air bubbles.
Can Aircraft CarrierCarrier or DDG, FFG maneuver in drastic manners:disagree: shkval reaction time is extremely low as compare to conventional torpedoes and anti ship missiles, there are extremely low chance for any naval vessel to get rid of shkval

That assumes you can get within 15km. Besides, Shkval is intended as a countermeasure against torpedoes launched by undetected enemy submarines.

I recommend Type 65 650mm wakehoming torpedo

650 mm (25.6") 65-73
Date In Service 1973
Weight 8,820+ lbs. (4,000+ kg)
Overall Length 433 in (11.000 m)
Explosive Charge Nuclear
Range / Speed 54,700 yards (50,000 m) / 50 knots
Power Kerosene-Hydrogen Peroxide Turbine

Non-homing torpedo. Designed for killing aircraft carriers or coastal targets with a single torpedo.

650 mm (25.6") 65-76 "Kit" (Whale)
Date In Service 1976
Weight 8,820+ lbs. (4,000+ kg)
Overall Length 433 in (11.000 m)
Explosive Charge 992 lbs. (450-557 kg)
Range : Speed 54,700 yards (50,000 m) / 50 knots*
Power Kerosene-Hydrogen Peroxide Turbine

The conventional warhead version of the 65-73. Long range anti-ship submarine wake following torpedo. Operates at 20 m depth. Sensor points upwards to detect the ships wake, the torpedo sweeps from side to side to find the edges of the wake. It is believed that the submarine Kursk was destroyed by the explosion of hydrogen peroxide in a 65-76 torpedo.
* Range: 50 km at 93 km/h, 100 km at 56 km/h
http://www.navweaps.com/Weapons/WTRussian_post-WWII.php
Sir I see somewhere on the net they developed guided and turning shkval not straight line shkval, and it's range increased significantly from 15 Km to 30 Km
 
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Can Aircraft CarrierCarrier or DDG, FFG maneuver in drastic manners:disagree: shkval reaction time is extremely low as compare to conventional torpedoes and anti ship missiles, there are extremely low chance for any naval vessel to get rid of shkval
No but they should be launched from somewhere near right:disagree:. If you read back what I said, you can attack the lone Aircraft Carrier. But no submarine would go near such a heavily patrolled region.

Now this shkval uses a GOLIS inertial guidance system. It can only target stationary or near stationary objects. Not relative velocity with the rocket.
So you can attack it when the carrier is dead in ocean. Or moving at some 5knots.
 
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No but they should be launched from somewhere near right:disagree:. If you read back what I said, you can attack the lone Aircraft Carrier. But no submarine would go near such a heavily patrolled region.

Now this shkval uses a GOLIS inertial guidance system. It can only target stationary or near stationary objects. Not relative velocity with the rocket.
What is you talking about,:hitwall: do research before you talk, first shkval used as a anti terpedo weapon as per @Penguin and the article I posted, I can understand your logic, but once it is fire it is unstoppable by any mean
 
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What is you talking about,:hitwall: do research before you talk, first shkval used as a anti terpedo weapon as per @Penguin and the article I posted, I can understand your logic, but once it is fire it is unstoppable by any mean
:lol::lol: I did enough research on this too. In fact China too is developing a similar system with little success when it comes to maneuverability. You know how torpedoes move. This is no such system
 
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:lol::lol: I did enough research on this too. In fact China too is developing a similar system with little success when it comes to maneuverability. You know how torpedoes move. This is no such system
Germany is also working on advanced version of shkval yes i do better than you kid:enjoy:the only way to maneuver is thrust vectoring just in my guess maybe i am wrong :angel:
 
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