US media: China has seven ways to sink an American aircraft carrier, how can it be defended?
October 16 news, US defense expert Brent Eastwood warned in a new article that China has established a multi-layered, innovative aircraft carrier killing system, with at least seven ways to sink an American aircraft carrier. These methods are layered and overlapped, making the safety of the US aircraft carrier battle group in the Pacific virtually meaningless.
The article pointed out that China's goal is not to sink a carrier in one shot, but to make the carrier lose its significance through quantity pressure and systematic attacks.
In other words, even if the US fleet is not sunk, it will be forced to stay away from the battlefield, rendering itself powerless.
The entire US maritime power system is built on the aircraft carrier's ability to control the sea and air.
However, the defensive radius of the aircraft carrier has been continuously compressed by China.
On land, the DF-21D and DF-26B anti-ship ballistic missiles can lock onto targets thousands of kilometers away, combined with hypersonic glide warheads and terminal maneuvering technology, the US air defense systems have no time to react. Underwater, nuclear submarines and AIP submarines launch the YU-10 heavy torpedoes; once they break through the escort circle, a single hit may seriously damage the carrier.
More troubling for the United States is that China has also developed a missile-torpedo hybrid, which can fly high in the air and then dive into the sea to become a torpedo. This cross-medium weapon is almost impossible to predict.
Aside from missiles and submarines, China has also maximized the use of information warfare and unmanned systems. Research institutions can analyze the carrier's wake through satellite images and use AI algorithms to locate it in real-time; surface suicide unmanned boats, underwater Haiyi gliders, and mine-laying unmanned submersibles can form a three-dimensional kill network around the carrier.
These unmanned equipment are low-cost and numerous; even if half are destroyed, they can still break through the defense.
On the network level, Chinese hackers can infiltrate the carrier system, preventing the giant ship from sailing. Even without sinking, it can be paralyzed.
It can be said that the US aircraft carrier now faces a systemic dilemma.
Traditional point defense missiles, laser cannons, and electronic jammers are already difficult to cope with saturation attacks; anti-submarine aircraft and towed arrays also cannot keep up with the speed of silent submarine upgrades; in addition, the supply chain is fragile, and the ammunition reserves are insufficient. Once entering intense confrontation, the US aircraft carrier may not even have the chance to retaliate.
As Eastwood said: China does not need to sink all aircraft carriers, just sinking one would end the US naval myth.
Original: www.toutiao.com/article/1846124181389388/
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