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Originally Posted by Kaye T. Bai
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Originally Posted by Hunter
The WWIII tactics would show combined massive missile attacks of Soviet surface vessels, submarines and air forces against U.S. carrier groups like in this movie. Unfortunately, I don't know the title. Looks very natural but definately filmed not in Russia.
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That is from "The Sum Of All Fears," which is a 2002 American movie. The scene in that movie was a great one. 
It shows Russian bombers attacking the USS John C. Stennis with super-sonic anti-ship missiles. They fire enough missiles to overwhelm and bypass the ship's defenses.
In my opinion, it was fairly accurate. |
The only way to defeat the flooding of the battlespace with active weapons is to make the enemy running out of ammunition. as long as he has enough ammuntiion, flooding defeats every anti-missile defence system, no matter how expensive it has been. The two winners are the atacker, and the company selling the missile defence to the military. The defender not really wins anything - just some additional seconds.
These hightech things are nice against inferior opponents who by definition cannot stage large scale attacks. Against strong and determined opponents -
their value still is unproven. What admiral knowing his business would attack the enemy with just let's say four missiles per ship? Admiral Gorshkow of the Red Banner fleet said the war at sea in WWIII would be very short and very bloody. Attacks at enemy fleets would almost always be staged with guaranteed overkill capacity (regarding weapon quantities).