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Originally Posted by Kapitain
agies cant handle more than 10 targets at once each oscar would fire thier main batterys of 24 SS-N-19 missile and the kirov would fire her battery of 24 not to mention the kuznetsovs battery of 12
so thats 204 SS-N-19 missiles coming right at you at once no ship the american navy has could handle that many incoming projectiles then id move on to the sovremennys the tranutuls the nanchukas grishas krivack ect ect
try around 600 maybe more missile incoming at once best radar can track 60 targets at once even if you shoot down 1/3 its not enough it would render the battle group inoprable
the fleet wont move farther than the bearents sea and thus could run for home re arm and be back out to sea in time for round 2 the missiles the russian navy have out range any missile for anti ship (bar air launched) the USN has
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AEGIS can't handle 10 targets at once??? Let me tell you roughly how the system works. It can monitor well over 100 with SPY-1. The Aegis cruiser has four missile-directors, and 30 guidance channels.
Each SM-2 Standard SAM of the AEGIS system has three phases of flight: INS, MCG and terminal SARH. There are 122 on the Ticonderogas, Arleigh Burkes carry 98. The Flight IIA's carry more.
So, now, when an Aegis cruiser is facing 24 incoming Anti-Ship Missiles, and is put on "auto", it functions something like this, the system will volley the first four missiles, firing four SM-2's. As soon as the SAMs reach the MCG phase, the system will volley four additional missiles targeting SSMs #5, 6, 7 and 8; as soon as the first four SAMs reach terminal phase the system lights its directors, the system then takes the SM-2's 5, 6, 7 and 8 into the MCG, and fires four new missiles against targets 9, 10, 11, and 12. According to sources, the illuminators only need to "flash" the target in order to complete it's flight profile.
So, the Aegis can therefore simultaneously guide 12 SAMs at single targets. That's the unclassified version. But that's not all, however, there are several rates of fire, so you can set the system to engage every incoming target with two missiles. In that case it is going to simultaneously guide 24 SAMs against 12 different targets and time-share the illuminators.
And it also has six spare guidance channels. And don't forget about it's ability to cooperatively engage and use time-sharing management. So, it can take over SM-2s fired by other ships with the spare guidance channels. It can also use channels from other ships. Eventually, if totally saturated (unlikely in this day and age), the single ship system could for a few seconds take up to 30 SM-2s under control. Combine 3 Tico's and 1 Arleigh Burke and you could theoretically direct over 90 missiles simultaneously. In this regard, it's easy to see how a CSG with four AEGIS combatants can deal with 70 or more anti-ship missiles in an all out naval engagement at once. Heck, even 100. And I haven't even touched on point-defenses yet. Or aircraft from the carrier airwing itself. These two layers would provide defense against many more adding to the already set layer of AEGIS. At this point in time, Russia can't mass any force to deal with USN CSG's. I'd put my money on a USN strike group over anything the Russians can put in the water.
One more note. The AEGIS system has been tested against "multiple" sea-skimming supersonic targets and was extremely successful. Against MOSKIT types it will use many more methods to defeat the systems via electronic warfare methods. And you're forgetting the counterstrike capabilities of USN/USAF combined forces. I'm guessing that every single Russian naval/coastal facility in the North Fleet would be attacked on short order if Russia embarked on such an attack against a USN battle group. Long-range CALCM's and other LACM's from B-52's and B-1's, Next Generation Tomahawk strikes from naval surface and sub-surface platforms en masse, B-2 strikes in conjunction with certain electronic warfare means (B-2's can each carry 80 500 lb guided munitions), etc......It wouldn't be pretty.