How China could defeat a US carrier fleet

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I leave for a couple of hours and this junk shows up on the forum...

Originally Posted by The Third Man

What tactical advantage would there be for putting a carrier, which function is to project power through its airwing, in the Taiwan Strait?

I don't recall any other time when US tactics called for placing a carrier in such a confined seaway. Normandy....no; Guadalcanal....no; Yellow sea....no. Blue water navy tactics is just that blue water.

^What he said.

The only reason the US sends it carriers in to areas like the Taiwan Strait or Strait or Hormuz is to establish "Freedom of navigation" IE the right of US and all friendly nations to transit those waters.

In time of war our CSGs would be deployed several thousand miles east of Taiwan.

Originally Posted by antikristuseke

The vulcans dont really need to be pointed at the waterline, airburst munitions, but they can be as far as I know. Besides at those ranges there should be more than ennough m240's on board with a few pissed off sailors to use them. And as the third man mentioned, why in the name of **** would they even put a carrier there in the first place.

I know RN ships are mounting Miniguns for small craft defense, our ships still use the Ma Duce (my buddy's 'can had five or six .50 cal mounts).


EDIT: Ok now listen: the only way the PRC is sinking a CVN is to either flood the seas with submarines or launch a huge overwhelming barrage of MRBMs at the carrier group or play the attrition game and just bleed our air wings dry.