Well in regards to actual combat vessels, it is
Still it's not quite on par with the two power rule we had before, and less relevant given the benefits of Air power.
Type-45's capabilities make al other contemporaries look like wet blankets
You have the Type-45 being able to track and engage 30+ targets at once
while contemporaries are stuck with single digits
It can act as flagship, control air groups
I don't dispute that, but 31 cheap aircraft..
Hypersonic anti-ship weapons
Missile barrages
It can track and engage at LEAST
Ballistic anti-ship missile threats
Fast-attack boat swarms
8 supersonic sea skimming missiles arriving at random intervals, defnding everything within a 6km radius
More than literally any other single ship
That is from it's key specification
as documented by it;s haynes manual
Id like to re-iterate
that's the minimum spec
Missile doctrine especially by China and the Soviet Union (Now Russia) was and still is missile swarms
That's how the Soviets were going to sink the Atlantic carriers
And the ship was designed to defend against exactly that
Yes, but there's a limit to its capabilities, one the enemy will certainly be able to surpass
The sea viper (PAAMS) system was designed specially for integration with other ships
As it would have during the cold war
they can piggy back on it's tracking suit
When attacking carrier groups
*Though, defenses weren't as effective then*
THAT, is the issue with ships in general
Only one needs to get through.
let me once again say, it can track an object the size of a cricket ball moving at mach 3
]200km away
It is a ship designed around a radar
It;s like the A10 of ships
but modern
It can track, but can't engage at that range
It's engagement rate is decided by it;s ability fire enough missiles
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P-800_Oniks
not by it's guidance and general radar capabilties
Syria alone as 72 of these missiles
There's lots of other ones I can cite
Shipwrecks arnt that scary when it comes to an actual task force
