Message from @Nathan James 123

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2019-10-12 15:34:01 UTC  

Missile barrages

2019-10-12 15:34:07 UTC  

It can track and engage at LEAST

2019-10-12 15:34:12 UTC  

Ballistic anti-ship missile threats

2019-10-12 15:34:19 UTC  

Fast-attack boat swarms

2019-10-12 15:34:42 UTC  

8 supersonic sea skimming missiles arriving at random intervals, defnding everything within a 6km radius

2019-10-12 15:34:48 UTC  

More than literally any other single ship

2019-10-12 15:35:00 UTC  

That is from it's key specification

2019-10-12 15:35:06 UTC  

as documented by it;s haynes manual

2019-10-12 15:35:16 UTC  

Id like to re-iterate

2019-10-12 15:35:21 UTC  

that's the minimum spec

2019-10-12 15:35:39 UTC  

Missile doctrine especially by China and the Soviet Union (Now Russia) was and still is missile swarms

2019-10-12 15:35:52 UTC  

That's how the Soviets were going to sink the Atlantic carriers

2019-10-12 15:35:55 UTC  

And the ship was designed to defend against exactly that

2019-10-12 15:36:15 UTC  

Yes, but there's a limit to its capabilities, one the enemy will certainly be able to surpass

2019-10-12 15:36:19 UTC  

The sea viper (PAAMS) system was designed specially for integration with other ships

2019-10-12 15:36:25 UTC  

As it would have during the cold war

2019-10-12 15:36:26 UTC  

they can piggy back on it's tracking suit

2019-10-12 15:36:29 UTC  

When attacking carrier groups

2019-10-12 15:36:50 UTC  

*Though, defenses weren't as effective then*

2019-10-12 15:36:56 UTC  

THAT, is the issue with ships in general

2019-10-12 15:37:01 UTC  

Only one needs to get through.

2019-10-12 15:37:12 UTC  

let me once again say, it can track an object the size of a cricket ball moving at mach 3

2019-10-12 15:37:15 UTC  

]200km away

2019-10-12 15:37:32 UTC  

It is a ship designed around a radar

2019-10-12 15:37:38 UTC  

It;s like the A10 of ships

2019-10-12 15:37:40 UTC  

but modern

2019-10-12 15:38:04 UTC  

It can track, but can't engage at that range

2019-10-12 15:38:09 UTC  

It's engagement rate is decided by it;s ability fire enough missiles

2019-10-12 15:38:24 UTC  

not by it's guidance and general radar capabilties

2019-10-12 15:38:29 UTC  

Syria alone as 72 of these missiles

2019-10-12 15:38:48 UTC  

There's lots of other ones I can cite

2019-10-12 15:39:00 UTC  

Shipwrecks arnt that scary when it comes to an actual task force

2019-10-12 15:39:06 UTC  

now I want you to imagine

2019-10-12 15:39:11 UTC  

you have 2 in a carrier task force

2019-10-12 15:39:14 UTC  

some US DDGs

2019-10-12 15:39:20 UTC  

a couple carriers

2019-10-12 15:39:35 UTC  

They were back when

2019-10-12 15:39:37 UTC  

They are sea-skimming.

2019-10-12 15:39:49 UTC  

Meaning the detection range is the horizon

2019-10-12 15:39:51 UTC  

Let me just quote myself