re: Are aircraft carrier groups [ours] obsolete in the age of hypersonic missile systems?

I think a rail gun system is not that far off.

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Something tells me that WW3 will be 5 minute Blitz Chess rather than a classical length game.

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WW3 won't happen and WW2.5 will last a couple weeks after an economic depression caused by Russia withholding oil and gas from the market.

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When they turn due to "hyper speed" they tear apart.

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How much are they actually turning? At those speeds a Nimitz or Ford is effectively stationary at any applicable range if we’re talking ship to ship combat.

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A sub or ten launching near fleet weapons will be more than enough

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This remains our trump (pun NOT intended) card. No one on earth can frick with the US sub fleet.

For starters China nor Russia possess 350 maneuverable, hypersonic missiles that could track moving targets and carriers are surrounded by defensive ships

Or if they’re shooting 350 missiles at one carrier it would be getting nuclear very quickly so it would never happen.

That's what the big boys get paid the big bucks for. And now the right administration is in place.

The first couple hours of WWIII will see the world’s cities, armies, and navies all but extinguished. However, after all of that has been wiled off the chess board, those weapons, infrastructure, and people won’t be replacable. The rest of the war will be fought brutally with small arms and drones in shitty trenches for scraps of food and potable water.

The Soviet Union tactic to attack the US carrier groups where to attack with enough Bear Bombers to attack with 100 missiles at one time.


This at a time the guidance system where not the best in the world.

The Hypersonic missile question has been around since the late 1980's.

Just feel free to say there are systems in place to deal with the issue.

The Nuke problem is still in play and the US is parking to many of our carriers in the same place.

Check out the drome counter measures, it will give an idea what we have or fixing to have to counter the hypersonic missiles.

Hypersonic missiles can be maneuverable as they fly in the atmosphere but I don't know how "maneuverable" they really are.

In other words in the theoretical 15-30 minute flight time to a carrier group, can they change their aim point as the carrier group will have moved up to 15nm in that time.

Also - what is their warhead? What is it's blast radius?

How good are their sensors in dealing with the skin surface temperatures at hypersonic speeds?

Can they receive targeting information in flight?

I suspect a battle group could defend against small numbers but large numbers of any incoming missiles, esp if multiple types, could overwhelm the defensive systems. We could certainly run short of anti-air missiles etc and I believe at-sea replenishment of many munitions is a lost art.

Let me just roll this out there: if and this is speculative jargon … The current Carrier Task Force Life span has been diminished from 5 days of inflicting hell upon our great nation’s enemies to 5 minutes now as some have speculated from the advent of hypersonic weapons is the loss worth the gain and new strategy be adopted.

Nobody wants to be a buggy whip?