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Old 4th May 2005 | 07:04
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Work out how many aircraft you need to maintain an outer CAP to stop someone air launching a wave of these at you from 200-300km. Worse, how do you stop a submarine launched wave? And the PLAN has them in service.

The worry is that the next generation of super/hypersonic ASMs and subsurface SSMs will make the current USN carrier force undefendable and, in the context of a threat to Taiwan, the USN will not be able to operate them within range of the Chinese coast.

The only effective defence against such a threat is SAM, not aircraft.

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