Ah the old "Typhoon is obsolete" routine. Nice one. And totally false.
Indeed.
A small-minded person may as easily have said "with the advent of the SS-N-22 the surface navy is obsolete".
25 to 30 seconds to respond makes the 120-150 seconds of an Exocet seem pretty generous.
Of course the surface navy isn't obsolete, whether a slowly moving prize target like a carrier is might be a different matter though, considering the customer base of the SS-N-22.
All those eggs in one basket vs a few missiles moving three times faster than the Exocet with a warhead twice as heavy as that once highly feared missile. Although experiencing a rocket attack in Iraq wasn't much fun I at least had the comfort of the airbase being very large and highly unlikely to sink beneath me.
Good as the T45's may be we won't have too many of them and we are not the US so can't afford a huge group of picket ships to take the attention of any potential incoming away from those floating airfields.