Eisboch wrote:
"hk" wrote in message
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I quoted Wiki because I noted your knowledge base was out of date, and I
didn't want to burden you with too much reality. I could have quoted some
other sources...The Chinese, for example, are developing a high-speed,
long-range, tactical anti-ship missile. The "other" Chinese, our allies,
have already developed a supersonic anti-ship missile, the Hsiung
Feng-III. My point was that missiles that travel at very high speeds,
capable of delivering very large payloads, *and guidable* and conventional
or nuclear, are under development, and that will spell the end of the
usefulness of aircraft carriers when trying to face down a serious, modern
enemy. Oh...and let's not forget the Russian's Kh-101...a subsonic but
stealth anti-ship missile.


Fortunately, there are scores of civilian and military technical experts,
gainfully employed, who study this type of thing who develop and deploy
equally capable defenses. Let's hope this continues.

It is also fortunate that you ain't gonna read about them or the systems on
Wiki.

Eisboch




I subscribe to Jane's. :)

What I suspect will happen is that someday some assholes will launch one
of these new missiles at one of our capital ships, hit it, and sink it,
and *then* we'll have the sort of "missile crisis" that results some
years later in a new ship defense system. Defense systems tend to be
reactive.