Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carrier, what a target

[My Wife Hates CIV]

maybe that's its purpose. 13billion, that's a lot of $$.

it would be cool to see... it's big boat.

[Sava]

are you confessing to a plot of some sort?

[My Wife Hates CIV]

well... no... not really. but what would the US reaction be to a carrier being hit and sunk by say China.

of course if that happened I guess things would already be pretty bad.

[Sava]

not really. but

It was nice...ish... knowing you.

[rah]

I don't know. What's it like to hit on and suck an air craft carrier?

[Sava]

tastes like seamen?>

[My Wife Hates CIV]

typo, thanks rah

[Dinner]

Are you promoting that semen cook book again?

[My Wife Hates CIV]

now that was a funny post Sava - people are going to think we're working together

[Sava]

definitely helpful for anyone taking an intro course

[Hauldren Collider]

I think it'd be pretty hard to sink a carrier. I'm not in the navy, but I see the following obstacles:

1. You'd have to get past the carrier's aircraft. The carrier has more planes than most countries have in their entire air force, even among countries that have an actual air force. It'd be pretty tough to get past that.
2. You'd also have to get past its escort destroyers and cruiser. I read that the carriers usually have 2 or 3 destroyers and a cruiser, which are packed with anti-air missiles and anti-submarine weapons, as well as radar and sonar.
3. You'd have to get past its escort submarines. Apparently they usually have one or two of those as well.
4. The carrier is really ****ing big. Even if you hit it with something, that isn't guaranteed to sink it. I'm pretty sure a ship that big can take a fair bit of damage before going under.
5. The carrier itself moves really fast. Those two nuclear power plants it has on board put out a lot of thrust. Most ships would have trouble keeping up with it. Locating it wouldn't be trivial. You can see it on satellites but those only go past every so often. So it might be pretty hard to find. Non-nuclear submarines would certainly not be able to keep pace with it, and nuclear submarines would have to move fast enough that the escorts would be able to detect them. Surface ships would get spotted by aircraft and sunk.

If you knew where the carrier was going and could put a submarine in its path and spring a trap, you'd have a good shot at killing it, I would think. Again, I'm not in the navy, so this could all be total horse****.

[My Wife Hates CIV]

I think china could do it.

[N35t0r]

semen tips?

[My Wife Hates CIV]

I mean it depends on what they fired at it... and how many. fire enough missiles that travel fast enough and some are getting through. how many missiles does it take to get to the center of a carrier?

[PLATO]

I think china could do it.

I don't. At least not on the open sea. The closer a carrier comes to land, the more vulnerable it is. If it was in the Taiwan straight, the Chinese could probably do it, but it still wouldn't be easy.

That being said, the Chinese are reported to have an anti-ship ballistic missile. If it works as advertised, that could be a major problem for a carrier. I haven't seen any data on it though....