I look at this another way, China develops a missile that we and the Russians both had the capabilities of making back in the 80s...

Okay China you enjoy your soviet era tech, Im sure we have much better toys now than them...

Theres a reason we signed the treaty with Russia that made us stop making them, and I am sure it was included because we had better tech at the time so it was seen as no big deal to give up that capability

The carrier used to be a flagship for innovation in the military. Humanity always built its wars around who had the shiniest toys and who could use them better in the struggle to have no shiny toys at all. Now, we have the value of a distributed computer network with a global reach, the important part of a carrier was its ability to carry force to almost anywhere in the globe.

It's not that this weapon is overblown in capabilities, but it is often brought up as scandalous evidence of the impropriety of our traditional MIC. It's not, the NATO forces that could be threatened by this technology are so large and have already innovated Carriers to what seems to be a peak of technological innovation that's only a branch of a larger communication network that represents their flagship of innovation.

The internet could be the tool used to cheapen aircraft-killing technologies so that it could be produced cheaply enough that you have an assured shot to taking out all the American carriers at once. You have that fact in their face, it's not going to fly, the internet and associated globalized forces that assert that the money traveling through China and out of China are the same as the money that flows in and out of every nation.

The paradigm shift you see happening in geopolitics is that to reduce the cost of deploying and monitoring the new flagship weapon of distributed and generalized computing power, America had to share it but without the implications of the full sovereignty that other weapons systems often came from.

Your internet service provider could be a communist, loose lips sink ships.

that seemed to read like a lot of "what if's" and very little actual knowledge in some places so basically just a guessing on what they could do and if they're announcing what they can do in public it probably means the western fleets have known about this for a while so have atleast some sort of defense against it

I wonder if the carrier could be going the way of the battleship with such Chinese weapons?

Originally posted by travis911
I wonder if the carrier could be going the way of the battleship with such Chinese weapons?

given how much effort has to be put into ensuring the safety of an aircraft carrier already you can see that with modern advances in technology on missiles/drones etc that the greater the chance of someone reaching the captial ship of the croup the more they'll protect it and the more protection they give it tells you how weak its defense is

Does anyone thing the whole missile could be a Chinese mirage? Its never been tested?