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Originally Posted by jyl
What I wonder about is carrier vs long range missile.
As I understand it, the range of carrier aircraft vs the range of antiship missile is not moving in the right direction (for the carrier).
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All true.
I have done more than a few Battle Group "cruises". There is a layered defense approach across the air, surface and sub-surface mission sets.
It is absolutely true that the Battle Group is being pushed father out to sea from certain threat areas. So much so that the CNO wrote a directive and established a group to study the problem: "Project Overmatch" and "Novel Force".
Really stunning letters.
Also, unlike video games, a Battle Group does not have an endless supply of anti-ship, anti-air missiles and capability. I won't go into the details but the rise of cheap UAS with sufficient range and payload to engage the BG has become problematic...we call them airborne IEDs.
That and power projection at distance is hard.
Again, there is any number of articles and studies addressing this very real problem.