055 Large Destroyer Thread II

[ENTED64]

Tbh I'm not sure why it's often spoken of this way when it seems a rather decisive capability to me, if realized. Given that if a fleet has to contend against even a single large AShM salvo (the kind US airpower can easily generate), depleting nearly all their interceptors, or similarly participate in a large strike salvo, those vessels would be almost combat ineffective until they return to port to rearm. Being able to do so immediately at sea instead would be no small advantage.

Yeah the reason that at sea reloading hasn't been pursued and adopted at scale isn't because you're missing something that makes it not a useful capability. As you say it is very much a useful capability and if it were magically available with no issues then everybody would be lining up for it. The problem isn't that it's not a useful capability, the problem is technical. Essentially it's an engineering problem, it's just too difficult to actually manage the reloads quickly, reliably, and with low logistical footprint. This leads to it being a mostly unreliable boondoggle and not a capability you can trust in a high intensity war when you really need it.

 

[FriedRiceNSpice]

Tbh I'm not sure why it's often spoken of this way when it seems a rather decisive capability to me, if realized. Given that if a fleet has to contend against even a single large AShM salvo (the kind US airpower can easily generate), depleting nearly all their interceptors, or similarly participate in a large strike salvo, those vessels would be almost combat ineffective until they return to port to rearm. Being able to do so immediately at sea instead would be no small advantage.

The reload missiles wont simply teleport to your naval task force. You will need to allocate a proportion of your naval assets to deliver them where are needed. The more assets you have assigned to missile delivery, the less assets you have available for other missions.

 

[zlixOS]

Tbh I'm not sure why it's often spoken of this way when it seems a rather decisive capability to me, if realized. Given that if a fleet has to contend against even a single large AShM salvo (the kind US airpower can easily generate), depleting nearly all their interceptors, or similarly participate in a large strike salvo, those vessels would be almost combat ineffective until they return to port to rearm. Being able to do so immediately at sea instead would be no small advantage.

It would also be a rather decisive capability to have anti-missile lasers on all 6th generation fighter jets, giving the jets active defense against what would have been a fatal SAM or AAM salvo (the kind a US carrier strike group can easily generate).

That would be awesome, but it's just hard to make work. The energy requirements in this scenario, and the logistical requirements in yours.