Anti-Carrier Trump Card

there's a WIRE connected to the torpedo?

swimmerXC said:

there's a WIRE connected to the torpedo?

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Yes. Its wire guided.

Here is a ship hit by 1 MK 48 Adcap.

nice, although iu doubt the adcap can do that to a nimitz. the trump card may not be one wepon or platform, but many synchronized with a good attack plan.

I think its more that AEGIS can not counter the Skyval thats the problem. No more AEGIS means the rest of the battle group is in trouble.

MIGleader said:

nice, although iu doubt the adcap can do that to a nimitz. the trump card may not be one wepon or platform, but many synchronized with a good attack plan.

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Excellen statement MIGleader. But that sort of attack would have to be a massive strike all at once. Otherwise US forces would retaliate before a second wave would hit.

As for the Skyval. No Aegis count counter that. But a LA class could counter whatever type sub tried to launched the torpedo.

If that torpedo did hit a CVN it would have to penatrate 3.5 inches of armor. to get through the hull. If targeted towards a magazine or the nuke powerplant try 16 inches of armor. If that torpedo can penatrate that (like a bunker buster bomb) it could reek some havoc. But does the PLAN have some? No. Not to my knowledge. But the PLAN could get them from the Russians....

Back in the day...January 1973 .way before most of you were born down around Guantanomo Bay I saw an A-7B Corsair from VA-72 operating off the USS John F Kennedy sink a old Gearing class DD with a single MK 84(2000LB) bomb. It was only guided by gravity. It hit the old DD amidships and split it in half. The DD sank in no time. It was quite a sight.

an la can counter a sub, but not its torpedo. if the kilo got a first few shots at the cvbg, there is going to be losses. then the kilo needs to get its butt out of there or else...

MIGleader said:

an la can counter a sub, but not its torpedo. if the kilo got a first few shots at the cvbg, there is going to be losses. then the kilo needs to get its butt out of there or else...

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There are counter measures used to decoy the torpedo. At the speeds the CSG operates, its very unlikely that a SSK can get within firing position.

TJJH said:

I think its more that AEGIS can not counter the Skyval thats the problem. No more AEGIS means the rest of the battle group is in trouble.

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Tico and Burkes are very excellent ASW platforms.
The Burke is equipped with hull mounted sonar, towed array sonar, LAMPS III helo with dipping sonar to detect a sub.

The LAMPS III can carry Mk 50 torpedo (I could be wrong) and the MK 41 VLS can be equipped with the next generation ASROC with a range of around 10 miles.