plawolf
Lieutenant General
It would help if you actually read what has been written instead of what you think has been written.
No where has anyone ever suggested that the LCACs would be used as fleet defense for the 071. Where that notion came from I frankly do not know.
If they are really that desperate to protect the 071, they could just part some S300s on the helo deck of the ship itself.
And you say the LCACs are not design to operate independently, yet that is exactly what they are doing at the very moment with the deployment at Somalia.
Well that only demonstrates you have absolutely no idea what you are talking about.
Novelizing the launchers? Where did that random idea come from? Have you actually seen these missiles being launched? They leave the tube in a faction of a second and are on their way. There is simply no issue with platform stability unless you get into stupidly rough territory.
And just FYI, the stabilizers are there to make sure the launcher stays upright after the launch as the extreme forces from the launch might tip it over if unsupported. There never have been and never will be some ridiculous requirement that a cold launch launcher need to remain perfectly still to allow for a missile launch.
And yet more demonstration of you complete lack of understanding of what you are talking about.
Does the concept of detection range and natural curvature have any meaning to you? If not, stop reading now and say so, so I can know not to waste any more time here.
Otherwise, you may wish to consider at what ranges a naval warship is likely to be able to pick up a very small flat object sitting on the surface of the sea even if it has no stealth design characteristics. You send aircraft up to search and you find yourself painting big crosshairs on yourself for the SAMs.
What more, when entering a highly dangerous operating theater, standard USN operating procedures are to operate with very strict emissions control so as not to give away their location.
With 022s knocking about, they would be forced to either abandon their first choice tactic, or risk wondering into a wolfpack and having very little warning to defend against saturation attacks.
And is completely irrelevant to the practicality of the suggestion.
You have harped on and on about how you believe there is no likelihood of this being adopted. But I have yet to see anyone present a credible reason as to why this concept is not possible.
The PLAN may not need it, that does not necessarily mean no-one else would either.
