REPORT: U.S. aircraft carriers can be “destroyed with certainty” by just two dozen hypersonic missiles, which both China and Russia possess
If they wanted to, China and / or Russia could easily sink United States aircraft carriers using just 24 Chinese-made hypersonic missiles, a new paper published in the Chinese-language Journal of Test and Measurement Technology claims.
Dropping these bombs on America’s most potent aircraft carriers would be “catastrophic,” according to a war games simulation that was conducted by a team of military planners out of China.
Simulating more than 20 intense battles, the team put together video games in which Chinese forces successfully sank the USS Gerald R. Ford carrier fleet using two dozen anti-ship missiles. In the simulation, U.S. vessels approached a China-claimed island in the South China Sea after being warned several times to back…
