The captain of the US Navy Resignation Jerry Hendrix (Jerry Hendrix) spoke about the helpless before the missiles of the Russian Federation American aircraft carriers. He declared this in his article for Wall Street Journal.
According to him, the US aircraft carriers have a vulnerability to Russian and Chinese missiles.
The author focuses on the fact that the modern possibilities of American warships do not allow them to strike for targets on the shore in the presence of defense. To compete with China and Russia, the United States needs to increase the range of strikes, he believes.
“Currently, China, and Russia have acquired effective combat vents, which are significantly complicated if they do not exclude the possibility of an approach of aircraft carriers to target territories at all,” Hendrix said. They cannot approach the distance less than 1,800 kilometers, which makes it inaccessible for deck fighters-bombers F / A-18
In the opinion of Hendrque, if in the near future on the decks of aircraft carriers will not appear manned or unmanned aircraft of the long-range action, aircraft carrier groups will not be able to significantly affect the containment of Russia and China.
Earlier in November, the 19FortyFive Brent Eastwood browser called the advantages of the Russian ammunition. According to him, the Russian hyperzvukovy antique missile 3m22 “Zirkon” can be a problem for the US naval forces (Navy) ships. Eastwood noted that the protection of American ships provides a combat information and control system (Bius) aegis, which is effective against ordinary missiles, but will not be able to intercept hypersonic ammunition.