Avinash_Tyagi said:
starcraft said:
Avinash_Tyagi said:
starcraft said:
Avinash_Tyagi said:
Depends on where the war is fought Starcraft, if its fought in Asia, where it probably will be, our Blue Water navy and even aircraft carriers, will be largely ineffective |
On the contrary, all that would ensure is that mainland USA receives even less damage than it otherwise would have. Indeed, the whole point of Blue-Water navies is that they allow wars to be fought overseas instead of on your home turf. This means that all collateral damage is theirs, not yours.
US carriers sitting a couple of hundred miles off of China's coast would be able to strike at the vast majority of the coast and mainland. Once air superiority is established, the US Navy's AWACS and Air-refuelling fleet will exponentially increase the range and strike capabilities of the fleet
(even if satellites were down). This is ignoring the fact that the USA has the largest, most advanced fleet of amphibious ships in the world, each capable of carrying 2200 Marines and their full arnament of vehicles and equiptment (in turn, the most advanced soldiers and vehicles anywhere). Once the coast had been flattened and air superiority established, the US could quite feasibly occupy just a small strip of coast, hold it, and launch even deeper operations. But honestly, I wouldn't see the need except to force an earlier surrender.
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The few fighters that can be fielded by our aircraft carriers, would never be able to achiever air superiority over China, Starcraft, that's why I was stating they'd be ineffective, a hundred or so F/A-18's are not going to be able to achieve air superiority over China's more than 2000 fighters
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You're kidding right? The 150-200 fighters that could be fielded from just two US Carriers are going to be more than capable of handling most of what the Chinese Air Force throws at it. Ultimately that 2000 planes statistic is misleading, in the same was as the million man army of North Korea is misleading. The air force of China is not nearly as sophisticated as that of the United States. Aside from having planes that have lesser performance, and missles of lessor performance, Chinese planes would also lack the sophisticated AWACS network the USA can field.
Furthermore, the Chinese do not have any true fifth generation fighters.
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Over China they wouldn't need the same level of AWAC network.
the F/A-18 isn't a fifth gen fighter either, that's the plane that the Navy uses on their aircraft carriers, China has SU-30MKK's and SU-27's the SU-30MKK is on par with the F/A-18 and the SU-27's aren't that far behind, I think you have an overinflated idea of what the US air power can do.
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Why would the Chinese need less AWAC's support? It's not about knowing where the terrain is, it's about knowing where enemy planes and SAM sites are.
MOST (I grant you, not all) of China's air force consists of ageing Soviet-era planes. In much the same way as a MIG is a theoretically capable plane, the reality is that constant upgrades to technology and better maintenance in US planes has resulted in once-equivelant planes facing vast real-world performance differences. That is the reality of the majority of the US air force versus China's. Also, unless I am very much mistaken, the USA's fifth generation fighters are carrier-capable. I am sure in the event of a war they would be placed onto carriers.
