China's DF-21D Anti-Ship Ballistic Missile 

Any ship could be sunk. Oceans' bottoms are full of "unsinkable" ships.

I'm starting to learn that most military systems aren't nearly as capable as everyone thinks and says.

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End of last month(Aug, 2020), Chinese military tested two such missiles. One DF-26 and one DF-21D.The DF-26 was launched from inland China and 21 was launched from the coast. Report saying, both missiles hit a target ship in South China Sea simultaneously. And the most interesting thing is that the target was moving while missiles hit.

mistakes come when you start to underestimate your enemy..

THE MISSILE KNOWS WHERE IT IS AT ALL TIMES. THE MISSILE KNOWS WHERE IT IS BECAUSE IT KNOWS WHERE IT ISNT.

I just know China tested both of them recently, supposedly sinking a ship in the South China Sea, and the US didn’t make a faint sound of protest and didn’t come out exclaiming the test failed. This means only one thing, the missiles hit the target as designed.

which A lot of what you say is correct but some things to consider: 1) You do not not need to sink a carrier. Just damage it enough so it's out of action 2) The carrier killer missile's range will deter US carriers from operating within 1000km of the missile. This will make the carrier less effective as aircraft will be operating from maximum battle ranges 3) Tracking a carrier is EASY. There are a number of reasons why. Firstly it doesn't travel alone. It's part of a CBG. Firstly spies at port will know when the CBG is leaving. Then you have the massive wake of all the ships combined which will be picked up from satellites. Also the heat generated from the CBG will be easily observable from space.

When carrier is under resupply from a replenish ship, that’s when it’s most vulnerable, because it travels in straight line in a predicable path for 30 minutes.

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Let's just pray we will never actually see these in action.

The first phase of China's military buildup has always been area denial of its coastline. DF-21D is one of those threats that could work but you can never really know, and that throws your calculations off. How sure are you that it won't work or your defenses will. That's enough to push carrier operation far off the coast because even if the missiles are expensive, losing a carrier or two is even more devastating. China can concentrate all its missiles in an area to strategically deny entry to US carriers and even if they fired off their entire arsenal of 20, 30 missiles to saturate the defenses and to increase hit chance they only need one successful hit to sink the carrier. If you are a commander of a Pacific fleet, are you going to risk that? Will the Pentagon willing to risk that? Then, the missiles already did its job.

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I'd say China has the advantage here. US will have a harder time finding the missiles than China finding US warships.

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Good point, probably one of the most comprehensive understanding video about the real deal about ASBM on social media

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Counter point - Most of the reasons why the missile might fail is due to the manoeuvrability of the target. 3:37 in this video details this point. Saying a ship moving at 20 knots can be get 20-50km away by the time the missile's warhead flys in. The counter point is that assuming a ship will be moving at those speeds, or moving in a non-predictable manner, when the missile is fired. Engine falure, any form of at-sea resupply (eg: onboard munitions), leaked intelligence for planned routes/randevu points, predictability of a ship's actions-on. Other enemy actions to box-in/herd in/bait the carrier. In an ideal world the carrier could get 20-50km away from the initial target point. But we don't live in an ideal world, and a competent enemy would make every effort to exploit this fact. ~ ~ ~ ~ Edit. Ignore the comments. They are dominated by one Dunning Kruger who thinks carriers are unsinkable and can withstand a nuclear blast, vs lots of people telling him how he is wrong about everything.

Yet another informative video on a very much discussed yet very poorly understood missile.

Great commentary. Excellent research and editing. I want more of this on RU-vid!

In dept analysis, thanks bro. Could you do a video on capabilities of the recent Iranian rocket booster and the range if used as ballistic missile

Please do another video going into the article's mistakes. We'd all appreciate a real understanding of the news from a SME instead of the nonsense the media puts out these days.

A really interesting arm race of spear and shield

Excellent research, been wondering about this too, thanks for the due diligence on this.

1:45 video starts

why is half of my military knowledge from this channel this single channel is bascially a mini high school course on the military in bite sized clips

Info graphics has never had one video that doesn’t have myriad mistakes. Its like they guess and not look into what they say. Sad for a channel called infographics

An aircraft carrier is a large target and any enemy does not have to destroy a carrier but disable it. At a fraction of a price of an anti-ship ballistic missile it would probably be feasible to launch a 10,000+ small drone attack with the aim of peppering the carrier deck just enough to prevent the taking off and landing of aircraft. An aircraft carrier is very intimidating piece of hardware in peace time, but in a no holds barred conflict it is probably more vulnerable to unconventional weapons than some people would like to acknowledge.

Regarding target movement and course corrections I'm pretty sure they wouldn't put a larger, more powerful radar in it. They would just use a data link and update it with target information from satellites before plasma becomes an issue. After that there's only a few minutes of movement that needs to be adjusted for, which could be handled by a smaller radar.

US NAVAL FLEET: I fear no man but that shit scares me

I think the *ONLY* way the DF-21D could guarantee a "kill" against an aircraft carrier is to use a _nuclear_ warhead of around 200 KT yield. That way, even if the "miss" is around 1,000 meters, the blast effect of a 200 KT nuclear warhead would still be enough to at least disable the carrier.

The thing I love the most about this video was consideration on both ends and the unbiased research

Bolivian navy hypercocaine missiles can sunk anything.

Iran's slow moving old tech ICBM already could hit US airbases in Iraq with precision. Let alone China's.

THAT MUSIC! Man, every time I hear this intro I feel like I'm being hyped up for battle.

Thank you, another informative video.

A secondary effect of the DF21D is USA pilots will have to fly 1000 miles before they even get to the Chinese coast, do their mission, then fly 1000 miles back to the carrier. This will require at least one refuelling (and probably more) and long hours in the cockpit leading to pilot fatigue and mistakes. Just forcing the long flights is a win for China.

I'm sure the Chinese technicians who developed the DF-21D know all what you have said.

the best way to find out is sail your ship to china and you will know!

Covert Cabal is always the most thoughtful and detailed, and unbiased, of all the defense related sites. Thank you for this video.

I think we'll be seeing a sort of arms race for this system similar to the SAM race during the Vietnam War, where the Eastern Bloc and the United States created a whole host of measures, countermeasures, and counter-countermeasures. More powerful jammers to overpower the radar, more powerful radar to overpower the jammers, etc.

*Spur of the moment video* Cabal: "Hmmm... aircraft carrier?" World of Warships: "Hi"

I am Chinese, I can prove that DF-21 is just an inflatable model, don’t worry

I subscribe to your analysis 👍, things always do well on powerpoint, but rarely as well IRL

Would have expected the high speed drone China revealed last year to be mentioned, called Sharp sword or something. I do wonder how much AI can help with cancelling noise signals from decoy, seen some interesting noice clean up results from autonomous driving demo.

i mean they could just launch multiple missiles at a single target to overwhelm its defences.

I like the idea of rail guns being the future of missile defense.

I brought this up long time ago about this missile and people active like they didn't understand : high speed mean harder to turn with less time to turn. High speed gives less response time but is not stealthy and also generates heat as it moved at high speed. I think radar and heat sensor with pick up up early Hypersonic weapons easily and is some cases even visually by there visual trails. The main thing is have a weapons system fast enough and having enough range to intercept one. Jammers would be the cheapest way but I wouldn't want to just depend on them.

This was one of the systems I had to study in college. As far as what is available Open Source, the guiding belief in terms of function and vehicle design of the RV is that it's similar in construction to, I believe, the Pershing II system the US has long since retired. That system, was designed to conduct a 25 G turn AFTER re-entering the atmosphere. From there it would conduct a glide maneuver for a given distance before adjust again to hit whatever target. It's believed it's during this glide maneuver that the DF-21D is fed targeting data from a satellite data-link network; which China recently put into space.

Can one of the 50,000 Chinese cargo ships Carry these missles?

Well, I guess this video can be updated given the recent test performed.

Very informative! Thank you! 🙏🏼💛

CC is like a professor who has never stepped outside of the class room.

The need for a warhead in these missiles seem like an after thought since the kinetic energy of a ballistic missile slamming into a flight deck from space is enough to ruin your day. Theoretically the warhead can be all radar and flight control and be effective.

Imagine a war starts. USA is caught off guard and 6 of the 11 carriers get sunk in 1 week

Best time to strike a carrier is when it is in Yokosuka，Busan or Guam for maintenance since no crew life will be lost. 2nd best timing is during resupply in the middle of the sea when it will traveling at low speed on straight line. 3rd best time is during FA/18 Great Hornet taking off since it will be traveling against wind in predictable 25 knots straight line. Usually that's when you are engaging with the carrier in battlegroup formation knowing carrier's exact location and maneuvering behavior.

As with any new threat, new tactics and countermeasures are developed to mitigate against them. Most likely it will not be any single countermeasure. A combination of ECM through the SLQ-32, decoys anti ballistic missile interceptors and something as simple as evasive zig zag patterns developed originally for ASW would be employed.

No they just use an Huawei handset and 5g for tracking 😆😆

To be safe, US carrier shall stay back 2000KM away from Chinese coast line.

Carriers aren’t even the most threatened by it, it’s Taiwan that should really be focused, because all DF21s could be on Taiwan at any moment.

The V2 gets an upgrade. Many yrs ago I was aboard a Brit carrier being attacked by Exocet missiles, the fleet launched chaff that made the missile bounce around looking for a weak spot, you cloud watch it. Each warship has its own unique sound signature, could the missile “sniff” the target. By the way Chaff was first used by the RAF during WWll, the jerries knew of it too.

Whether DF 21D can sink U.S aircraft carriers is not so important, it is enough to hit the deck and make a lot of deep dents on it. warplane mission can't be carried out and crash into the sea!

It would depend on several issues such as If the enemy fleet can be properly located and targeted for Missile strike, if those missiles work as advertised and the carriers defenses can be overwhelmed then the answer is yes. But again that depends on a lot of factors which are currently unknown.

Do u think the pla will only shoot 1 df21 at a time or 100 at a time.

They were testing these missiles back in 2005 that's 16 years ago. Do people really think China doesn't have better anti-ship tech now that they have a defense budget 5 times greater than back then and they know the biggest threat for them are naval ships?

China just shoot 2 of these missiles into South China Sea to react to US flying a U-2 plane into the no fly zone in the middle of a live-fire exercise.

It's my personal belief that China would attack using air launched anti-ship missiles, perhaps in concert with a couple of these missiles in order to overwhelm the carrier group's defenses. The Soviets simulated such an attack against their own Kiev-class ship Novorossiysk using similar strategies with favorable results. Another well done video!!

I was on a destroyer that was part of the Roosevelt battle group. There’s so many ways to take out an incoming missile. That’s why there’s DDG’s and CG’a all around it. We were basically called missile magnets on destroyers.

Great analysis as usual

Fox News? Not knowing what they’re talking about? Who woulda guessed

Can we imagine what would happen to China now if they don’t have these kinds of defenses to deter their aggressors?

Covert' s missile and rockets knowledge is well above other sites!

A sneaky way to defeat the radar jamming would be to have a penetration aid in the form of a jettisoned parachuting radio that would tell a second missile what the most likely target is.

I’ll use reverse psychology and just stay put.

How do you feel about the fire on the Carrier in San Diego

Sounds like the hypersonic glide vehicle is the game changer for these...

Just as u said. How ure gonna even detect and intercept an incoming df21d if it comes vertically at mach +10 with its plasma shield, with even sm6 1b? U cant hit what u cant see

the battle group can stay clear of the BM just use stand off weapon systems to attack the BMS before can launch them ...

aren’t we developing lasers for point defense tho?

Hey covert cable luv the show can you make a detail video of the DF-21D and DF-26 missiles and also how they compare to other ballistic missiles like the Iskanda Missiles

Great analysis !

Come on, China’s military tech will perform just like its recent mars mission

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Great video. Actually had useful information.

Also wouldn't a flak cloud be a good defense against hypersonic missiles? As they are moving so fast wouldn't hitting 100 ft of shrapnel destroy them?

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Covert Cabal you forgot one very important thing : the US has put enormous amount of money into their radars etc for the aegis system. However this is actually becoming a problem as the US ships have so much powerful radars and other emitting equipments that they litteraly are : Christmas trees in the middle of the Pacific. Everyone can see them from very far away. Of course they could just turn of their radars and stay on passive mode so that they protect their location but it also means that they could lose the precious seconds to try intercept these missiles and thus means that a hit will be more probable given that China is at parity with the US in term of satellites so they could spot them. An other option is to lunch an E 2 from the carrier and make it go at some distance from the carrier and then activate it's radar to see what if there is something coming. However this would also most likely give away the zone where the carrier is and with it's very numerous statelittes China could concentrate them on this zone of the pacific. The only difference with the previous scenario is that the E2, if the Chinese don't destroy it, will be very probable to see the ballistic missiles coming in. And alert the carrier group so that they all activate all their systems and try to intercept them. I think the US could protect it self from those missiles but not before several carriers ends at the bottom of the ocean

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How can you mention chaff and not much more effective electronic decoys like MK 53 DLS (NULKA)?

Burn-through requires a radar with very high power and very high antenna directivity...neither of which are available on a missile platform. Also the plasma effect would indeed render the on-board radar blind. Other targeting assets would have to be used. Also the radar beams would be detected and copied by the A/C carrier jammers then blasted back at the incoming radar at extremely high power...like a strobe light in your eyes at night. [also...we don't even know that there's anything inside those Chinese tube-shaped objects]

Technically, they can add nuclear warheads to the missile and drop it on the carrier battle group. But, that will be a major escalation. I dont think we will ever get there. All these fancy toys are necessary to deter adversaries. In the end, nothing will happen...hopefully for a while.

Another great video!!

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"the game keeps a really good job at keeping it balance" nice joke lol

Don't need to hit any ships at first. One EMP over the fleet will change everything.

I always wondered what those tubes are in the ship point in million different directions.

Talking comfort? The best thing to do is not to start a senseless war or battle.