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Twenty kilo tonnes is the size of the explosion at Nagasaki in WW2. The yield of a MOAB (Massive Ordinance Air Burst) is two tonnes. Twenty tonnes is the size of the test charges. Marine ammo tech here.

The direct hit thing is the elephant in the room tho. Everybody knows that

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People are also forgetting the additional support vessels that also have multi lvl platforms to hit incoming ballistic items.

An aircraft carrier is never alone. Combined with its own defensive systems and that of the entire strike group, the 🇺🇸 should feel good about its ability to intercept, said missiles.

"The testes are simulated using live ordnance." -- That must really hurt!

Interesting, informative and worthwhile video.

Ccp would have there missles blown off launch pads they try to attack our ships.

The missles have to hit a relativly small moving target in the middle of the ocean which is surrounded by other ships with missle defence. Good luck with that

Ballistic missiles wont be used on carriers do to the fact they can't maneuver to hit moving objects in it's terminal stage. It's moving to fast. The US also couldn't sink it's own carrier after 4 weeks of trying to sink it. Now with a CGS trying to hit one will be extremely hard. "The U.S. Navy knows this from experience. In 2005, the Navy itself targeted the decommissioned carrier America in order to determine just how much punishment the vessel could withstand before slipping beneath the waves. "The ship was pummeled by explosions both above and below the waterline," The War Zone reporter Tyler Rogoway explained in 2018. "After nearly four weeks of these activities, the carrier was scuttled. On May 14, 2005, the vessel's stern disappeared below the waterline and the ship began its voyage to the seafloor." "America stood up to four weeks of abuse and only succumbed to the sea after demolition teams scuttled the ship on purpose once and for all, it's clear that America was built to sustain heavy damage in combat and still stay afloat."

Surviving a simulated Full Ship Shock Trials is quite remarkable from such close a distance with such massive ordinance. Except in a real armed conflict, the Chinese won't be aiming close to the carrier. They will be hitting the carrier. No simulations. Just destructive explosions upon destructive explosions. It's a terrible mistake to underestimate or play down the might of the Chinese military.

Yes really an excellent report! Thank you very much.

It is quite easy to explode charge beneath the surface and have a huge tank like an aircraft carrier sustain the chock, however, why don't they tell us what will happen to that carrier if one of two DF 21 or 26 get a direct and multiple hits on it. The 21st century navies will get rid of surface fleet when an entire carrier battle group will get anihilated in less than an hour ...

time to roll out the inflatable super carrier float balloon decoys to be towed behind every screening destroyer.

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Not mentioned in the video is the U.S. Space Force X-37b space plane. It has the ability to remain in orbit for months at a time and has the ability to maneuver in orbit. I suspect the Space Force has other "assets" in orbit any of which will be able to take out Chinese satellites and thus destroy the kill chain required to target a carrier. The DF-21 and DF-26 have two chances of hitting a U.S. carrier; slim and none. They should be called the "Dang I Missed".

There's absolutely nothing about China that I find militarily frightening.

Until they develop Star Trek shields they are big sitting ducks, saturation attack and one direct strike it's over, and not to mention what would happen to a task force if a nuclear warhead was used!

I constantly hear about how hard it is to hit a carrier in the ocean but in reality it really isn't. The relative speeds of a carrier vs a ballistic missile are such that the carrier will not be able to move fast enough to actually evade anything. From the missiles perspective, at 250 miles out the carrier is still within ±2º of where they thought it was. At 30 miles out they are still above most of the atmosphere so they do not have to contend with plasma obscuring the target yet and the carrier can move a maximum of less than 800 feet from its current position. If the missile aims at the bow it hits the back ⅓ of the ship. The final 30 miles of flight can be made on inertial guidance, as it is such a short distance and covered so quickly that any inertial guidance should put it accurate to just a few meters. AAs for locating a carrier, that is also easy. China has a huge network of both radar and optical/IR satellites for the task, and they have a huge network of sonar nets and HALE drones as well as OTH radar. Shooting a moving ship with a modern ballistic is only marginally harder than shooting a stationary ship, as the relative speeds are so massively different it barely matters. The navy knows this and that is why they are investing in things like the MQ-25, so carriers don't have to sit so close to shore but can use stealth tankers to let them stand off thousands of miles. Even if they believed they could evade the missiles, being that close to shore would put them easily within range of Chinese SSNs and SSKs, hence the carriers will stand off as far as possible regardless.

They are a threat, like so many others, that all ships have to consider.

I think the creator doesn't understand the fact that these missiles are designed to score direct hits and the warhead yield alone isn't enough to determine how much damage the missile will do since the hypersonic speed isn't being factored in. Say sea trials were done with indirect hits and larger yields doesn't mean anything. Under water explosions need to be under the middle of the ship to try to make a cavation bubble and snap the keel in half. A direct hit can damage a lot of systems and posibially render the ship useless with out sinking it. A ship doesn't need to be sunk to be considered taken out.

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No wonder they stayed with EMALS in spite of the problems.

China's DF21D isn't intended to sink a aircraft carrier, all it needs is to disable it (the flight deck). Btw when China fires missiles they fire hundreds at a time. Just 20% accuracy would do the job.

We should hope that this situation never rises at all.... No matter which is better CG or CK missiles... For it will spark a world war...

For starters USN strike groups will not be in the business of sitting off china's coast , but way back over the horizon in safe spaces where they will set up a web of sensors and shooters , which will even incorporate the new B-21 raider patrolling right on the edge of the battle space 24/7 , having aircraft with advanced networked integrated sensor technology will give them the advantage of seeing way beyond their own ships sensors , with the ability to engage threats like air defence systems the moment they go active and at maximum range , in the meanwhile china will need to first locate , track and hit a moving object in a vast open space at long range, while making course alterations to hit its intended target , basically joining all the dots up , i don't think so ?

US Navy needs a new battleship. Decked out with the best radars and Command Control equipment. Massive VLS capability for SAM's and about 12 CWIS platforms on it. Add lasers as available. Prime mission, protect the carrier from air attacks. The Chinese won't fire one missile- they will launch them all in a Hail Mary.

Yeah yeah when we used to sail right up to the Chinese coast . Now we sail 500 + miles out to sea. That is hardly useless. They do not need to hit any thing just make us duck💁🏿‍♂️

So the US is banking on the Chinese being about as accurate as an Imperial Stormtrooper.

Warhead maybe 15 to 30 times smaller but Mach 10 wasn't considered in analysis. Also test explosions were submerged at best stimulating a torpedo or a missing missile from above on carrier...a real horse and pony show. NO, NONE, ZERO- US defense weapons systems can withstand hypersonic attack. Think about that. That wasn't mentioned either. Oh I'm absolutely certain the scenario wouldn't be good.

China has Carrier anti-ship missiles. The united states has has an inventory of 6,185 nuclear warheads

df-21 isn't going to detonate under water or on impact. it probably knows it's not super accurate and will try to detonate above water expanding the blast radius.

"No other country has such an asset"... What about Charles de Gaulle? Isn't that nuclear & catobar?

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Should make carriers semi-submersible… see how many of these missiles hit then

what about the energy from the mass of the rocket going at mach 10?

Really appreciate the updates, I am looking forward to the redundancy programmed into the Ford class - proper star wars or Battlestar Galactica style type tracking Laser systems to destroy any missile at any speed. The energy output has more power to manage future laser weapons systems. US not likely to bring out banned tech until necessity

The only real test takes place when 20 tonnes of explosives go off directly at the hull of the ship. Best test there is.

The key word is 'conventional' total war with a nuclear power could be very different.

Apperently China forgot an event that basically shows the survivability of a supercarrier. Its Known as the "1967 uss forestall fire" in which 8 AN/M-65 1000 lb bomb and 1 750 lb and 1 500 lb bombs and other munition detonated(The AN/M-65 has 65% of its weight being used by its explosive filling unlike. The modern mark 83 which only uses 50% for its explosive filling. And the AN/M-65 becomes 50% more powerfull when the bomb is in its degaraded state. Which was the state it was given to uss forestall).

An American saying would appropriate here regarding uss Gerald R Ford, go get em floyd

Brahmos is an Authentic Super Carrier Killer

The Chinese only need to keep the Carriers out of Reach for the jets to be any good at attacking a thing on the mainland .

Our support vessels need to keep current with the best available anti-missile protection. Also they must increase anti-submarine warfare and include better anti-ship and land targeting capabilities. I doubt the carrier alone can survive without this side!

Imperialism days are over.

Wondering if US would consider 50K to ~75K ton nuclear carriers mix w/ their 100K. If not, then succeeding F-35B carriers as nuclear fueled as well

A Carrier Group is surround by a full carrier battle group and some of those ships have EO and IR Countermeasures. Moreover, that carrier battlegroup has as least one submarine.

How is this proving anything? It’s not a direct hit

Thank u for also putting it in both ways miles lbs etc converting it is very helpful

at 4:35, I find is very interesting that the DF-26 in the picture have EXACTLY the same camouflage pattern…. Leading me to two conclusions. 1. The manufactures were told to put the SAME EXACT pattern on all missiles and transports. (So a adversary can’t track individual units) or, 2. This is a photo that was copy pasted to show how many we have of these “killer fully functional weapons”. 🤔

The water ABSORBS the explosion, completely different if the bomb explodes above the water line.

Chinese PLA NAVY doesnt have Shock trial on there two Aircraft carrier the LIAONING Type 001 and SHANDING Type 002 even the incoming Type 003 . If they conduct Shock trial on there Class Carrier we dont if the two Carrier class can survived such test like these

Like a kid shooting nerf darts at randy savage

no worries made in sweatshop missile has the worst accuracy 😂

So basically "look we will blow up our own ship to show you it works" just to get the message across

3:51 The way those are painted allows a A.I. in space to see them with ease.

Why dont they show a demonstration and prove that it even works lol. I've heard about these missles and they are overrated and i realy doubt if they could hit a carrier from the mainland inless it was in view theres to many variables for 100s of miles. Plus they wish they was good as the United States lmao.

hahaha were those explosives tested on those ships directly..?let them hit the carriers directly to prove the carriers are 'unsinkable'

China has numerous and effective maritime surveillance satellites, such that hiding a carrier is probably impossible. However probably there is a 10 minute kill chain. How effective are the sensors on that warhead, how much maneuverability does a ballistic warhead have, and is it enough to hit a target moving at 25 knots at 900 miles. The risk is probably high enough to keep carriers farther than 900 miles off the coast of China. However that’s still close enough to keep the air space safe for strategic bombers flying stand-off maritime strike missions against PLAN ships attempting to invade Taiwan.

Hypersonic missles are something to consider.

If i was the CCP i would figure how many DFs i need to cover an area of sea that my sensors could direct the missiles to. Overlapping CEP circles. Then i would triple that amount of missiles i estimate to cover malfunctions, intercepts etc. Lets say it takes 100 DFs to take out a carrier. Now lets say each DF costs 20 Million USD. So i get a good chance of taking out a 10 billion dollar Aircraft carrier plus say about a billion dollars worth of airplanes trained sailors, flyers etc for like 2 billion USDs worth of DFs. I also get to take out the other ships in the Carrier air group too as a bonus. If was the CCP i would build 300 DFS so if i miss with the first lot i hit the US again with another salvo then another . It still works out cheaper and as a bonus i take out the primary US sea warfare platform that pretty much screws the whole US Navy's war fighting strategy

If us build a battle cruiser all equip with anti ballistic missile it is very defenceb plan.

With the present state of Chinese technology I doubt they can manage a direct hit though if you fire enough missiles flukes happen. But that will not be true in the future. The technology is advancing faster than the ability of these huge ships to manoeuvre. By 2035 at the latest I think the ability to launch simultaneous waves of ballistic and hypersonic missiles and thousands of missile packing drones will mean USN surface ships will not be able to operate within a 1,000 or so miles of the Chinese mainland. What the US ought to be doing is establishing bases on Taiwan to keep the first island chain intact.

Why dont they make a anti Hypersonic missle to be carried by super Hornets on CAP

The real concern is things like whatever the Chinese version of the exocet anti-ship missile is.

I think the DF series missiles are far from proven but if they scored a direct hit with a 2000lbs warhead screaming in at mach 10 would be a shit show for sure!!

In another year or so the carrier strike group won't even have to adjust its course. They will just use directed energy weapons to eliminate the incoming dong feng flying pylons

Please. USN is concerned enough to alter its strategy in what regarded as a THREAT.

I hope you all realize that a war between us will basically end civilization on Earth! Let's not let a biggest c$ck contest take us too far!!!

I suspect the DF-21 and 26 could conceivably carry nuke payloads rather than just conventional ones.

Wow! I always thought the DF-26 stood for 26 dumb fooks trying to figure out how to launch a Missle.

Probably airlaunched version gonna be develloped

How delusional is it to think that the carrier can withstand multiple missile hits. The aircraft carrier itself is packed with missiles, bombs, ammunitions, fuel etc...all extremely inflammable. One missile hit will already cause a major explosion.

Nice try, but fear of the missle has nothing to do with it. It is just a matter of odds. Even with the layered defense of the carrier task force, give it the Iron Dome success rate 90%. The cost of a modern USA supercarrier is $13.4 billion and sadly, counting. According to the people that track such things like "Defense Updates" a Hypersonic weapon (mach 5+) can be purchased for $200 grand. $13.4 billion minus 90%. Forgive me a f**k ton of hypersonic missles that our $13.4 billion taxpayer dollar will get killed by. AND We the Peoples elected representatives, military industrial complex, government bureaucrats, and 1%er masters of the universe knew a long time ago.

I just want to press the Red button yes the red one you would too wouldn’t you Dolf 🧐

All types of missiles are dangerous to carriers. But what are the chinese using in their tracking and targeting chain to guide their missile across a thousand miles against a moving target at sea? Missiles don't guide themselves across vast distances from the launch platform or its dinner plate size radar dish on its nose. Without coorperative targeting from other platforms to guide the missile up to terminal tracking range, its gonna miss. Unless the warhead is nuclear and very large. Even so, US military has a doctrine to counter launch sm2s and sm3s fitting with nuke warhead to counter the blast, its an old doctrine but its still around. As nobody is willing to take a gamble what warhead is incoming, nuclear or conventional. In wartime against a peer adversary, carrier groups at stand off distances maintain a no compromise perimeter of a thousand km radius with airborne early warning, they will shoot down any sat with sm3s, and the air wing will kill any airplane or ship within that radius, giving land based launchers absolute zero chance of getting a track and lock. All the while lauching a strike package of their own with the air wing and tomahawks, jassmers and lrasm. One of the lesser known objective of the SM3 missiles on destroyers and cruisers is to shoot down sats. As the aegis SPY1 to SPY 6 are the only radars with enough power rating, sensitivity and range to track sats and shoot them down. Thats why the sm3 testing was tested primarily against sats flying at mach25 plus, with 3 for 3 record. Is anyone still believing that the intense range and speed of the sm3 missiles are for ballistic missiles only? My suspicion is they will be use against sats most of the time to blind the enemy. No other country has the weapons systems at sea to do this consistently, if they did, their media would be touting it, and the US have too many sats for track hopping any way.

Shock test will save ship, but all your sailors will be dead from shock, all their internal organs will be scrambled.

Are they referring the hypersonic missile?

Conventional warheads wouldn't be loaded if targetting a carrier. In which case, a single (smallish) 100Kt warhead detonated a few hundred metres above a carrier would easily 'do the job'. They dont need to be that accurate.

How long does it take to detect the launch of Chinese missile?

What happens when we fry all of their satellites and they can’t see shit? Missile pretty much useless then.

Thaad radar an tpy 2 in south korea can survelliance deep china territory because of its range 4600 km and ceiling 1000 km this radar had made very angry china with south korea when was installed in 2016 imbalanced of china to compare with usa

Entire US fleet be toll to a Chinese port. US fleet be out of missiles in a day. Logistics 😉😉

We got the FORCE FIELD the beautiful US of A 🇺🇸👍❤️🙃 and Co ✌️

what if the bomb burst above the water line ?????????????????

why do U assume that those missiles will use a conventional warhead ti sink supercarriers? they will be equipped a nuke; thus, this kinda explosion at near vicinity will KO supercarriers.

US should go dock their ships on the man-made island...

isn't that litoral combat ship from your previous video smaller and stealthy to be compared with their anti ship missiles? but what was the undersea explosion actually? killing somthing and someone you don't want anyone to know?

How long planned to stay there.if not got result or a mainland base china will laugh

The DF-21 and D-26 are all bark and no bite We can launch this missile and hit a target 1000 miles away In order for the DF-21 to find its target, it requires updates so problem is what stopping the US from jamming communications Once over the target, again same problem intense jamming and decoying The DF-26 is different because it target is fixed. But even targeting Guam is not without problems as the island has several layers defenses

Heads up everyone. America loses most of its wars. In fact, it has only won Iraq, Kosovo and WW2 however, has never won a war alone. Ever

He said dong . . .

Good. 🤧 Then go and try out.

"US navy don't afraid of threat from China" "How China threat US navy?" "China try to develop missiles that can hit US watships threating China near China's coast"

Is it true that 30,000 us army deployed in Taiwan? Or it's just a rumour

The idea that the threat to a carrier is from a single large missile was never on. The anti-carrier doctrine has been for salvo attacks preferably from multiple sources. These large, expensive missiles could be effective attacking ships in port or those resupplying. In fact, their main intended target might not be ships at all and this is all distraction.

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It's made in China 🇨🇳 😂

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