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Both arent mutually exclusive. A stealthy 3M54 would indeed be a sight to behold, before the fiscal issues slam down.
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yeah, seems a bit silly.
Even if we do assume that the SM6s aren't being thrown in as near-hypersonic AShBMs, that's really the volley of maybe two Burkes, not 8. I'd found a claimed missile loadout for a Tico from 2018, and guesstimated the loadout a Burke would have from that. Came up with ~20x Tomahawks or whatever in the VLS. (Not sure if LRASMs would get stuffed into the Mk41 or would be extras like Harpoons or NSMs).
The usual "The US .gov is very displeased with your existence" Tomahawk volley/message seems to be on the order of 20 weapons.
I wouldn't expect anything less than a 50-weapon strike if we're actually intending to sink another ship, especially if it's an AAW-focused DDG!
Yep. A well-timed combined strike always makes things much more difficult.
Absolutely!
And considering present escort with some kind of local air cover, and such a
Whoever planned this exercise was a little bit inattentive.
One way I see it - they could have launched 32 as penetration test, and the real punch would come afterwards...
...those included.
I mean - in a purely defensive context this scenario is an equivalent of Yamato's last sortie.
055 is a capable ship, but numbers are numbers.
112 launch cells + 24 close range AA.
Let's say same 2 to 1 ratio in offensive vs. defensive missiles, we get 92 AA missiles.
Let's suppose 100% effectiveness (which never is) and add 30% to spoofing - 125.
That's the absolute maximum number of missiles she can handle without reloading.
Let's suppose each of her escorts adds the same 24 close range AA and - we can be generous - 24 more long range.
144 + 30% to spoofing = 188
Total 313. 8 Burkes have, let's say 600, including AA that can target a surface ship.
So unless the Chinese group spots them first and eliminates at least half before the attack is launched, it's toast.
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At the same time, if it takes 313 missiles, or 4 full Burkes, to sink a type 055, we are toast.
It's ceiling numbers, but yes, when you do the US side planning, you absolutely should consider them as baseline.
However, don't forget that the Burke (+3 LCS for balance?) herself would require not much less for a confirmed kill.
Problem is, of course, this does not take any offensive air assets into account and it's rather difficult to image such surface-surface clash without some air power presence. But then with the Pacific weather it's not totally impossible.
It is a curious paradox of modern naval warfare - assuming air defense systems work, ships generally have more defensive missiles than offensive, and thus in a duel can reach a situation when the combat is down to artillery - and that's a single gun nowadays with not very large magazine - and then? Machine guns? Boarding? Pistols? Knifes? Broken chairs? The engagement may ultimately be decided by who kept a helicopter with a spare Sea Skua.
However, don't forget that the Burke (+3 LCS for balance?) herself would require not much less for a confirmed kill.
Problem is, of course, this does not take any offensive air assets into account and it's rather difficult to image such surface-surface clash without some air power presence. But then with the Pacific weather it's not totally impossible.
It is a curious paradox of modern naval warfare - assuming air defense systems work, ships generally have more defensive missiles than offensive, and thus in a duel can reach a situation when the combat is down to artillery - and that's a single gun nowadays with not very large magazine - and then? Machine guns? Boarding? Pistols? Knifes? Broken chairs? The engagement may ultimately be decided by who kept a helicopter with a spare Sea Skua.
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I imagine keeping a deployment of Tier IIs on board with a small, high speed semi-submersible. When the boat duel falls down to gunslinging, send out the boys toward the ship and ambush them. Either frogman tactics the keel or just outright board the ship.
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That's not practical versus a fast, maneuvering warship.
Especially not one with a functioning active sonar. Humans versus 200db of sound equals flesh bags full of bone powder.
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That got a tiny chuckle out of me.
Back to topic. If the Type 055 could track and intercept 32 targets simultaneously then that's some impressive fire control channel counts, of course under the assumption that the drones only did picket duties.
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There are zero LRASMs on a Burke and no antiship variant of Tomahawk. (The old one was repurposed and the "new" one isn't in service yet to my knowledge.) Oh, and most don't have any Harpoons.
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Well no shit. The same works in reverse.
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Even if LRASM-A is only a stopgap, I wish the USN has pursued a VLS-based variant to replace TacTom instead of fiddling around with a 40yrs old design. At least the JASSM airframe is VLO.
I think we can quite safely suggest that in a case of hot war something would be fitted very fast. And then there are dual-purpose SMs. They are not stealthy, but they are fast as hell and shooting them requires the defender to expend their - finite - AA missiles. And they saturate the tracking channels.
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One of the situations where gunslinging duel fails is in heavy ocean swell. I am not sure boarding by boats is something you would want to attempt in those conditions.
Seems rather modest by contemporary requirements, but what would I know. Also one should suppose that the escort ships do their part in tracking.
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I am not sure I see why the Chinese type 055 is considered to be such a grave threat. I don’t think they actually bring any capability that the Chinese Navy currently doesn’t already have with type 052D destroyer. The only difference seems to me to be that type 055 may combine the fire power of two type 052 destroyers on a single, larger hull. This may have some additional value if the Chinese are in the business of conducting expeditionary sorties far from their basis. But I don’t believe it confer any additional capability for any kind of confrontation in the first or second island chains. In fact, given that the close in defense capability of a type 055 seems to be identical to that of a type 052D, one would think for a near shore or intermediate green/blue water engagement, it was a mistake for the Chinese to build the type of 55 rather than more type 052D because two type 052D are probably marginally more survivable than a single type 055 because they have twice as much close in defensive firepower
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They have much larger cells allowing much larger / more capable missiles.
052d and 055 use cells of same width and length.
Allegedly, some but not all 052d cells are of shorter length, but even if that were true, it's again not all the cells. Plus the difference in length would likely be 7m for hhq9 SAM and 9m for strike missiles.
055 has a stronger aircraft component and a different radar. Arrays are not of same size and likely not of same power either.
Plus there are a bunch of other arrays present on 055, likely for better ESM work and possibly even jamming.
Allegedly, some but not all 052d cells are of shorter length, but even if that were true, it's again not all the cells. Plus the difference in length would likely be 7m for hhq9 SAM and 9m for strike missiles.
055 has a stronger aircraft component and a different radar. Arrays are not of same size and likely not of same power either.
Plus there are a bunch of other arrays present on 055, likely for better ESM work and possibly even jamming.
