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Stealth UAV, carrier launched aircraft, IUSS acoustic track, satellite surveillance…there are numerous off-board sensors that could provide targets and target updates. The thousand mile range provides a huge amount of stand-off for the launching platform.As an exercise, pull up a map and draw a thousand mile circle centered on the Taiwan straight. You’ll notice this includes parts of South Korean and Japanese coasts as well as a large amount of the Philippines. Anything inside this circle can fire a tomahawk at a naval target participating in a landing or blockade of Taiwan, and their fire can potentially be stacked together to arrive at the same time. Closer units fire later or alternatively their missiles simply loiter and wait for weapons fired at longer range to close in. That long range also translates into ~2 hours of endurance. A ship under imminent threat might fire off its missiles to a way point where they simply loiter for an hour until the strike coordinator ashore found an appropriate target track to feed them. The firing ship wouldn’t need to survive in this scenario.
Stealth UAV, carrier launched aircraft, IUSS acoustic track, satellite surveillance…there are numerous off-board sensors that could provide targets and target updates. The thousand mile range provides a huge amount of stand-off for the launching platform.
As an exercise, pull up a map and draw a thousand mile circle centered on the Taiwan straight. You’ll notice this includes parts of South Korean and Japanese coasts as well as a large amount of the Philippines. Anything inside this circle can fire a tomahawk at a naval target participating in a landing or blockade of Taiwan, and their fire can potentially be stacked together to arrive at the same time. Closer units fire later or alternatively their missiles simply loiter and wait for weapons fired at longer range to close in. That long range also translates into ~2 hours of endurance. A ship under imminent threat might fire off its missiles to a way point where they simply loiter for an hour until the strike coordinator ashore found an appropriate target track to feed them. The firing ship wouldn’t need to survive in this scenario.
