Time Critical targets (TCT) TELs, which are often missed, are the tgt, thus really a Arsenal ships launching many slower missiles like hunting TAcit Rainbow/ Thirsty Saber is the requirement. Lower Altitude to survive S-500 and follow on SAMs (out to 1000miles) rather than high hypers which are going to invite interception.
So basically the USN plan to use Time On Target something using a combo of Hypers, JASSAM, and Tomahawks?
Which be a pain to defend against cause:
The Hypersonic missile coming in from on the high being the obvious target causing the systems to focus on look up allowing the JASSAM to sneak on in along with the Tomahawk which will make detection of the JASSAM even more unlikely. All of this happening at once means at least a few of the weapons will hit. Basically combine arms with with missiles.
And you seem to ignore the other use cases of the Hypersonics, like smacking ships while they are in port or supporting troops by taking out heavily defended targets like artillery or command centers. Being able to hit targets within 30 minutes from 1000 miles aways is too handy not to have.
And while they are sam bait, that is a double edge sword. Say you have a SAM that you are 80 percent sure that the US doesnt know about, do you fire at the hypersonic going in to delete the AO TOC and invite the hoard of Tomahawks waiting or do you wait to ambush the Carrier strikecraft? That is a major exercise that commanders will have to deal with.
Also it needs to be say that the only ships in the US that cant carry a tomahawk are Carriers and Amphilous assualt ships and they have planes that can carry Their own stealthy cruiser missiles so an Arsenal ship is just as a stupid idea as it was 20 years ago.
The 12 IR-CPS per DDG-1000 class ship was reported back in June. I think that is the number they've landed on.
I ment 4 of the 3 missile launcher pership there boss. Which be 12 missiles per ship, and is a solid amount.
Now if only we had more ships to put them on...
Then again that will be an amusing What IF?
Say all 32 Zumwalts are order and built.
Will we still refit them with the Hypersonic module since the gun be mostly working?
The Zumwalts are way to expensive. The US should use any and all funding to rebuild building capacity. We are going to need the ships to meet future requirements and rebuilding, upgrading and construction of new shipyards needs to be a top priority for the US Navy. #1 in my opinion.
There lines the rub.
The Navy cant shove the money around that way, well it kinda can but...
They dont have anywhere to take it from.
Well several ships are reaching the put of costing more to run then replace, so taking it out maintance is amazing stupid idea...
Next big money item is training and crewing the ships.... No Training Equal ships running into tankers cause they dont know how the ships works, Fitzgerald and McCain, and try not paying the servicemembers...
The rest of the money is bespoken on weapon updates, fuel, restocking, Marines, and other minor things the Navy needs to run.
So any new money needs to come from Congress and....
Not getting into that shitshow...
The Best way is for the navy to jsut out right retire the legacy ships, Ticos and LA subs, and solve the budget from those ships to the Yard while telling them to fix themselves.
Which while epic to see happen just for the reactions alone, one of the reactions is literally everyone of O7 UP getting the boot by Congress.
Funny enough if we kept the 32 Zumwalts we be in Far better position. Cause the Burke 3s are costing more then they would have since we had to pay to REBUILD ALL THE LINES FOR THE BURKES. And since all the Zumwalts lines are now close, we are in the same place for them as well. Hindsight is a right PITA.
This is not help by the fact we are going to start losing more ships then we replace here were quick cause those ships I mention? Are the 22 strong Tico class cruisers, which are older then I am and several are pushing 40 years. The FFGs be usefull but it be a few years before they are close to replacing the Ticos loses. Call it ten years then it be back were we are cause the first Burkes be pushing forty.
Need to start building ALOT of things now. Ships and yards...
Ingells can do 4 hulls at a time, they just need the money to pay for the workers. So two Burkes 3 and two CGX/DD(G)X is well within their ability and go long to even stuff out.
Get the other yards up and running?
We can shift the work to them as we update Ingells. Nicely solve most of the issues reasonably fast...
Well all issue but one.
Money.
