11/19/2023 0 Comments Aircraft carrier battle group![]() In late 2021, the People’s Liberation Army constructed a mock two-dimensional silhouette of an American carrier strike group (one aircraft carrier and two Arleigh Burke-class destroyers) at the Ruoqiang missile range in central China for probable DF-21D target practice. Moreover, the Chinese military has left few doubts about which ships are in its boresight. Chinese anti-ship cruise missiles - launched from submarines, surface units, fighters, and bombers - can join anti-ship ballistic missiles in attacking a carrier and its escorts as far east as Guam. Many of my Navy colleagues like to say we “wake up in the WEZ.” And it’s true. aircraft carriers are enveloped by overlapping weapon engagement zones, or WEZ, the moment they enter the second island chain. Although the DF-21D and DF-26B anti-ship ballistic missiles are the archetypal “carrier-killer” missiles, U.S. carriers, the Chinese military has developed a “ constant, controllable, and high-impact” network that integrates with “ high-intensity and fast-paced” precision strikes to wreak “irreversible damage and powerful destruction” on U.S. The People’s Liberation Army has spent two decades training a counter-intervention force and building an anti-access/area denial zone that depends on a diverse, multi-domain battle network to either destroy or blind American aircraft carriers.įirst, in order to destroy U.S. As the carrier strike group operates alone and unafraid, information warriors will need to wean themselves off emission-intensive methods and go “back to basics.” This will require resurrecting the carrier’s organic resources and low-emission communication methods while shifting from a “transmit” to a “receive” mindset. Presently, such awareness demands gigabytes of data derived from sophisticated, high-bandwidth satellite communications and internet protocol-based radio networks. sea services should develop and deploy tactics, techniques, and procedures that stress-test the carrier strike group in order to ensure it can offensively operate under emissions control and a denied and degraded command-and-control environment all while maintaining superior battlespace awareness. radars or knocked out satellite constellations (operating in a denied and degraded command-and-control environment). Or they may be forced to operate without external communications because the Chinese military has jammed U.S. Carriers may decide to strangle their unique (military) emissions to escape detection and targeting (emissions control). Should the United States face a real conflict with China, carriers will need to “go dark” for two reasons. ![]() taxpayers deserve more than 11 wartime liabilities. Navy’s 11 aircraft carriers rack up an annual $13 billion in operating costs alone. Strategists should also be thinking about how to make them force multipliers. submarines and bombers cleared out China’s “carrier-killer” platforms.īased on these war games, contemporary navalists are now coming up with ways to defend strike groups. If a carrier somehow managed to flee the second island chain unscathed from the war’s initial salvos, it would have to continue operating (or hiding) outside the second island chain until U.S. aircraft carriers were sunk and their air wings destroyed. But how long can the strike group evade one of China’s far-reaching Dongfeng anti-ship ballistic missiles? And even if the carrier dodges a DF-26 anti-ship ballistic missile (with an estimated range of 2,200 nautical miles), what can the carrier strike group offensively bring to the fight?ĭuring multiple iterations of a 2022 Center for Strategic and International Studies war game, at least two U.S. For the adversary team, it is common to continue targeting U.S. aircraft carrier during the war’s opening volleys. The multiple “Taiwan war” games now being fought at think tanks and universities across the United States share something in common: A Chinese missile strike on a U.S.
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