What would modern ship-to-ship combat look like?
What would modern ship-to-ship combat look like?
Leo Bennett
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Jaxon Howard
launching ballistic missiles at each other from hundreds of miles apart
Dominic James
It wouldn’t even get that far.
Logan Smith
Mark 48 torpedoes sink everything that fails to retreat back to port and hide behind ground-based aircraft while carrier based aircraft complain that they didn't get to shoot anything.
Mason Nguyen
A shitshow.
I feel like the biggest questions about it have yet to be answered except in theory: does every ship with missiles fire them at once or do they stagger their launches to make the enemy use up some countermeasures before a second wave? Once exhausted of missiles, do they turn and run for a port or close to gun range (Russian ships seem to consider this considering how many guns some of them are armed with.)
Then there's the question of submarines: Are they attacking at the same time or are they for harassing the enemy as they retreat?
Finally, the role of carriers. They should ideally be sitting back but they still need all their escorts and sitting back means their planes may only get there to attack a retreating enemy.
Cooper Sanders
>do they turn and run for a port or close to gun range
...You're asking if they close the HUNDREDS OF KILOMETERS of distance?
Caleb White
depends where. If we take the chinese seas or the straight of Hormuz into account (and ROE) the ranges might be closer
Michael Reed
same as ship-to-ship fights of the last 50 years only longer range
Josiah Mitchell
Shooting all of your missiles all at once is best because most countermeasures can only deal with one missile at a time.
Isaiah Jones
Clouds of chaff and flares can spoof missiles as long as they're in the air.