1. Could a single missile make an Aircraft carrier explode like the DeathStar if hit in the right spot?

Not if you can pack that little inflatable boat with half a dozen Silkworm missiles, no.
In reality you’d find that kind of hard though.

If the game master allows you to fire saturation missile attacks from a dinghy without missiles its not fault of the players really

Gonna say no to this one.
To do that you need a source of something capable of exploding an aircraft carrier to hit. The ordnance they carry is normally carried in magazines designed to prevent the whole lot going up at once along with the munitions design itself. The fuel generally burns rather than explodes, even in a worse case like the Taiho it didn't 'detonate' like a death star; more like violently deflagrate. A nuclear powered carrier you could perhaps trigger a steam explosion from the reactor, but knowing nothing of their design beyond the assumption that all reactors are built to prevent it, and that even if it occurred it probably wouldnt be on the required scale, then it can be ruled out. A nuclear tipped weapon fired against it would do the trick, but then we aren't much talking about 'lucky hit' any more.

The best evidence is ww2 where large numbers of carriers of differing design were subjected to significant numbers of hits all over. Many sank, but none went down like a death star AKA Hms Hood

Saturation missiles from shore, and suicide boats are surprisingly effective.

>but muh game rulez

Shut the fuck up you inbred hicks, your navy sucks ass

Someone post webm or gif of bigass rocket hitting carrier. I think it was Chinese rocket I am not sure.

There are a few places a penetrating hit could end up that would blow a carrier in two, 1 in a million shot though.

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Quite a number of WW2 carriers were destroyed by one lucky hit.

A lot of them also burnt until destruction / detonation thanks to magnesium / magnalium being common in planes of the day.

>surprisingly effective
As in they have never actually worked? Suck less cock, fag boy.

Losing a carrier very quickly due to immediate battle damage seemed to be a Japanese problem. Mostly because their carriers were built with expansive but enclosed hangar decks. The result is you create a floating fuel-air bomb.
Buildup of fumes were a problem for American carriers as well but there were systems to prevent that, openings in hangar decks, and firefighting methods that went a long way in preventing explosions.

Nuclear weapon direct impacts would obviously destroy a carrier, a more interesting question probably is could things like P-15 Termit 1000lb HEAT warhead reach and detonate the magazine

could a single op be this gay?

The USN occasionally tries to sink decommissioned container ships with AShM. None of them have been one-shotted, it usually takes five or six. You have to remember that shipbuilding has improved since the 40s - better compartmentalization, stability, damage control - this is how that tanker in the Indian Ocean (forget the name, it was 2017?) was able to hogback itself in two, and the stern kept floating for another four days after the bow had sunk. If that's the kind of quality you can find on generic Korean-built merchant hulls, I imagine the Nimitzes and Fords are just as hardy, if not more so. Even assertions like are questionable - the CV would definitely be mission killed, but I'm not so sure it would immediately sink, especially if we're talking Chinese low- to medium-yield warheads.

Poor damage control turned Taiho into a fuel air bomb.

God that would have been a sight to see.

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probably

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>Could a single missile make an Aircraft carrier explode like the DeathStar if hit in the right spot?
Unless said missile is a nuke, no.
>2. Could a single jet get past the defences and make the shot?
No, see point 1 for why.

You never heard of armor grates?
You think flues run straight?

List them, faggot.

what the FUCK happened here?

woosh

Target practice with a harpoon ASM

>The USN occasionally tries to sink decommissioned container ships with AShM. None of them have been one-shotted, it usually takes five or six.
This is because the USN has tiny anti ship missiles which are light to be used by aircraft, they are subsonic and don't have the momentum to go through a carrier. They're also carrying tiny warheads.

>he doesn't know about ray shielding
>he doesn't know about small secondary exhaust stacks right below the main ones

You'd have to get a couple proton torpedoes down the small thermal exhaust port

Niggas be eaten beans

If a nuclear powered aircraft carrier is sunk will the ocean be chernobyled ?

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there's sunk nuke boats, misplaced nuclear bombs and tons upon tons of radioactive waste just chilling at the bottom of the ocean as we speak.
dilution is the solution to pollution and it doesn't get much more dilute than the ocean

The LRASM has the same warhead yield as the P-15 termit despite being half the size in terms of mass

A Titan-II could probably destroy it in one hit. Don't know about conventional weapons though.

The LRASM is over 60 years newer and still technically in testing. Every time we used missiles on carriers it was the harpoon which is pathetic in terms of warhead and speed, for that matter LRASM suffers the same problem with speed it probably won't work against a carrier either. Luckily none of our enemies have carriers so we're good.

It was 17 years ago and while telling that all of this was BS, US NAVY took measures to prevent those things from happening IRL.

Those US tests are just for propaganda purposes. A single Chinese super Silkworm can destroy a carrier. Just look at what happened last year when Yemen sunk an American military ship.

Not to mention Chinese super Moskits fly down to the waterline. No other nation has successfully made their missiles do that. A clear 1 hit shot.

if you hit where all the ammo or fuel is stored it will split the carrier in half.

>No one else has made sea skimming AShMs
What the fuck do you know about damage control and watertight integrity, bug?

Wouldn't individual bombs cook off and blow up like popcorn?

Epic bait.

I doubt one of Chang's hyperdongs up the butt would be good for any ship.

Unlikely.

1) A carrier's munitions storage is the best protected spot on this vessel deep within its belly and covered by shittons of armor
2) Insensible munitions are a thing. They only go boom when they are made to go boom. Other detonations or fire would only make them cook off
I read so much talk about Chinas quantum shit but yet I have to see anything that even resembles something as a live fire test. Until then all those claims are a big steaming pile of bullshit

You realize speed doesn’t mean shit right like China and Russia also use subsonic ASMs

1. IN a death star complete disintegration way? Nope. Thats pure BS. In a HMS Hood split in half and sink in 15 minutes? Yes, but it requires a perfect hit on the magazine with a weapon capable of penetrating the most heavily armored portion of the ship.

2. Depends is there a war on? If no, then sure a single jet could get close enough to fire off the shot thanks to current RoE. If there's a war on? HAHAHAHA, no.

This. A nuke can make anything explode. Trouble is making it hit.