[ivalm]

I am not sure capital ships are as critical now. With drones/hypersonics it seems they are too vulnerable for use in any peer conflict. Pretty sure if China/US were to wage war in 5 years then all the capital ships from both sides in the conflict zone will be scrap within 24 hours. Send 100 hypersonics per ship and one will hit.

[buildbot]

The parents point is more that for a functioning state, you need all of those things. If one of those things is at risk externally, bringing that one internal first makes sense.

Carriers are still very important to US force projection and hypersonic missiles are really overblown. We also seem to be readily able to take out existing hypersonic ballistics.

Also a 5 year war with the US and China that starts with a multiple thousands of missles? That’s just going to be a nuclear exchange and last not very long at all if one sides detects any launch like that.

[ethbr1]

We'll see how the SinkEx on the ex-USS Tawara goes at RimPac 2024.

I'd be surprised if they don't use some ASBMs.

But larger ships are built to take an incredible amount of punishment. It typically takes a heavyweight torpedo to crack them (hence why ASW is a primary skill set for navies). The physics of getting a 1/4 ton+ non-nuclear warhead (torpedo class) highly maneuvering are rough.

And there's a reason the Navy developed and deployed SM-6, and is now adding SEWIP Block III...

https://m.youtube.com/results?search_query=rimpac+sinkex

[generic92034]

Just recently a major ship was sunk, though: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinking_of_the_Moskva

Did they make mistakes?

[ethbr1]

Still having a conscript-based navy?

Loading their capital ships decks with exposed, extremely large anti-ship missiles?

And they likely still would have been able to tow it back to port, if the weather hasn't been bad.

[dylan604]

Are you asking if the underfunded Russian military made mistakes in manning a ship, building a ship, designing a ship? Surely, it was meant to be rhetorical

[bee_rider]

Technically, the Russian military didn’t make any mistakes in designing or building that ship since it was inherited from the Soviet Union. Although make the mistake was having it still in operation…

[dylan604]

> Send 100 hypersonics per ship and one will hit.

What about all of those submerged ships that will lay waste to their opponent with the weapons they carry?

[ivalm]

Sure, subs also have a place. I’m just saying that conventional warfare with high tech weapons favors resource decentralization. Right now things are easier to blow up than defend.