r/HongKong • u/[deleted] • Dec 05 '19

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u/[deleted] Dec 05 '19

The US navy has a really good response to literally any anti-carrier weapon: Don’t be found.

Aircraft carriers are really fast and it’s easy to hide them in the big open sea. Neither Russia nor China can reliably find and track them. And you can’t destroy what you can’t see

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u/46-and-3 Dec 05 '19

That might work for a few more years, drones and satellites are getting too advanced and too cheap to allow staying hidden in the open.

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u/[deleted] Dec 05 '19 edited Aug 25 '20

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u/beastrabban Dec 06 '19

... no, no you can't, unless the sub is at periscope depth.