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chinese destroyer has.... 112 (!!!) missile launchers.
Posted: Sat Jan 18, 2025 2:30 am
by Timotheus
chinese destroyer has.... 112 (!!!) missile launchers.
talk about saturation.
not sure AEGIS (1980's tech in USN) can cope in Taiwan blockade/invasion/conflict scenario with this.
A US TF with aircraft carrier and escorts versus, lets be conservative here, 500+ missiles coming towards them, including a couple ramjet mach 2, 5 metres above water anti-ship C101.
By the way, conflict for Taiwan will happen in 2027, Xi openly informed Biden of this, and also gave the task for chinese armed forces to be ready for 2027 at the latest.
https://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedi ... -combatant
anyway, back to computer games
Re: chinese destroyer has.... 112 (!!!) missile launchers.
Posted: Sat Jan 18, 2025 2:34 am
by btd64
Interesting point of view. But remember, no political stuff....GP
Re: chinese destroyer has.... 112 (!!!) missile launchers.
Posted: Sat Jan 18, 2025 8:15 am
by Yaab
Do you remember CL Kitakami? It was a bunch of torpedoes with a hull atatched to it.
Re: chinese destroyer has.... 112 (!!!) missile launchers.
Posted: Sat Jan 18, 2025 11:24 am
by Sardaukar
Things went badly also for CA Mikuma after Midway, it had lots of volatile Japanese Type 93 torpedoes (often referred as "Long Lance")...
Re: chinese destroyer has.... 112 (!!!) missile launchers.
Posted: Sun Jan 19, 2025 10:09 pm
by Klahn
Timotheus wrote: Sat Jan 18, 2025 2:30 am
chinese destroyer has.... 112 (!!!) missile launchers.
talk about saturation.
not sure AEGIS (1980's tech in USN) can cope in Taiwan blockade/invasion/conflict scenario with this.
A US TF with aircraft carrier and escorts versus, lets be conservative here, 500+ missiles coming towards them, including a couple ramjet mach 2, 5 metres above water anti-ship C101.
By the way, conflict for Taiwan will happen in 2027, Xi openly informed Biden of this, and also gave the task for chinese armed forces to be ready for 2027 at the latest.
https://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedi ... -combatant
anyway, back to computer games
That's actually a somewhat light loadout for a ship of that size.
It's only slightly larger than the loadout on an Arleigh Burke class. And China only has 8 of them. The US has 74 Burkes in service.
The US Ticonderoga class cruisers, which are slowly being retired, is smaller and carries 122 vertical missile launchers.
The vast majority of those tubes are going to be full of anti-air weapons.
Re: chinese destroyer has.... 112 (!!!) missile launchers.
Posted: Wed Jan 22, 2025 2:35 pm
by Tcao
That thing is a Cruiser, just like your linked article mentioned, it is a Cruiser.
A true destroyer is this baby
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Re: chinese destroyer has.... 112 (!!!) missile launchers.
Posted: Thu Jan 23, 2025 12:21 am
by LargeSlowTarget
The primary purpose of the Izumos is anti-submarine warfare. So they are just destroyers - with an unusually large ASW helicopter hangar
Re: chinese destroyer has.... 112 (!!!) missile launchers.
Posted: Fri Jan 24, 2025 3:48 am
by Klahn
LargeSlowTarget wrote: Thu Jan 23, 2025 12:21 am
The primary purpose of the Izumos is anti-submarine warfare. So they are just destroyers - with an unusually large ASW helicopter hangar
Unlike the Kuznetsov class "Heavy Aircraft-carrying Cruiser."
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Re: chinese destroyer has.... 112 (!!!) missile launchers.
Posted: Fri Jan 24, 2025 8:18 am
by Yaab
Ghost destroyers for ghost cities. Ghost CVs, ghost cruisers, ghost battleships... To ghost enemies is glorious.