There are five new ways to destroy an aircraft carrier, writes 19FortyFive.
The publication from the USA notes that the aircraft carrier can be tried to sink by traditional means, for example, with the help of torpedoes and ballistic missiles. However, in the future, according to the publication, these ships will face new threats. 19FortyFive calls them.
The first threat is underwater drones, capable of waiting offline for almost unlimited time for suitable conditions to attack the ship. The second is cyber attacks that can disable the main systems of an aircraft carrier and make it vulnerable to an enemy strike. The third is disposable flying drones. The fourth is hypersonic missiles, combining the threat of ballistic and cruise missiles. The fifth is the possibility of striking from space.
19FortyFive assures that currently the aircraft carrier is an instrument of geopolitical influence, the use of which in the XXI century may remain relevant until the first destruction of such a ship.
In January, the "Military-industrial courier" the Vice-President of the Russian Academy of rocket and artillery Sciences on information policy, doctor of military Sciences Konstantin Sivkov wrote that the Russian hypersonic missile "Zircon", stated maximum range which is 1,000 kilometers, can destroy an aircraft carrier naval forces of the United States that "for attacks on important targets in the depth of our country will be forced closer to the coast for a distance of 450 to 500 kilometres."
Ivan Potapov