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7/4/2025, 12:17:53 AM
>>63931947
>all the touted hypersanics are rebranded copies of ballistic missiles from the 80s.
Right.
>Only gliders are different but those are used exclusively for land attack.
>There is no midcourse guidance here.
Land attack is kind of a red herring.
China's development of long range A2A missiles and hypersonics is all based on keeping AWACS and tankers as far away as possible, and carrier groups outside of their own aircraft's attack range.
Naval attack requires a drone or surveillance aircraft to provide midcourse updates, otherwise you're blind whenever you lose sat coverage. That gets your shit shot down. Hypersonics allow you to get a snapshot of the current location of a carrier group, launch, and the missile gets there quickly enough for the ships to still be within a reasonable search range.
Attacking land targets is useful. Winning the naval engagement by denying air power is the prize.
>all the touted hypersanics are rebranded copies of ballistic missiles from the 80s.
Right.
>Only gliders are different but those are used exclusively for land attack.
>There is no midcourse guidance here.
Land attack is kind of a red herring.
China's development of long range A2A missiles and hypersonics is all based on keeping AWACS and tankers as far away as possible, and carrier groups outside of their own aircraft's attack range.
Naval attack requires a drone or surveillance aircraft to provide midcourse updates, otherwise you're blind whenever you lose sat coverage. That gets your shit shot down. Hypersonics allow you to get a snapshot of the current location of a carrier group, launch, and the missile gets there quickly enough for the ships to still be within a reasonable search range.
Attacking land targets is useful. Winning the naval engagement by denying air power is the prize.
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