A leaked U.S. wargame assessment known as the Overmatch Brief has concluded that the Chinese People’s Liberation Army could sink the U.S. Navy’s new Gerald Ford class supercarriers in a potential conflict over Taiwan.
Multiple simulations showed that Chinese forces could destroy or disable the new carriers in a wide range of ways, and could do so before American air power was able to influence the course of hostilities.
The People’s Liberation Army was shown conducting effective cyber operations and counter-space attacks, complementing the effectiveness of its missile salvoes to degrade U.S. defences surrounding the carrier in the opening phase of combat.
Chinese YJ-18 Anti-Ship Cruise Missiles
Attacks on surveillance and navigation satellites vital to the U.S. Armed Forces’ ability to carry out targeting, routing, and battle management played a key role in the success of Chinese attacks, after which successive waves of anti-ship missiles were able to comfortably exceed the defensive capacity of the multi-layered defences of American carrier groups.
Chinese strikes were shown to have frequently routinely neutralised the Gerald Ford class carrier in question, the USS Gerald Ford, early in the simulations, and did so by combining long-range anti-ship ballistic missiles, cruise missiles, hypersonic glide vehicles, and electronic disruption.
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