Are surface warships obsolete?
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Are surface warships obsolete?
Originally Answered: Is a surface navy obsolete against modern weapons technology? Yes, modern anti ship ballistic missiles capable of delivering nuclear warheads can sink the surface navy and it is also cost effective. Developing missile technology made a lot of war equipment obsolete, bar submarines.
No the Navy is not obsolete. there will always be the need to project military strength, if only to defend our shores, and the only way we can accomplish that is with a strong Navy. Ship designs may become obsolete, but the need for a navy will not.
Did aircraft carriers make battleships obsolete?
The aircraft carrier decisively replaced the battleship as the Navy’s sea control capital ship, but its reign in that capacity was, in reality, quite brief. The aircraft carrier established its ascendancy in the Battle of Midway and was the centerpiece of five major sea battles between 1942 and 1944.
Even with a talented gunner the accuracy of the ship’s main guns was only about 32 percent at nine miles against a battleship-size target, according to a Naval War College study during World War II. For ground targets that could shells striking hundreds of yards away from the intended point of impact.
As future naval forces will be stereoscopically surrounded by air, surface, undersea, space, and electromagnetic threats, naval warfare will put more emphasis on diversified, three-dimensional, and composite service arms, which will constitute the basic form of 21st-century naval warfare.
Are aircraft carriers effective?
An aircraft carrier is considered the most valuable sea-based asset, and offers an incomparable military instrument with its ability to project tactical Air Power over long distances, including Air Interdiction, Anti-Surface Warfare (ASuW), offensive and defensive Counter-Air, AEA and AEW.
Our enemy certainly would use nukes if they had enough of them and were in an all-out war against us. In summary, Navy surface ships cannot hide from a modern enemy. They cannot run from a modern enemy. And they cannot defend themselves against a modern enemy.
Clearly the answer is absolutely yes. Third, if you think a surface navy is obsolete, then you must have thought through three things. What capabilities does a surface navy provide? How else can those capabilities be provided? For each alternative, which is the least strategically, tactically and financially effective.
Are aircraft carriers obsolete in a war?
In a ‘big war’, a lot of surface navy ships would be lost – probably mostly to enemy aircraft, but some to submarines. But a lot of surface navy ships were lost in the last ‘big war’ (WW2), and no-one said the aircraft carrier was obsolete. In the end, the only way to move large amounts of solid objects any distance around the world is by sea.
Are all weapons in the military obsolete?
First, There is a logical inconsistency in the entire argument. Certain weapons may be obsolete, but that does not prove that that the entire class of weapon, nor especially the branch of the service that uses them, are obsolete. That holds for any weapon or branch of service.