With China gunning for aircraft carriers, US Navy says it must change how it fights
WASHINGTON — Just because China might be able to hit U.S. Navy aircraft carriers with l doesn’t mean carriers are worthless, the service’s top officer said Thursday. The chorus of doom and gloom over China’s anti-access weapons is too simplistic, said, but that doesn’t mean the Navy should refrain from adjusting the way it fights. “Let’s look at this like a physics problem,” Gilday proposed. “[People will say]: ‘Hypersonics go really fast and they travel at long ranges. Carriers can only travel [‘X’ distance], so carriers are going to have ...
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