Comments by "verdebusterAP" (@verdebusterAP) on "Russia’s newest Yasen class submarines: US carriers' biggest nemesis?" video.

  1. The short answer is no The USN defenses are fully capable dealing with any missile that Yasen fires including the Zircon The only difference with the Zircon is that USN reaction time limited to seconds so they will likely only get off 1 missile shot per ship Torpedos are still very much a threat but the Yasen wont use them against carrier its called shear tonnage. CVNs are over 100,000 tons hence why the Russia Type-65 has abnormally large warhead of 1200lbs Carriers can shrug off 4 hits from weapons like the Type-53 and the newer Futlyar however 4 hits from Type-65s would likely cripple or sunk it The Yasen isnt carrying the Type-65. Even if it salvos 10 Futlyar , the amount of noise that it generates will make easy for ASW or other subs to destroy it
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  2. The problem there is shear tonnage of the CVN. it takes a lot of firepower to do so Secondly you have remember the skill of the crew The HMS Sheffield was hit by single Exocet and sank days later The USS Stark by 2 Exocet but remained afloat. The difference was poor damage control by the Sheffield crew doomed the ship whereas excellent damage control by Stark crew saved the ship.
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  3.  @certaindeath7776  Wrong on all counts First lets put the swarm bullshit to rest. Neither Russia or China is going to swarm attack anything with hypersonic weapons So first , the shear of amount of material per missile says not going to happen The CVN has 11 CVNs plus the LHD-class ships so you are looking at 20 targets The SM-3 and SM-6 can deal with hypersonic weapons ,however they require a great of input from external sources. They can't accurately track and shoot like they do with supersonic and subsonic. The current SPY-1 on ships doesnt have the accuracy needed. The solution is the SPY-6 however that won't be fully fielded for a while The next problem is Electronic warfare. Hypersonic weapons rely on communication from launching platform to stay course and on active radar homing in the terminal phase. Jamming can effectively throw a wrench in that. Moving targets are problematic because they are moving The Chinese DF-21 claims 1100 mile range and a speed of Mach 10. It needs 8 min 38 seconds to reach its target when launched from 1100 miles a carrier can change its position by 5 miles in 8 mins. Jamming can effectively disrupt communications and blind seeker The USN EW aboard ship is limited in that area. Again the solution is the SPY-6. The Russia Zircon differs because its of its shorter range ,however it still relies on the active radar homing from its seeker to find its target which EW can jam Even if you launch from 100 miles away, EW can still throw a wrench in the missile guidance Secondly the whole point of the Cooperative Engagement Capability is counter swarm attacks
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  4. @John Grigg They do have quite a bit of kinetic energy but not that much Can they cripple, consider the fact that target is 100,000 tons and armored
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  5.  @wolfgangjr74  No likely carriers have layers compared to surface ships
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  6.  @Flamechr  Mission killing a carrier is waste time if the sub is destroyed in the process. Secondly unlike the Russia navy , the USN has plenty of dry docks that can hold a carrier so even with damage, all the USN to do is dock it pier side , crane off the aircraft and equipment ,then dry dock and repair the damage then put it back into service
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  7.  @quantum.decoherence  If the missile is hit, then shear force of its speed will completely destroy it , secondly the debris wont do any damage, its called the curvature of the earth. Unless the missile comes over the horizon, its going harmless hit the water
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  8.  @BorntoYeet  The Zircon has level low flight profile however as you started, its not as fast as the high level
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  9.  @certaindeath7776  That would be false You are aiming against a moving target. if the target location was fixed, then simple inertial navigation system would work, Secondly carriers are travel in battlegroups so there are multi ships present, in order to go after the right target someone has to guide the missile . Without that guidance,it will lock on to the nearest target. The anti ship missiles utilizes data links which allows the launching platform to keep them on target. Secondly due to speed the missile travels, it can't use Electro-Optical Targeting or e Digitized Scene-Mapping Area Correlator (DSMAC) The only thing that it can use is active radar , data linking and passive homing all of which can be defeated by EW passive homing tracks target by their RF emissions , Simple blip enhancement can counter that as stated before, EW Jamming can disrupt the seeker and communications There is no such thing as seeker than cant' be beat Its called countermeasures for a reason moron There is measure ,then countermeasure, then counter-countermeasures ,it goes back and forth And thats why the USN developed Cooperative Engagement Capability , the effective counter Chinese and Russia tacitcs as told you before, the advancement of technology makes swarms basically useless
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  10.  @BorntoYeet  Not if you use a double tap or combine it with other assets
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  11. ​ @arandomcrusader-9355  First its only 2 active with 2 in testing/fitting. Secondly the cost of the Yasen is so high thats it being capped at 10 boats Third most importantly, the Zircon is not fully operational on any of the Yasen as they literally just started testing the beginning of October Lastly, how many Zircons will the Yasen carrying isnt known however as the Yasen is copying the US Virginia class Virginia Payload Module, it likely near the same. The Zircon like the Kinzhal can be defeated with simple EW Jamming can effectively disrupt communications and blind seeker Hypersonic weapons rely on communication from launching platform to stay course and on active radar homing in the terminal phase. Jamming can effectively throw a wrench in that. Moving targets are problematic because they are moving The Chinese DF-21 claims 1100 mile range and a speed of Mach 10. It needs 8 min 38 seconds to reach its target when launched from 1100 miles a carrier can change its position by 5 miles in 8 mins. The Russia Kinzhal claims a range 1240 miles from MiG-31 and 1860 from Tu-22M3 however the problem remains the same. When launched from over 1000 miles, a carrier can change its position by nearly 5 miles. So in order to stay on target they need info via datalink, without it, the seeker will lock on the nearest target. The Zircon can launched much closer but its seeker is still vulnerable to EW One of the advantages of subsonic missiles is that their low speed allows to carry electro-optical or imaging infrared seekers for target recognition and terminal homing EO/IR seekers can compare images stored on the missile onboard memory and allows the missile to find the right target without external input The speed of hypersonic weapons prevents the use of EO/IR seekers Even the seeker is pointed at the right target, the target can still barrage jam ,deploy blip enchanement and decoys Hypersonic weapons are excellent for land targets but not for ships Airfields, weapon storage sites,fuel depot, ports , factories, power plants. large radar sites are all targets that are perfect for hypersonic weapons as missiles would require no external input, they just drop and destroy but ships is like trying to tread a needle
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