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China’s hypersonic missile is claimed to be able to sink the United States’ newest aircraft carrier USS Gerald R Ford. Photo/REUTERS
BEIJING – Hypersonic missile China can drown aircraft carrier latest Navy United States of America (USA), USS Gerald R Ford. That’s a claim by Beijing scientists based on recent computer war simulations.
Computer simulations run by the research team on a war game software platform used by the Chinese military show Chinese forces sinking the USS Gerald R Ford aircraft carrier with 24 hypersonic anti-ship missiles.
It said the results of a hypersonic missile attack had been published for the first time in a paper published in May by the Chinese-language Journal of Test and Management Technology.
Military planners often use computer-generated battle scenarios to play out strategy, but experts warn that it is not very reliable in real conflicts where terrain, weather and other unforeseen factors can interfere with weaponry.
The scenario is based on an attack on US ships moving towards an island claimed by China in the disputed South China Sea. Researchers said some of the missiles in the three-wave attack were fired from the Gobi Desert.
The report cannot be independently verified. Analysts also doubt the motivation for the launch.
“Anyone who openly discusses the results of war games or simulations has a political purpose, especially if they frame the results as wins or losses,” said Drew Thompson, a former senior US defense official, now based at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore (NUS), as quoted by The Telegraph, Thursday (25/5/2023).
“Effective war games are those that test assumptions, functions, or variables to inform the exercise sponsor about the interactions of complex elements,” he says. “War training is not about winning or losing. They’re about learning.”
Diplomatic confrontations over the resource-rich waterway have intensified in recent years amid overlapping territorial claims between Beijing and other regional countries.
