Originally posted by GarryB
“Many of you are assuming that the Chinese would have the recon ability to find a CVBG. ”
A modern geostationary satellite over China could spot a large group of ships within 1,000km of Chinas coast relatively easily. Unless the US has introduced EM catapaults an operating steam catapault has a rather distinctive and detectible signature… a simple program could automatically find such a feature without a human visual search.
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Unless you can produce something to back up your claim, I highly doubt your claims about satellite capability.
The very nature of Geostationary satellites means that they are high orbit satellites (35,850 km / 22,406 mi). The US Lacrosse 4 spy sat orbits at 690 km. Greater distance makes optical recognition more difficult.
I doubt the optical tracking is that good. There’s a lot of clutter out there. Naval ships aren’t the only ships on the seas especially near China. There’s all sorts of commercial traffic out there.
Carriers aren’t the only large ships out there. China is an oil importer from the Middle East. That means supertankers, which are the largest things afloat.
Don’t forget the weather. Clouds obscure visual and infrared. A good typhoon can generate cloud cover over hundreds of square miles of ocean.
I’m just talking about cloud cover. You don’t have to be in the middle of a raging typhoon to have a typhoon generate enough clouds to merely cover you.
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