The attacker is almost certain to lose his planes. You attack your enemies weakness, not their strength.
Stick a couple of tigerfish torpedo’s into it, courtesy of your SSN 🙂
But don’t use Tigerfish because they aren’t very good. Use Spearfish, then the enemy ship will actually be hit and maybe even sink 😉
so if a USN CBG go up against a USN CBG, who will win?!
They will both likely run out of aircraft unless one gets a lucky strike on the carrier.
I’m mostly after what sort of airgroup would modern carriers have if they are facing another similar strenght carrierfleet. To easen the hypotetism, lets pretend that its the late cold war era USN carrier fleet you are facing. What sort of aircrafts would you get onboard and how would you use them? This said I’m expecting that the carrier fleets main role would be fighting against the other carrier fleet, pretty much in the same ways as nations build up dreadnoughts to counter other nations dreadnoughts.
It depends on your approach. If you want to swarm them, then you’ll need lots of simpler, smaller aircraft. Or you could try to reduce reaction time by using something really fast, like a TR-3B or Mach 20 rocket plane or the like.
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b]. As for submarines. Try getting a sub close enough to launch missiles at a CBG 500+ km away! By the time a submarine is in range to launch – lets says 300 km – the opposing CBG is not where it was originally detected. Then the sub chase begins again!
Subs are great for ambushing CBGs in littorals, sneaking around being a pain to CBG’s. They are useful chasing away other subs from around their own CBGs, but using them to chase down opposition CBG’s is something they were not designed for.
That’s not at all the case, only for conventional subs. A modern, quiet, SSN can chase down a CVN and get well within torpedo range without being detected in open sea.
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