“The Vulnerability of American Aircraft Carriers: Chinese Military Researchers’ War Game Results”

Attention, we are in the field of psychological warfare. It accompanies a spectacular militarization of the western Pacific which pits China, its neighbors and the United States against each other. A few days ago, a Chinese scientific journal (Journal of Test and Measurement Technology) published the results of a simulation of conflict (“war game”) concluding with the vulnerability of the last generation American aircraft carriers. According to Chinese military researchers, the invincible aircraft carrier Gerald R. Ford would be “destroyed with certainty” by a salvo of 24 hypersonic missiles. In the Chinese scenario, it refused to obey warnings when approaching an island claimed by Beijing in the South China Sea. The flagship of the American fleet – and the five ships that accompany it, including a destroyer – was then sunk by weapons fired for some from the Gobi desert…