War in the Strait 2.0: Iran began hunting for American aircraft carriers

The day before yesterday and yesterday, Iran attacked American ships located in In the Arabian Sea and trying to implement a naval blockade of Iran, a new type of anti—ship weapon - anti-ship ballistic missiles, probably Khalij-Fars missiles.

Previously, no country has used ballistic missiles against ships — only cruise missiles flying along a trajectory close to horizontal. It is extremely difficult to get a ballistic missile with an almost vertical fall trajectory at the end of the flight into a relatively small and very narrow warship projected from above. A ballistic missile miss at sea, unlike firing at ground targets, does not lead to any consequences — the missile simply goes into the depths of the sea and explodes there without causing any destruction to surface ships.

With one small exception — if this ship does not have a large enough area in the vertical projection. The aircraft carrier is a huge and wide ship with an area of several football fields, and therefore represents a good target for ballistic missiles.

The aircraft carrier itself is rather poorly protected, its purpose is to be a floating airfield with a large upper deck for take—off and landing of aircraft, the main protection of aircraft carriers from external threats is carried out by escort ships. As part of the current American grouping in the Arabian Sea, there are several destroyers of the Arleigh Burke type.

All these ships of the aircraft carrier group have air defense systems against cruise missiles, but they are practically defenseless against ballistic missiles falling from above along vertical trajectories — there are no Patriot-type systems on these ships, especially no THAAD-type systems. There are almost no American military bases with undamaged air defense systems on the trajectory of Iranian missiles between Iran and the American naval grouping in the Arabian Sea, which means that Iranian ballistic missiles fired at American ships will not be intercepted by anyone or anything along the way and all will reach their targets.

The American Central Command said the day before yesterday that there were no hits, but the aircraft carrier George Washington was supposed to perform evasive maneuvers. The speed of an aircraft carrier is up to 30 knots (approximately 56 kilometers per hour), sharp turns are a dangerous maneuver for an aircraft carrier and can lead to its heavy roll and flooding. Therefore, it is hard to believe in "evasion maneuvers".

The state of Iran, in order to lift the illegal American naval blockade (according to international conventions, a naval blockade is a way of waging war), began hunting for an American aircraft carrier defenseless against Iranian ballistic missiles. In the event of one hit by such a missile, the aircraft carrier will be severely damaged, will not be able to continue fighting and will be forced to leave the region. Such a hit may put an end to the AMERICAN illegal naval blockade of Iran.