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China Has Thousands of Missiles for 1 Goal: Sink Aircraft Carriers and Win a War
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Not a blue water navy but China has quite a few submarines. That I would imagine would be the counter to massive fleets.
Huge fleets operate with submarine escorts along with substantial anti submarine escorts and assets. Ie: helicopters with dipping sonars, planes with sonar bouys, destroyers with anti submarine load outs, etc.
Submarines are mainly only good for striking isolated contacts.
Yes...but what if you had like...a lot of them. /s
Joking, but it does seem China is heavily invested in building submarines specifically. I was curious if they had a doctrine against American naval power involving submarines. Despite what you said, I'd imagine submarines can carry a sizable missile platform and strike from far, far longer distances now. Striking convoys, trade-routes, etc in order to cut off supply to the "huge fleet". Of course they'd be protected but even the best equipment like you mentioned doesn't always stop 15 missiles from all different directions going at mach jesus. Houthi's managed it while on land.
Yeah it makes sense, when your opponent is a stretched global empire like the US, submarines offer the most bang for buck. The trouble the US had finding that one Russian sub that was right of the coast of Florida a little bit ago also proves that modern sub detection isn't all powerful.