China's Carrier Killer

[mikeo80]

I think that there is a much easier way for the Chinese military to go after our Nimitz class carriers. This scenario assumes (yes, I know what that means ) that the Chinese govt. has decided that war is inevitable and doesn't care about the consequenses.

Get a bunch of "cigarrette boats", load them with tac nukes and gasoline/ av gas/whatever the boat runs on. Start an incident near Taiwan. When the US Seventh fleet comes near to project power, send two/three/four hundred boats at the fleet. Yes, the Seventh will sink many, but can it sink enough? All it takes is one getting close enough.

This seems to be the strategy that Iran is threatening our Gulf forces with.

Just my two cents worth.

Mike

[jester]

To take out a carier, the Chinese are very patient and have used long term agents. This has been proven via some of the recent espionage cases of the last 20 years. Some had even Befriended a former president, they had infiltrated our nuclear program and stolen elements of the aegis system.

I also used sleepers setting up cells in many of the cities on the Pacific Coast of the United States in my home grown history <which I see is also used in the 2013 timeline>

They are patient, have similiar sleepers infiltrate the US Navy, with several station aboard vessels in that battlegroup, all it takes is one or two aboard a vessel of over 5000 persons to throw a monkey wrench into the ships operations. Add a couple more on the support vessels who refuel and rearm, provide antisubmarine protection, radar defense and anti ship or air capability and you will open up several chinks <hey, the word fits> in the armor.

As for getting aboard the vessel, or in the task force. This is possible or the chances are severely increased the way the US military recruits with giving personel a selection of MOS specialties or at least fields based on what is projected to be open and the score of their Entrance Exam. <The chances could be further increased by having the spies well schooled in aspects that will allow them to score high in portion of test that determines the suitability for a specific job field. Hell, even a cook can wreak havoc on a ship or unit! What if a strain of botulism is introduced into a ships ICE Cream supply durring the ships Ice Cream Night! You'd take out 90% of the vessel!>

Add such agents who could not only pick up the methods of operation and training and equipment. But, should they need to act, well the cook example is a big one. Or a failure of the electrical system that makes the carriers elevator operate would put it at a serious disadvantage to operations. or a million other little thats that could be done that could cause systems to go down, be delayed or degrade Thus opening chinks in the ships armor making it much more vulnerable from an outside attack.