No defense against the “sizzler”
Yet another reason not to mix it up with Iran, this time purely military: Our aircraft carriers may not be as invincible as they once were.
FYI: There are two, soon to be three, carrier groups in the Persian Gulf. The USS Nimitz is scheduled to replace the Dwight D. Eisenhower carrier group in May, ostensibly with “no overlap”, but there will nevertheless be three carrier groups in the area during this transition.
March 23 (Bloomberg) — The U.S. Navy, after nearly six years of warnings from Pentagon testers, still lacks a plan for defending aircraft carriers against a supersonic Russian-built missile, according to current and former officials and Defense Department documents.
The missile, known in the West as the “Sizzler,” has been deployed by China and may be purchased by Iran. Deputy Secretary of Defense Gordon England has given the Navy until April 29 to explain how it will counter the missile, according to a Pentagon budget document.
The fully story from Bloomberg…
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