TAStyyyyyy.. so tasty target for the JF-17 and its CM-400AKG carrier killer. Just one missile in peacetime to sink the carrier. India wont risk a full scale war after sinking one rust bucket..they are too afraid of losing their economy. lol
During peacetime a JF-17 should fly to 250km of the carrier and fire its missile and scoot. If the lalas across the border shout after losing this carrier we can always blame the taliban hijacked a plane and did it. In the end they lose a carrier and we gain the greatest glory of sinking a carrier post world war 2!!! All which is needed now is a man with a spine on the helm in islamabad and all is set!
Do you even know you're talking about? You keep shooting from the hip when you know squat about naval strategy and tactics. Here, let me put you wise so you stop trolling.
Problem one: Finding it. Carriers move. And they really move pretty quickly. The supposed easy method of sinking a carrier is use a satellite to locate it, and send a ballistic missile with a nuke on it to that location. But during the time of that missile flight, the carrier will move to another location, and your canned sunshine will go off far in its wake. Which means you just started a nuclear war by killing some fish. This is not an advisable strategy. This same problem also makes it difficult to sink a carrier with a diesel submarine. Diesel submarines are very quiet as long as they aren't moving. But unless you know where a carrier is going, you can't exactly set a trap for it. And where a carrier is going (in an exact sense) is a closely guarded secret.
Problem two: The Vikramaditya is protected by guys who fly some of the most sophisticated aircraft on the planet like the MiG-29Ks in defense of those carriers. Anything that's within a VERY long distance of a carrier is known to the
battle group. Anything that acts aggressive is going to get shot down or blown up a LONG way from the carrier. Getting through a carrier's fighter cover is far from trivial. The Vikramaditya has more fighter aircraft aboard than most nations have in total. And in battles between planes and ships (in case you were thinking of killing a carrier with torpedo boats) planes win.
Problem three: The carrier is protected by a bunch of ships with sophisticated defense systems. This is known as a Battle Group. So even if you manage to fight through the fighter wing of the carrier, you are now faced with some of the most high tech SAM missiles in the world coming at you, guided by some of the most sophisticated radar arrays in the world. Things will not go well for you. Even if you just launch stand off cruise missiles, things won't go well for them. Or you. Cruise missiles are like shooting fish in a barrel compared to downing ballistic missiles.
Problem four: The Vikramaditya/Viraat have their own defensive systems, based on AK-230 Gatling guns that fire a hundred rounds a second, and use two radars... One tracks the target, one tracks the outgoing bullets. A computer just moves the gun until those lines meet. Then you die. Those systems are fully automatic, and incredibly devastating. The carriers also have their own local defensive missiles, just in case you weren't being pounded enough by the carrier's air wing, the SAM missiles, and the Gatling guns.
Problem five: Even if you land ordinance on target, carriers are big, tough, targets that won't be trivial to even significantly damage, let alone sink. Indian crews are EXTREMELY well trained in firefighting and damage control. You will not only need big explosives, but lots and lots of them, to sink a carrier. And that makes getting through steps one to four really hard.
Problem six: Carriers are almost certainly escorted by one or more attack submarines. So if your plan is just to stay out of the air or water surface, you don't get a break.
Problem seven: AWACs like the P-8I will always be on the prowl and can pick up targets like aircraft hundreds of kms away. So before you can say jack, you're going to be blown out of the sky.
Individually, many of these capabilities are closely guarded secrets in terms of details. But it's easy enough to examine the raw capabilities of a
carrier battle group. They carry a LOT of defensive armaments. Sinking a carrier would likely involve a very large force that could overwhelm those tremendous defenses, and quite a bit of luck to go along with it. Outside of a handful of major powers, it's doubtful anyone really has this capability in the best of circumstances. And on the open ocean, a carrier is pretty much unsinkable if the commander and crew are doing their job right.
So if you think that a JF-17 with a missile can sink an AC like the Vikramaditya, you must be hallucinating, requiring urgent clinical treatment.
