China has the best class anti-ship missile in the world.
Just for your information
You are right.
We should make sure they'd work well as advertised.
Some US destroyers were still hit that way in the past.
As a small boat at fish boat size, Molniya could hide better.
If your missile quality not so good, you shoot the missile overhead of Molniya crew.
It is calculated that minimum 24 missiles arriving at the same time are needed to overwhelm and sink a US Arleigh Burke class.
For China 052D, more missile are needed..
16 missiles are not enough..
maybe that's why it has 16 Switchblades, fire in slavos of 2 or 4 pretty sure one or more will get through
for the price I think it's a good move for Vietnam. not everybody can afford the latest Destroyers
AWACS are usually flying very high..
the hand carry anti-air missile can hardly reach AWACS..
Also you need guide the anti-air missile with radar. Radar is quite big and cannot hide on the ship..
Currently Vietnam has only two method to show down AWACS, the ground SAM site S-300 and Su27/30 series plane.
If China AWACS is guarded and stay away from Vietnam coast, there is hardly any counter measure against China AWACS..
And your beloved AWACS and its escorts can't get too close to vn anyway because of a thing called S-300 / 400.
Maybe just an innocent freighter ship sailing around and ooops, my God, that merchant ship had missiles hiding in the containers (like that Club missile system designed for containers) and there goes their baby AWACS.
For every measure, there is a counter measure.
AWACS are usually flying very high..
the hand carry anti-air missile can hardly reach AWACS..
Also you need guide the anti-air missile with radar. Radar is quite big and cannot hide on the ship..
Currently Vietnam has only two method to show down AWACS, the ground SAM site S-300 and Su27/30 series plane.
If China AWACS is guarded and stay away from Vietnam coast, there is hardly any counter measure against China AWACS..
And your beloved AWACS and its escorts can't get too close to vn anyway because of a thing called S-300 / 400.
Maybe just an innocent freighter ship sailing around and ooops, my God, that merchant ship had missiles hiding in the containers (like that Club missile system designed for containers) and there goes their baby AWACS.
For every measure, there is a counter measure.