Loading ...It’s a game, and there are certain rules that are generally followed the most important one being that before you start dropping bombs or firing missiles, you are actually at war with an enemy first. The only country that has hypersonic missiles atm is Russia, despite their, according to you, inability to maintain stuff, they have managed to develop a mach 11 missile to which there is no defence (ask the Ukrainians, equipped with Patriot missiles as they are). What is the point of maintaining obsolete weapons anyway? Rather bizarrely you are expecting the Russians to eliminate an American aircraft carrier just to prove that the Hazelnut works. Just for fun, y’ know, no malicious intent but as a sort of high school science experiment. Hey, they could even warn you, just to make it a bit fairer. And the aircraft carrier would be manned by 5,000 volunteers fully aware of the experiment …..
Why would Australia need an aircraft carrier? If Russia doesn’t have one, why should we? What defensive role do they play? Why not develop our own hypersonic missiles, or better still a missile defence system that works against hypersonic missiles? We’ve got 25% more coastline than the USA, on that basis we should need 14 carriers if they were a defensive weapon and quite honestly with a population of 26m finding 80,000 plus mariners would be a stretch. We need to defend smarter; not that there is any sign of that happening either.
Russian electronics are excellent. We use them a lot in communications equipment, better than Huawei. They don’t need maintenance, they just keep working, 15 years + and we’re forgetting where they all are. Fade them at your peril.