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Originally posted by adamzion
surface-to-surface missiles. The answer to that is <b>very</b> little chance- unless the carrier is armed with very accurate, very fast anti-missile guns of some sort, it has virtually no way to defend itself against missile attacks.
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Which of course is the reason why the Navy spends big bucks on systems like AEGIS.
BTW, I find it hard to believe that a large, unwieldy, reconnaissance plane "veered into the path" of a fighter jet. So I'm not buying the Chinese side here. If this were a Clancy book, it'd be part of a conspiracy designed to allow the Chinese to inspect US technology at leisure...