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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.

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...