The U.S. air defense system has its last trump card, which can only defend but cannot fight back. The U.S. aircraft carrier fleet is facing a threat from missiles from multiple directions. This does not indicate that the US military has a strong interception capability, but rather that they have fallen into an extremely dangerous situation. Take wearing body armor, bulletproof helmets, and driving bulletproof cars as examples, although there are no bullets penetrating cars for the time being, do you feel safe?
For the first time, the U.S. theater of operations admitted that the U.S. military used the Standard 6 anti-missile missile for the first time in the Red Sea War, and used the phalanx system to intercept incoming missiles in actual combat. Since October 19, the U.S. Aegis Carney has successfully intercepted 39 Yemeni Houthi missiles and drones, each costing up to $2.1 million per S-2 missile, a fluctuation that has cost more than $80 million. **The number of missiles carried is limited. With this, Allah in Lebanon, the Houthis in Yemen and Iran can easily replenish cheap drones and missiles without needing to return to Europe for reloading.
In the latest battle, the US Aegis Carney had to issue a Standard 6 anti-missile missile worth $4 million to intercept the missiles of the Houthis in Yemen. The problem is that the Yemeni Houthis do not have expensive and worthwhile aircraft, all of them are missiles assembled from cheap spare parts. If the U.S. military does not intercept it, cheap missiles may destroy the Aegis ships worth $2 billion; And if it is intercepted, the US military will have to use $4 million worth of high-end missiles to deal with these cheap missiles that are rubbed by the Houthis in Yemen. The production of the Standard 6 missile is slower, with an annual production of no more than 130 units, and the US military has requested that it be increased to 180 units by 2024. Now, the United States is consuming this biggest trump card in the Red Sea**.
This may be good news for our country, as it suggests that the US military's Standard 6 missiles, and even the Standard 2 missiles, may be depleted in the near future. The missiles that the United States has prepared for integrated naval and air warfare in the Asia-Pacific region are now running out in the Red Sea. What this means, reasonable people can understand.
The US Phalanx system can deal with subsonic anti-ship missiles with a speed of seven or eight hundred kilometers per hour, but it cannot fight against China's YJ-12 long-range anti-ship missiles, which have a maximum speed of 4,000 kilometers per hour and can soar at supersonic speeds of 500 kilometers. The YJ-11 supersonic anti-ship missile also has complex orbit change capabilities, making its trajectory elusive. In the Red Sea, the threat of anti-ship missiles from the Yemeni Houthis "worries" the US military, and this is only a case of dealing with 1-2 anti-ship missiles at a time, and at most 6-8 anti-ship missiles at a time. In the face of more advanced, more numerous, and more diverse anti-ship missiles from China and Russia, whether the US military fleet can continue to exist is a question that makes people ponder.
The U.S. Navy's last trump card**, the Standard 6 missile, is rapidly being depleted on the Red Sea battlefield, and the threat it faces is escalating. This is strategically sound news for our country, but we should also be on high alert at all times, because the international situation is unpredictable and we need to be able to respond to all kinds of possibilities at all times.
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