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>why is China also building supercarriers if secret esoteric Chinese super missiles make carriers obsolete?

A carrier with 80 ASW helis + support aircraft is a pretty potent weapon against USN SSNs. Diesel and nuke carriers make much sense for China in terms of defensive sea control inside their access zone. USN use of carriers is open ocean boating for offensive anti-land operations by fixed wing aircraft but carriers are versatile vessels that can be used for other tasks as well.

In a pacific war, the USN SSNs will have to do the grunt work of getting inside the chink continental shelf access zone to lay mines, torpedo ships and gather intel but I think they will have to be operationally restricted to only lay mines after initial heavy losses. Smart torpedo mines are pretty nasty since they can cover an area instead of a point. China use of carriers would be to have them 200-300 km offshore doing ASW patrols/convoy escorts with a cloud of ASW helicopters around them. It would be very hard for an USN SSN to make a torpedo attack and get away against a convoy escorted by an ASW carrier. Trading a couple of freighters against a SSN is a strategic victory for China because they are easily replaced but the SSN and its crew are not. The chinks would ofc run the carrier inside the convoy since its the most valuable ship. I expect USN SSNs to be tasked with sneaking in between carrier patrols to lay delayed action torpedo mines.

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