In reaction to the article by Valentin Vasilescu revealing that in theory Russia could sink US airplane carriers as they crossed the Gibraltar straits, the Pentagon has had a documentary published through CNBC. The US news channel’s thesis is that Russian missile Avangard would not be able to operate. However, to our minds, the basis for this assertion does not work.
We have addressed the subject of the new Russian hypersonic missiles in the two previous articles [1]. We wrote:
“The probability of destroying an airplane carrier with these two types of hypersonic missile, piercing the AA defense is 88%. This means that, if 100 hypersonic missiles are launched, 88 will pierce the AA defences and destroy their targets.
Applying the math to the specific case of the United States: if 11 Russian hypersonic missiles are launched against the 11 existing US airplane carriers, only 1.3 missiles would fail to reach their targets.”
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My conclusions from this were as follows:
• if the US attacked South Russia (the coast of the Black Sea), Russian hypersonic missiles could destroy a US naval group at Gibraltar.
• if the US attacks the North and West of Russia (the Baltic Sea and the Arctic Ocean), the Russian hypersonic missiles could destroy a US naval group in East Greenland. Of course, these are purely theoretical calculations that could be excluded by the specific conditions in which war was actually conducted.
Following the publication of these two articles, CNBC, the US TV Channel, published a declaration made by an anonymous person who claimed to have seen a US Intelligence Report [2]. This anonymous person declared that the…