The carrier-killer missile? Sure, the Chinese will have it fully ready in “the next couple of years,” but can it overcome the “challenges of finding, targeting and then hitting” a maneuvering U.S. Navy ship? What’s more, for all the talk about the PLAN developing an anti-ship missile to cheaply blunt the power of an aircraft carrier, Roughead noted that the Chinese are building their own carrier, which “speaks a little about the value of them.” And just because the PLAN builds a carrier, “[k]nowing how to operate it and being very competent in those operations is something very different,” he said.
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