Most people think carrier defense is about weapons. It is not. It is about sequence. A carrier strike group relies on six overlapping layers, each one buying time for the next. Break one link, and the math collapses for everything behind it.
A missile launched at Mach 2.5 has seven minutes to reach the group. The outer ring has seven minutes. The middle ring has ninety seconds. The inner ring has three seconds. The chain does not degrade gradually. It snaps. This is why the US Navy spends more on a single layer that never fires a weapon than on all its point-defense systems combined.
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Timestamps:
0:00 A missile launches. The carrier has seven minutes. The chain begins.
1:17 Before the chain fires, step inside the missile. See what it sees.
2:57 The outer ring. The layer that never shoots and costs the most.
5:17 SM-6, ESSM, Nulka. The wall that empties one tube at a time.
8:35 Seven seconds. One leaker. The ship stops asking for permission.
12:04 Remove one link. Watch what happens to every layer behind it.
14:24 Six layers. One chain. Why every link is the one that matters most.
Credit to : Navy Decoded