How much does it cost to sink an aircraft carrier?  I ask because I have just read that the U.S. is launching a new aircraft carrier, the Gerald R. Ford (watch out, Red China: Jerry Ford is coming to get you!) for the whopping cost of $13 billion (not counting cost of supporting ships), with two more carriers, the John F. Kennedy and the USS Enterprise, coming in each for nearly that amount. But our carriers could easily be sunk by missiles.  Both the Chinese and the Iranians have versions of the C-802 anti-ship cruise missile. The C-802 is the export upgraded version of the Chinese anti-ship missile YJ-8...first unveiled in 1989 by the China Haiying Electro-Mechanical Technology Academy (CHETA), also known as the Third Academy. Due to the Yingji-82 missile's small radar reflectivity, low attack flight path (only five to seven meters above the sea surface) and strong anti-jamming capability of its guidance system, target ships have a...(Read Full Post)