What would be the best way to counter Kynda-style missile cruisers used as commerce raiders?
Short answerSeveral counters could work, but each depends on forward bases, support infrastructure, escorts, aircraft, crews, fuel, weapons, and sustainment.
NotesLand-based fighters, P-3 Orion patrol aircraft, submarines, missile-carrying aircraft, and surface escorts could all hunt missile-armed raiders. Each option also requires airfields, fuel, weapons, spare parts, technicians, crews, escorts, or auxiliaries. Carriers likewise cannot be bought in isolation from their aircraft and supporting ships. Anti-raider strategy is therefore a logistics and basing problem as much as a contest between individual weapons.