12/07/2023.

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Is any of this possible? Plausibility is questionable?

That a single American Arleigh Burke class destroyer flight 3+ would be able to thwart the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor 7 December 1941.

See the YouTube Short video:

I think here assumptions being made most critical.  

Comments:

* That Arleigh Burke destroyer would have been moored at battleship row Ford Island Pearl Harbor.

*The 96 vertical launch system cells of the destroyer would be filled totally with Standard Missile  anti-aircraft weaponry.  

* The Helios directed energy weapon would have been effective against incoming Japanese aircraft. Of this I cannot be sure.

* The 5 inch 127 mm gun could have engaged high-flying level-bombers of the Japanese attack force using variable time fuses, but would’ve had only twenty rounds to do so.

* It is not mentioned in this YouTube Short the use of Close In Weapon System Phalanx 20 mm gun. 

* I would suspect that the 20 mm CIWS guns would be most effective against low-flying Japanese torpedo bombers as attacking Pearl Harbor.

* Worse than the physical damage of 1/3 of the Japanese attack force being destroyed before even commencing their attack would be the psychological damage. 100% damage from an unknown source of which there was no possible counter measure and everybody would’ve said this is useless. So many destroyed warplanes and more importantly the deaths of so many very experienced combat aviators would been too great for the gain to press home the attack.

* Nagumo, in command of the Japanese 1st Air Fleet would seriously have considered calling off the attack and departing the Hawaiian island chain in an expeditious manner as possible. That 1st Air Fleet had more important tasks in the future what were called Southern Operations by the Japanese. Attacks on the Philippines, Dutch East Indies, Malaya and further afield if possible.

So it is plausible indeed, at least from my perspective that a single American destroyer modern Arleigh Burke flight 3+ could have averted American disaster Pearl Harbor, 7 December 1941.

addendum: "For the attack on Pearl Harbor, this fleet had a strength of 103 level bombers, 128 dive bombers, 40 torpedo bombers, 88 fighter planes, plus 91 planes for a total of 441 planes."

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