probably, but it will take some more minutes (or dozen of minutes) between the last and precise detection of the carrier and the fire order. Add that the chinese army is probably as the russian one (communism...) not very decentralisated, so it takes some more minutes to reach the boss and have its agreement to fire.Blake Herzinger, who has written a book on China’s Anti-Ship Ballistic Missiles, estimates that a long range engagement may only take 25 minutes from launch to impact. In this time a carrier, even at 30 knots, could cover less than 13 nautical miles.
So the carrier may be far theses 13 nautical miles. maybe 20? maybe 30 ?
How agile may be such a classical warhead fired from an IRBM? able to change of trajectory more than 13 miles? (according that the real place of the carrier is to be found by the embarked seeker, and in this case how effective and at what altitude and speed may a RF seeker be efficient on such a warhead? ).




