导弹打航母是我们必须要掌握的能力
在费库拉看来，东风-26具备反航母的能力，但它更多地是针对美军在关岛的基地。而且如果想要打击美军航母，费库拉觉得饱和攻击才能起到效果。坦白讲，现代化的任何一种弹道导弹，如果发起饱和攻击都能摧毁目标，但问题的关键是东风-26所处的体系具备发现、锁定和追踪移动中的航母的能力，这并不是所有导弹都能做到的。
其次回答这个问题的还有美海军前成员、参加过越南战争的理查德·M，他是这样说的：
It has a nuclear or conventional (up to 3960 lbs) warhead. Either would likely take a carrier out of action and possibly sink it if it hit. However, a carrier travels in the company of a cruiser (122 vls tubes) and 3–4 destroyers (90–96 VLS tubes each). They carry missiles capable of taking the DF-26 out. The other issue is that the DF 26 is ballistic with only limited maneuvering capability. Merely by changing course and moving at flank speed the carrier could be outside the maneuvering range by the time the missile got there at maximum range if launch was detected. So China would actually have to launch many DF-26s to have a good chance of getting through the missile screen and hitting a carrier. The other issue is that China needs satellites to detect US carriers. If a war breaks out satellites would be #1 targets for everyone, so they wouldn’t be around too long.
翻译：东风-26可以搭载常规战斗部或核战斗部，不管哪种战斗部，只要打在航母身上都会让其瘫痪，甚至是击沉。然而，美海军的航母往往有1艘巡洋舰、3到4艘驱逐舰的护卫，它们携带的导弹足够拦截东风-26。另外一点，东风-26属于弹道导弹，所以机动能力相对比较有限，（当它来袭时）只要航母改变航向并以侧翼速度移动，就能躲开；但前提是美军的航母必须要提前发现东风-26的发射。因此，想要成功打击美军航母，对方就要发射足够多的东风-26；而且考虑到中国需要通过卫星锁定美军航母的位置，但是如果战争爆发，具有重要性的卫星可能会成为首先被打击的目标。