Posted on 06/05/2007 10:04:08 AM PDT by Kevin J waldroup
In the North Sea Fleet where the Chinese are deploying all of their nuclear submarines, SSN's and SSBN's. They will have newer attack submarines, similar to the Russian's, and the Los Angeles class. Also they are deploying two newer destroyers to add to there modern fleet of destroyers. They also have a squadron of sea planes, and they are the only fleet that deploys sea planes. Also they deploy a couple of J-8's. In their aviation wing they have some J-7 fighters, and H-6 bombers. There is a high likelihood that these planes will be replaced with the new J-10B. They will probably keep the H-6 Bombers, until the get the H-6K bomber, that can fire 6 land attack missiles. The primary target of the fleet is Japan, South Korea, and the US forces in the area. Their primary mission would not be Taiwan but would be certainly involved in any action against Taiwan.
LUZHOU- class Is the new class of destroyers that have several new and unique characteristics. It has the new SAM system, called SA 20, which is the Naval version of the S 300 SAM system. It has the newest anti-ship missiles that the Chinese have made. This is a new ship that is an all China ship, everything, the engine all electronics are made in China, only the SAM system was imported from Ivan. Oh wait they did buy a helo for this ship, a K-28 ASW. It is one of the 20 K-28s that the Chinese bought from the Russians. This is a perfect ship to be put into a carrier battle group.
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Just because you have EXACT copies of the construction and maintenance manuals/drawings of the boat (and its power plant) doesn’t mean your Navy can build/drive/fight it as well as ours can.
If we gave the ChiComs some old Los Angeles boats, they wouldn’t be as good as our boats in use.
Stop the communist menace. Vote Duncan Hunter 08!
Crew and NCO expertise is the long pole in the Chinese naval tent.
Maybe Clinton sold more than we know.
Just making an SSN of similar size with similar weapons aboard, isn't remotely having an LA class SSN.
Let alone having 50 of them.
In 1997 the Russians tested a spherical sonar on a old Yankee boat. They have been working on the copy for the BQQ-5 for that long. I don’t know how far they got or if they shared with the Chinese.
I understand the processing power of the BUSY-2 and but they are working hard to catch up. If Hillary gets in with her socialist Congress, she will put our things up for sale again.
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