China artillery force seeks to strike aircraft carriers

United Press International-Asia ^ | Sep 21,2007 | ANDREI CHANG

[Paul Ross]

But wait. Isn’t China our friend?

That's what Thomas PM Barnett kept braying insensately at the Navy brass from his Xlinton-appointed perch at the USN War College.

He claimed, and still claims in the "Pentagon's New Map." that they wouldn't risk losing their markets. LOL!

Barnet Only got fired after the election of '04 when he backed Kerry over Bush. Up until then he was W's and Rummy's best of Globalist trade chums by way of the number of high-ranking power-point blarney sessions he was allowed to perpetrated throughout the government, not just within defense.

[Captainpaintball]

China's DF-21 and DF-15 ballistic missiles use inertia plus gyroscope guidance at the middle course

Hmm...where did they get the technorogy for that?

[KantianBurke]

nice to know our billion dollar carriers are at the whim and potential disposal of Taiwan. How much have THEY contributed to OUR “common defense?”

[Southack]

"All of the U.S. Navy's nuclear-powered aircraft carriers have a maximum speed of 32 knots. In other words, they can move 30.866 meters each minute and 216.06 meters within seven minutes."

LOL! 60 miles per hour is 1 mile per minute. Half that speed, 30 miles per hour, is 1 mile every two minutes.

So while the Chinese think that a U.S. aircraft carrier would move only 31 meters in a minute...Americans know that it can move about a kilometer in that amount of time.

[stevie_d_64]

“Learn or Burn Baby! Learn or Burn!”

Seen that film so many times it is engrained in the membrane...

[Paul Ross]

Last but not least, the US Navy has this nasty tendency to shoot back - and now has a functioning ABM capability - the Standard 3 with a 'smart rock' inertial impact warhead - which in tests has outperformed the Air Force's ABM interceptors.

This capacity is the real key to survival of the carrier, although mobility helps. Frank Gaffney urged Bush when he came in 2001 to immediately deploy another 22 Aegis cruisers with NMD from the get-go, and retrofit the remainder of the 50+ Aegis ships, and to go back and undo the sabotage on the Standard missile that Xlinton's croneys Strobe Talbott/Mad Halfbright had committed. They ordered that the completed Standard design...be reworked, to be slower and lower altitude so that it would not be so effective an NMD. In simplest terms, they shrank the missile. The cut the upper stage dimensions to sub-optimal.

This could be affordably fixed. The fix is called the Flight II(4)A. It restores the dimensions of the upper stage to full width, giving it substantially more fuel...which means significantly closing speed, altitude and range improvements. Unfortunately, Bush has refused the calls to do the "fix" and had his DOD Depty secretary Gordon Englund cancel the other alternative, TBMD.

And as for Aegis numbers, there have been no additional 22 boats ordered, nor, has he been very fast about rigging them for the limited NMD the current SM's 2/3 afford them. Right now, we have 3 Aegis cruisers rigged for NMD. 15 more will be added by 2009. Let's just hope the balloon doesn't go up substantially sooner than that.

The intercept game with kinetic-kill is a simple game of numbers. We need lots more. The Chicoms have over a thousand warheads to flood Taiwan's and our naval assets with. And many of them will be nuke and EMP in character...according to what the Chicoms themselves have boasted.

We need a lot more of these fine vessels

[thundrey]

Most of the world’s microchips are made in Taiwan. Which means it would be a very, very bad thing to give the Chinese carte blanche to invade them....

[wastedyears]

Does China want to lose millions of people?