[EEDUDE]

You can also hunt deer with a ball peen hammer if they’ll stand still long enough.

[glorgau]

500-kilogram warhead would have a lethal radius of 388 millimeters

Wow, comparable to a nuke. ;-)

[fso301]

The author writes well but has a problem with numbers

[Red Steel]

Too bad you commies don't have an answer for these weapons.

And this:

Say goodbye to your missile batteries. The path gets cleared and the Nimitz class carriers get closer to finish you off.

[PugetSoundSoldier]

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.

Uhh, correction: maximum PUBLISHED speed of 32 knots...;)

[Red Steel]

Even if the Chinese missiles could not accurately hit the aircraft carriers, shooting them in their direction would allow the Chinese military forces to impose "coercive isolation" on the U.S. aircraft carrier battle groups, keeping them out of the Taiwan Strait combat theater.

Yeah suuure... Expect your limited detection capabilities to get blinded. Lots of sea out there to hide in even for big dick carriers.

[Kevmo]

Part of the problem is that the submunitions will include pyrotechnic rounds which will cause fire, smoke, and confusion.

Here’s what can happen when one of our own rockets misfires, let alone an enemy engagement:

http://ipmsstockholm.org/magazine/2003/02/images_deck_landings/u124794.jpg

[doug from upland]

But wait. Isn’t China our friend?

[Zhang Fei]

Methinks that if the Chinese are going to attack American targets a thousand miles from the Taiwan Straits, we could hit Chinese targets that are equally far from the Taiwan Straits.

[Fatuncle]

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.

Say what?

OK, look, I am going to do this in grade school arithmetic.

A "knot" - a nautical mile - is 1,852 meters, or 6,076 feet. 32 times that is 59,264 meters, or 194,432 feet.

That's 59.264 kilometers, or 32 nautical miles, in an hour.

Divide this by the number of minutes in an hour, and you get 987.7 meters per minute, or 3240.5 feet per minute.

In seven minutes, the carrier will have moved 6,914 meters, or 22,683.5 feet - 3.733 nautical miles, which for us infantry types works out to be 4.296 landlubber miles.

And if anyone has bothered to read any of the literature in the last 20 years, it is a matter of record that a carrier in a hurry can crank out something over 40 knots - can, in fact, outrun her escorts.

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.

[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?”

[wastedyears]

Does China want to lose millions of people?