Posted on 02/07/2008 9:30:00 PM PST by fishhound
BEIJING: For a procession of senior U.S. military commanders who have visited China in recent years, the complaint has become almost routine.
As part of a sustained military buildup, they say, China is investing heavily in so-called area-denial weapons without explaining why it needs them.
The term area-denial weapons refers to a combination of armaments, technology and tactics that could be used to dominate a specific area or keep opposing forces at bay in a conflict. And one of the most formidable examples U.S. commanders identify is the Chinese Navy's rapidly expanding fleet of nuclear and conventional submarines.
"I would say that the U.S. feels a strong threat from Chinese submarines," said Andrei Chang, an expert on Chinese and Taiwan military forces and editor in chief of the magazine Kanwa Defence Review.
"China now has more submarines than Russia, and the speed they are building them is amazing," Chang said.
U.S. and other Western military analysts estimate that China now has more than 30 advanced and increasingly stealthy submarines, along with dozens of older, obsolete types. "China is capable of serial production of modern diesel-electric submarines and is moving forward with new nuclear submarines," the Pentagon said last year in its annual report on the Chinese military.
By the end of the decade, experts say, China will have more submarines than the United States, although it will still lag in overall capability.
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I wouldn’t worry about China catching up in weapons capability. The next Clinton has already taken money from Chinese contributors. She will transfer technology to the Chinese military, just as the previous Clinton did.
We keep on buying crap from walmart. /s
It’s about all your base...and are belong to. (string of pearls)
the chinese probably test and then... eat.
Oh nothing to worry about...I’m sure there is a perfectly valid reason for building so many subs....um undersea exploration perhaps? Uh huh....
nothing to see here...continue consuming!
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You know, it’s funny, but Wal-Mart is a store I never go into. But every store has overseas products in it. You can’t totally avoid it.
Clinton would probably try to lift the forced “made in china” labels at the retail end.
It is fn hard to avoid Chinese products.
They should have started worrying 4 years ago.. The Aussies too. The Aussies even more than us, should be expanding their Sub fleet and their ASW Tech.
Isn’t it the Aussies licensing high speed catamarrans that they convert to military platforms.?
Meanwhile we permit, no, in fact subsidize the hollowing out of our manufacturing base along with the undermining of our currency and financial base. Not looking good from this end but then I’m probably Myopic, not having the far sightedness of many of our Globalist leaders.
“Meanwhile we permit, no, in fact subsidize the hollowing out of our manufacturing base along with the undermining of our currency and financial base.”
Deliberate and sick race to the bottom. Ask any manufacturer.
Worthless POS in robes. Feed them to the whales.
Let's see. What did The Toon give his ChiCom comrades? NRC, Sandia, Los Alamos archives. Final stage synchronous orbit. Nuke miniaturization. MIRV capability. Neutron bomb.
What could Mrs. Toon give them? Aha! SLBMs. ABM, Patriot avoidance. Stealth detection. . . .
yitbos
How long is it that the Chinese have been building these submarines?
Well duh
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