Posted on 03/08/2008 9:05:17 PM PST by TigerLikesRooster
Inside the Ring
March 7, 2008
By Bill Gertz - China missiles
One little-noticed intelligence disclosure contained in the Pentagon's annual report on Chinese military power says China now has ballistic missiles designed to hit U.S. aircraft carriers and ships at sea.
The missiles are described in the report as part of China's "anti-access/area denial capabilities" that include "anti-ship ballistic missiles designed to strike ships at sea, including aircraft carriers."
Using a ballistic missile to target ships requires a degree of sophistication not shown by Chinese missiles in the past, and indicates China's military has mastered precision missile targeting, no doubt helped by the theft of U.S. warhead design and other secrets through espionage in the 1990s.
Other new weapons that are part of the precision-guided missile arsenal are advanced cruise missiles, medium-range ballistic missiles, the direct ascent anti-satellite missiles, like the one tested in January 2007.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
Ping!
Thanks to traitor Bill Clinton, "husband" of that socialist pig Hillary Clinton.
Theft hell!
Bill Clinton sold it to them.
Thanks Slick and Slickette. No wonder the Chinese money keeps flowing to your coffers.
“no doubt helped by the theft of U.S. warhead design and other secrets through espionage in the 1990s.”
I didn’t know Bill Clinton had a nickname. ‘espionage’.
Must be a French thing.
People can deny it all they want, BUT one day in the next 50 years, there will be a very big war btwn the U.S. and the ChiComms.
Waiting for the MSM to notice ....
That would be what the BMD destroyers and cruisers (and their SM3 missiles) are for.
Waiting for the MSM to notice ....
Not going to happen!!!!
and the chicoms have been funded by wall mart...and stupid lazy americans who buy chicom crap...
Chinagate is the crime of the century.. incredible malfeance..Winked at... And then we have the Sandy Burgler affair.. Interesting times await..
Another interesting thing to note, is that in public news from years ago, China was manufacturing anti-ship missiles at several hundred missiles per ship (to get through defenses).
Thanks Bill and Hillary!
"Hey sarge, how many hordes in a Chinese platoon?"
Buy china = support china
Pretty simple equation...
People can deny it all they want, BUT one day in the next 50 years, there will be a very big war btwn the U.S. and the ChiComms.
A “ballistic” missile typically means a multi-stage rocket that is fired almost into space, then releases a warhead that passively drops back to earth at great speed, onto a fixed location, like a city or a military installation.
The warhead may have “evasive” capabilities, but its target is pre-set, and it has no ability to track or follow something that is moving.
Perhaps this means China has targeted sections of the Pacific Ocean for nuclear attack?
Interesting, but no more difficult than targeting Los Angeles.
Just remember,
Those who call themselves intellectual, are voting for him because they want “change.”
bump
The war will come sooner rather than later and its one we may not win. Once China starts her march to expand it may well be hard to stop her and I don’t know if the US will have the guts to do it. With a Democrat in the White House who seeks a UN solution we could lose Hawaii to China.
dsc - not sure what your link about MIRV’s has to do with my post - one warhead, or multiple warheads, they are ALL still passive warheads, on pre-set targets, that cannot track or follow a moving ship.
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Waiting for the MSM to notice ....
Party Donations Show G.O.P. Edge
Don't count on the MSM, but we should be able to use Clinton's "3 a.m. Phone Call" Ad against either of them and their party.
Bump.
Yet the sheep of this Nation gleefully build that arsenal each and every day...
We might be outraged by this, but the left and their media stooges think it’s a good thing. They hate OUR military and would probably like nothing better than to see a couple of our carriers sunk.
Wasn’t there anything in that article about maneuvering reentry vehicles? Sorry.
Well, in his defense, Peter Jennings knew he wasn't going to be around for the down side.
My last computer purchase was a South Korean monitor to avoid buying a Chinese product.
In buying Chinese products, I'm doing pretty well right now at Florida yard sales.
No sense in financing new Chinese aggression when "used" Chinese tools, toys, and computer products can be kept out of landfills and given "a second life".
Would that have been the "Sunburn" missile?
All three major candidates are funded by George Soros among other nefarious sources.. Yes,, John McLaim too..
Classically, yes. Before we invented and the Chinese copies the idea “smart” controllable ballastically-launched (high altitude rockets with controllable re-entry warheads. Now, the rocket and warhead are both “steered” high in flight, and the flights are so short (<20 minutes) that all that's needed is a target point in range. Essentially.
They still aren't as accurate as cruise missiles, and the target data needs to be up-to-date (15 minutes prior to launch or so) so nuke warheads are assumed.
I remember... but man don't. I couldn't believe it when she ran the 3 AM ad, and worse yet, that it appeared effective. HRC, who "loathes" the military, brings up the issue of her qualifications to be Commander In Chief. Do you think she's practicing her salute?
“Theft hell!
Bill Clinton sold it to them.”
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It’s not just Clinton.
Every time you shop at Wal*Mart, you help pay for more.
In five or less.
“All three major candidates are funded by George Soros among other nefarious sources.. Yes,, John McLaim too..”
Precisely, but the sheeple get upset when you point that out.
Almost 70% of FR refuse to admit the plain truth.
Dont know about those numbers but some are oblivious
Exactly, and thanks to a Congress that would not look into and an Attorney General who stopped them and Starr from doing it.
The first woman Attorney General helped to make sure that our grandchildren would not be safe, while the first woman Secretary of State assisted in whatever way she could. And now they want a first woman or black president to finish us off.
But, to date, all I have seen has told me that they remain nuclear.
If that is the case, one use of such a weapon would unleash America's arsenal on China. It would play to our absolute strength in terms of numbers, quality, and accuracy in nuclear missiles. Veyr un-Chinese...very un-Sun Tsu.
Without a premptive nuclear strike against our bomber bases and missile silos, they would not, IMHO, consider use of such a weapon. And that would again, play to our strength. In any case, they would not get our SSBN's at sea, which carry many times more missiles than in the entire Chinese arsenal.
So, one of three things:
1) The Chinese would only use such a weapon as a last ditch effort, in the middile of an otherwise disasterous situation at whidch time they would also be launching a general nuclear war against us.
2) The Chinese are waiting for a weak democratic President and believe a weak president would not respond to such an out an out atrocity (and I believe they are wrong here...outside of maybe Obama).
3) The Chinese have a conventional capability for these missiles and guidance systems (which themselves are iffy IMHO) that we are unaware of.
That last is not so unheard of. We have considered the same ourtselves.
EVERYONE IN THE WORLD knows that the price of a sunken US Aircraft Carrier is the complete and total annhiliation of your nation via WMD. An aircraft carrier is a capital, strategic asset. It carries dozens of nukes...and up to 6000 personnel.
Fully loaded...to include the cost of replacement manpower it's worth upwards of $15bil.
Don’t you mean negotiate surrender before the war?
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