Posted on 03/24/2010 6:31:26 PM PDT by ErnstStavroBlofeld
The Obama administration's regional missile-defense strategy is designed to counter emerging threats like China's new anti-ship ballistic missile and other so-called anti-access weapons, a senior defense official said Monday.
Deputy Defense Secretary William J. Lynn III said during a speech outlining the administration's missile-defense priorities that "potential adversaries are planning to employ ballistic missiles in anti-access tactics."
Mr. Lynn did not name China, but the Pentagon has said Beijing's military is building a new 930-mile-range ballistic missile with a precision-guided, maneuvering warhead that will be accurate enough to hit aircraft carriers and other ships at sea.
The Pentagon has used the term anti-access weapons for missiles and other weapons that can keep U.S. forces away from China's coasts, and in particular to prevent the rapid deployment of U.S. naval forces in the Western Pacific to aid Taiwan in any future conflict with China.
The Pentagon's recent four-year strategy review said one of the main priorities for U.S. military forces in the coming years will be to prepare to fight in "anti-access environments" that defense officials have said is mainly directed at dealing with China's growing military power.
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None of this will get any additional funding, as Obama will cave to the Chinese on these issues.
This Anti Ship missile is based on the DF-21
The speed of their missile is Mach 6 to 10. We have nothing even close to that speed to stop it. We are sitting ducks waiting for orders from the Chinese but we do have communist health care and car companies.
And China owns our infrastructure and probably our ships. Wonder if O is hell bent on leveling the field like BJ.
At that speed, hitting virtually any debris will destroy the missile.
And what is the temperature of the outer coating of the airframe?
Cheers!
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