blue water navy? Yes maybe, but they will rely chiefly on new ASBM’s to attack our carriers.
Thanks to the Clinton admin, they can launch a missile into orbit, and then instead of coming down on a land target, instead it attacks and destroys a carrier, or carrier battle group.
Their objective is to avoid fighting the US on equal terms; they intend to push out out to the “second island ring” from China —a pretty long way.
They want to kick us off Okinawa and get us back to Guam —no bases in the western Pacific.
That’s it in a nutshell. They will not succeed in 1 year or 3, but after that their odds of success go up dramatically. In 10 years they will have done it, and bye-bye Taiwan. Also by then I expect Japan will have announced that they have nuclear weapons.
There are too many scenarios to contemplate. The US could be rendered a real “Paper Tiger” with another 9-11 timed to take place in conjunction with a major quake in Calif. or in the New Madrid fault area.
Their new ASBM is based on the DF-21 missile and will also contain manoeuvrable reentry vehicles (MaRVs) with some kind of terminal guidance system.This would be the world’s first and only ASBM and the world’s first weapons system capable of targeting a moving aircraft carrier strike group from long-range, land-based mobile launchers.