Posted on 06/20/2022 3:43:22 PM PDT by RomanSoldier19
Chinese officials conducted a successful test of an anti-ballistic missile system that analysts and state media billed as a bulwark against a hypothetical U.S. attack.
“The test is defensive in nature and not targeted against any country,” the Chinese Defense Ministry said.
The spare statement characterized the test as a “land-based mid-course missile interception test” that “achieved the desired test objective.” Chinese analysts and state media hastened to frame it as a “shield” against a hypothetical U.S. attack on Beijing’s growing nuclear arsenal.
“The development of our nuclear force is very limited,” former People’s Liberation Army missile force expert Shao Yongling told state media. “[That means] we must ensure the survivability of our nuclear force.”
The balance of nuclear power has become a charged topic between the United States and China, as Beijing has refused to join arms control talks with the U.S. and Russia while stockpiling nuclear warheads and intermediate-range ballistic missiles. Chinese Defense Minister Wei Fenghe boasted at a recent security summit that “there has been impressive progress” in the development of China’s nuclear forces, but he maintained that Beijing regards them as a defensive weapon.
“We use it for self-defense,” the Chinese defense chief said at the IISS Shangri La Dialogue. “We will not be the first to use nuclear power. And we develop nuclear capabilities for the ultimate elimination of nuclear weapons. We develop nuclear capabilities to protect the hard work of the Chinese people and protect our people from the scourge of nuclear warfare.”
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Well, it took them long enough to steal all the technology.
We need to cut off all trade with China, as we are funding our own possible destruction. Madness.
Funny how a country that exports mostly shoddy unreliable crap, and has buildings only a few years old fall down, manages to be ahead of the entire world in claims of fantastical superior weaponry.
All through the cold War we saw the US military make all sorts of claims of Russian superiority that they needed billions and billions to counter. And then a lot of the Russian stuff turned out to be overrated half-a$$ed junk. I remember as a child hiding under desks and being terrified that Russian bombers could attack at any moment. All of it was crap. A psyops campaign.
This might lead on the conclude that China also is running one big psyops campaign. If their stuff is so great, why do they send seagoing tugs with their Navy? Why do they tell us instead of showing us?
Said that in 1992.
Some trade, okay. What we did, incredibly stupid.
NOT POSSIBLE!!!!
We spend 5 times as much on our military, so it’s not possible for them to be a threat, much less have a capability like that.
Now let’s get back to figuring out how to put LGBT bathroom facilities on Tridents.
A word of caution - China *can* turn out some very good stuff. They just don’t unless there’s something forcing good quality control - be that embedded QC people from the Western client or PLA troops ready to shoot ‘saboteurs.’
Also, regarding the Russian gear - there’s an important thing to note there too. We *did* see Russian gear performing as advertised. Ask Turkey what happened when they put NATO front line Leopard 2 MBTs up against Russian Kornet and Konkurs missiles in Syria. Hint: It was painful enough that it forced the US Army and other Western militaries to stop pretending that their armor was enough and *finally* buy active protection systems for their tanks. Further, Wagner Group and other Russian-origin groups and official troops showed in Syria that their front line stuff worked just fine - this from the reports of *our* troops in Syria.
What we’re seeing in Ukraine so far, judging from pictures, is *not* their current front line gear. Almost all of the destroyed tanks seem to be older marks, and the upgraded ones don’t seem to be the latest upgrades. It looks like they sent in reserve formations with older gear instead of the cutting edge units in the Western Military District. The recent artillery improvement on the Russian side may indicate that they’re starting to bring up first-string players and equipment.
95% of the tactical missile work the US does is via cruise missiles.
That will soon be augmented with hypersonics and low trajectory ballistics at hypersonic speeds.
For the nuke stuff, they’d simply be overwhelmed. Even by a single Trident boat.
Run silent.
Run deep…
Now let’s get back to figuring out how to put LGBT bathroom facilities on Tridents.
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Be sure to label each toilet facility with the proper pronouns - even if it means removing useless military stuff. That way LGBT sailors will be able to dive deeper ...
I’m not sure on the tech, but the personnel are almost certainly the worst trash you can imagine, rivaled only in trashhood by the Russian military.
That said, the Chinese landed a rover on the moon, and, although they are corrupt at every level of their society, regimes like China can typically accomplish goals provided it has 100% focus by their leadership. Otherwise it comes out shitty, hence collapsing buildings but working rovers.
What we’re seeing in Ukraine so far, judging from pictures, is *not* their current front line gear. Almost all of the destroyed tanks seem to be older marks, and the upgraded ones don’t seem to be the latest upgrades. It looks like they sent in reserve formations with older gear instead of the cutting edge units in the Western Military District. The recent artillery improvement on the Russian side may indicate that they’re starting to bring up first-string players and equipment.
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Not exactly ... their T-14 tanks need tow trucks for the handful of examples produced, but they are churning out a few T-90Ms which is their latest production tank. With the ball bearing embargo from Sweden, there is no assurity how long those lines will continue. Taiwanese chip embargo will impact many areas of weapons production.
They don’t have “cutting edge” tanks. Russian artillery has not improved, they are just getting more practiced with what they already have in conjunction with their dedicated Orlon-10 drones (the modern FAO).
The older stuff like T-62 tanks are going to the DNR 1AK and LNR 2AK - where they dump old equipment.
The only thing that matters in the Ukraine war is artillery, including MLRS systems. Tanks and so on are not so useful, especially in the Izyum-Popasna regions.
“ We need to cut off all trade with China, as we are funding our own possible destruction. Madness.”
Take out the word “possible” and you are right.
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