RED CHINA LAUNCHES FIRST HOMEMADE AEGIS DESTROYER

AFPC China Reform Monitor ^ | July 21, 2003 | Al Santoli, ed.

[quietolong]

We already have one.
It’s call Seawolf

[rmlew]

This ship is the Type 053c
The Chicoms have jumped a generation in 5 years.

[New Horizon]

LOL. They don't call it a "junk" for nothing.

[meadsjn]

ping

[tacticalogic]

Can you imagine what the instruction manual reads like?

[blam]

"We already have one. It’s call Seawolf"

Yup. ...and, there are other things 'out-there' too. Sheee.

[AsYouAre]

Thanks for the doc dump. [/sarcasm off]

[bruinbirdman]

"The Chicoms have jumped a generation in 5 years"

How long does it take a country who can't separate a fourth stage or achieve syncronized orbit to develop MIRVs and a neutron bomb? Answer: how many years are there in two presidential terms?

yitbos

[quietolong]

Yup. And it’s some neat stuff too

[frostbit]

"So when does the US launch an Aegis-destroyer-destroyer? "
__________

Already got 'em. They may not know it, but I'm sure the new Red ship is equipped with one already, which stays about 500 feet down and behind their ship:

LA or Seawolf class SSN using (your choice):
Mark 48 torpedo
Harpoon ASM
Tomahawk ASM

[King Prout]

some years ago, I would think.
fast-attack submarines?

[King Prout]

bump-to-archive

[King Prout]

that's a sampan. junks are a lot bigger, and have those ribbed sails.

[King Prout]

it suuuuure helps when someone else has already done all that tedious R&D for you, huh?

[Porterville]

It is a great ship, but it keeps leaning over

[Jeff Head]

The Chicomms are updating and upgrading their PLAN (Navy) as quickly as they can, and they are doing it to unltimately confront the U.S. Navy.

As regards this new ship, which in fact does represent a generation jump in the last 2-3 years, compare their new AEGIS destroyer with our very latest Burke AEGIS destroyer. See any similarities?

New Type 052C PLAN Anti-Air DDG

Latest U.S. Navy Burke Class AEGIS DDG

Don't let ANYONE tell you that the Clinton Admin didn't sell us down the tubes. The PLAN was twenty five to thirty years behind us in technology and anything approaching our capability in 1993. Now, they are building these as fast as they can. They put out two of the general combatanbts last year and have already launched one of these this year. Probably shooting for a two a year production rate at the current time.

Even with that, without some very serious technological advantage, like some sort of super-supercavitating weapon to take on our carriers like I describe in:

The Dragon's Fury Series
A Series about World War III

...they will still not be capable of achieving their regional or global goal against the U.S. Navy. We siply are too large and have too much experience, and with the CBG's and our submarines, have an unassailable edge.

But, the way they are building up and moving forward though, I have to wonder if they don't have something like that up their sleave. IMHO, we must remain vigilant and confront the growing threat that the PRC represents...and stop funding them in their military buildup.

Best Fregards.

Jeff

[Tailgunner Joe]

bump

[Jeff Head]

Thanks for that BUMP. I almost want to post my response in post 37 as a separate thread. The similarities in technology, capability and even how the ships look is extremely revealing when comparing their "latest" to our Aegis class. This didn't happen overnight. We have been building the Burke destroyers for many years, since the early 1990's.

The Chinese have progressed from 1950-1960 class destroyers since that time to very modern destroyers now. They did it with the pilfering of, and out and out gift of technology under the Clinton administration. And this is just in the Naval area. They have done the same thing in many, many other areas, including their nuclear ballistic missile program.

[gnarledmaw]

Good post. Now how do we get attention span deficient sheeples to read it?