China's "Tsushima" Anticarrier Strategy

The Jamestown Foundation ^ | 14 January, 2003 | Thomas Woodrow

[Tailgunner Joe]

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[NormsRevenge]

Thank You for the ping. But China is our friend... /gag

[ninenot]

Are you talking about the Gatling guns on the destroyers? Apparently the GG was designed to literally create a 'curtain of lead' to make an incoming missile or rocket self-destruct. I think I recall 6K rounds/minute of depleted-uranium rounds...

[PhilDragoo]

Bush said "we will do whatever it takes to defend Taiwan".

I think if China sinks a carrier it would make him mad.

Jiang better be in his bunker.

That's when buzzwords and warranties go right out that little round window.

[maui_hawaii]

Here is another thing...

Consider the following: during the Yugoslav and Afghan campaigns... we had planes taking off from Missouri or Nebraska somewhere and bombing then turning around and coming home again.

We have range. I guess we're getting more miles to the gallon in our jets...

Seems to me, in my meager military knowlege that we could park our expensive runways 500 miles from the east coast of the Phillippines or Japan and still reach out and touch their forces.

Not to mention we have some fire and forget about it stuff of our own.

Its not like we are fighting in the days of pirates where you had to pull up along side someone so your cannon can shoot a hole in their boat.

The Moskit (3M80) is a ramjet-powered missile reaches Mach 3 at a high altitude and its maximum low-altitude speed is M2.2, triple the speed of the American Harpoon. The missile takes only 2 minutes to cover its full range

If you do the math, mach I is about 350 meters per sec. 350 meters X 2 min (120 sec)= 42,000 meters, or in other words, 42 km.

[rmlew]

Which would have worked had we not broken JN-27.

How many American commanders fell for japanse traps?
Take a look at the Dutch Indies campaign in 1942. Look at the battle of the Philipean Sea where we Halsey fell right into a Japanse trap.