Posted on 02/14/2011 11:29:19 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY
YOKOSUKA, Japan (AP) -- A senior U.S. Navy commander says a new "carrier killer" missile that has become a symbol of China's rising military might will not force the U.S. Navy to change the way it operates in the Pacific.
Defense analysts say the Dong Feng 21D missile could upend the balance of power in Asia, where U.S. aircraft carrier battle groups have ruled the waves since the end of World War II.
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If one carrier is targeted by 20 Fu Manchu's Dong Feng missiles, another 20 cruise missiles released hundreds of miles away, 10 torpedoes, can the carrier survive the 50 simultaneous threats?
There are times in combat when quality comes in 2d to quantity. Quantity us what the Commies do. They took 20 million casualties in WWII, a million casualties in Korea, another million in VietNam, killed millions in Gulags ... quantity is what these commie SOBs do.
I suspect we have something up our sleeve that we all just don’t know about yet.
I hope its REAL good. Like a total game changer.
That hyper sonic X-51 Waverider thingy looks real promising.
That’s death coming to you at Mach 6.
I guess there's no need for stealth at that speed.
We’ve got lots of stuff up our sleeves. That was a “bring it on” statement from the Admiral regardless of how much Obama hates America.
I think that we also need to make the Chinese aware, in no uncertain terms, that if they want to throw conventional weapons with a ballistic missile.... we can do that too.
And they also need to be aware that if a mushroom cloud ever appears over an American aircraft carrier, one will appear over Shanghai and Beijing in quick succession.
Your talking about civilian casualties, it will be different when those casualties are inflicted on military troops and logistics lines. Do you think that the USN will be hiding or sitting in port? First of all where will this war be fought? If on land, they will need to be able to deploy these troops and armor and logistics. Secondly, where did they get all this naval war fighting experienece? Sending a bunch of inexperienced subs out to hunt down our fleet will get a good deal of people killed and alot of assets lost.
Oh!... and the big old DAM they have.. will need a lot of repair..
AND the Yellow River will just go nutz on them.. down river will be chaos..
Agreed.
I’ve posted this in a previous thread about carriers at risk. We lost six carriers to enemy action {sank} in WW2. The Langley, Lexington, Yorktown, Wasp, Hornet, and Princeton. The threat was always there and always will be. The more modern systems built by enemies to sink one the more modern system we should build to detect and counter. The Pentagon needs to get on the ball about defense programs.
All they really have to do is launch as much aircraft as possible.
Based on a couple incidents where Chinese subs popped up close to Carrier groups over the past few years, quantity isn’t the issue... ASW was non existent. i.e.:
NOV 2006, A Chinese submarine came close to the USS Kitty Hawk carrier group in the Pacific Ocean last month, a top U.S. naval commander confirmed Tuesday, adding the encounter could have triggered an “unforeseen” incident.
NOV 2007 American military chiefs have been left dumbstruck by an undetected Chinese submarine popping up at the heart of a recent Pacific exercise and close to the vast U.S.S. Kitty Hawk – a 1,000ft supercarrier with 4,500 personnel on board.
Its not about transparency its about American Traitors selling and presenting all of our Weapon,satellite and Communication Technology to The Communists on a Silver Platter
Our own Navy is doing that. The Admirals themselves are destroying the Navy by allowing gays to serve.
Already one queer officer who didn't like his FITREP played the "gay card." The Navy is rotting in its very core.
Why has the USN deactivated so many ASW assets P-3 Squadrons and closed NAS such as Brunswick in Me? Once you lose these squadrons and their crews you lose valuable training and equipment.
“The Navy is rotting in its very core.”
Yes. Plus the entire armed forces, entire leadership, entire nation.
“I suspect we have something up our sleeve that we all just don’t know about yet.”
From the article:
“Any new capability is something that we try to monitor,” he (Vice Adm. Scott van Buskirk) said.
“If there wasn’t this to point to as a game changer, there would be something else,” he said. “That term has been bandied about for many things. I think it really depends in how you define the game, whether it really changes it or not. It’s a very specific scenario for a very specific capability — some things can be very impactful.”
What is the admiral really saying here? It is a bluff? Do we have response capabilty and he’s not letting on; or are we vulnerable, and he’s not letting on. Either way, it doesn’t sound very reassuring.
A friend of mine’s daughter is a surface warfare officer in a carrier battle group. She refers to Destroyers and Frigates in the group as “missile catchers”.....
Obama will stop our military unless there is a coup.
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