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These weapons are not “operational” in the sense any US or western system would be declared operational.

What you are watching is a video game cinematic.

The actual DF-21D has never...not once...been operationally tested in a full up, live-fire exercise where it is fired out to sea to hit any ship, even not maneuvering, and using its communication and targeting assets. For that matter, it has never been fired out to sea.

The only test it has performed is to fire it out into the Gobi desert to hit a static target painted to look like a carrier.

That could have been done with any number of existing land based systems.

To hit an object like a maneuvering carriers over 1,000 miles off of their coats with a ballistic missile is something they have never proven. Only talked A LOT about in white papers.

It is a classic Sun Tsu effort to use slight of hand and smoke to try and get the US to be afraid to use their massive, overpowering weapons in the form of conventional forces centered around nuclear aircraft carriers.

They have “deployed” numerous vehicles with supposed DF-21D missiles on them...only problem is, the missiles look just like the DF-21 ballistic missile they have with no anti-shipping capability whatsoever.

Never mind the fact that they have not positioned , or demonstrated the actual huge, sophisticated network of recon, surveillance, targeting, reacquisition after re-entry, or maneuvering capabilities/technology necessary for such a weapon.

IF you can convince an opponent not to use their much more powerful weapons, you have as good as defeated that weapon without every firing a shot.

problem is, we have liberal progressives who are filling our command positions with people of their own ilk who are neutering the US edge.

The DF-21D is a Sun Tsu construct, that portends to fire a weapon into the teeth of the most effective anti-missile shield on earth, our AEGIS system, and be so capable as to render that system inert...without their system ever having demonstrated even once that it has any rudimentary capability of doing it.

I could go into all of their technical challenges, which they have never demonstrated having...and I could go into why the AEGIS system would most likely defeat it anyway.

But there is no need. The Chinese are bluffing with that syste,...and it is not even a very good bluff.

"IF you can convince an opponent not to use their much more powerful weapons, you have as good as defeated that weapon without every firing a shot."

So far they are not very convincing.

A few years back (2-3) the USS George Washington Battle Group sailed into the Yellow Sea...within 100 miles of Bejing...and conducted air ops for 2 days.

Not a single Chinese aircraft or ship came out to play.

Cincpacflt commented that he was disappointed the Chinese didn't want to come out and observe:)