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China tests ‘carrier killer’ after threatening US over Taiwan contacts
yahoo.com ^ | June 10, 2021 | Joel Gehrke

Posted on 06/13/2021 2:39:25 PM PDT by ransomnote

Chinese forces tested their ability to deploy ballistic missiles designed to strike U.S. aircraft carriers, as Beijing raises the specter of an invasion of neighboring Taiwan in response to a recent visit to the island by three U.S. senators.

“We have been holding night exercises on a regular basis recently, which usually continues until early the next day,” People’s Liberation Army Col. Jiang Feng said of the Tuesday drills, according to regional media. "We often change training grounds, striking targets, and launch bases without prior notice to test the troops’ skills and pave the way for the brigade to fight and be able to fight at any time.”

Chinese state media reportedly released footage of the DF-26 missiles, known as “carrier killers.” The display comes on the heels of “amphibious landing drills” that state media linked to the arrival in Taiwan of a bipartisan Senate delegation. In tandem, the drills call attention to Chinese preparations to invade the island democracy and combat U.S. forces that might attempt to intervene to defend Taiwan.

“If anyone dares to separate Taiwan island from China, the Chinese People’s Liberation Army will give it a head-on strike and firmly defend national reunification and territorial integrity at all costs,” Chinese Defense Ministry spokesman Wu Qian said Tuesday, when the missile test reportedly took place.

US AND JAPAN WARN CHINA NOT TO ATTACK TAIWAN

The DF-26s create a math problem for the Pentagon. U.S. lawmakers expect that most American warships would have to leave the region in a crisis in order to escape the range of the “carrier killers.” American submarines could still operate closer to Taiwan, and B-52 bombers could arrive in as little as 28 hours...

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KEYWORDS: china; nuclearwar; taiwan
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To: rodguy911

Which is why they would love a nice clean bright wonderful new country to move into ( at least the elites) namely America the Beautiful.


41 posted on 06/13/2021 5:18:41 PM PDT by boxlunch (Our media and most politicians are owned by the CCP. Resist. )
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To: Robert DeLong

Was just wondering since the name on the side uses English alphabet, but signs on road were Chinese. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DF-26 So did find this but was surprised they actually write it out in English letters and numerals.


42 posted on 06/13/2021 5:21:51 PM PDT by boxlunch (Our media and most politicians are owned by the CCP. Resist. )
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To: struggle

This!!!!!!


43 posted on 06/13/2021 5:56:35 PM PDT by bantam
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To: beancounter13

16hrs from CONUS, flight time.

Assuming tankers en route.

Add 6-8hrs prep and loading.

But we always have assets in that theater. All kinds of voodoo.

Not to mention nobody outside Chinese media thinks they have ever hit a maneuvering target at sea.


44 posted on 06/13/2021 6:16:11 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: ransomnote

Response:

SSBN - flatten Beijing and that stupid dam.


45 posted on 06/13/2021 6:19:43 PM PDT by meyer (I swear to protect and defend the Constitution against ALL enemies, foreign and domestic!)
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To: meyer

No American President would kill millions of civilians over a successful attack on a military target in the open ocean with zero collateral damage, and if they did attempt to do it they would be removed.


46 posted on 06/13/2021 6:29:56 PM PDT by Jim Noble (Extremism in the defense of Liberty is no vice)
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To: struggle
If the PLA threatens that, just tell them 10 cruise missiles will be shot at the Three Gorges Dam from a submarine.

Get real! We have at least three very nukeable dams in our West. Some can be nuked without killing that many people. Dams that are far away from population centers. Thus if the ChiComs let their nukes fly, they could not be called mass murderers. In contrast, Three Gorges Dam getting nuked would kill 100,000 Chinese (my estimate) in cities and farmlands downstream. Then the US will get called mass murderers by the rest of the world. The UN too I (lol) suppose.

47 posted on 06/13/2021 6:32:32 PM PDT by dennisw
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To: boxlunch

Yeah, good catch. That fact didn’t even register with me. 8>)


48 posted on 06/14/2021 3:41:02 AM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: ransomnote

You are not going to “kill” a carrier with one missile strike.
It takes extensive under waterline hull damage to sink any warship.


49 posted on 06/14/2021 4:02:28 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: AppyPappy

Free Traitors™ are getting rich off of us. F them.


50 posted on 06/14/2021 4:03:35 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: ransomnote

The problem with all the tough talkers promising that we will nuke china in response is that we have a commander in chief who is completely owned by the chicoms and who will unconditionally surrender to Xi if they take out one or two of our carriers.


51 posted on 06/14/2021 4:05:23 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
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To: ransomnote

Hey China let me introduce you to our “country killer”:

“The UGM-133A Trident II, or Trident D5 is a submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM), built by Lockheed Martin Space in Sunnyvale, California, and deployed with the American and British navies. It was first deployed in March 1990,[6] and remains in service. The Trident II Strategic Weapons System is an improved SLBM with greater accuracy, payload, and range than the earlier Trident C-4. It is a key element of the U.S. strategic nuclear triad and strengthens U.S. strategic deterrence. The Trident II is considered to be a durable sea-based system capable of engaging many targets. It enhances the U.S. position in strategic arms negotiation with performance and payload flexibility that can accommodate active treaty initiatives (see New START). The Trident II’s increased payload allows nuclear deterrence to be accomplished with fewer submarines,[16] and its high accuracy—approaching that of land-based missiles—enables it to be used as a first strike weapon.[17][18][19]”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UGM-133_Trident_II

Of course Xiden will never use them against his masters. But hey we have them thanks to Reagan.


52 posted on 06/14/2021 4:09:54 AM PDT by mad_as_he$$
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To: central_va

“Free Traitors™ are getting rich off of us. “

Like unions who support illegal immigration?


53 posted on 06/14/2021 4:32:13 AM PDT by sausageseller (If you want to cut your own throat, don't come to me for a bandage. M, Thatcher)
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To: sausageseller
Like unions who support illegal immigration?

Unions? Unions are basically dead. Only 6% of the US workforce is in a union. The overwhelming majority if the union rank and file are "MAGA" all the way.

It's not 1975 anymore buckwheat....

54 posted on 06/14/2021 4:45:53 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: sausageseller

Looks like a threw a stone and Free Traitor™ yelped. LOL.


55 posted on 06/14/2021 4:46:53 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: ransomnote

It seems that not a few people on this forum believe that destroying the Three Gorges Dam will hurt the CCP. It will not. The CCP cares only about its money, power, prestige, and face. The people it governs are just things to be used to their ends.

The Chinese people are not the CCP! Do you know that every week in China there is a brutally suppressed major riot against CCP created problems?

If, in taking out the Dam, you murder 400 million people, what does that make you? You have solved nothing nor lessened the power of the CCP.

People here must understand that the Chinese were pushing hard after VJ day for the extermination of all Japanese for the 20 million Chinese they murdered. What do you imagine they would do if 400 million where murdered along with the total destruction of at least 4 major cities? They will not be thinking twice as they press their big red buttons and let their nukes fly.

Let the Dam fail of its own accord - its not even anchored to the canyon walls, and the concrete used is substandard. Let it be on the CCP’s head, not ours.


56 posted on 06/14/2021 4:51:37 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: ransomnote

You all Chi-com mookabookers sink one of our aircraft carriers and it will be on like donkey kong there boys.
And even if we have Joe or the whore in charge there will be NO turning back.
America will kick your sorry asses.


57 posted on 06/14/2021 5:48:44 AM PDT by Joe Boucher (You Go Donald.)
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To: central_va
Union open border thug REPLIES with silly comeback.
Keep trying to cover for the union Democraps.
58 posted on 06/14/2021 8:52:17 AM PDT by sausageseller (If you want to cut your own throat, don't come to me for a bandage. M, Thatcher)
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To: sausageseller

Anyone that is in favor of de-industrializing the USA because of some irrational hated of union labor is a myopic idiot.


59 posted on 06/14/2021 9:35:01 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: central_va
Any shiller for Communist thug unions is a POC!
Any shiller for Teachers unions who want to push racist teaching and the sexulazition of children is a POC!

Look in the mirror!

60 posted on 06/15/2021 6:32:31 AM PDT by sausageseller (If you want to cut your own throat, don't come to me for a bandage. M, Thatcher)
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