[Travis McGee]

I don't think it matters in the end whether the specific super cavitating torpedo you postulate pans out. I think the SC torpedo stands for any "breakthrough" weapon introduced by the Chinese in a surprise attack. Anyone who thinks the Chinese are not smart enough to even possibly leapfrog our tech with a breakthrough weapon or classes of weapons is delusional. Prior to Pearl Harbor that type of thinking was very dangerous, regarding the "stupid Japs" who could only make bad copies of American toys.

[Jeff Head]

Agreed. We know they are trying and we can't afford to let up for an instant or get to a point where we think they are not a threat.

IMHO, we should be starving their ability to fund this stuff by taking a much different economic angle. They are artificially bringing their totalitarian regime forward by getting us to fund it to the point of their own self-sufficiency...a state of affairs that would neve happen under their own socialistic/maxistic.maoistic economic models. They have abandoned those economic models in favor of the current ones...but not the ideological basis for their governing or world view. A very dangerous, lulling and pacifying mix.