Posted on 04/13/2005 8:44:31 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
China held military drill
HIGH ALTITUDE: A local military commentator said the drill, said to target US aircraft carriers, posed no danger since radar could detect a Chinese assault
DPA , TAIPEI
Wednesday, Apr 13, 2005,Page 4
China reportedly held an anti-aircraft-carrier drill last month to prepare for blocking US assistance to Taiwan in the event of a cross-strait war, but a Taiwanese military expert yesterday said the drill would not pose a major threat to US aircraft carriers.
"In this drill, Chinese warplanes can only descend to 100m above the water's surface, so they can still be easily detected by US radar," said Lee Shih-ping, an expert on warships and warplanes.
"In the Falklands War, the Argentine Navy's Super Etendard warplanes descended to within 30m of the British aircraft-carrier group, enabling them to fire Exocet missiles and sinking the British Royal Air Force's destroyer Sheffield and support ship Atlantic Conveyor," he said.
"But although Chinese warplanes cannot attack US aircraft carriers, Chinese submarines can attack them on their way from Japan to Taiwan or when they show up off Taiwan's east coast," he said.
Several US aircraft carriers are based in Japan and Hawaii, the headquarters of the US Pacific Command.
Yesterday, Hong Kong's pro-China newspaper Wen Wei Pao reported the Chinese air force conducted an anti-aircraft-carrier drill last month to prepare for US intervention in a cross-strait military conflict.
"A Feibao (Flying Leopard) attack warplane descended from 600m to 100m and approached the intended target. This poses a serious threat to the US aircraft-carrier battle group because the Chinese jet can escape US radar at such a low attitude, while mid-air refueling has extended the plane's combat radius," the report said.
Local press reports said that Washington, which is bound by the Taiwan Relations Act to help provide for Taiwan's defense, may send aircraft carriers to Taiwanese waters to counter a Chinese attack.
In 1996, the US sent two aircraft-carrier battle groups to Taiwanese waters after China fired missiles into the Taiwan Strait.
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2005/04/13/2003250267
Ok send B-52s with long range missles.
They may be trying too hard, but this hit home for me. I've got family on the Kitty Hawk. "I can't tell you where we're going" means "we'll be in the Straits of Taiwan".
bring it on girls....kill off all your good pilots....meanwhile I do hope the navy has a plan for the subs that will surely take a shot at the carriers as well....
MI Ping
What a crock! We have no carriers based in Hawaii and only 1 in Japan. Arghh.. I hate it when the press can't get their sh%$#t straight.
Ok send B-52s with long range missles.
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Our Boomer fleet remains the ultimate trump card -- it is always ready to play, and they know that.
Aegis + AWACS = Not going to happen, China.
The Brits didn't have AWACS coverage. We do.
Not with an LA Class sub in the area, they can't.
Keep the real first string ready.
"Not with an LA Class sub in the area, they can't."
Yep - I think this is our trump card in the Taiwan Straits, the Chicoms have built a large number of diesel subs to prevent it, but I think they will just disappear if hostilities begin.
Once again...your Wal-Mart dollars at work! Could it be more clear?
The old maxim applies: "You Train How You Fight".
What other reason could there be, for developing anti-carrier drills, unless that's the enemy you expect to fight?
<< "In the Falklands War, the Argentine Navy's [FRENCH] Super Etendard warplanes descended to within 30m of the British aircraft-carrier group, enabling them to fire [FRENCH] Exocet missiles and sinking the British Royal Air Force's destroyer Sheffield and support ship Atlantic Conveyor ....." >>
And the french -- amoral sluts that they are -- want to arm "china," too.
Its psychopathological-hesperophobia is beginning to get the better of it and "china" had better pull its bloody head in -- least someone takes it seriously and smacks it upside the head!
Like last time it got cocky and needed the demonstration of its abject inferiority and the British sent a few Good Men in a few wooden ships at the end of a six-months and ten-thousand-miles long supply line.
And kicked its arse so comprehensively Pigking's pack are still making bad movies about it -- and bemoaning their humiliating ass-whupping!
BUMPping
No it doesnt. Troop movements are strictly classified...to anywhere.
LA class subs might be good, but they're still nuclear powered and thus, potentially be more noisy than diesel powered subs.
You have to remember that Taiwan straight is VERY narrow and VERY shallow. Not a good place for a nuclear sub to operate in. Nuke sub's best advantage is in DEEP waters versus conventional diesel subs.
Thus, I don't see the US carrier group anywhere close to Taiwan and hence the real worry is that if the carrier group has to operate 400 miles from Taiwan initially, by the time it can get closer, China have already landed troops on Taiwan. Then it becomes a political decision whether to use military force or not after Taiwan has already been lost.
This is of course, assuming US will intervene in the first place. China still holds the trump card of owning Walmart (well, if they don't supply Walmart, which is about 10% of US economy, Walmart will have to find elsewhere, hence, HIGHER pricing, hence HIGHER inflation) AND they buy about 15% of US treasury (hence, higher interest rates when they don't buy). Inflation + higher interest rate = economic killers.
The Navy is studying the possibility of homeporting a CVN at Pearl. I think it will probably happen.
That's pretty much my 'read' on this situation. We agree.
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