Canada readies launchers for export to China.
Posted on 05/23/2005 2:32:08 PM PDT by phoenix_004
China takes U.S. plans to boost its space military capabilities very seriously and is likely to respond with energetic counter-measures of her own, a leading expert on the Chinese space program told United Press International.
Chinese experts and leaders say that if the United States achieves absolute military and strategic superiority in space it could be used to intervene in China's affairs, such as the Taiwan issue.
Chinese leaders have noted that the Taiwan issue was included as a hypothetical threat in the 2001 Rumsfeld Commission report on space weaponization.
Zhang said such weapons would pose a huge threat to China's future mobile intercontinental ballistic missiles.
But China would not stand passively by and do nothing if the United States pushed ahead with its ambitious plans to develop new weapons for force projection from and through space. Chinese leaders have stated that"Historically, China's sole purpose for developing its nuclear weapons was to guard itself against the threat of nuclear blackmail,"
China's responses would depend on the specific infrastructure of the U.S. missile defense and space weaponization programs, they said. But they could include producing as many as 14 or 15 times as many ICBMs with a range of more than 7,800 miles that are able to threaten the United States, he said.
"China could also react to boost-phase interceptors by seeking to overwhelm them through the tactic of simultaneously launching several ICBMs from a compact area."
"Given the inherent vulnerability of space-based weapons systems (such as space-based interceptors or space-based lasers) to more cost-effective anti-satellite, or ASAT, attacks, China could resort to ASAT weapons as an asymmetrical (defense) measure," Zhang said.
"China should be able to develop these low-cost and relatively low-technology ASATs," they said.
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The moon belongs to us Zhang! Keep your stanky rockets off it or we'll blast 'em.
We created them, now we are going to have to crush them.
We'll worry about space.
And why would they be concerned about their people? They are Communists after all.
Canada readies launchers for export to China.
Have they invented a time machine?
(steely)
At least they're doing something constructive with OUR money...
That's hilarious...I guess that is the latest M-27 Saugaro launcher I have been hearing about.
#7
LOL, Fred Flintstone would love that.......
The more countries try to build ICBM with counter measures, the more the weapons will be expensive and less affordible. China is trapped by this. Go ahead, let them build it. They will fail anyways.
That's the idea.
But China would not stand passively by and do nothing if the United States pushed ahead with its ambitious plans to develop new weapons for force projection from and through space. Chinese leaders have stated that"Historically, China's sole purpose for developing its nuclear weapons was to guard itself against the threat of nuclear blackmail,"
Like when that general kung pao guy threatened to nuke Los Angeles over Taiwan ? Yeah that was defensive only.
Used to be monthly. Then weekly. Now hourly.
Main concern is if municipal power goes down. No microwave = cold spam.
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