[sukhoi-30mki]

China’s new DDG 170 guided missile destroyer features Aegis-type phased array antennas and a ship-to-ship missile control Bandstand radome dominating the bridge. The ship’s numerous foreign weapons and new radomes hint at the complexity of its electronic functions

[sukhoi-30mki]

Ping!!!!!

[mylife]

Looks Like China has a nest of spies deep inside Taiwan to me

[Stonewall Jackson]

Here they come.

[DarkWaters]

Seems that technological gap is shrinking rather fast.

[Dat Mon]

China's manufacturing capacity and infrastructure, their technology capability, their economic strength as measured in GDP and cash reserves, and their military weapons procurement and deployment are obviously all integrally related...and related in a synergistic sense. Growth in one will fuel growth in the others.

Think for example of the fact that China has maintained a nearly ten percent rate of growth in GDP for some time. Now think of the simple concept of compound interest..applied at a constant rate of ten percent.

Their growth is a nonlinear function...and China is IMHO presently at what engineers call the 'knee of the curve'.

[Cicero]

Much of this probably came from bill clinton and his corrupt donors in the defense industry. I don't know what the lead time is for building an Aegis destroyer, but this stuff must have been stolen some years ago to be appearing fully commissioned on the water now.

[kylaka]

I wonder how well it's equipped for undersea operations. Can it still see over the horizon, if the horizon is 6000 feet above them?

[Jeff Head]

Been talking about this for months since they were first spotted building (2 at a time) in late 2003.

THE RISING SEA DRAGON IN ASIA

Documented the continued building after the first two were launched and at least one of them (perhaps both) had been integrated into sertvice.

THE RAPID GROWTH & MODERNIZATION OF THE PLAN

And now have produced a relative pictorial and capability comparison...side by side at the following link which I will publish here on FR this Friday or during the weekend once I get the subs on there.

SIDE BY SIDE COMPARISON OF THE PLAN AND THE USN

[thoughtomator]

...two domestically designed and built guided missile destroyers that include Aegis-type radars and related technologies

Domestically designed, my hindquarters.

[adam_az]

....Does it even work?