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China Gets Third Sovremenny Destroyer
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| 2005 Dec 30
Posted on 12/31/2005 7:29:43 AM PST by Wiz
December 30, 2005: China has received a third Sovremenny class destroyer from Russia. The first two were taken out of Russian navy service and sold to China. These next two are newly built, and improved versions. These ships, displacing about 8,800 tons each, are equipped to defend itself with anti-aircraft missiles, and attack enemy ships with eight large ("Shipwreck"), supersonic anti-ship missiles. Each ship has an anti-submarine helicopter, 48 anti-aircraft missiles, four torpedo tube, mines, depth charges, sonar, two 130mm (5 inch) guns and a modern electronic warfare system. These ships cost $700 million each, about half what their American counterparts, the latest Aegis destroyers, go for.
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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: armsbuildup; china; chinesemilitary; destroyer; sovremenny
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posted on
12/31/2005 7:29:45 AM PST
by
Wiz
To: Wiz
only for peaceful purposes I suppose
To: Wiz
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posted on
12/31/2005 7:32:55 AM PST
by
keithtoo
(Leftists/Democrats - Traitors, Haters and Vacillators)
To: Youngman442002
Oh how ever will we survive???? The Chinese are buying 25 year old Russian ships!!!
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posted on
12/31/2005 7:33:15 AM PST
by
MNJohnnie
(We do not create terrorism by fighting the terrorists. We invite terrorism by ignoring them.--GWBush)
To: Wiz
China Gets Third Sovremenny Destroyer Floating Target
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posted on
12/31/2005 7:34:21 AM PST
by
CaptRon
(Pedecaris alive or Raisuli dead)
To: Wiz
They'll end up as target practice if and when China decides to assert itself in the Taiwan Straights or in disputed Japanese waters.
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posted on
12/31/2005 7:34:55 AM PST
by
TCats
To: Wiz
The United States provides the money, Russia provides the hardware, the Chinese have an intent on using both. That is a good admixture.
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posted on
12/31/2005 7:35:08 AM PST
by
cynicom
To: Wiz
Sovremenny = Collins bait.
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posted on
12/31/2005 7:37:09 AM PST
by
Dundee
(They gave up all their tomorrows for our today’s.)
To: keithtoo
Looks like a lot of old and new technology crammed into very little space.
To: CaptRon
Yes, it looks like it has an execellent radar cross sestion (RCS).
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posted on
12/31/2005 7:39:27 AM PST
by
NY Attitude
(You are responsible for your safety until the arrival of Law Enforcement Officers!)
To: MNJohnnie
I don't dismiss the danger of these purchases so easily. If you find a way to empty the magazines of a Tico or similar, it then is a sitting target.
The Chinese would not be deliberately wasting their money. This purchase means something.
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posted on
12/31/2005 7:39:38 AM PST
by
Loud Mime
(Build the Border Wall - Enforce the Law)
To: CaptRon
You beat me to it!
Looks like one of Saddam's Soviet T-80s, that also can float (for a while anyway).
12
posted on
12/31/2005 7:39:38 AM PST
by
Agent Smith
(Fallujah delenda est. (I wish))
To: Jeff Head; Travis McGee
Happy New Year, gents.
13
posted on
12/31/2005 7:41:48 AM PST
by
Joe Brower
(The Constitution defines Conservatism. *NRA*)
To: MNJohnnie
The Chinese are buying 25 year old Russian ships...equipped with nuclear technology that was given to them during then Clinton years.
To: Joe Brower
Same to you my friend...a Happy and blessed New Year to you and yours!
As regards this article, the ChiComms will be getting a fourth one of these this year too.
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posted on
12/31/2005 7:45:00 AM PST
by
Jeff Head
(www.dragonsfuryseries.com)
To: Jeff Head; TigerLikesRooster; Tailgunner Joe; DTogo
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posted on
12/31/2005 7:47:57 AM PST
by
Wiz
To: Youngman442002; Wiz
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posted on
12/31/2005 7:48:23 AM PST
by
Jeff Head
(www.dragonsfuryseries.com)
To: Wiz
Thank you for shopping at Wal-Mart.
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posted on
12/31/2005 7:49:04 AM PST
by
shuckmaster
(An oak tree is an acorns way of making more acorns)
To: Wiz
One Harpoon amidships; game over!
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posted on
12/31/2005 7:53:24 AM PST
by
JimRed
("Hey, hey, Teddy K., how many girls did you drown today?")
To: NEPAConservative
No technology "given to China by Clinton" has much to do with the Sovremmeny. I know people would like to believe the Chinese military would be equipped with nothing but pointed sticks and clubs and rubber dinghies were it not for Clinton, but it's simply not the case.
To be honest the Israelis likely gave more useful technology to the Chinese than Clinton, but people just sort of don't know what to do with that information because it doesn't serve the axes they want to grind.
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