Posted on 12/31/2006 7:42:14 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Since Hitler declared war on the United States in 1941, the U.S. president could, as commander in chief, allocate money for the development of a super weapon of that time—"the atom bomb," which was being developed in Hitler's Germany, according to Einstein's letter of 1939 to President Roosevelt. But in peacetime, only Congress allocates money for whatever weapons development.
Super weapons are created by scientists and inventors of genius. While the United States graduates 60,000 engineers a year, the dictatorship of China graduates 442,000 of them. The figure, considering the size of China's population, will finally be mind-boggling. Some of these graduates will be scientists and inventors of genius able to create super weapons.
Thus Tsung-Dao Lee, born in 1926, received in 1957 the Nobel Prize in Physics — in those new fields, requiring genius and nourishing the development of super weapons.
What is remarkable is that this scientist of genius regards China's dictatorship as his dear native country, and in 1989 he established the Chun-Tsung (Chun is his wife's name) Endowment Fund of scholarships to be awarded at five universities of China.
But what about scientists and inventors of genius born in other countries? In Australia, Mike O'Dwyer has been working on the "Metal Storm" technology. Just as a machine gun was, once upon a time, a weapon able, in Kipling's opinion, to defeat all countries that did not have it, a Metal Storm weapon can make a million shots per minute from many barrels simultaneously.
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China has far more engineering grads (many of whom come here for their sheepskins), but their reputation for poor construction quality is well-earned. When I was in Bejing last year, a new multi-million building on a national top 3 campus was losing its brick facing even before it was opened to the students. Bricks were falling 10 stories onto the sidewalk below. (I have no idea how it was fixed, and/or when it was opened.)
False. first the Chinese military budget is essentially "black." And of what we could see, if we were replicating their actions...we would have to drastically increase our spending.
U.S. Defense procurement is doing nothing significant in those specific areas you designated at all.
We are under-procuring so seriously, that the U.S. military is facing imminent implosion due to the continued Clintonian neglect and never-ending Defense Procurement Holiday.
The Navy, for example, has already collapsed...forcibly retiring without replacement the JFK... to a meager 11 carriers...when 15 are required. And the Kitty Hawk will be right behind it in decommissioning. The total fleet has collapsed to 279 ships...fewer than we had since World War One. The Pentagon has said we need 68 fast attack subs. We have forcibly gone under 50... And the administration has been striving to eliminate the remaining "excess" U.S. shipyards to make submarines and destroyers. Going from two to one. The administration has decommissioned without replacement the F-14 Tomcat. And the S-3 Viking. The Tomcat's naval air superiority over all other options...short of a navalized F-22...is undeniable. And the F-22 production was deliberately stalled for the first 3 years of this administration (just as with Clinton) ...clearly looking for some way to cancel it outright... and will be arbitrarily stopped at the end of 2007 come hell or high water. No more. End of the line. Likely only 170 or 180 will have been made by that time...far, far, far fewer than are really required.
FENG SHUI CONSULTANT BRINGS HER EXPERTISE TO AUSTIN SCHOOL
The crystal on the office ceiling is meant to deflect energy. The back wall is painted red to activate vision. Wind chimes both inside and outside the office "help to bring song into the space," she said.
Feng Shui may actually have some merit for psychology or art or even architecture, but an 'engineer' that believes in "crystals and energy" in a room does not have the thought process required to debug an ASIC, or even design a truss to hold up the roof!
The F-14 was a response to the threat from Soviet Backfire bombers. Does China have Backfire bombers? The Chinese naval threat comes from destroyers and submarines purchased from Russia. The Super Hornet can take care of the destroyers. And the F-14 wasn't ever going to be able to do anything about the submarines.
The Chinese could probably fight a good defensive war on their own soil. Foreign military expeditions are quite another matter - even just 100 miles away on Taiwan.
* Make no mistake about this - it is being implemented with China, and eventually Russia, in mind. In time, the only way anyone will be able to use atomic weapons against Uncle Sam will be to smuggle them in.
Actually it appears the Administration may still terminate the F-35 since they were unsucessful at terminating entirely the F-22.
it looked like one or both would be cancelled.
Yup. And still does. The Administration is no friend of defense re-capitalization.
The V-22 was not only not cancelled, it is being deployed. Small potatoes, Charlie. Basically irrelevant in the Big Picture. R&D for the successor for the Nimitz Class is going ahead as planned.
Actually it was delayed a further two years...for budgetary reasons again. And it won't have a legitimate air-superiority fighter to fly off its deck because W would not undo the damage of Clinton and order a Navalized F-22.
Collectively, we have seen this game of Three-Card Monty with Defense before. They keep putting off until some mythical future date...the ships that are needed now. Not just tomorrow.
National missile defense is continuing without any major hitches.
YOu are totally off base on that one. This is the clincher. W has abdicated any serious attempt at a "National" Missile Defense...because he has expressly pre-emptively politically "limited" it. He embraced Xlinton's botched land-based paradigm. Which could only protect 1-degree of azimuth of attacks on the U.S. And he chopped back the number of intereceptors it was supposed to have from hundreds to mere dozens.
He has actively stalled mass-deployment of the Navy Aegis NMD capability...keeping it limited as Clinton ordered...to low and slow interceptors. Range limited. Speed limited. He had Gordon England appointed and therein immediately ordered terminated the TBMD. [Theater Ballistic Missile Defense] And he refused to order the simple and economical fix to the existing Aegis SM-3 missiles. Just replacing the Clinton-lobotomized upper stage (16" inch diameter) with the robust 21" diameter...greatly increasing, speed, and range. His Treaty of Moscow agreements (in an attached Secret Protocol) limited our Missile Defenses to these "Verifiable" restrictions. And W made the same promises to China.
Result: Today the U.S. is wide-open to missile attacks from along the other 359-degrees of azimuth. From ships and bases along its periphery.
And W has no plans to actually deploy a proper "National" defense to fix that obvious loop-hole (they will just "study the problem") that Kim Il-Jung...and his partners in Beijing and Teheran would take advantage of. The F-14 was a response to the threat from Soviet Backfire bombers. Does China have Backfire bombers?
Actually, they have been developing their own. And their new air-superiority fighters have long range.
The Chinese naval threat comes from destroyers and submarines purchased from Russia.
Not just these. The Chinese are now making submarines themselves that have proved their quietness. And they will reverse-engineer whatever they have to from the Russian's who imprudently allied with them...and also the French and Germans and other vendors of defense products. And you don't acknowledge that our ability to deal with that submarine threat has been allowed to atrophy. See the discussion clipped below:
The Navy's plan to replace its remaining 200 or so P-3Cs with the 108 P-8As beginning in 2012-2013 is dependent upon affordability. The P-8A is to be a highly-modified Boeing 737-700ER, an aircraft significantly larger and heavier than the P-3 and the subject of mixed reviews by the squadron-level personnel that will have to fly it. While the P-3C has been discovered to be a great high-endurance, on-scene ISR aircraft over Iraq, providing commanders with real-time imagery, its former primary duty of anti-submarine warfare has been allowed to atrophy under current tasking requirements. Like mine-hunting, ASW has long been a poor stepchild to the Navy's main emphasis on carrier aviation, ships, and submarines - all of which have been almost completely overshadowed by ground combat since 2001. The Navy maintains that the P-8A is budgeted for $44B through its domestic production run, which is to provide 108 aircraft to replace its 200 or so P-3Cs (the P-8 is now budgeted for $6.28 billion through 2011, by which time several developmental aircraft will have been built and tested). The big drop in maritime patrol aircraft numbers is to be augmented by 50 unmanned aircraft under the Broad Area Maritime Support (BAMS) program. The initial development portion of the P-8 cost the Navy $3.9 billion. Eighteen months ago the fly-away cost of each MMA was estimated at $126 million per aircraft and $190 million per aircraft if all expenses were amortized over the fleet. Today, a more accurate estimate is likely to be $163 million per aircraft, or $247 million each including amortization. Based on the 2007 P-8 budget, this means a drop in aircraft from 108 to 89, or a decrease of about 18%. A more accurate forecast may be a total of 50 P-8s, divided between four active squadrons at NAS Whidbey Island and NAS Jacksonville, plus the Fleet Replacement Squadron at JAX. There may be additional P-8s built to replace the EP-3E since the Navy has recently dropped out of the joint Navy-Army ACS SIGINT replacement aircraft program that was to have used a modified Embraer 145. The BAMS concept is in constant flux. Last year the Navy stated that it would be a to-be-defined dedicated UAV.
The Super Hornet can take care of the destroyers. And the F-14 wasn't ever going to be able to do anything about the submarines.
The Super-Hornet can't take care of the Su-30 mki. Or the Mig 29. That is what it can't do. No air superiority anymore. And the whole strategic national security theory was that we would have that. Well it has been cashiered for no good reason.
The Chinese could probably fight a good defensive war on their own soil. Foreign military expeditions are quite another matter - even just 100 miles away on Taiwan.
Obviously the only thing which has deterred them so far. But not much longer. They have been preparing for that clash...and the one that they reckon they really need to win. Against the US Navy. Littoral dominance.
* Make no mistake about this - it is being implemented with China, and eventually Russia, in mind. In time, the only way anyone will be able to use atomic weapons against Uncle Sam will be to smuggle them in.
Wrong. I wish you were right. And I agree the technology is there. But there is no will. In fact it appears to have been a mere political ruse to attract conservative Reagan base support for a covert RINO. There is not any committment to deploy a real missile defense. The airforce started looking at deploying Brilliant Pebbles again...as the clearest and most economical "umbrella solution" ...and Bush ordered Rummy to have it kiboshed.
And as far as sneaking things in on the ground...I wouldn't be very sanguine about a border that neither W nor his RAT allies are serious about defending.
Long-range Bombers for Beijing
Charles R. Smith
Wednesday, Jan. 26, 2005Russia is now offering China one of its most advanced long-range bombers in service – the famed TU-22 "Backfire." As predicted by this reporter, Russia will use newly announced joint military exercises with China to showcase new weapons for sale, including the supersonic Backfire bomber.
"We may sell some TU-22M3 and TU-95 aircraft," said Russian Air Force Commander-in-Chief Vladimir Mikhailov in an interview with the Russian press.
"We will show the planes during joint exercises to arouse their interest. Let them buy it if they have money."
The potential sale of deadly TU-22 Backfire or the even longer-range TU-95 Bear aircraft has a direct impact on U.S. national security. The supersonic Backfire bomber was designed to carry nuclear-tipped high-speed missiles in order to attack U.S. Navy carrier battle groups.
The Backfire has a maximum range of 4,000 miles and can fly at nearly twice the speed of sound. The swing-wing aircraft can cruise at low altitudes and penetrate highly defended airspace with a quick supersonic dash.
The long range allows the bomber to attack all of Japan, and even some areas in Alaska. It is not known if the Chinese will modify the high-speed bombers so they can be refueled in the air. Such a modification would allow the Backfire to attack the U.S. West Coast and return to bases in China.
Unlike the Backfire, the TU-95 Bear is a true strategic bomber and could strike at the U.S. homeland from bases inside China using advanced cruise missiles now being developed by Beijing.
Chinese Bombers
The Russian offer has already drawn a swift reaction from leading Western defense analysts.
"Russia now has two regiments of Tu-22M3s available for sale, and a model of the Backfire was displayed for the first time at the November 2004 Air show China," stated Richard Fisher.
"A potential Chinese purchase of the Backfire raises three issues: First, the PLA [People's Liberation Army] would be responding in a forceful way to new U.S. deployments at Guam so as to increase the cost of this investment to Washington," noted Fisher.
"Second, such a purchase would indicate a long-term PLA commitment to long-range strategic aviation, raising the prospect of future Chinese-designed stealth bombers," said Fisher.
"Finally, such a purchase would serve to exploit current U.S. plans to cut back on planned purchases of F/A-22 fighters – the only U.S. airborne platform now available that could assure U.S. air superiority," concluded Fisher.
The U.S. is not the only nation to announce cuts in its air forces. Russia recently announced that it would retire or mothball hundreds of advanced aircraft, including 40 new TU-22 Backfire bombers. The move by Moscow was seen as a cost-cutting effort to allow for future development of advanced aircraft.
Several Western defense analysts speculated that the Russian air force decline would benefit China with a possible sale of the mothballed TU-22 Backfire bombers.
Beijing has tried previously to purchase the Backfire from Russia. The Chinese efforts were not successful due to concerns in Moscow about future sales to India and the possibility that the Backfire units could be used against Russia.
The Backfire sale is a source of grave concern inside other capitals. The bomber already has enough range on internal fuel to strike targets in Japan and India. There is no question that a Russian sale will force India, Japan and Taiwan to seek additional air defense systems.
Nuclear-tipped Missiles
The Backfire bomber is armed with four Kh-22 "Kitchen" cruise missiles made by the Russian Raduga design bureau. The Kh-22 missile is a rocket-powered weapon capable of reaching out 300 miles or more at speeds in excess of six times the speed of sound.
The Russian version of the Kh-22 was reportedly equipped with a nuclear warhead equal to 300,000 tons of TNT. A Chinese version of the Backfire would likely come equipped with the Kh-22.
The Russian company that makes the Kh-22 is already heavily involved in selling advanced supersonic missiles to China. Raduga is currently finishing off a deal to provide the Chinese navy with an up-rated version of the 3M-80 Moskit – SS-N-22 "Sunburn" – supersonic cruise missile.
The Sunburn is fitted to the Sovremenny-class destroyers sold to the Chinese navy by Moscow. Raduga is committed to provide China with an extended-range version of the Sunburn – the 3M-80MVE. Raduga is also reportedly working with China on developing a new class of supersonic cruise missiles, which could easily be mounted on the Backfire bomber.
The sale of Backfire or even Bear bombers to China is a signal that a new arms race is breaking out between the two remaining superpowers. The Chinese war machine, fed by the Russian defense industry, will take a major leap forward by deploying such long-range weapons.
The Backfire, operating from bases on Hainan Island and from Burma's Meiktila Island, can range to Diego Garcia to the west, northern Australia to the south and Guam to the east.
Nuclear War
The proposed defense cuts in U.S. weapons, such as the F-22 and U.S. Navy carriers, are folly in the face of Chinese Backfire bombers. The entire argument for such military cuts was that state-to-state warfare, such as seen between nations during World War II, is impossible in the 21st century.
China is not purchasing Backfire bombers to battle low-level terrorists or put down dissidents at home. These bombers are aimed at America, Japan, India, Australia, South Korea, Taiwan and the Philippines.
Beijing and Moscow are not allies, nor partners in a new era. The battle in the North Atlantic predicted during the Cold war is restarting in the Pacific. Supersonic bombers, missile-attack submarines and nuclear weapons are directed at the U.S. homeland. The current U.S. argument for disarmament, as viewed from Beijing, is certain to be seen as weakness in the face of danger. The proposed U.S. cuts are wrong in the face of a growing Chinese military.
The proposed Backfire sale is but one example of a major war yet to come. One warning of many. The sleeping dragon is awake and we may have to face it in combat. The best way to guarantee such a war is to not prepare for it.
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