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To: Kevmo; ASA Vet
No ship can stand up to 50 supersonic silkworm missiles aimed at it.

The key word here is aimed. Providing targeting info is harder than it seems. Add to that the fact that the Silkworm is based on a 50's design (Russian SS-N-2 Styx) and has been obsolete from an EW standpoint for over 30 years.

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Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)

LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)

13 posted on 09/24/2007 6:09:14 AM PDT by LonePalm (Commander and Chef)
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To: LonePalm

The chinese have been steadily updating their anti-ship missile capability, along with their other military capabilities.

The combination could prove tough for us: They have long range (even ICBM capable) missiles which could be loaded with incendiaries; they have lotsa cheap antiship missiles; they have a sampan navy, which would probably carry a few men (plenty of those for cannon fodder) armed with anti-ship missiles + shoulder launched stinger-type antiaircraft + cheap video cameras so they can show CNN how the nasty Americans are killing thousands of “innocent” civilians in the middle of a mass migration to an internal province.


20 posted on 09/24/2007 10:24:14 AM PDT by Kevmo (We should withdraw from Iraq — via Tehran. And Duncan Hunter is just the man to get that job done.)
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