Report: Chinese Develop Special "Kill Weapon" to Destroy U.S. Aircraft Carriers

U. S. Naval Institute ^ | 3/31/09

[Evil Slayer]

Advanced missile poses substantial new threat for U.S. Navy

[GeronL]

Pinging the Dragon. Pinging the Dragon.

[Frantzie]

The Teleprompter in Chief proses an even bigger threat to America.

[cripplecreek]

Wonder how much of our tecnology we gave to them to make it for us.

[dragnet2]

Chinese Develop Special "Kill Weapon" to Destroy U.S. Aircraft Carriers

Will this affect my stock in Walmart?

I hope people keep shopping there.

:o

[Logical me]

Guess these idiots, the Chinese, forgot that we have ICBM with Nukes and can hit China anyplace any time. A reminder that fire one of these advance missiles and guess what will happen. Shortest war in history.

[tgusa]

I’m sympathetic but I think this one (missile) is a rip-off of a Rooski ASBM.

[NoKoolAidforMe]

Ask the Clintons.

[Evil Slayer]

The ASBM is said to be a modified DF-21

[Sarajevo]

Because the missile employs a complex guidance system, low radar signature and a maneuverability that makes its flight path unpredictable, the odds that it can evade tracking systems to reach its target are increased. It is estimated that the missile can travel at mach 10 and reach its maximum range of 2000km in less than 12 minutes.

Maneuver? At mach 10? Call me skeptical .

[Islander7]

As analyst Raymond Pritchett notes in a post on the U.S. Naval Institute blog:

"The Navy's reaction is telling, because it essentially equals a radical change in direction based on information that has created a panic inside the bubble. For a major military service to panic due to a new weapon system, clearly a mission kill weapon system, either suggests the threat is legitimate or the leadership of the Navy is legitimately unqualified. There really aren't many gray spaces in evaluating the reaction by the Navy…the data tends to support the legitimacy of the threat."

We live in interesting times.

[agere_contra]

This is different from the Sunburn anti-ship missiles they’ve brought from the Russians?

[null and void]

If it’s traveling at mach 10, does it need a warhead?

[MeanWestTexan]

A supersonic nuclear tipped cruise missle (or really about 10 of them flying togther, perhaps in waives) would easily wipe out any carrier group.

[cripplecreek]

Klintons may have started it but it continued right through the last administration into this one.

[null and void]

Yes.

[Renegade]

They use the “kill” weapon and the country is vaporized by one Trident missle carrying sub . 16 warheads acan ruin your whole day .

[bubbacluck]

I agree with you but one must remember who is the Commander in Chief these days. Would he have the guts to use a nuke?

[nufsed]

Clinton, the gift that keeps on giving.

[headstamp 2]

“Klintons may have started it but it continued right through the last administration into this one.”

This is why the Chinese no longer are interested in military cooperation. They now have all the information they need.