WALLMART + STUPID AMERICANS = THIS
anyone else curious as to how much of the technology to build such a missile has been stolen or given to them via a Presidential approved technology waiver earlier on in the missile research&development programs run by the PRA?
I’m not sure why they need the Dong Feng 21D given the extent that we are in hock to them. I believe our vulnerable financial position alone will suffice to checkmate us should China decide to make any moves on Taiwan or S. Korea.
You can thank Billy-boy Clinton and his administration for this development. Much of our technology was compromised during the time he was chasing quiff around the Oval Office. I went on a tour of China two years ago (I speak Mandarin thanks to the DLI at Monterey) and everyone I talked to just thought he was the best guy ever. They just loved Bill from Beijing to XiAn to Shanghai. Now I see why.
Typical Chinese solution - a cheap, relatively easy, and dangerous.
These are balistic missiles. The US, and even the Russians, did not develop anti-ship ballistic missiles because their launch and trajectory can easily be mistaken for a nuclear missile launch.
Call me skeptical. Using a ballistic missile to track and hit a moving target seems like a task out of their reach. The weapon would need some sort of external source to update the trajectory.....perhaps a satellite, land based, or sea based system. In a conflict, that would be the weak point and the first thing to go.
Sounds like a few upgrades were made to the C-803 missile.
The answer is called the RIM-161 Standard Missile 3, aka SM-3:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SM-3
It already exists. Its is already sitting in the VLS cells of Aegis class cruisers and destroyers.
The USN has problems (not the least of which is Obama), but it ain’t stupid and this is old news.
The Obama presidency has already guaranteed that China will be more powerful.
Obama wets his pants and backs down... again.
I am sure the AP is hoping for that
LLS
And this would stop us how? The super-carrier is not the thing China needs to worry about. The Seawolf and Virgina class subs are the difference makers.
How is the missile going to avoid the Aegis Phalanx? When bullets meets supersonic missile, physics take over.
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Take this with a grain of salt. This is the media that only found out the Gulf of Mexico oil spill was a Democrat hoax 104 days later than Rush Limbaugh.
Hitting a 3 x football field from 900miles away while it's traveling at 40knots...with a BALLISTIC missile?
And, it would have to penetrate AGEIS and Phallanx.
I call BS.
...a game-changing weapon being developed by China -- an unprecedented carrier-killing missile called the Dong Feng 21D that could be launched from land with enough accuracy to penetrate the defenses of even the most advanced moving aircraft carrier at a distance of more than 1,500 kilometers (900 miles).Just curious -- how many Chinese live downstreat of the Three Gorges Dam?