"Good...good..that should be enough to pay for my mansion and an A-list wedding for Chelsea."
Posted on 08/06/2010 11:07:57 AM PDT by starczar66
...U.S. naval planners are scrambling to deal with what analysts say is 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)...
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The Dollar Tree has come at a high price...
Yes. Let us remind people who gave China the technology to make their missles accurate.
Not to mention over the OBJECTIONS of *everyone* even in his OWN Whitehouse.
The CEO or Laurel, at the time biggest Donor to Democrats, got that personally approved by Clinton.
Here we are.
Any Patriots left to have courage to regurgitate that story on National TV? Or are we back to Clinton-Scandal-Fatigue?
You mean LORAL, yes?
Yes. Sorry for misspelling it.
This latest Long Dong is supposed to be a derivative of their JL-1. Their first solid-fuel, submarine-launched ballistic missile. Here a mobile, land-based version with a mysterious, conventionally-armed, maneuvering-warhead that is equipped with a guidance system that enables it to hit a moving vessel. In other words, a smart ballistically-launched carrier-killer.
I still can’t find any information in any depth on how this guidance system is supposed to work but I gather it is a GPS-derived system that uses a network of satellites and shore-based radar continually and rapidly updating its targeting coordinates.
If anyone out there knows any further details, prease to enlighten this lowly one.
Congress for decades have worshiped the almighty dollar in exchange for policy favorable to corporate America.
Go ahead, ship all the jobs overseas, evade worker safety regulation, skirt environmental safe guards, pay the workers slave wages....all to enrich the greedy.
To hell with the American standard of living, to hell with the American worker, to hell with the country of your birth.
Just so long as the bottom line increases.
The globalist have perverted capitalism to the tenth degree.
Shame on you who have harmed your nation and put us in jeopardy as a nation.
How could you allow the communist to gain such advantages in technology, trade, manufacturing capabilities, military, financial to name a few.
Do you not care about your country?
Shame on you.
If the Chinese sink a U.S. carrier in international waters the Dong Feng 21D will become irrelevant the same day.
The Navy just tested a new laser weapon that works. A supplement to the Phalanx
Wow it’s all over the news. All fear factor? Is it sea skimming mach 10 below 150 feet?
Nope. It’s a Ballistic Missile. That means it goes up, up, up into near-space, then the warhead detaches, flies suborbital, then comes screaming down at multiple machs.
This is the world’s first smart ballistic missile that can hit a moving target.
I’m pretty sure there are a few GPS-guided ballistic missiles out there but none that can hit a moving ship.
You are assuming the the commander in chief has the balls to do anything about it. With this present administration, I seriously doubt that any action would be taken.
With the Increase hostility of rogue nation and increased accuracy of cruise missles. Maybe It is time the Super Carrier Fades from dominance like the Battleship.
For each successful attack we would lose 1/10 of our Carrier task force. Lot of power in one very small basket.
So I would assume the calcution would go like. Okay maybe they can shoot down one missle but how about five or ten. At somepoint due to volume/timing the Carrier group will not be able to keep up.
The “Radar Horizon” for a 60ft high radar vs a 10m skimming missile is ~ 31 km. (calc taken from http://www.radarproblems.com/calculators/horizon.htm)
A mach 10 sea-skimming hypersonic missile - assuming there really is such a thing - moves at ~ 3000 m/s.
Assuming that the missile is engaging the radar-ship, not a ship inside a fleet perimeter - that’s 10 seconds to get a weapon pointing in approximately the right direction.
Which is doable. It may not be possible to completely stop an M10 threat fron scratching the paintwork, but a powerful enough SeaRAM-like system can lock on and put down a barrage to stop it from achieving a ship-kill.
And that’s just the perimeter ship. The impact of M10 missiles in Naval strategy would lead to an extended fleet doctrine with the carrier protected by more hulls. Maybe even barrage hulls, seeing as an M10 missile is going to steer like a pig. Maybe even protect the carrier with a bodyguard of container ships.
So IMO defense is certainly doable.
Also: this has got to be a ballistic missile, surely? The launch would be visible from space, and laser-interceptable during boost phase?
The USN has tested and deployed the SM-3. It is available for use on Aegis class destroyers and cruisers. It is capable of intercepting ballistic missiles.
You know that Clinton gave the Chinese the requisite guidance tech, right? He betrayed your country in exchange for money.
It wasn’t Walmart.
The new chicom anti-ship ballistic missile will probably melt before hitting its target.
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