Posted on 12/27/2010 12:26:22 PM PST by jazusamo
China's military is deploying a new anti-ship ballistic missile that can sink U.S. aircraft carriers, a weapon that specialists say gives Beijing new power-projection capabilities that will affect U.S. support for Pacific allies.
Adm. Robert Willard, commander of the U.S. Pacific Command, disclosed to a Japanese newspaper on Sunday that the new anti-ship ballistic missile (ASBM) is now in the early stages of deployment after having undergone extensive testing.
"An analogy using a Western term would be 'initial operational capability (IOC),' whereby I think China would perceive that it has an operational capability now, but they continue to develop it," Adm. Willard told the Asahi Shimbun. "I would gauge it as about the equivalent of a U.S. system that has achieved IOC."
The four-star admiral, who has been an outspoken skeptic of China's claims that its large-scale military buildup is peaceful, said the U.S. deployment assessment is based on China's press reports and continued testing.
The new weapon, the "D" version of China's DF-21 medium-range missile, involves firing the mobile missile into space, returning into the atmosphere and then maneuvering it to its target
Military officials consider using ballistic missile against ships at sea to be a difficult task that requires a variety of air, sea and space sensors; navigation systems; and precision guidance technology — capabilities not typical of other Chinese missiles.
Asked about the integrated system, Adm. Willard said that "to have something that would be regarded as in its early operational stage would require that that system be able to accomplish its flight pattern as designed, by and large."
The admiral said that while the United States thinks "that the component parts of the anti-ship ballistic missile have been developed and tested," China's testing has not gone as far as a live-fire test...
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We can deploy China sinking missiles...............
“Obama is president. I aint worried.”
-Obamanoid voter
Bought and paid for by our debt to China.
Sink a carrier and we incinerate your five largest populated cities. The Russians would stand back and (quietly) applaud.
It’s not reassuring that Obama weakens our military and crams through START while China is aggressively building theirs.
Like a sub-roc or as-roc? We have had for years. There is no need to destroy a carrier, we have other tools to simply stop it in the water so it cannot perform flight ops.
Nobody is going to use a carrier against China.
More likely Guam, Alaska and the mainland U.S.
Ships at sea are obsolete in today’s major power warfare except after the opposing major power has been strategically crippled and blinded.
Besides, at the rate the Obama administration is cutting out military, it won't be long before China won't have any use for these missiles.
I wonder what Clinton’s price was for selling out our country?
“Bought and paid for by our debt to China. “
Yep, that we would ever seriously stand up to China is crazy..between debt we owe and manufacturing we have moved there.
Lest we ever forget. The SLIME that was the Clinton Administration.
If the French or British ever made weapons specifically designed for us how would we react to it?
What about boomers?
If this “administration” failed to respond, it would be rather quickly replaced.
Obama cannot do everything he would like to do to sell us out.
An interesting thing about trying to hit an aircraft carrier”
Obviously, in order to hit the carrier, you must know exactly where it is. If it’s 200 miles out, how do you get a radar fist and, more importantly, of the 30 odd ships out there, which one is the aircraft carrier?
For over 30 years, the ships in the aircraft carrier group have had the capability to mess with radar signals to make it appear that something else is the carrier. I knew some midshipmen who bragged about these technologies over 30 years ago. I can’t help that believe that, in the interim, these capabilities have been dramatically improved.
Where oh where would the Chicoms get this missile technology :(
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