[kbennkc]

What a golden moment in history. President Obama can do what I always wanted Presidents Kennedy through W to do and the press and “intellectual” elites of American Academe will justify it until it is accepted as the only option civilization had.
Nuke them, nuke them now, tonight. Nuke every city in China, Nuke Iran, Nuke Pakistan, and might as well nuke Mexico. Then repeat.

[DarthVader]

They are still cannon fodder for SLBMs which can strike from much further away.

[HushTX]

So this is where Iran is getting the anti-ship missiles.

[ThunderSleeps]

One thought: SM-3 Blk II. Take them out exo-atmospheric before they re-enter and can start serious maneuvering.

[dusttoyou]

Isn’t this the one that has to come back down from a high arch space shot, that can be seen coming for minutes? The one that requires real-time satellie observation to find the moving target?

Guess the chicoms didn’t think about “that”, or maybe they thnk we’ll just leave their spy-sat all alone and look the other way at incoming.

Like ruski mil-junk, this stuff is more useful toward civilians or poorly prepared or outsized Asian neighbors. That said, it would be ill advised to get into some Asian land war with the hoard.

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

Don’t tell Gates or Obama about this. They think the Red Chinese are our friends. Shhh!

Loose lips may save our ships!

[drypowder]

This is sad to admit but with Obozo at the helm this country is the most vulnerable to a foreign military attack since Pear Harbor. He is a non caring weak president who constantly portrays America as the world's problem. If ever a US carrier would be attacked and Obozo failed to respond 10 fold, he should be removed immediately so that our security could be defended.

[Vroomfondel]

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[OldDeckHand]

Under any other president, if someone would take out a CVBG, we'd surely answer with a nuclear response. With Obama, I have absolutely no idea what he'd do, or if he'd do anything at all.

I'm afraid our enemies are making that very same calculus in their own war games. That should scare the Shiite, out of everyone.

[Dogbert41]

I wonder if they call these new missiles, the “Bill Clintons”, or “Bubbahs” for short?

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[Mariner]

I don't believe this at all.

Not even the US could hit a moving Carrier at sea with a ballistic missile.

If it were a cruise missile with it's own radar/guidance...I would believe it.

[Jeff Head]

Who says they are operational? Where are the tests and test results?

This DF-21D weapon has never had one single operational test...not one. We would know and see any live fire tests out into the ocean over thousands of kilometers.

it is a lot of talk...and IMHO, it is a red herring in hopes we will "think" they have it and thereby limit our operations out of fear of it. Pure Sun Tsu.

As it is, the us has developed, tested, and fielded a successful anti-ballistic missile defense on our AEGIS vessels already. So even if they do ultimately make one of these...or several...it will be charging into the teeth of our most effective defense.

And that defense is getting better. In April of this year (2011) we successfully tested an anti-missile laser weapon system. Not deplyed yet...but the new Ford Class carriers, the new Zumwalt Destroyers, and the new Burke Flight III destroyers (should we develop them) will all ultimately have these weapons on them as well.

Here's how that would work (in addition to the AEGIS BMD missiles already deployed: