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To: BeHoldAPaleHorse
Seems to me like you are also forgetting about their recent deployment of the first Type 094 SSBN.

Each of the Type 094 SSBNs can mount 16 JL-2 ballistic missiles (navalized DF-31s) with a range of 8000 kms. When deployed, this missile will allow Chinese SSBNs to target portions of the United States for the first time from operating areas located near the Chinese coast.

Equipped with the JL-2 missiles, the Type 094 SSBNs would only have to patrol just to the northeast of the Kuril Islands to hold about three-fourths of the United States at risk.

The second Type 094 is reportedly nearing completion.

52 posted on 09/01/2005 1:47:28 PM PDT by Paul Ross (Definition of strict constructionist: someone who DOESN'T hallucinate when reading the Constitution)
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To: Paul Ross

"Seems to me like you are also forgetting about their recent deployment of the first Type 094 SSBN."

Wow. One ballistic missile submarine (with another on the way) with 16 missiles is the war-winning weapon?

What happened to the "thousands" of cruise missiles and ballistic missiles you left lying around to be stolen by longshoremen? Oh, wait, they all got stolen, right.

BTW...I sincerely hope that either (a) you don't own firearms, or that (b) you don't believe your own drivel about what constitutes proper security for one's armaments.


56 posted on 09/01/2005 1:51:46 PM PDT by BeHoldAPaleHorse
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