Posted on 08/09/2020 4:46:05 AM PDT by RomanSoldier19
The Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) Rocket Force recently launched a DF-26 intermediate-range anti-ship ballistic missile in an ongoing months-long exercise, after the US provocatively sent two aircraft carriers to the South China Sea for exercises and held joint naval drills with India, Japan and Australia in the Indian Ocean and Philippine Sea respectively in an attempt to contain China.
Capable of striking moving targets at sea, the DF-26 has been dubbed an "aircraft carrier killer," and its exercise launch again demonstrated its deterrence and China's firm will in safeguarding national sovereignty and security, experts said on Thursday.
A PLA Rocket Force missile brigade recently started a cross-regional confrontational exercise, as they maneuvered through complicated terrains such as forests, simulated hostile chemical attacks, disguised missile vehicles to avoid satellite detection and reached a desert area, where the troops received the order to launch a DF-26 missile, Chinese media reported over the past week.
The exercises honed the fast-reaction capabilities of the Rocket Force troops, and this kind of mission will continue in the next one to two months, CCTV reported.
Chinese military observers noted that this is a rare demonstration of a DF-26 launch. In January 2019, the launch of a DF-26 was shown to the general public in a China Central Television report for the first time.
Song Zhongping, a Chinese military expert and TV commentator, told the Global Times on Thursday that the latest drills demonstrated that the DF-26 has gained a stronger capability in real combat scenarios, including cross-regional maneuvering, and is not dependent on a preset launch site.
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Until they can figure out a way to put a secant ogive on their missile nose cones, China needs to just STFU.
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Roads in China are narrow and winding, especially intercity roads. Boston or lower Manhattan streets would be spacious in comparison. The erector-launchers are probably confined to about 10% of the roads.
A shorter missile would mean less range. A longer truck would mean many fewer roads.
Simply stated, those launchers/missiles are kept very near surveyed launch locations with roads engineered to accommodate their limitations. Easily located by multiple eyes in the sky for targeting.
China wants a war/conflict with US, make no mistake.
You don’t have to hit the aircraft carrier with a missile to put it out of operation. How many of the small bits and pieces such as screws, springs, et cetera, are made in China? How much of the rare earth elements in the circuitry of its computers are provided by China? We need to start producing more of these for ourselves.
DF-26 ,Da Fake -26 ?
I was in a Pershing missile battalion in Germany in the early 1970’s. We generally did field training at a limited number of sites, but could be ordered to unfamiliar sites. Surveyed sites were described on two sheets of paper. One sheet was map and plot plan of the site, the other was a pen and ink sketch of local landmarks. The book containing the sites was over a foot thick, loose leaf bound, and constantly updated. There must have been over a thousand sites.
It was classified TOP SECRET. It was not just for Pershing, these were field artillery surveys.
What’s even odder is the military humvee type truck parked beside the missile hauler. Betcha its a near exact copy of our mil vehicle.
Ever heard of a “fifth column”?
We are only as invincible as our fifth column (ie: the dems, BLM, antifa, commies) allows us.
If this country falls apart with the next election, just maybe the rats in power would outsource our national defense to the PLA. Today this is unthinkable. In 2021 it could be fact.
No argument there. One thing for sure, China will run wild in their neighborhood, seizing Taiwan and whichever islands they need for secure lanes of communication.
The problem is that political pressure may for the Democrat in office to show some ‘manliness’ and try to give China a black eye. Hopefully we don’t lose too many carriers in that move, and hopefully it doesn’t escalate from there.
...but then what the hell, I’m sitting out the election because Roberts is a jerk. (my imitation of some FReeper ‘purists’ here)
Probably could kill a carrier. The real problem is what’s next? If Mike Tyson was signing autographs I might sneak in a pinch to his face as he signed my book. Then things get very dicey for me.
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Same here with the LANCE missile system in the late 70s. The survey section could locate a new firing position & the data given to the firing platoon and Fire Direction Center. It got easier with new equipment, even before GPS.
One complaint we never had: Roads in Germany were excellent.
China has never tested their vaunted “carrier killer” against a moving target at sea.
Tow a big barge at 30kts and see if you can hit it from 1,000 miles away. Then get back to us.
I wasn’t really speculating, just stating a fact - English is the international language of aviation/aerospace.
Plastic hubcaps?
“I wasn’t really speculating, just stating a fact..”
I’m sorry, I was just having a little fun with you. But they do have missiles they make that are identified in Chinese. The Chicons don’t always follow rules...not even their own.
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