Posted on 02/28/2003 7:55:32 AM PST by AmericanInTokyo
Frankly, the ChiCom navy has few large ships. They have a few dozen destroyers. Why waste a TASM against a 1960's frigate when a Harpoon will do.
One Harpoon would kill a ChiCom destroyer (I've been on one). They have NO significant firefighting gear, and lots of watertight doors weren't even close to having any integrity.
Our doctrine doesn't require them to trail their coats right past the ChiCom's noses. Using TU-95s and IL-76s as scouting assets for naval warfare requires them to emit right next to the battlegroup.
China is a growing threat.
China is Enron with nuclear weapons. By the time they'd be ready to play, their economy will have imploded.
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