YOKOSUKA NAVAL BASE, Japan — This week Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi dutifully smiling and shaking hands.
Behind the scenes of the meeting, an ominous new Chinese weapons system is further complicating the tense Sino-American military dialogue.
The advanced weapon, a medium-range anti-ship ballistic missile known as the Dong Feng 21D, is “nearing operational capability,” according to a report last year by the U.S. Office of Naval Intelligence.
And if its targeting system proves accurate, the Dong Feng would rank as the world’s first mobile, land-based ImrBM capable of hitting a moving aircraft carrier from nearly 2,000 miles away.
Rightardia reported on this missile on June 15, 2009: see http://tinyurl.com/nzkb28. The Chinese also rolled out a prototype of this missile during it 60th Anniversary celebration in October, 2009. See http://tinyurl.com/36n3kxb
According to Wikipedia, the US Department of Defense has stated that China is developing a conventionally-armed high hypersonic land-based anti-ship ballistic missile (ASBM) based on the DF-21,[10] with a range of up to 3,000 km (1,900 mi).
This would be the world's first and only ASBM and the world's first weapons system capable of targeting a moving aircraft carrier strike group from long-range, land-based mobile launchers. These would combine maneuverable reentry vehicles (MaRVs) with some kind of a satellite based terminal guidance system.
Such a missile may have been tested in 2005-6, and the launch of the Jianbing-5/YaoGan-1 and Jianbing-6/YaoGan-2 satellites would give the Chinese targeting information from Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) and visual imaging respectively.
The upgrades would greatly enhance China's ability to conduct sea-denial operations to prevent US carriers from intervention in the Taiwan Strait.
China has recently launched a series of satellites to support its ASBM efforts.
Source: http://www.stripes.com/news/new-chinese-anti-ship-missile-may-complicate-relations-with-u-s-1.111552
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source: http://wonkette.com/
Behind the scenes of the meeting, an ominous new Chinese weapons system is further complicating the tense Sino-American military dialogue.
The advanced weapon, a medium-range anti-ship ballistic missile known as the Dong Feng 21D, is “nearing operational capability,” according to a report last year by the U.S. Office of Naval Intelligence.
And if its targeting system proves accurate, the Dong Feng would rank as the world’s first mobile, land-based ImrBM capable of hitting a moving aircraft carrier from nearly 2,000 miles away.
Rightardia reported on this missile on June 15, 2009: see http://tinyurl.com/nzkb28. The Chinese also rolled out a prototype of this missile during it 60th Anniversary celebration in October, 2009. See http://tinyurl.com/36n3kxb
According to Wikipedia, the US Department of Defense has stated that China is developing a conventionally-armed high hypersonic land-based anti-ship ballistic missile (ASBM) based on the DF-21,[10] with a range of up to 3,000 km (1,900 mi).
This would be the world's first and only ASBM and the world's first weapons system capable of targeting a moving aircraft carrier strike group from long-range, land-based mobile launchers. These would combine maneuverable reentry vehicles (MaRVs) with some kind of a satellite based terminal guidance system.
Such a missile may have been tested in 2005-6, and the launch of the Jianbing-5/YaoGan-1 and Jianbing-6/YaoGan-2 satellites would give the Chinese targeting information from Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) and visual imaging respectively.
The upgrades would greatly enhance China's ability to conduct sea-denial operations to prevent US carriers from intervention in the Taiwan Strait.
China has recently launched a series of satellites to support its ASBM efforts.
Source: http://www.stripes.com/news/new-chinese-anti-ship-missile-may-complicate-relations-with-u-s-1.111552
Netcraft rank: 15549 http://toolbar.netcraft.com/site_report?url=http://rightardia.blogspot.com
source: http://wonkette.com/
1 comment:
Don't worry. China will not use a DF-21D against the America armada unless America make a very wrong move.
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