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2009-07-25 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

Coming successful PLA anti-ship ballistic missile demonstration?

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Posted by 3dc 2009-07-25 11:45|| || Front Page|| [10 views ] Top

#1 The PLAN is still very much a naval force in search of a doctrine, and so I will guess that once they deconstruct all the inputs they will need for a blue water navy, they will conclude that their naval doctrine will be much what it has always been: littoral instead of blue water.

And a new antiship missile will simply enhance that doctrine.

You may now take that advice and a dollar for something on a fast food value menu, if you want.

Posted by badanov 2009-07-25 15:57|| http://www.freefirezone.org]">[http://www.freefirezone.org] 2009-07-25 15:57|| Front Page Top

#2 They think they have to have a deep water navy to defend their elaborate merchant marine, which is why they sunk all that bread into the port at Gwadar, Hutchinson-Whampoa's Caribbean port, etc.

However, the USN is pushing full ahead for a laser ship defense, and there isn't a missile faster than light.

Posted by Anonymoose 2009-07-25 16:41|| 2009-07-25 16:41|| Front Page Top

#3 I think it will be like Ð'Ð¾ÑÑÐ¾Ðº-1

Huh, what? Don't you love when some moron tries to be cool and put foreign language letters in his post without considering which codepage is being used?

Posted by gromky 2009-07-25 19:04|| 2009-07-25 19:04|| Front Page Top

#4 moron? In the case of 3DC, IMHO - you'd be hard-put to match up in a battle of wits based on my knowledge of his job experience. Please reflect before insulting longtime contributors and commenters so cavalierly. I make no disparagement of you as I have no personal knowledge, but I'm willing to grant you a mulligan f*ck-up or two...I'm on a ~~much~~ higher number myself

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2009-07-25 19:11|| 2009-07-25 19:11|| Front Page Top

#5 Calm down boys. The original article had the Cyrillic (Vostok-1).

It's interesting that the Cyrillic font shows correctly in preview. Восток-1

P.S. I think is 3dc is married to a Chinese woman, so it may be enlightening to face a Chinese faceoff between Gromky and 3dc.

Posted by ed 2009-07-25 20:06|| 2009-07-25 20:06|| Front Page Top

#6 Shows up in comments too. 3dc's browser may not be configured to handle unicode.

Posted by ed 2009-07-25 20:07|| 2009-07-25 20:07|| Front Page Top

#7 Big deal. If they launched it, we would not know if it had a conventional or nuke payload and would have to shoot it down anyway. The more money they spend on this dumb system the less they have for stuff that might cause a problem.

Posted by rammer">rammer 2009-07-25 20:28|| 2009-07-25 20:28|| Front Page Top

#8 Yes, 3DC has rather relevant job experience and yes, he is married to a Chinese woman. He also has personal experience in China, if I remember correctly.

Posted by lotp 2009-07-25 20:40|| 2009-07-25 20:40|| Front Page Top

#9 thanks, Ed

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2009-07-25 20:43|| 2009-07-25 20:43|| Front Page Top

#10 .I'm on a much higher number myself

I'll say. But I've still got you beat.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2009-07-25 20:59|| 2009-07-25 20:59|| Front Page Top

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