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| Coming successful PLA anti-ship ballistic missile demonstration? |
| 2009-07-25 |
| I wanted to leave a very complex thought question to discuss regarding the Chinese anti-ship ballistic missile. What will be the ramifications of a successful PLA anti-ship ballistic missile demonstration? You can take any approach you want to the answer: regional, political, domestic in China, domestic in the US, or internal to the DoD? It is one thing to say the DoD has noted the development of a weapon in its annual report, but a successful demonstration against a moving target in the South China Sea is going to send shockwaves across the Navy. I think it will be like ÐПÑÑПк-1, except I don't know what the equivalent of Alan Shepard on Freedom 7 a month later will be. |
| Posted by:3dc |
| #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 |
| #9 thanks, Ed |
| Posted by: Frank G 2009-07-25 20:43 |
| #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 |
| #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 2009-07-25 20:28 |
| #6 Shows up in comments too. 3dc's browser may not be configured to handle unicode. |
| Posted by: ed 2009-07-25 20:07 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| Posted by: Frank G 2009-07-25 19:11 |
| #3 I think it will be like Ð'оÑÑок-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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |