Chinese Develop Special "Kill Weapon" to Destroy U.S. Aircraft Carriers

just found this on Drudge... Wasayo


Report: Chinese Develop Special "Kill Weapon" to Destroy U.S. Aircraft Carriers

Advanced missile poses substantial new threat for U.S. Navy


U. S. Naval Institute
March 31, 2009


With tensions already rising due to the Chinese navy becoming more aggressive in asserting its territorial claims in the South China Sea, the U.S. Navy seems to have yet another reason to be deeply concerned.

After years of conjecture, details have begun to emerge of a "kill weapon" developed by the Chinese to target and destroy U.S. aircraft carriers.

First posted on a Chinese blog viewed as credible by military analysts and then translated by the naval affairs blog Information Dissemination, a recent report provides a description of an anti-ship ballistic missile (ASBM) that can strike carriers and other U.S. vessels at a range of 2000km.

The range of the modified Dong Feng 21 missile is significant in that it covers the areas that are likely hot zones for future confrontations between U.S. and Chinese surface forces.

The size of the missile enables it to carry a warhead big enough to inflict significant damage on a large vessel, providing the Chinese the capability of destroying a U.S. supercarrier in one strike.

Because the missile employs a complex guidance system, low radar signature and a maneuverability that makes its flight path unpredictable, the odds that it can evade tracking systems to reach its target are increased. It is estimated that the missile can travel at mach 10 and reach its maximum range of 2000km in less than 12 minutes.

Supporting the missile is a network of satellites, radar and unmanned aerial vehicles that can locate U.S. ships and then guide the weapon, enabling it to hit moving targets.

The ASBM is said to be a modified DF-21.

While the ASBM has been a topic of discussion within national defense circles for quite some time, the fact that information is now coming from Chinese sources indicates that the weapon system is operational. The Chinese rarely mention weapons projects unless they are well beyond the test stages.

If operational as is believed, the system marks the first time a ballistic missile has been successfully developed to attack vessels at sea. Ships currently have no defense against a ballistic missile attack.

Along with the Chinese naval build-up, U.S. Navy officials appear to view the development of the anti-ship ballistic missile as a tangible threat.

After spending the last decade placing an emphasis on building a fleet that could operate in shallow waters near coastlines, the U.S. Navy seems to have quickly changed its strategy over the past several months to focus on improving the capabilities of its deep sea fleet and developing anti-ballistic defenses.

As analyst Raymond Pritchett notes in a post on the U.S. Naval Institute blog:

"The Navy's reaction is telling, because it essentially equals a radical change in direction based on information that has created a panic inside the bubble. For a major military service to panic due to a new weapon system, clearly a mission kill weapon system, either suggests the threat is legitimate or the leadership of the Navy is legitimately unqualified. There really aren't many gray spaces in evaluating the reaction by the Navy…the data tends to support the legitimacy of the threat."

In recent years, China has been expanding its navy to presumably better exert itself in disputed maritime regions. A recent show of strength in early March led to a confrontation with an unarmed U.S. ship in international waters.


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4. American war pigs fuck off.

The US technological edge has moved beyond ALL BALLISTIC MISSLES...HOWEVER THEY MANEUVER. Its a pointless debate. I agree with the above poster that describes carriers as realatively obsolete.

Scalar weapons, particle beams that fire from orbit destroying missles on thier platforms....high frequency energy that will annhiliate all unshielded electronic infrastructure and communications--Putting an entire country back in the third world. Lasers that permanently blind the enemy from above.

Of course most of the groups that have and test this tech don't even provide it to the US military willy-nilly. Its being kept in the dark....Black....until TSHTF. But I mean it really has to hit it..

It will only be implemented if the very power structure themselves feel imminently threatened.

I wouldn't worry about a new missle

Hi Everyone,
... Active infrared Sat targeting will track this threat and elimination within 20 min. of launch....

the missile can travel at mach 10 and reach its maximum range of 2000km in less than 12 minutes.
making you 8 minutes too late

Excellent read opie!

Thanx again!





it's confirmation of what many have long suspected ~ aircraft carriers are obsolete.

thank you to GLP for pinning this.


Wasayo

Not really so secret...just common sense. In all the years of US ballistic missle technological development...do you honestly think the US is still dealing with "missile" technoloy????

In about 60 years...we haven't moved on from this? Use your noggin.


Its like thinking that the most advanced US aircraft still use Jet Technology. I have news for...we don't.

So people can theorize all they like, but the truth is the technology is said to be around 400 years ahead of what we have in the public sector. This would include "ballistic missiles."

Why should the US Bavy be contesting ANYTHING in the South China Sea?

Not really so secret...just common sense. In all the years of US ballistic missle technological development...do you honestly think the US is still dealing with "missile" technoloy????

In about 60 years...we haven't moved on from this? Use your noggin.


Its like thinking that the most advanced US aircraft still use Jet Technology. I have news for...we don't.

So people can theorize all they like, but the truth is the technology is said to be around 400 years ahead of what we have in the public sector. This would include "ballistic missiles."




400 years? really? what on earth would you have developed thats 400years ahead? besides i would like to think that we on earth could have learnt to live in peace and without the need for this sh*t by then.

I also think they should be spending the billions spent developing this technology in feeding mankind not destroying it, or is that too much to ask.

We've had a system in place for a few years now to take care of something like this, it's called SEA RAM.

We've had a system in place for a few years now to take care of something like this, it's called SEA RAM.


Sea Ram is a last ditch close quarters modified Phalanx system. We got shit much better than that Pal.

Why should the US Bavy be contesting ANYTHING in the South China Sea?



china wants to annex taiwan, korea and japan.

We've had a system in place for a few years now to take care of something like this, it's called SEA RAM.


Sea Ram is a last ditch close quarters modified Phalanx system. We got shit much better than that Pal.

Yes they all have yellow cake,nucular brownies,long dong,WOMS,balistic cookies however when SHTF nobody has jack