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US Admiral: China initiates deployment of ASBM designed to take out carriers and other ships
 Richard Fisher, a China military-affairs specialist, said the new ASBM is only one part of a series of new Chinese weapons that threaten the region."When we add the ASBM to the PLA's growing anti-satellite capabilities, growing numbers of submarines, and quite soon, its fifth-generation fighter, we are seeing the erection of a new Chinese wall in the western Pacific, for which the Obama administration has offered almost nothing in defensive response." What do you mean nothing? The man has offered us hope, I tell you! HOPE! "Clearly, China's communist leadership is not impressed by the administration's ending of F-22 production, its retirement of the Navy's nuclear cruise missile, START Treaty reductions in U.S. missile warheads, and its refusal to consider U.S. space warfare capabilities. Such weakness is the surest way to invite military adventurism from China." Mr. Fisher said the Pentagon should mount a crash program to develop high-technology energy weapons, like rail guns and lasers in response to the new ASBMs. All we have to do is get the Chinese to pay for it. Mark Stokes, a retired Air Force officer who has written extensively on the new missile, said the new deployment is a concern. "China's ability to place at risk U.S. and other nations' maritime surface assets operating in the western Pacific and South China Sea is growing and closer to becoming a reality than many may think." Posted by: gorb 2010-12-28 |
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