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2010-11-21 China-Japan-Koreas

China Unveils Sea Defense System to Counter Aircraft Carrier

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Posted by Anonymoose 2010-11-21 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 For those who know how to unpack it, don't miss this link from the article:

http://www.jamestown.org/uploads/media/cb_010_4f73f4.pdf

It looks like it goes into much greater strategic depth and breadth than the article does.

Posted by gorb 2010-11-21 02:34|| 2010-11-21 02:34|| Front Page Top

#2 "All coordinated by UAV and satellite communications"

Which explains their ASAT tests. Before you deploy a system, you design a weapon against that system so that if someone copies it, you have a countermeasure.

Posted by crosspatch 2010-11-21 07:13|| 2010-11-21 07:13|| Front Page Top

#3 So what. They have published a plan to shoot other countries' capital ships. We do that all the time. It was a wise Marine, who wrote, "Have a plan to kill everyone you meet!"

http://www.michaeltotten.com/archives/2008/01/a-plan-to-kill.php

Posted by rammer 2010-11-21 10:12|| 2010-11-21 10:12|| Front Page Top

#4 Ooooh, the missile swarm - what no nuclear torpedo? Like the article said, not new technology just a displayed plan, half as complicated and twice as subtle as myself trying to get to the store and back before the game starts. Effective, sure, but sounds like a perfect scenario and I would believe it has been gamed like tiger's phone book.

Posted by swksvolFF 2010-11-21 11:29|| 2010-11-21 11:29|| Front Page Top

#5 That plan also assumes that the CBG has no functional AEGIS ships with full Standard Mark 2 and 3 missiles loaded; no Hawkeye E-2 in the air; and no F/A-18 CAPs running. Because if it did, the ChiComs would have to assume at least 70% lost of attack missiles, before the ECM kicked in. And the coordinating UAV needs to broadcast signals, so E-2s or JSTARS are going to sniff it right out and vector a kill on it.

Posted by Shieldwolf 2010-11-21 14:48|| 2010-11-21 14:48|| Front Page Top

#6 Besides which, no one other than the US Navy has sunk a US aircraft carrier since WWII, so no one in the worldwide general public knows how much damage a US carrier can take before you sink it. What has leaked out over the years is that each class of carrier is much harder to sink than the previous class. And even the US has not tried to sink a Nimitz class carrier yet, so no true baseline to say what is needed to take out the latest carriers.

Posted by Shieldwolf 2010-11-21 14:54|| 2010-11-21 14:54|| Front Page Top

#7 CHIN MIL BLOGGERS are calling for the US to allow MAJOR PLA UNITS [PLAN, PLAAF] to be based in HAWAII + GUAM + MIDWAY [+ prolly safe to say the US WEST COAST, ALCAN] in the name of ASIA-PACIFIC-WIDE "ANTI-TERROR SECURITY".

Also read, SSSSSHHHHHHHHHH WARM-WATER PORTS.

Which in turn indcates or infers CHINA'S SENSITIVITY TO THE NATURAL, GEOPOL OBSTRUCTIONS OF THE PREDOMINANTLY PRO-US "FIRST ISLAND CHAIN".
E.G. RUSSIA'S DECLARATION OF THE FORMER JAPANESE KURILS + ALLEGED PLANS TO BUILD A LARGE/MAJOR SUBMARINE, NAVAL BASE THERE WORKS AS MUCH AGZ SCO-CSTO ALLY = STRATEGIC PARTNER CHINA AS AGZ JAPAN + US.

Lastly, e.g. IRELAND + GREECE ECON BAILOUTS VEE EU > I am warning local Guam patrons not to underestimate a SALE OF OVERSEAS SOVEREIGN TERRITORIES BY THE ECON-TROUBLED = "GEOPOL WEAKENED/DECLINING" US TO FOREIGN POWERS IN ORDER TO RESOLVE ITS MASSIVE INTERNATIONAL DEBT OBLIGATIONS.

As a matter of WORLD, POLITICAL HISTORY, it has collectively happened many times before, + NOT EVEN THE SUPERPOWER USA IS IMMUNE.

Espec in this newfound "AGE OF GLOBALISM", "ASIA-PACIFIC CENTURY", RISING ISLAM [Nuclear], + OWG-NWO............

WWII > ALSACE-LORRAINE + PARTITION OF SOVEREIGN CZECHOSLOVAKIA, POLAND + AUSTRIAN "ANCHSLUSS", PARTITION OF MONGOLIA, MANCHURIA, etc. were allowed to occur JUST TO AVOID WAR IN EUROPE + ASIA.

MSM-NET > RISING-CHINA-VS-WEAK-USA [VS-RISING-NUCLEAR-ISLAM/ISLAMISM includ NUC MILTERRS???] = MILPOL "LINE OF DEMARCATION",aka DMZ + "Neutral Zone", IN PACOAS [GUAM-WESTPAC, CENTPAC Areas?].

And so, young Virgina, you once again learn why NOSTRADAMUS + 1960's-70's GUAM TAOTAMONAS = HUGO CHAVEZ??? foresaw the development of EARTH/LAND-CHANGING, SOPHISTICATED "EARTHQUAKE BOMBS" TO DESTROY + SINK STRATEGIC PACIFIC ISLANDS vee "GREAT POWER(S)" STRATEGIC/THEATER DENIAL.

TEXAS-SIZED ASTEROIDS, AL GORE'S VIETNAM M-16, + all that....

Posted by JosephMendiola 2010-11-21 19:27|| NA 2010-11-21 19:27|| Front Page Top

#8 [DESTRUCTION OF THE BATTLESHIP OKLAHOMA:THEME FROM "TITANIC" by Celine Dion here].

Posted by JosephMendiola 2010-11-21 19:29|| 2010-11-21 19:29|| Front Page Top

#9 CHIN MIL BLOGGERS are calling for the US to allow MAJOR PLA UNITS [PLAN, PLAAF] to be based in HAWAII + GUAM + MIDWAY [+ prolly safe to say the US WEST COAST, ALCAN] in the name of ASIA-PACIFIC-WIDE "ANTI-TERROR SECURITY".

If China doesn't win their little war before the generation of the Little Emperors gets too old, they never will, JosephM. I don't see us allowing them to base troops on our soil in any case, nor anyone else. On home soil terror attacks are best fought with intelligence beforehand and individuals armed with whatever comes to hand during, or so it seems to me. Even throwing restaurant plates or classroom textbooks helps upset an attacker long enough for someone to tackle him, even without guns. I remember Broadhead6 talking about being prepared to make a cosh out of a sock and pocket change, and a garrote out of shoelaces, when he travelled on airplanes after 9/11. Of course, they were Marine uniform shoelaces, so who knows how they compare to the stuff we civilians get... ;-) But the principle still holds, and we have no need for PLA units to protect us against other bad guys on our own soil, including Guam.

Besides, I suspect anyone who messed with you and yours would be very sorry indeed, afterward.

Posted by trailing wife 2010-11-21 21:48|| 2010-11-21 21:48|| Front Page Top

#10 Any Chinese soldier in Guam would get showered with old telex machines

Posted by European Conservative 2010-11-21 21:55|| 2010-11-21 21:55|| Front Page Top

#11 Any Chinese soldier in Guam would get showered with old telex machines

It is late in the evening, Ladies and Gentlemen, but there you have it - your Snark Of The Day!

Posted by SteveS 2010-11-21 23:38|| 2010-11-21 23:38|| Front Page Top

#12 ION GURADIAN.UK > NORTH KOREAN URANIUM PLANT SENDS A CHILLING MESSAGE TO WASHINGTON.

ARTIC = DPRK is not only capable + is produc enriched Uranium = HEUS, but they are also quite good at it.

IOW, ARTIC = DPRK IS A DE FACTO NUCLEAR MIL POWER.

* TOPIX > JAPAN TO DEPLOY TROOPS CLOSE TO CHINA/NEAR DISPUTED ISLANDS + CLASH AVERTED AS CHINESE SHIPS [Armed Fishery Patrol vesels] SAIL WAY FROM DISPUTED ISLANDS; + TROOPS IN NANSEI ISLANDS [Yonaguni, + perhaps MIchiko + Ishigaki] MAY DOUBLE TO 4000.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2010-11-21 23:49|| 2010-11-21 23:49|| Front Page Top

#13 Ha, thank you. Just in time before the rollover!

Posted by European Conservative 2010-11-21 23:50|| 2010-11-21 23:50|| Front Page Top

#14 OOOPSIES, forgot WMF > ARMY JOURNAL EXPOSE' ON CHINA'S PURCHASE OF FOUR COMPLETE SETS OF DECK LANDING SYSTEMS FOR FIXED-WING AIRCRAFT INFERS THAT CHINA HAS QUITELY ORDERED THE CONSTRUCTION OF FOUR VARYAG-CLASS AIRCRAFT CARRIERS. CHINA'S POST-VARYAG PLAN TO BUILD AT LEAST TWO NUCLEAR CARRIERS.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2010-11-21 23:56|| 2010-11-21 23:56|| Front Page Top

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