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Onkel Neal
05-31-16, 07:46 AM
http://nationalinterest.org/files/styles/main_image_on_posts/public/main_images/ussthesullivans-firingmissi.jpg?itok=V26flYhd

http://nationalinterest.org/feature/how-the-us-navy-would-destroy-chinese-aircraft-carrier-16400

Ah, yes, the “carrier-killer.” China is forever touting the array of guided missiles its weaponeers have devised to pummel U.S. Navy nuclear-powered aircraft carriers (CVNs). Most prominent among them are its DF-21D and DF-26 antiship ballistic missiles (ASBMs), which the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) has made a mainstay of China’s anti-access/area-denial (A2/AD) defenses.

Beijing has made believers of important audiences, including the scribes who toil away at the Pentagon producing estimates of Chinese martial might.

Scary. But the U.S. Navy has carrier-killers of its own.

keltos01
05-31-16, 08:23 AM
I suspected as much ;)

Jimbuna
05-31-16, 01:09 PM
Never did believe Beijing had the upper hand and it would be one-way traffic.