If China doesn't need to take out U.S. airbases with tactical nukes, neither does the U.S.
PLA missile defense system
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If China doesn't need to take out U.S. airbases with tactical nukes, neither does the U.S.
Using nuclear to take out air bases are stupid... pure and simple. If the Chinese leadership think of that and actually implement that, then there is no hope anymore militarily - period.
If it was an all out war between two nuclear power and that they wanted to tear each other out, you use nuclear on a grand scale to totally destroy each other and not use nuke to take out air bases.
Again... using nuke just to destroy air base is stupid... basically idiotic moves.
Gallaghan36
Banned Idiot
More threatening weapons from the world's most dangerous warmongering nation: X-5I Hypersonic CM :
Also this:
How should China counter this weapon? Hypersonic Cruise Missiles stationed in Pacific Ocean will destroy China's tactical and strategic weapons in less than 10 minutes upon launch by USN devils, so how should China counter this evil threat?
Also this:
How should China counter this weapon? Hypersonic Cruise Missiles stationed in Pacific Ocean will destroy China's tactical and strategic weapons in less than 10 minutes upon launch by USN devils, so how should China counter this evil threat?
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You know that you can get banned from saying that, right? Country bashing is NOT ALLOWED on Sinodefence :nono:
Actually I have reported him (Gallaghan36) to the mod already. Been sick and tire of his attempt to troll this forum, first with ignorant 'proposition' that china should have this, should have that, then with baseless, groundless figures that he pluck from the air.
Next he keep coming out with inflammary scenario of Nuking US (in the guise of using a 1kt nuclear on airbases), now this? Sound like noname... (er... not the no_name that we know of)
Hypersonic cruise missiles will have to fly at very high altitudes, and will be very large due to the fuel needed to achieve a range comparable of say, tomohawk. Even if it was only say 300 km, it'll be a very large missile not to mention having a significant IR signature which will make it much easier to be intercepted, assuming SAM technology keeps becoming better.
And it would take many decades until weapons such as a hypersonic space planes become fully operational, and who knows what China would have by then. Railguns, lasers, maybe even their own space planes.
We don't know how far China is along with those kind of projects, so we can hardly make a fair prediction on what they can counter future weapons with... No need to freak out at every single new flashy weapons platform the US comes up with.
I think I have seen enough, nothing but flaming and trolling and generally wasting forum space. I am also sure this same troll was banned on DT just a few weeks ago.
Good job shutting down the Troll! I think we've been sidetracked enough.
Back on topic.
Does anyone know exactly why the PLA declared a no-flight zone a couple of days ago? We speculated that it was another ABM test earlier. Is it officially confirmed now?
Martian
Senior Member
0 for 2. U.S. long-range missile defense test fails again.
America is encountering serious setbacks in its missile defense program. Will this provide China with an opportunity to catch the Americans? Only time will tell. The race is on.
"Long-range missile defense test fails
By the CNN Wire Staff
December 15, 2010 9:49 p.m. EST
An interceptor missile was launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, on Wednesday. The test failed.
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
* Missile Defense Agency is investigating how the "kill vehicle" missed the target
* A similar test in January failed because of a problem with sea-based radar
* Nearly half of the systems tests have failed
(CNN) -- A test of the United States' only long-range missile defense system failed Wednesday -- the second failure this year in two tries.
The Pentagon's Missile Defense Agency said both the intermediate-range ballistic missile target and the long-range interceptor missile launched successfully, radar and sensors worked properly and the "kill vehicle" deployed. But the "kill vehicle" didn't hit the target.
"Program officials will conduct an extensive investigation to determine the cause of the failure to intercept the target," the agency said. "The next flight test will be determined after identification of the cause of the failure."
The last test, in January, failed because of a problem with the sea-based X-band radar, the agency said.
The X-band radar sits atop a modified floating oil platform and provides information about incoming missiles so military officials can launch a response.
In both Wednesday's test and the test launched earlier this year, the target missile launched from Kwajalein Atoll in the Republic of the Marshall Islands, and the interceptor launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California.
The $100 billion missile shield program has had numerous problems. In December 2008, an interceptor launched from Vandenburg "killed" a target launched from Kodiak, Alaska. But the test wasn't able to determine a key aspect -- whether the interceptor could tell the difference between a decoy and a real missile -- because the decoy failed to launch.
Riki Ellison, chairman and founder of the Missile Defense Advocacy Alliance, a nonpartisan organization that advocates for the deployment of missile defense systems, said the failure "is a tremendous setback," noting three major test failures in the past two years.
Ellison said many of the country's interceptors are nearly identical to the one that failed Wednesday, and he questioned the military's confidence in the ground-based system deployed in Alaska and California.
So far, the Defense Department has deemed eight of the program's 15 tests successful."
America is encountering serious setbacks in its missile defense program. Will this provide China with an opportunity to catch the Americans? Only time will tell. The race is on.
"Long-range missile defense test fails
By the CNN Wire Staff
December 15, 2010 9:49 p.m. EST
An interceptor missile was launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, on Wednesday. The test failed.
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
* Missile Defense Agency is investigating how the "kill vehicle" missed the target
* A similar test in January failed because of a problem with sea-based radar
* Nearly half of the systems tests have failed
(CNN) -- A test of the United States' only long-range missile defense system failed Wednesday -- the second failure this year in two tries.
The Pentagon's Missile Defense Agency said both the intermediate-range ballistic missile target and the long-range interceptor missile launched successfully, radar and sensors worked properly and the "kill vehicle" deployed. But the "kill vehicle" didn't hit the target.
"Program officials will conduct an extensive investigation to determine the cause of the failure to intercept the target," the agency said. "The next flight test will be determined after identification of the cause of the failure."
The last test, in January, failed because of a problem with the sea-based X-band radar, the agency said.
The X-band radar sits atop a modified floating oil platform and provides information about incoming missiles so military officials can launch a response.
In both Wednesday's test and the test launched earlier this year, the target missile launched from Kwajalein Atoll in the Republic of the Marshall Islands, and the interceptor launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California.
The $100 billion missile shield program has had numerous problems. In December 2008, an interceptor launched from Vandenburg "killed" a target launched from Kodiak, Alaska. But the test wasn't able to determine a key aspect -- whether the interceptor could tell the difference between a decoy and a real missile -- because the decoy failed to launch.
Riki Ellison, chairman and founder of the Missile Defense Advocacy Alliance, a nonpartisan organization that advocates for the deployment of missile defense systems, said the failure "is a tremendous setback," noting three major test failures in the past two years.
Ellison said many of the country's interceptors are nearly identical to the one that failed Wednesday, and he questioned the military's confidence in the ground-based system deployed in Alaska and California.
So far, the Defense Department has deemed eight of the program's 15 tests successful."
and it never was?