AmirPatriot
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China is not the US. I guess you'll have to get used to the fact for the rest of your life, won't you?
What is it with your tone? I'm not here to troll, I'm asking why China needs a ship based ABM. The only thing I said China lacks is the capability to intercept ICBMs using ship based ABMs, which is a capability that no country currently holds.
055 will be where Chinese merchant ships are, where Chinese overseas national interests are, to protect at all costs according to the UN charter, unless of course you think the UN charters are interventionist?
Discounting the ridiculous idea of ballistic missiles attacking shipping, which overseas Chinese national interests are threatened by ballistic missiles?
Err... see there is a thing in the world called "analogy".
And yours wasn't a very good one.
Iran, for example!
Now you are just not being serious.
People all know it is for China and Russia, and the latter and US used to develop their ABM system during cold war era and ceased then due to difficulty of technique and finance.
Certainly in the cold war the US did develop ABMs to intercept Soviet/Chinese BMs, but at that time the main US enemy (USSR) was still operating MRBM/IRBMs, and so was the US. But the INF treaty means that neither now have MRBM/IRBMs. So US ABM capability continued and is now to be used against TBM/MRBM armed opponents of the US like Iran, China, North Korea etc.
Yes. It is obvious that the main rivalry of PLAN is US navy.
But the USN doesn't operate ballistic missiles.