US preps midrange missile to pierce China's 'anti-access' shield

[Pakistani Fighter]

China MUST increase its Navy by inducting more modern Subs, Aircraft Carriers, Type 055s, Type 054Bs, Type 056s and patrol American Pacific

 

[Feng Leng]

China should start increasing it's nuclear stock pile , USA only understand the language of power

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...ar-warheads-global-times-editor-idUSKBN22K1EE

China should expand its stock of nuclear warheads to 1,000 soon, Global Times editor-in-chief Hu Xijin said on Friday, even as U.S. President Donald Trump repeats his call for China to join an arms control treaty.

The Global Times is published by the People’s Daily, the official newspaper of China’s ruling Communist Party. The party has been known to float ideas and guide public sentiments via the Global Times, which tends to take a nationalistic stance on issues involving other countries.

Tensions between United States and China, already high from an ongoing trade war, have increased in recent months amid a war of words over the origins of the coronavirus pandemic.

“We love peace and promise not to use nuclear weapons first, but we need a bigger nuclear arsenal to suppress U.S. strategic ambition and impulse against China,” Hu wrote in a Weibo post.

Hu added that this stockpile should include “at least 100 DF-41 strategic missiles”, a latest class of intercontinental missiles capable of striking continental United States, according to defense experts.


Each DF-41 carries 10+ 250 kT MIRV warheads

 

[Zsari]

NEW YORK -- As tensions rise in the South China Sea, a top U.S. Army official underscored in comments made public Friday the importance of developing and deploying new weapons systems that can potentially break Chinese defenses and securing the Indo-Pacific through robust partnerships in the region.

"We're going to have midrange missiles that can sink ships," said the Army's chief of staff, Gen. James McConville, in a discussion streamed by the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies. "We think that's very, very important for the anti-access/area denial capabilities that we may face," he added, referring to the strategy known as A2/AD for short.

McConville also mentioned "long-range precision fires," such as hypersonic missiles, and "tactical fires with extended range" as priority areas.


"We certainly want to bring to the national leadership options that they can use if required for an anti-access/area denial capability," he said.

McConville confirmed that tests of hypersonic missiles -- in effect, America's fastest long-range weapons -- have been successful.

The event was recorded on Wednesday and aired on Friday.

Experts say deploying all these missiles would be to combat Beijing's A2/AD strategy in the South China Sea, which combines ships, missiles and sensors to keep adversaries from approaching China. If the People's Liberation Army conducts operations to take Taiwan by force, for example, then the First Island Chain -- comprising Japan's main islands, Okinawa, Taiwan, the northern Philippines and the Malay Peninsula -- would be a strategic line of defense for China.

"The so-called A2/AD by China and Russia is designed to complicate the U.S. projection of power and the combined operations of the U.S. and its closest allies like Japan," said Tom Karako, a senior fellow at CSIS. "It is targeted to drive a wedge between the U.S. and its allies," he said.

Regarding McConville's statement, Karako said "what is important is that he is reaffirming that the U.S. is sticking to its strategy" of deploying strategic, operational and tactical weapons to counter these programs.

Scholars Stephen Biddle and Ivan Olerich foresaw the A2/AD situation in a 2016 article for the journal International Security.

"Many analysts worry that improvements in Chinese missile, sensor, guidance, and other technologies will enable China to deny the U.S. military access to parts of the Western Pacific that the United States has long controlled," they wrote.

"In this new era, the United States will possess a sphere of influence around allied landmasses; China will maintain a sphere of influence over its own mainland; and a contested battlespace will cover much of the South and East China Seas wherein neither power enjoys wartime freedom of surface or air movement," they argued.

Recent events, and McConville's assertions, confirm such predictions.

McConville said securing the area will depend on strong U.S. partnerships with countries in the First Island Chain and noted the importance of standing defense agreements with Australia, Japan, New Zealand, South Korea, the Philippines and Thailand.

He was also eager for more alliances and hoped to forge a defense partnership with India. "We used to be, you know, Pacific Command," he said. "Now it's actually Indo-Pacific Command, reflecting just how important they are."

"India is a very important country in the region," and adding it in a defense partnership would be "very, very, helpful" for regional stability and security, McConville said.

But despite the recent heightening of regional tensions as both the U.S. and China flex their military muscle via exercises, the American general urged caution.

"Great-power competition does not mean that there's a great-power conflict," McConville said. "We all need to work to avoid that type of thing. But at the same time, many of these countries, they do want a free and open Indo-Pacific because ... they need to have access" for economic reasons.

"What they're interested in is really security and stability in the region," he said.

https://asia.nikkei.com/Politics/In...-missile-to-pierce-China-s-anti-access-shield

Only problem is that anti-access is never a shield to begin with.

 

[Suika]

Japaneses, please don't forget your lesson on WWII. Any misadventure again will caused your country in catastrophic.

The mistake in the "misadventure" was the FDR administration siding with CKS.

The US won't make that mistake again.

 

[Leishangthem]

japan will make a U turn on the US.

 

[Uguduwa]

China is nothing but a US on steroids in making.

 

[Bengal71]

I'm just curious why despite the deluge of Indian e-bragging and chest-thumping your cowardly "army" hasn't so much as sent an angry letter. China is sitting pretty on territory you consider your own, what are you doing about it?

So, did it hit a moving vessel? Is there a video?

 

[Bengal71]

japan will make a U turn on the US.

LOL this is very likely. My bet is Japan, S Korea and Taiwan none of them will get involved in a shooting war against China.

 

[ZeEa5KPul]

Like all their brethren, you can smell them before you see them.

This coming from an Indian...

 

[casual]

He’s probably referring to the Precision Strike Missile. 2,400 total procurement, 1,000+ over the next five years.

500km range is hardly a threat to China when China's standard antiship missile has 540km range. not mention 1700km range of DF-21 and 4000km range of DF-26

 

[ZeEa5KPul]

The mistake in the "misadventure" was the FDR administration siding with CKS.

The US won't make that mistake again.

It's cute that you think you'll have an "again". It's over for you, no more "again".

 

[F-22Raptor]

Where are you going to deploy these?

Precision Strike Missiles will be deployed to existing HIMARS and MLRS systems in Japan and SK.

You see this new missiles baseline range is 550 km. By 2025, a multi mode seeker will be added to target ships. Then the range will be extended out to 700-800 km. And the great part? The Army doesn’t have to develop a new launch platform. It can already launch out of existing systems deployed.

So in the near term the Army is going to have a 550-800km missile that can strike land and sea targets in the Western Pacific with high precision. A huge upgrade for the Army.


And the Army is buying over 1,000 in the next five years.

 

[Feng Leng]

Precision Strike Missiles will be deployed to existing HIMARS and MLRS systems in Japan and SK.

You see this new missiles baseline range is 550 km. By 2025, a multi mode seeker will be added to target ships. Then the range will be extended out to 700-800 km. And the great part? The Army doesn’t have to develop a new launch platform. It can already launch out of existing systems deployed.

So in the near term the Army is going to have a 550-800km missile that can strike land and sea targets in the Western Pacific with high precision. A huge upgrade for the Army.


And the Army is buying over 1,000 in the next five years.

Everything looks nice when it is on paper only

 

[F-22Raptor]

Everything looks nice when it is on paper only

On paper?

 

[Feng Leng]

On paper?

Remember what happened to the Army's future combat system?