It remains unclear exactly how many missiles the PLA fired during the exercise on Aug. 26. South China Morning Post‘s initial report had indicated that two weapons had been launched, one DF-26B and one DF-21D, from sites in China’s northwestern Qinghai province and in Zhejiang, respectively. A subsequent report from Reuters said that the U.S. government had assessed that the Chinese had fired four ballistic missiles, in total.
“The Department of Defense is concerned about the People’s Republic of China (PRC) recent decision to conduct military exercises, including the firing of ballistic missiles, around the Paracel Islands in the South China Sea on August 23-29,” the Pentagon said in a statement on Aug. 27. “The PRC’s actions, including missile tests, further destabilize the situation in the South China Sea.”
The DF-26B and the DF-21D are both understood to have maneuvering reentry vehicles capable at least of hitting large ships, such as aircraft carriers or large amphibious assault ships. The DF-21D has a maximum range in excess of 932 miles (1,500 kilometers), according to the Pentagon, while DF-26-series missiles can reportedly strike targets out to 2,500 miles.
Chinese media outlets, including the Hong Kong-based South China Morning Post, refer to the DF-21D, specifically, as a “carrier killer.” The longer-range DF-26 is nicknamed the “Guam Express or Guam Killer,” a reference to the strategic U.S. island territory in the western Pacific, which is home to major air and naval bases, but the B model with its maneuverable warhead also often gets referred to as a carrier killer missile, as well. Guam would be an important target for Chinese forces during any large-scale conflict. www.anti-empire.com
The above article by Joseph Trevithick is posted in 'Here Comes China' covered the effective range of China's anti carrier missiles, the DF21 and DF26. DF21 has an effective range of 1,500km while DF26 can travel 4000km nicknamed by the Americans as the Guam Express with specific missions to take out Guam and Pacific Island American bases. Singapore and the whole of the Indian Ocean is within range of DF26. American bases in South Korea and Japan could easily be taken out by DF21 with a speed of Mach 10.
The article highlighted China's ability to hit moving ships in the South China Sea, a show of force and to tell the warmongering and saber rattling Americans that their aircraft carriers and warships in the South China Sea will be sitting ducks. With these weapons, the most dangerous place to be in war is aircraft carriers and warships. These would become floating coffins to be sunk on first go, including all the warships in South Korean and Japanese ports and in Okinawa. There is no where to hide and no where to run for the American ships and soldiers, priority targets number one for DF21 ad DF26 missiles.
This is the balance of power the Americans fear most. Their aircraft carriers used to be untouchables, can strike at enemy targets but enemies cannot hit them. Now, before the can hit their enemies, China for instance, they would be hit without knowing what hits them. At a speed of Mach 10, these missiles cannot be intercepted and will home in on their targets, unstoppable and undefensible.
The new Biden administration has a proposal to speed up the arm race to have enough weapons to take out every Chinese ships in the South China Sea and East China Sea. Only foolish Americans still think this is possible without thinking about the cost and also what China is doing and could do, to hit back at the same time or before the Americans could fire all their missiles. China is not going to sit there, like their aircraft carriers, to be sitting ducks. The aircraft carriers are beautiful high value targets. One strike means 7,000 highly trained American soldiers and a hundred aircraft to go with it, plus whatever nuclear weapons on board.
The game has changed, the balance of power has changed.
One thing came out glaringly surprising. Despite all the American claims of military superiority especially in spying over the sky of China, they did not know, could not detect how many missiles the Chinese fired? Why, what happened? They could only guess, hot gas.
Australian Trade Minister said, Beijing's action against Australia undermines trade and business confidence...
ReplyDeleteHahhahahhhah, what an idiot. What have you Australians been doing against China? Without China and its big appetite for commodities and Australian produce, Australia is going to be hung high and dry for good. Australia deserves the shit it is getting from Beijing and they are still so cocky and pretending that they are innocent and accusing China of bullying Australia when they are the big bully, arrogating themselves as the Sheriff of SE Asia and America's fighting dog, wanting to bite China.
Good riddance.
Australia needs not be afraid of China not buying, they can go and sell to India and the USA. India is very rich, with a lot of rupees to spare after getting so much free money from Singapore.
ReplyDeleteSimply speaking, the DF-26 should be popularised as the Singapore-Guam Killer 26, or simply as SG-26. Such an appropriate name.
ReplyDeleteFor strategic defence purposes, the long-range targets, China should not just target Guam. China should also target Singapore as well.
- SSO (Simply Say So)
The US forces have fought in two Wars against the People's Liberation Army.
ReplyDeleteOne in Korea, between 1950 to 1953.
The other in Vietnam, from 1970 to 1975 - PLA advising and supporting the Vietcong and the Vietnamese National Army.
In both of these Wars, the US forces lost miserably and had to withdraw like blue-arsk flies.
The next time round, the PLA is going to ensure the US forces not only run like blue-arsk flies but also die like powdery debris falling from the collapsing 9-11 World Trade towers in NYC.
The US aircraft carriers are sitting ducks ready to be sunk off the coast of China, in internal waters. In the next War between US and China, there will be no limits to the area of operations. As long as US forces can be detected in hostile or aggressive postures, China can launch pre-emptive attacks in order to inflict maximum casualties and destructions.
There should be no holding-back when dealing with the Devil of the Evil US Empire, that has been tormenting China and the rest of the World for the last 250 years.
Lee Kuan Yew issued a warning in 1980 that Australia was in danger of becoming the "white trash" of Asia. Luckily, they were able to prosper due to China's rise.
ReplyDeleteNow banned from China's market for almost all commodities (the "temporary" wine tariffs will stay at least until August 2021; AFR says China is calling time on Australia), the Aussies are certainly going to become the "white trash" of Asia!
The Americans and the West used to dominate the oceans, their playground, untouchable when China had no blue water fleet and no aircraft carrier killers.
ReplyDeleteNow China is controlling the surrounding oceans, Indian Ocean, western Pacific Ocean and parts of the Arctic Ocean. American warships cannot find safety operating in these oceans anymore.
Iran and North Korea are safe from American attacks with China watching over them.
India is screwed.
ReplyDeleteChina announced it will build a hydropower dam project on the Yarlung Zangbo River in Southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region, one of the major waters in Asia that also passes through India (known as Brahmaputra River), to harness hydroelectric power and divert water to other areas in China.
Such a plant would generate 80,000 megawatts[14] of electricity, almost four times the output (22,500 megawatts) of Three Gorges.
The project is dreaded by India because of its potential negative impact upon the residents downstream. Although India has rights to the waters of the trans-border rivers under international law, China can block the supply of water to the Indians in a Sino-Indian war.
India has nothing to worry about China. If China tries to be funny with India, India will launch an attack and take over the dam just like they took over some of the mountain tops east of Panggor Lake region. Never mind if there were no Chinese soldiers on these positions. The point is that India will attack China whenever it wanted.
ReplyDeleteThe Indian soldiers are very powerful, very well trained, the best in the world in high altitude fighting. China better be worried about being attacked by the fierce and tough Indian soldiers. The Indians are very confident they will defeat the PLA. Indian soldiers are the best.
Yes Anon 2.56. I totally agree with you that Indian soldiers are the best when fighting in the dark. They are invisible. China has to worry about India, the invisible enemy.
ReplyDeleteChina better prepare plenty of night vision goggles for the Chinese soldiers in case the Indians launch a sneak attack in the dark. Now India is the bitch of the USA with a half Indian as vice President. China is so frightened of India now.
Indians are very good in high altitude fighting. I must agree too. The Indian rope trick is world famous. They can be used by Indian soldiers to sit high up in the air so they can see the Chinese soldiers from afar and shoot at them. This is their greatest secret asset.
India will attack China whenever it wanted. I agree too. Why wait? Chinese soldiers will all be sitting in their armchairs and letting them attack. Just like taking candy from a kid. How simple, just like in those video games!
Hahaha. Not me laughing. It is my toes!
Indian soldiers can't even win in unarmed combat with Chinese soldiers - more than 20 got killed . . . haha India the best !!
ReplyDeleteHow many nuclear missiles that China have is not known to the West. They can only guess it is just a few hundred, but being a non signatory to any nuclear treaty, the numbers could be even more. After all, the Chinese knows the USA had been planning a war against China a long time in coming, and the Chinese are not using the last few decades idling by to be extinguished.
ReplyDeleteMost nuclear missile are underground and moved about frequently across more than 3000 miles (or kilometers which I am not even sure exactly, being not a strategic analyst) of huge tunnels. This is the strategy against an enemy with massive nuclear advantage. That has been the deterrent used by North Korea as well. They have few nuclear missiles, but can still wreck considerable damage if threatened.
The USA is far superior in numbers of nuclear arsenals, but they do not know where those Chinese retaliation missiles are hidden and that makes it impossible to take them all out with a first strike. After all, China is a huge country and hitting every suspected location is like looking for a needle in a haystack. Miss a few and the consequence can be disastrous. China's missile are now hypersonic and as deadly as the enemy's.
More than that, there are reports that China has been building submarine bases deep under the sea, offshore, and these are for submarines able to launch a retaliatory strike near to the enemy home ground,
"A specific incident described to Dr Crompvoets involved an incident where members from the ‘SASR’ were driving along a road and saw two 14-year-old boys whom they decided might be Taliban sympathisers. They stopped, searched the boys and slit their throats. The rest of the Troop then had to ‘clean up the mess’, which involved bagging the bodies and throwing them into a nearby river. Dr Crompvoets says she was told this was not an isolated incident. In this context, Dr Crompvoets says she was told that Special Forces soldiers were committing unsanctioned killing in order to ‘get a name for themselves’ and to join the ‘in’ group."
ReplyDeleteFrom page 120 of AFGHANISTAN INQUIRY REPORT
The Chinese FM spokesman tweeted a computer-generated image purporting to show a special forces soldier slitting the throat of an Afghan child with its head wrapped in an Australian flag. "Don't be afraid we are coming to bring you peace," words placed over the image state.
ReplyDeleteSo it is true that the Aussie soldier did slit the throat of an Afghan child, according to the AFGHANISTAN INQUIRY REPORT.
Yet Australian PM Scott Morrison got the cheek to say: "The Chinese government should be totally ashamed of this post. It diminishes them in the world's eyes."
Show Morrison the middle finger.
ReplyDeleteThey have been spreading their white lies and would not admit their evilness and wickedness. They have no respect for the lives of coloured people especially the Arabs and Muslims.
See how happy and ready they are to send troops to kill the Arabs, Muslims and Afghans.
Chinese ‘Wolf Warrior’ Diplomat Enrages Australia With Twitter Post - WSJ
ReplyDelete"If your opponent is of choleric temper, seek to irritate him. Pretend to be weak, that he may grow arrogant." - Sun Tzu.
A head of state throwing a temper tantrum due to a tweet from a mid-level foreign diplomat. Not unless the diplomat hit a raw nerve.
The white Aussies cannot take it when their evilness is exposed to the world. The media today is now used to expose all the crimes of the whites that they used to hide away when they controlled the media. Now it is impossible to control and censor the media of their crimes against humanity. They never had to face such painful news, like washing their dirty linens in public.
ReplyDeleteThey cannot hide and pretend that they did not do it. They are exposed, stripped naked for the world to see....their brutality, animalistic traits, killing to show their manhood, killing children and the unarmed victims.
Shame, shame, shame. The Aussies and the likes of Morrison did not know what hit them and still wanting to tell the world that it is not true, they are the white angels of God, never kill for the sake of killing.
No more white lies.
People who live in glass houses should not throw stones. The whites and their empires and colonies, their genocides and enslavement of the natives of the world, are carefully swept under the carpet and western media would avoid talking about it.
ReplyDeleteToday everyone can use their media to expose the crimes of the whites against the people of the world. They are still killing the Arabs and Muslims today like they are not human beans, ok to kill them as and when they want. They have no respect for the Arabs and Muslims and coloured people of the world. Look at how their kill the blacks in their homeland?
Maybe to the whites and their Gods, it is ok to kill coloured people. Coloured lives are nothing, expendable to the whites.
Virgo49 9.21
ReplyDeleteThis is their behavior. They can hit but others cannot hit back.
Remember when Trump imposed additional tariffs on China goods he warned China not to retaliate? They think this is still the olden days of the opium war where they can dictate what they want to China. No more. Those days are over for the Whites.
Virgo49 9.40
ReplyDeleteNot to forget that the communist soldiers marched thousands of miles into the Northern and Western regions of China with Mao Tze Tung, to evade the Nationalist pursuit, enduring immense hardships along the way.
Tens of thousands lost their lives. This was a testimony to how much the Chinese communist army is willing to endure in the face of adversity.