Chinese Develop Special ‘Kill Weapon’ To Destroy US Aircraft Carriers! US Panic at China’s New Ship Killer!

• I want to put an end to the idea amongst most people who thinks that the American naval armada in the Persian Gulf is invincible. And that American forces will conduct ‘shock and awe’ against Iran much like they did in Iraq. I don’t think so! Even without the Chinese DongFeng DF21 carrier killer missile, Iran’s possession of possibly thousands of SS-N-22 Sunburn and SS-N-25/26 Super Surnburns (Onyx/Yakhont) is enough to annihilate the western naval armada in the Strait of Hormuz. If Iran has in their possession the Chinese DF21 aircraft carrier killer, it is game over for the western armada! Better sail to the Caribbean for BBQ and get out of sight!
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• This war is not going to be a walk in the park by any means. The possession of super-sonic anti-ship missiles is the asymmetric game changer in naval warfare. All eyes are on this battle: Supersonic anti-ship missile vs aircraft carrier! It will confirm the suspicions of many that the aircraft carrier is obsolete! I quote: “Ships currently have no defense against a ballistic missile attack.”. Emphasis mine:
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  Chinese Develop Special ‘Kill Weapon’ to Destroy US Aircraft Carriers! 
  by U. S. Naval Institute, March 31, 2009
  With tensions already rising due to the Chinese navy becoming more aggressive in asserting its territorial claims in the South China Sea, the U.S. Navy seems to have yet another reason to be deeply concerned. After years of conjecture, details have begun to emerge of a “kill weapon” developed by the Chinese to target and destroy U.S. aircraft carriers.
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  First posted on a Chinese blog viewed as credible by military analysts and then translated by the naval affairs blog Information Dissemination, a recent report provides a description of an anti-ship ballistic missile (ASBM) that can strike carriers and other U.S. vessels at a range of 2000km.
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  The range of the modified Dong Feng 21 missile is significant in that it covers the areas that are likely hot zones for future confrontations between U.S. and Chinese surface forces.
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  The size of the missile enables it to carry a warhead big enough to inflict significant damage on a large vessel, providing the Chinese the capability of destroying a U.S. supercarrier in one strike.
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  Because the missile employs a complex guidance system, low radar signature and a maneuverability that makes its flight path unpredictable, the odds that it can evade tracking systems to reach its target are increased. It is estimated that the missile can travel at mach 10 and reach its maximum range of 2000km in less than 12 minutes.
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  Supporting the missile is a network of satellites, radar and unmanned aerial vehicles that can locate U.S. ships and then guide the weapon, enabling it to hit moving targets.
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  While the ASBM has been a topic of discussion within national defense circles for quite some time, the fact that information is now coming from Chinese sources indicates that the weapon system is operational. The Chinese rarely mention weapons projects unless they are well beyond the test stages.
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  If operational as is believed, the system marks the first time a ballistic missile has been successfully developed to attack vessels at sea. Ships currently have no defense against a ballistic missile attack.
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  Along with the Chinese naval build-up, U.S. Navy officials appear to view the development of the anti-ship ballistic missile as a tangible threat. After spending the last decade placing an emphasis on building a fleet that could operate in shallow waters near coastlines, the U.S. Navy seems to have quickly changed its strategy over the past several months to focus on improving the capabilities of its deep sea fleet and developing anti-ballistic defenses.
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  As analyst Raymond Pritchett notes in a post on the U.S. Naval Institute blog:
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  “The Navy’s reaction is telling, because it essentially equals a radical change in direction based on information that has created a panic inside the bubble. For a major military service to panic due to a new weapon system, clearly a mission kill weapon system, either suggests the threat is legitimate or the leadership of the Navy is legitimately unqualified. There really aren’t many gray spaces in evaluating the reaction by the Navy…the data tends to support the legitimacy of the threat.”
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  In recent years, China has been expanding its navy to presumably better exert itself in disputed maritime regions. A recent show of strength in early March led to a confrontation with an unarmed U.S. ship in international waters.
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  US panic at China’s new ship killer! 
  by Peter Hartcher, http://www.smh.com.au/ 
  … In March, an analyst with the US Navy Institute, Raymond Pritchett, wrote  that the news of this new weapon had “created a panic” in the US Navy. The weapon? It is a ballistic missile designed to strike ships at sea. The US Navy Institute’s headline on the report was more dramatic: “Chinese Develop  Special ‘Kill Weapon’ to Destroy US Aircraft Carriers.”
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  The institute’s report said the Dong Feng missile was thought to have a range  of about 2000 kilometres and a speed of Mach 10: “The size of the missile  enables it to carry a warhead big enough to inflict significant damage on a  large vessel, providing the Chinese the capability of destroying a US  supercarrier in one strike.”
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  Schriver, a former navy intelligence officer who went on to become deputy  assistant secretary of state for East Asia and Pacific in the second Bush  administration, says the implications are profound: “After the Taiwan crisis in  1996, the Chinese looked at it and said, ‘what do we need to do to prevent the  US intervening like this again?'”
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  The result, 13 years later, is the Dong Feng 21. “It’s a technological leap  that’s never [before] been made,” says Schriver, now the head of a non-partisan  research body, Project 2049 Institute, and a founding partner of the consulting  firm Armitage International.
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  Navy’s Big Weakness: Our Aircraft Carriers Are (Expensive) Defenseless Sitting Ducks! 
  By Gary Brecher, http://www.alternet.org/, http://exiledonline.com/
  April 2009 – I’ve been saying for a long time that aircraft carriers are just history’s most expensive floating targets and that they were doomed.
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  But now I can tell you exactly how they’re going to die. I’ve just read one of the most shocking stories in years. It comes from the U.S. Naval Institute, not exactly an alarmist or anti-Navy source. And what it says is that the U.S. carrier group is scrap metal. The Chinese military has developed a ballistic missile, Dong Feng 21, specifically designed to kill U.S. aircraft carriers:
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  “Because the missile employs a complex guidance system, low radar signature and a maneuverability that makes its flight path unpredictable, the odds that it can evade tracking systems to reach its target are increased. It is estimated that the missile can travel at Mach 10 and reach its maximum range of 2,000 kilometers in less than 12 minutes.” 
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  That’s the U.S. Naval Institute talking, remember. They’re understating the case when they say that, with speed, satellite guidance and maneuverability like that, “the odds that it can evade tracking systems to reach its target are increased.”
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  You know why that’s an understatement? Because of a short little sentence I found further on in the article — and before you read that sentence, I want all you trusting Pentagon groupies to promise me that you’ll think hard about what it implies. Here’s the sentence: “Ships currently have no defense against a ballistic missile attack.”

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