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Thursday, January 07, 2010

Ballistic trajectory - China develops new anti-ship missile

DF-21C / DF-25 Conventional Medium-Range Ballistic MissileIt seems a cliché to cite Sun Zi's maxim "in war, the way is to avoid what is strong and to strike at what is weak".

Yet, this universally accepted approach does seem to correspond to Chinese military planning. Nowhere is this more true than in such ballistic missile developments as its anti-ship ballistic missile (ASBM) programme, one of several weapons designed to exploit relative Chinese military strengths against relative military weaknesses of the United States.

Through this approach, China is working to make it more difficult for the US to intervene militarily in China's maritime periphery.

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