The U.S. Navy is greatly endangered by the global proliferation of anti-ship ballistic and cruise missiles. Some analysts, like Dennis Gormley, Andrew Erickson, and Jingdong Yuan at the National Defense University, say U.S. aircraft carriers in the western Pacific are sitting ducks for communist China’s missiles, especially their CM-400AKG Mach 5.5 Wrecker cruise missile and their DF-21 ballistic missile, dubbed “the carrier killer.” They are wrong.
Simply put, the ongoing improvement of missile defense systems on U.S. Navy warships is keeping pace with the development of new Chinese missiles and with others that are appearing in North Korea, Iran, and Russia.
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Ultimately all this is empty talk from both sides because as with pre-game analysis, the only thing that matters is what actually happens once the game or war begins. However, before anybody gets too smug about our anti-missile technology they better wonder if the Chinese have been cyber-snooping around in the blueprints of our systems as we know they are already doing in so many parts of our military-industrial complex... the greatest migration of intellectual and proprietary technological property in human history has been occurring in recent years headed into China from North America and Europe.
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