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Tuesday, March 10, 2015

DARPA's Anti-Ship Missile Still Less Deadly Than Chinese ‘Carrier Killer’

Long Range Anti-Ship Missile (LRASM)While DARPA has developed a long-awaited anti-ship missile for the United States Navy, the new weapon will be no match for one of the threats it was designed to counter, China’s so-called “carrier killer” missile.

At 15 tons and 35 feet tall, China’s DF-21D Dong Feng missile is rumored to be able to travel at speeds as fast as Mach 10 and has an effective range of up to 1,200 miles. In the event of a conflict, the weapon would pose a major threat to US aircraft carriers off the coast of Taiwan.

In response to the Navy’s call for a similarly sophisticated weapon system, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency spent years developing its own Long Range Anti-Ship Missile. According to DARPA, LRASM aims "to provide a leap ahead in US surface warfare capability."

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1 comment:

  1. Anonymous10/3/15 23:04

    "rumored". And this put in by a site called "Sputnik news" which is Russian in all of its news. That and it said the ESSM sparrows were made to counter it, which is ludicrous.

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