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Wednesday, May 14, 2014

PLA's 'Long Sword' missiles deadly to US, Japan, Taiwan: report

CJ-10 Long SwordChina's CJ-10 "Long Sword" cruise missile has capabilities that match those of the American Block-IV Tomahawk and could be devastating in a potential naval conflict against the US, Japan or Taiwan, according to a report published in US-based political magazine The National Interest.

The May 12 article, jointly written by military experts Dennis Gormley from the University of Pittsburgh, Andrew S Erickson from the Naval War College in Newport and Jingdong Yuan from the University of Sydney, claims that China's cruise missile development has been advancing rapidly under the radar while the US Navy has limited itself severely in both the type and quantity of its own anti-ship cruise missiles.

In terms of land-attack cruise missiles, China has deployed the air-launched YJ-63 with a range of 200 km and the 1,500+ km-range ground-launched DH-10, the article said, adding that both systems have benefited from technical assistance from Russia.

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