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Title: Supreme Power No More? Chinese Air Defenses Could Soon Neutralize U.S. Stealth Fighters
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Published: Sep 4, 2020
Author: Selwyn Duke
Post Date: 2020-09-04 10:33:51 by Ada
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Air Defenses Could Soon Neutralize U.S. Stealth Fighters In simulated war games against China, the United States “gets it’s a** handed to it,” said a military analyst last year. True or not, there’s now another troubling development on this front: Advances in Chinese air defenses could soon render American air power ineffective, according to one expert. As the National Interest reports: While the West has been focusing on the power of advanced Russian anti-aircraft missiles such as the S-400, it should have been watching China. China is pulling ahead of Russia, especially in terms of sophisticated radars and sensors, according to a British expert. “I’d say we should have been paying more attention to Chinese systems alongside the Russian ones,” Justin Bronk, a researcher at Britain’s Royal United Services Institute, told the National Interest. “Not because the latter aren’t still superior, but because of the threat trajectory of the former. China will eventually catch up to and then surpass Russian missile and sensor technologies; and with a much more capable air force and economy than Russia.” Bronk recently authored a RUSI analysis of Russian and Chinese integrated air defense systems (IAD), those multilayered networks of surface-to-air missiles [SAM] and radars that give Western air forces nightmares. While Russia anti-aircraft weapons such as the S-400 (NATO code name: SA-21 Growler) are more capable than China’s HQ-9 missiles, China has more resources for developing even more advanced systems. Bronk believes that U.S. airpower will soon be inhibited by improvements in China’s air defenses, which will extend across coastal SAM sites on the Chinese mainland, missile batteries on artificial islands in the South China Sea, and better anti-aircraft weapons on Chinese warships. “Coupled with the rapid modernization and professionalization of the PLAAF [People’s Liberation Army Air Force], the ability for the U.S. and its allies to project airpower within 1,000 kilometers [621 miles] of China’s mainland shore in a conflict will shrink dramatically on current trends through the 2020s.” Many may find the notion that the United States — long considered the superpower’s superpower — could lose a conflict to China fanciful. Note, however, that we took the U.S.S.R. seriously decades ago and take Russia seriously today, and China’s economy is eight times that nation’s economy’s size. This is significant because military power tends to follow economic power. Speaking of power, other experts have also warned that America’s is overrated while China’s is growing. As Breaking Defense (BD) reported last year: The US keeps losing, hard, in simulated wars with Russia and China. Bases burn. Warships sink. … “In our games, when we fight Russia and China,” RAND analyst David Ochmanek said this afternoon, “blue gets it’s a[**] handed to it.” In other words, in RAND’s wargames, which are often sponsored by the Pentagon, the US forces — colored blue on wargame maps — suffer heavy losses in one scenario after another and still can’t stop Russia or China — red — from achieving their objectives, like overrunning US allies. No, it’s not a Red Dawn nightmare scenario where the Commies conquer Colorado. But losing the Baltics or Taiwan would shatter American alliances, shock the global economy, and topple the world order the US has led since World War II. How could this happen, when we spend over $700 billion a year on everything from thousand-foot-long nuclear-powered aircraft carriers to supersonic stealth fighters? Well, it turns out US superweapons have a little too much Achilles in their heels. Providing an example, BD continues, “In every case I know of,” said Robert Work, a former deputy secretary of defense with decades of wargaming experience, “the F-35 rules the sky when it’s in the sky, but it gets killed on the ground in large numbers.” Essentially the same warning was issued by former deputy CIA director Michael Morell in a November 2018 CBS Evening News interview (video below).
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#1. To: Ada (#0)
Is anyone surprised? The MIC of the usa has been dining on sloth and substidies for around 50 years. Pretty sure the CEOs of northrup grumman , lockheed, and boeing all have their names in epstines log books. Lazy, degenerate , wealth paristies that know more about lobbying than they do about reliable defense. ______________________________________ Suspect all media / resist bad propaganda/Learn NLP everyday everyway ;) If you don't control your mind someone else will.
"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke
Iran also has the ability to see electronically supposedly Stealth aircraft. The HQ 9 was built based on American tech sold to China by Israel and old S-300 air defense systems. They sold it to Iran more than 12 years ago. The Russians are building the S-600. They have deployed the S-500 already. If Iran can see stealth jets, then Russia can. Iran has Mach 14 missiles that can hit Israel. They got them from Russia. We don't have anything like that. Russia has missiles that can be fired into orbit and be brought down anywhere on the globe to sink any aircraft carrier they want. We have no such technology. We allow Wall Street to steal tens of trillions from the taxpayers so we have no defenses but we do have infrastructure badly in need of repair. The Truth of 911 Shall Set You Free From The Lie
Perhaps anyone here that uses the term "MIC" will tell us the original roots of that term??? I am aware of Ikes tv address, tell me the roots he used???
LoLoLoLoLoLoLoLoLoL!!!!! "Made in China", even with pirated technology, says it all. “With the exception of Whites, the rule among the peoples of the world, whether residing in their homelands or settled in Western democracies, is ethnocentrism and moral particularism: they stick together and good means what is good for their ethnic group." When I worked for State of Illinois they caught one of the contractors cheating on the road base. It was supposed to be 6" of #2 gravel under the concrete. In some places it was 2" and in others it was mixed with junk like ground up car batteries. The fines were so heavy they went bankrupt and formed a new corporation and then re-opened under a different name. ;) "When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke
#2. To: Ada, All (#0)
#3. To: Ada (#0)
#4. To: titorite, ADA, Horse (#1)
Lazy, degenerate , wealth paristies that know more about lobbying than they do about reliable defense.
#5. To: Ada (#0)
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Advances in Chinese air defenses could soon render American air power ineffective, according to one expert.
-Alex Kurtagic 
#6. To: Horse (#3)
we do have infrastructure badly in need of repair.
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