标题: Follow-Up on WSJ Report on US Missile Shield [打印本页] 作者: choi 时间: 8-25-2012 12:07 标题: Follow-Up on WSJ Report on US Missile Shield Brian Spegele, James Hookway and Yuka Hayashi, US Missile Shield Plan Seen Stoking China Fears. Wall Street Journal, Aug 25, 2012. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB ... 09054116070694.html
My comment: The report states, "' Attempting to overcome this reality ["to overwhelm an enhanced missile defense with firepowr" or more missiles] would risk entering the US into a race that it could not afford to wage, let alone win,' wrote China security analysts Andrew Erickson and Gabe Collins in a commentary for the Wall Street Journal."
(a) The blog does not say anything substantive.
(b) But it (blog) states, "China’s military overall still has weaknesses such areas as training and real-time coordination of sensors, but the SAF enjoys particular strengths in these respects as well and should not be underestimated."
(3) Bill Gertz, Ready to Launch; China conducts rare flight test of new submarine-launched missile. Washington Free Beacon, Aug 21, 2012. http://freebeacon.com/ready-to-launch/
Quote:
"The flight test of the new JL-2 missile took place Thursday [Aug 16] morning from a new Jin-class ballistic missile submarine on patrol in the Bohai Sea, near the coast of northeastern China west of the Korean peninsula, said U.S. officials. A Defense Intelligence Agency spokesman declined to comment on the test. The submarine missile firing followed the July 24 test launch of China’s new DF-41 road-mobile ICBM that is assessed to carry multiple independently targetable re-entry vehicles, or MIRVs
"The last known test of a JL-2 missile took place around early January when as many as six underwater missiles were fired, according to Taiwan’s Defense Ministry. Those tests took place near the major Chinese submarine base at Xiaopingdao, near the port of Dalian, and were fired from at least two submarines.
My comment:
(a) The report did not mention if the tests on JL-2 or DF-41 were successful.
(b) Remember Dr Wen Ho Lee, who was accused of assisting China with downsizing nuclear warheads, so that China might have MIRV. Well, China has not mastered the art of the downsizing.