美海军积极寻求反制中国威胁

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VOA Chinese, Jan 9, 2015 (video)
www.voachinese.com/content/us-navy-20150108/2590936.html
("1月7号星期三在首都华盛顿大西洋理事会主办的一场活动中，美国海军部助理部长肖恩•史塔克里（Sean Stackley） * * * ：'海军研究实验室、应用物理实验室和整体作战系统总管办公室正在应对东风-21D的威胁。海军研究实验室已经将便携式的模块化电子战装备投入应用，以超乎寻常的快速行动应对巡航导弹的威胁'")

My comment:
(a) We may dismiss the talk as a ploy by Pentagon to get more funding--at least not further cut of its budget. However, what is interesting is "便携式的模块化电子战装备."
(b) shahriyar Gourgi, Kill Old Procurement Laws, Congress! Stackley, Punaro. Scoop.com, Jan 8, 2015
www.scoop.it/t/shahriyar-gourgi- ... ess-stackley-punaro

Quote:

"WASHINGTON: One of the Pentagon procurement system’s top officials and one of its harshest critics sounded optimistic today that the military can improve how it buys weapons. The key, both said, is for Congress to repeal old laws that now get in the way before it writes anything new — an idea to which the new chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, Mac Thornberry [birth name: William McClellan Thornberry; R-Texas], might be very receptive.

"The Navy rapidly fielded 'a transportable electronic warfare module' to stop cruise missile attacks, he said; it [Navy] accelerated development of new anti-torpedo defenses in time for the carrier George HW Bush to carry them on its latest deployment to the Persian Gulf; and it’s working on countermeasures to the Chinese DF-21D anti-ship ballistic missile. But with the Pentagon’s new Offset Strategy launched because the US miltiary’s [sic] technological advantage is eroding, rapid innovation needs to become mainstream, not an exception. That requires major reform.'"  (quoting Stackley)

(i) This is the ONLY report Google finds for this speech, that spells out the mysterious weapon system by name (there is just another report on this speech).
(ii) What is Punaro. The texyt identifies him this way: "NDIA is the National Defense Industrial Association, which co-sponsored today’s event at the Atlantic Council and whose chairman, retired Marine Corps two-star Arnold Punaro, introduced Stackley with high praise this morning."
(iii) NDIA, as revealed by its name is a trade group--basically a consortium of weapon manufacturers--whose board chairman happens to be Mr Punaro.
(iv) Incidentally, about "www.scoop.it." Naturally the "it" is the domain name for Italy. However, the home page of the website makes it unambiguously clear: The it--at the same time signaling its is a domain registered with Italy--means "'Scoop. it!  You are the content you publish"--apparently modeled after the phrase: you are what you eat. Its headquarters is at San Francisco.

(c) Understandably there is scant information about transportable electronic warfare module (TEWM)--it must be a top secret. I can only find two items (one locked behind pay wall and the other is old).
(i) Richard Scott, USN pushes ahead with accelerated soft-kill upgrade. IHS Jane's Defense Weekly, Jan 20, 2014.
www.janes.com/article/32662/usn- ... d-soft-kill-upgrade
(iii) DE Tremper, RS Cortesi, J Heyer, J Geib, and D Bay, Transportable Electronic Warfare Module (TEWM). 2009 NRL Review 160-161
www.nrl.navy.mil/content_images/09_Electronics_Tremper.pdf

* NRL stands for  Office of Naval Research, which funded/funds the research.
* The only figure in this report showed indeed the equipment is portable.
* It is conceivable that electronic warfare (giant-sized or portable) can be a countermeasure for Taiwan against China's missiles, others being interference with GPS (US will do it for Taiwan, but China is developing its Beidou) and AGM-88 HARM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AGM-88_HARM

Taiwan develops a cousin: Tien Chien 天劍 or Sky Sword.