US Navy Practices With Supersonic Missile Targets

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Press release: Orbital Launches 25th Coyote Supersonic Sea-Skimming Target Missile For U.S. Navy. Orbital, July 27, 2011
http://www.orbital.com/newsinfo/release.asp?prid=783

My comment:
(a) Fact sheet: GQM-163A Coyote; Supersonic Sea Skimming Target (SSST). Orbital, undated.
http://www.orbital.com/newsinfo/publications/coyote_fact.pdf

The graphic shows the coyote paths with (yellow) and without (white) the booster.

(b) US Navy has been testing warships' missile defense using as supersonic targets this missile and  AQM-37C/D.

(i) AQM-37
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AQM-37_Jayhawk
(air-launched; made by Raytheon; First flight 1961)
(ii) Richard Scott, Aggressive Mimicry: Multiplying Threats Drive Improved Targets. Jane's, July 13, 2011
http://www.janes.com/products/janes/defence-security-report.aspx?ID=1065930049&channel=defence

Quote:

"The US Naval Air Systems Command's (NAVAIR's) Aerial Target and Decoy Systems programme office (PMA-208), under the Program Executive Office for Unmanned Aviation and Strike Weapons, is charged with providing the US Navy (USN) with 'threat-representative aerial targets for fleet training and weapon systems test and evaluation.'

"As of mid-2011, PMA-208's eclectic stable comprised the Northrop Grumman BQM-34S Firebee and BQM-74E subsonic targets, the AQM-37C/D supersonic target and the Orbital Sciences GQM-163A Coyote Supersonic Sea-Skimming Target (SSST).
(c) The re-entry phase of DF-21D, if successful, is deemed supersonic.


-----------------------------------Separately
(1) 台前国防部长：共机越中线，将留后遗症. VOA Chinese, July 28, 2011
http://www.voanews.com/chinese/news/20110728-taiwan-defense-126310088.html
("在民进党执政时期担任国防部长的蔡明宪，星期四出席一场绿营智库举办的国防政策研讨会时表示 * * * 在2005年他担任国防部副部长时就和美国谈到采购F-16C/D战机，美方当时的态度是只要台湾有预算，美方就会卖。不过后来主要是美国国务院有所保留。蔡明宪说：'那个时候小布什总统也倾向卖给我们，但是中国的压力越来越大，美国为了北朝鲜、阿富汗问题，需要中国协助，所以这个案件，小布什总统说就让下届总统来决定，结果一拖下来，中国的压力越来越大。'”)

(2) 日本欲同中韩联手应对旅游危机. VOA Chinese, July 28, 2011
http://www.voanews.com/chinese/news/20110728-Japan-tourism-126311748.html

Note:
(a) Gotemba, Shizuoka  静岡県 御殿場市
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gotenba

My comment:
(a) Japanese Wiki says the origin of the name is due to the fact that remains of 徳川家康 (1543-1616) was first buried at 久能山東照宮 Kunōzan Tōshō-gū
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kun%C5%8Dzan_T%C5%8Dsh%C5%8D-g%C5%AB
(at 静岡県静岡市)
and reburied a year later (1617) at 日光東照宮 Nikkō Tōshō-gū
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikk%C5%8D_T%C5%8Dsh%C5%8D-g%C5%AB
(at 栃木県日光市)
; in the midst, a make-shift 御殿 was built and the place name 御殿場 was born.
(b) Here is the tourist statistics at Japan National Tourism Organization (JNTO), which shows foreign visitors from Taiwan, Thailand, US and UK started returning to Japan in June (but not S Korea, China and others).
http://www.jnto.go.jp/eng/ttp/sta/PDF/E2011.pdf

(3) 台湾特侦组将首长特别费全数签结. BBC Chinese, July 28, 2011
http://www.bbc.co.uk/zhongwen/simp/chinese_news/2011/07/110728_taiwan_embezzlement_investigation.shtml
("被签结者包括了连战及马英九等人。签结意谓着司法将不再调查其是否犯罪，这是因为台湾立法院在5月通过修法，将首长特别费予以除罪，即使有涉及刑事责任者也因法律修改而不必处罚")

(4) Jeremy Page, China Says Carrier Won't Alter Naval Strategy. Wall Street Journal, July 28, 2011.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111903635604576472014072981554.html

Quote:

"To be effective, at least two or three carriers are required, so that at least one can remain active while another undergoes repairs, and each active one requires its own carrier group including several other vessels, according to Chinese and foreign defense experts.

"But the state-run Xinhua news agency quoted Cao Weidong, a researcher with the PLA Navy's Academic Research Institute, as saying that China's first carrier was a conventionally-powered medium-sized carrier equipped with indigenous Chinese engines, ship-borne aircraft, radar and other hardware.


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