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What , you think tanks are invincible and the exception is an antitank man?
Says who?
Once your finished in the middle east who's to know where you will go..
UAV's are an option and most likely nothing to counter it so you have it there.
Air flights are risky since you spend money on photographing a spot mabye 100 miles wide at the cost of millions per flight.
2010 is 5 years away, in 5 years you can seriosly up your navy strength.
Apart from actually being on the ship and haveing the ships names and the mine sweepers names?
Dude you dont believe anything unless its on a book or website.
There is its called not putting all your eggs in one basket!
The national guard is to support the army , not to be the sole defender of the country!
Like the US wont be bombing cities?
Yeah surface ships, subs are a diffrent matter.
The older tridents are being axed sometime in the next 4 years and being replaced by the new astute class and the newer trafalgers will be serving on.
The switsture class will stay on.
Yes, and not magically.....ask the CIA how they managed to try and assasinate the cuban pres.....and failed i might add..........
If you know stealth doesnt make you invisible just harder to find, also a rapier AND a type 42 destroyer (if i am not mistaken) tracked a B2 over scotland...
P-3's are like anycraft good but by no means the best.
America has the best subs got to admit but they wouldnt be able to just surround japan and guard it.
I am not talking about the EU but europe instead
Luxemburg =US$48,900
Exscuse me sources to what the number of US thomahawks in stock?
Its a simple fact that getting those missiles would be near improbable in time!
Its called logic, you get a gun for self defense acording to you its a defensive weapon but it is also an offensive weapon if you attacker has one.
Same logic any weapon can be used for defensive or offensive purposes , fact.
Not really, you can hide a fleet since the US cant have a satalite following a ship since the satalite is faster and doesnt have a chance of staying above it.
You cant get other ships to find them since they only have a limited range, a carrier could find them but can be destroyed so they would have to be careful.
It is my friend, why do you think navy is still there if they could just find ships by satalite or by air?
Originally posted by Disturbed Deliverer
What , you think tanks are invincible and the exception is an antitank man?
No, I think that the anti-tank methods aren't anywhere near as effective as you try to say. None of the counters you talk about ever are. You're holding weapons to a double standard.
China's "mobile" SAM's are going to be invinsible, but America's navy, tanks and planes are all going to fail miserably everytime.
Says who?
Once your finished in the middle east who's to know where you will go..
If this kind of paranoia exists overseas, then the Europeans have some real problems.
UAV's are an option and most likely nothing to counter it so you have it there.
Air flights are risky since you spend money on photographing a spot mabye 100 miles wide at the cost of millions per flight.
Millions per flight? What are you smoking?
2010 is 5 years away, in 5 years you can seriosly up your navy strength.
You can if you pump a ton of money into it. China isn't doing that.
Apart from actually being on the ship and haveing the ships names and the mine sweepers names?
Dude you dont believe anything unless its on a book or website.
I don't believe something someone claims to have heard on the internet. Half the people on here claim to no industry insiders, or someone in the military who tells them this or that.
There is its called not putting all your eggs in one basket!
The national guard is to support the army , not to be the sole defender of the country!
The National Guard is not a support army. It's job is solely to defend the mainland of America. The military's is not.
Honestly, did America hold back in WW2? No.
Like the US wont be bombing cities?
It's doubtful at this time America would bombard cities unless provoked.
Yeah surface ships, subs are a diffrent matter.
The older tridents are being axed sometime in the next 4 years and being replaced by the new astute class and the newer trafalgers will be serving on.
The switsture class will stay on.
You'll have significantly less ships.
Yes, and not magically.....ask the CIA how they managed to try and assasinate the cuban pres.....and failed i might add..........
Cuba is right off the coast of America. It's not even close to China. Is China going to train American rebels to try and launch a coup or something?
If you know stealth doesnt make you invisible just harder to find, also a rapier AND a type 42 destroyer (if i am not mistaken) tracked a B2 over scotland...
Once again, I dealt with this in another topic. I've yet to see you give a source for any of these claims. This isn't an argument.
P-3's are like anycraft good but by no means the best.
America has the best subs got to admit but they wouldnt be able to just surround japan and guard it.
The P-3's are the most advanced anti-sub technology that exists. Don't believe it? Go find something better.
I am not talking about the EU but europe instead
All of Western Europe is in the EU. It's not like Eastern Europe could help much.
Luxemburg =US$48,900
As I already said, go take a look at the real EU economic powers. You know, the ones who would actually have to finance any war Europe fought in.
Exscuse me sources to what the number of US thomahawks in stock?
Its a simple fact that getting those missiles would be near improbable in time!
I asked for names of the Chinese super weapons you keep talking about, and I get this...?
Not really, you can hide a fleet since the US cant have a satalite following a ship since the satalite is faster and doesnt have a chance of staying above it.
You cant get other ships to find them since they only have a limited range, a carrier could find them but can be destroyed so they would have to be careful.
It is my friend, why do you think navy is still there if they could just find ships by satalite or by air?
You don't need satellites to do it. We have our own bases all over the world to moniter everyone.
A bit hypocritical to talk of double standards when the US will apparently "walk all over anything the Chinese can throw at them"...
Of course they won't... they will just hold a technological advantage in certain area's. They will actually be at a numerical disadvantage.
The US is not going to risk flyovers... they have satalites that do the job anyhow... but so has China
If you count 12-15% increases every year no "pumping in money"... than what exactly do you?
China's 2004 millitary budget was around $60,000,000,000. It will be 15% higher again this year and remember money goes much further in China... so double that total in real terms of spending.
You are looking at an equivalent budget of $120,000,000,000... and thats only what they are telling you about.
Nimrod MRA4 is more capable than the Orion P3.... It's also quicker and more agile
Switzerland, Norway and Iceland are not members of the EU, though they do have a special trade agreement with EU countries.
Eastern and Central Europe can help out a lot more than you might think... They have quite a sizeable economy.
Norway and Luxemburg have a higher GDP than the US per head... but Norway is not part of the EU.
No... the US has bases in certain countries as "guests"... certainly not enough to monitor everone and everything. That's why the US has satalities to begin with. China is probably keeping just as close a watch on US movements I can asure you.
As the photo shows, the new IFV resembles some features of the BMP-3, including the two-man turret. The main armament is a 100mm gun identical to the Russian 2A70 semi-automatic rifled gun, which is stabilised in two axes and can fire either 3UOF HE-FRAG (High Explosive-Fragmentation) rounds or 3UBK10 anti-tank guided missiles. The Russian design has an effective range of 4,000m for the HE-FRAG round, and the BMP-3 IFV carries 40 rounds, 22 of which are carried on the automatic loader. The max rate of fire is 10 rounds/min.
China has revealed its indigenous 100mm gun-fired laser beamriding anti-tank guided missile, which might also be based on Russian designs such as 3UBK10. The missile is believed to be capable of engaging tanks with explosive reactive armour (ERA) as well as slow, low-flying targets such as helicopters. Range is 100 to 4,000m. Hit probability is given as at least 0.8 with armour penetration of 600mm. Ammunition load is 8 rounds on BMP-3.
Like the BMP-3, the Chinese IFV is also fitted with a two-way stabilised 30mm coaxial automatic gun capable of firing AP (Armour-Piercing) and HE-FRAG rounds. Rate of fire is more than 300 rounds/min and range is 1,500 to 2,000m.
Originally posted by imAMERICAN
Now when I referred to the nuclear strike on China, (which by the way, I don’t know what you are thinking, but, a retaliation of that magnitude, it doesn’t matter how "spread out" the Chinese are their country would be decimated and just a vapor spot, its common sense-and of course some people would survive-but 98% of the country [the people in power and what’s left of the military and infrastructure] would be destroyed) I meant that it would be in response to a Chinese nuclear strike on the USA after China fails to repel an invasion-now, of course its a possibility that China gets off a few hundred nukes, but in my post, I stated what "few" were remaining after the USAF bombing campaigns. And yes Russia, Japan and Korea would receive radiation, but in a nuclear war, Canada and Mexico and Latin America would also, and I don’t think many would care about other countries if they were being nuked.
According to the reports of the Jane's Defence Weekly, China has already launched its next generation stealthy fighter aircraft programme, and Shenyang Aircraft Industry Co. (SAC) has been selected to head research and development of a new fighter for the PLA Air Force.
Development of the subsystems including the engine and weapon suite for the next generation fighter has been underway for some time, according to the report from Jane's. Images of the concepts show a twin-engine aircraft sharing some design traits with Lockheed Martin's stealthy F/A-22 "Raptor" multirole fighter such as the internal carriage of its weapons.
Meanwhile there isn't much public information about the programme. The aircraft, which could be designated as J-13 or J-14, is still going through initial concept work, the same stage as the USAF Advanced Tactical Fighter (ATF) programme in the early 1980s, which later led to the F/A-22 Raptor. Sources within China's confirmed that the SAC is looking at a twin-engine, single-seat, single vertical tale fin design, but other design proposals has yet been ruled out.
As China has developed close ties with Russia's aerospace industry and has license produced many planes of formal Soviet designs, it can be predicted that the J-XX would include some, if not many Russian technologies and designs. China has been offered a 'joint development and production' of a new fifth-generation fighter by Russia -LFI. Russia has been trying to sell this concept both to China and India for some time, but neither of them has committed fully yet. According to Russian resources, the LFI will be able to counter U.S. second fifth-generation Joint Strike Fighter (JSF).
Stealth and thrust vectoring are two must-have features in all aircraft being designed in the 21st century. If is not clear that how much progress Chinese designers have made in these areas, and Chinese aircraft industry may have to take Western/Israeli/Russian helps to make the J-XX truly fouth-generation (or fifth-generation using the Russian standards). Once introduced, the J-12's immediate rival will be U.S. F/A-22, JSF and India's MCA (Medium Combat Aircraft).
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Originally posted by dbates
China does have a nice arsenal of mobile nuclear ICBMs (Thanks in part to the Clinton administration), but white-walled tire launchers ( nice touch) are no match for the......
Originally posted by Daedalus3
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Originally posted by dbates
China does have a nice arsenal of mobile nuclear ICBMs (Thanks in part to the Clinton administration), but white-walled tire launchers ( nice touch) are no match for the......
yes the white tyres have been the topic of amusement in this thread..just check 5 or 6 six posts above this..They are absolutely hilarious..
Originally posted by Kent
I believe that China is Americas greatest enemy as my history professor said years ago even many years before the breakup of the Soviet Union.We should launch pre-emptive strikes against Chinas above and below ground military bases an also against the major population centers and their water supplies with Red Mercury weapons which would completely destroy the regime and hundreds of millions of die hard communist bent on our destruction.The Red Mercury weapons would succeed in an complete mission success with no fallout to worry about.The time is coming and we cannot afford to be hit first!Kent Mc.csm
I am curious, the reason that China is America's greatest enemy is.............?
can you talk more about it.?
Originally posted by ChrisRT
I am curious, the reason that China is America's greatest enemy is.............?
can you talk more about it.?
Easy, they are on track to 'potentially' overtake the U.S. in economic power and match the U.S. in military technology and projection potential within the next 40 years... At that time they will be able to challenge the U.S. face to face against each others interests. If their younger generations coming in power don’t wish to convert the 'government' they have to potential to pull off a S-U type madness and spread their beliefs against others wills.