The US just quietly challenged China on something Beijing promised to go to war over

[Feng Leng]

Interesting. When were you born?

He is a Vietnamese American who served in the USAF as an enlisted man back in the 1980s.

 

[nang2]

He is a Vietnamese American who served in the USAF as an enlisted man back in the 1980s.

I know that, except his years of service.

 

[j20blackdragon]

Of course it is. It has a hostile military towards mainland. It has a hostile government that is more willing to offer Taiwan to some other global powers as a military base. Don't underestimate their hatred towards Chinese. THEY ARE NOT CHINESE!

Don't be ridiculous. The Taiwanese government might be delusional, but the Taiwanese people are Chinese. One of the reasons why the Chinese semiconductor industry is growing so fast is because China is poaching Taiwan engineers. SMIC's current Co-CEO is from Taiwan.

TAIPEI (Reuters) - A huge pay rise, eight free trips home a year and a heavily subsidized apartment. It was a dream job offer that a Taiwanese engineer simply could not refuse.

More than 300 senior engineers from Taiwan have moved to Chinese chipmakers so far this year, joining nearly 1,000 others who have relocated since Beijing set up a $22 billion fund to develop the chip industry in 2014, according to estimates from H&L Management Consultants, a Taipei-based recruitment firm.

Lin Yu-Hsuan, a manager at the recruitment firm H&L, said engineers from Taiwan were lured by high pay, perks and more senior positions at Chinese chipmakers like Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp (SMIC) that are flush with cash from China’s multi-billion chip fund.

“Many of them said: ‘the money I will earn in China in three years is equivalent to what I could get in Taiwan in 10 years. I could retire earlier’,” Lin said.

The engineer at the wafer foundry, who declined to be named as the details of his contract were not public, said his Chinese employer offered him a new three-bedroom apartment with a 40 percent discount on the condition that he worked for the company for more than five years, in addition to a 50 percent pay rise. He declined to give the exact figure.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...-taiwan-with-fat-salaries-perks-idUSKCN1LK0H1

 

[F-22Raptor]

Sure. Having a brilliant keyboard strategist like you, US Navy will surely follow your advises faithfully.

China better take Taiwan soon, because the US is rapidly developing its antiship capabilities. The US is purchasing over 1,000 antiship missiles in the next 5 years alone.

4 B-1 bombers alone could launch nearly 100 LRASMs into Chinese naval groups. LRASM is the most advanced antiship missile in the world, and is almost impossible to shoot down. Chinese ships will be introduced to the sea floor.

 

[nang2]

Don't be ridiculous. The Taiwanese government might be delusional, but the Taiwanese people are Chinese. One of the reasons why the Chinese semiconductor industry is growing so fast is because China is poaching Taiwan engineers. SMIC's current Co-CEO is from Taiwan.








https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...-taiwan-with-fat-salaries-perks-idUSKCN1LK0H1

Those who still consider themselves Chinese are just unlucky ones. They are too weak to express their thoughts (so much for the freedom). On the other hand, the Chinese haters are united and formed a strong alliance with first Japan and then US to rule over this Chinese island. Their government is NOT delusional. Anyone who is apologetic about their government is himself delusional. Their people, especially those who still consider themselves Chinese, are also delusional. They bask themselves in the feel-good warmth of democracy and don't see the danger looming.

China better take Taiwan soon, because the US is rapidly developing its antiship capabilities. The US is purchasing over 1,000 antiship missiles in the next 5 years alone.

4 B-1 bombers alone could launch nearly 100 LRASMs into Chinese naval groups. LRASM is the most advanced antiship missile in the world, and is almost impossible to shoot down. Chinese ships will be introduced to the sea floor.

Oh good, an even more brilliant one.

 

[F-22Raptor]

Those who still consider themselves Chinese are just unlucky ones. They are too weak to express their thoughts (so much for the freedom). On the other hand, the Chinese haters are united and formed a strong alliance with first Japan and then US to rule over this Chinese island. Their government is NOT delusional. Anyone who is apologetic about their government is himself delusional. Their people, especially those who still consider themselves Chinese, are also delusional. They bask themselves in the feel-good warmth of democracy and don't see the danger looming.


Oh good, an even more brilliant one.

Whatever deployment mode is used, LRASM can cover the entire distance between China’s coast and the island chain stretching from the Philippines through Taiwan to the Japanese archipelago. China’s naval planners have been trying to turn this area into a sanctuary from which they can exclude U.S. military forces—even though it contains international shipping routes—but with LRASM, the sanctuary turns into a trap for Beijing’s maritime aspirations. China’s navy has little means to counter a maneuvering weapon that generates no trackable radar return or infrared signature.

LRASM is built by Lockheed Martin, which is also the prime contractor for the Air Force missile from which it is derived. Its high-tech seeker was created by BAE Systems. Both companies contribute to my think tank and are consulting clients, which has enabled me to learn a fair amount about how the munition works. It is the epitome of a smart weapon, able to precisely target hostile warships even when enemies are jamming GPS signals, and hit the most vulnerable part of the target. Targeting coordinates can be updated in flight from local or overhead sources, but the seeker is designed to operate autonomously once it is near its target.

It is devilishly difficult to defeat an incoming missile that you can’t see, and that operates in multiple frequencies to find its aimpoint. Once that aimpoint is reached, the missile’s thousand-pound blast fragmentation warhead would make quick work of most Chinese warships. Stealthy smart weapons are intrinsically more efficient that other munitions, because they almost always reach their targets, so few rounds are wasted. Because it is so agile, LRASM can approach well-defended targets only a few feet above the water (that’s called sea-skimming) and it can identify its intended target with high reliability.

As if all of this were not enough, Lockheed Martin has built the missile to be compact so that it fits readily into existing launch systems. If deployed on a U.S. destroyer, for example, the warship can continue to perform its air and missile defense mission even as it assumes a more robust anti-ship role. And growth margin has been incorporated into the munition to allow further refinements as new technology becomes available. The system has been successfully demonstrated on carrier-based F/A-18 fighters and Air Force B-1 bombers (a B-1 can carry two dozen of the weapons, enough to destroy an entire Chinese naval task force).

The goal, of course, is not to threaten China but to enforce U.S. maritime rights in the Western Pacific. Once LRASM is deployed in numbers, Beijing will know that any aggressive move at sea could be stopped in its tracks at relatively low cost to U.S. forces. In other words, the weapon is a potent deterrent—a low-cost, easily deployed, highly lethal system. Years of testing have demonstrated that LRASM works as advertised, so now the question is how widely it will be deployed with Navy and Marine units.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/lorent...-for-defeating-hostile-warships/#7deab26015cb

Good luck China!

 

[nang2]

Whatever deployment mode is used, LRASM can cover the entire distance between China’s coast and the island chain stretching from the Philippines through Taiwan to the Japanese archipelago. China’s naval planners have been trying to turn this area into a sanctuary from which they can exclude U.S. military forces—even though it contains international shipping routes—but with LRASM, the sanctuary turns into a trap for Beijing’s maritime aspirations. China’s navy has little means to counter a maneuvering weapon that generates no trackable radar return or infrared signature.

LRASM is built by Lockheed Martin, which is also the prime contractor for the Air Force missile from which it is derived. Its high-tech seeker was created by BAE Systems. Both companies contribute to my think tank and are consulting clients, which has enabled me to learn a fair amount about how the munition works. It is the epitome of a smart weapon, able to precisely target hostile warships even when enemies are jamming GPS signals, and hit the most vulnerable part of the target. Targeting coordinates can be updated in flight from local or overhead sources, but the seeker is designed to operate autonomously once it is near its target.

It is devilishly difficult to defeat an incoming missile that you can’t see, and that operates in multiple frequencies to find its aimpoint. Once that aimpoint is reached, the missile’s thousand-pound blast fragmentation warhead would make quick work of most Chinese warships. Stealthy smart weapons are intrinsically more efficient that other munitions, because they almost always reach their targets, so few rounds are wasted. Because it is so agile, LRASM can approach well-defended targets only a few feet above the water (that’s called sea-skimming) and it can identify its intended target with high reliability.

As if all of this were not enough, Lockheed Martin has built the missile to be compact so that it fits readily into existing launch systems. If deployed on a U.S. destroyer, for example, the warship can continue to perform its air and missile defense mission even as it assumes a more robust anti-ship role. And growth margin has been incorporated into the munition to allow further refinements as new technology becomes available. The system has been successfully demonstrated on carrier-based F/A-18 fighters and Air Force B-1 bombers (a B-1 can carry two dozen of the weapons, enough to destroy an entire Chinese naval task force).

The goal, of course, is not to threaten China but to enforce U.S. maritime rights in the Western Pacific. Once LRASM is deployed in numbers, Beijing will know that any aggressive move at sea could be stopped in its tracks at relatively low cost to U.S. forces. In other words, the weapon is a potent deterrent—a low-cost, easily deployed, highly lethal system. Years of testing have demonstrated that LRASM works as advertised, so now the question is how widely it will be deployed with Navy and Marine units.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/lorent...-for-defeating-hostile-warships/#7deab26015cb

Good luck China!

Your brilliance just keeps on growing and glowing.

 

[j20blackdragon]

Those who still consider themselves Chinese are just unlucky ones. They are too weak to express their thoughts (so much for the freedom). On the other hand, the Chinese haters are united and formed a strong alliance with first Japan and then US to rule over this Chinese island. Their government is NOT delusional. Anyone who is apologetic about their government is himself delusional. Their people, especially those who still consider themselves Chinese, are also delusional. They bask themselves in the feel-good warmth of democracy and don't see the danger looming.

Here's a picture of the first president of the Republic of China; and the first leader of the Kuomintang on top of Xi Jinping.

Is Xi delusional? You should tell that to his face.

 

[nang2]

Here's a picture of the first president of the Republic of China; and the first leader of the Kuomintang on top of Xi Jinping.
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Is Xi delusional? You should tell that to his face.

The Republic of China ended in 1949. I don't know what you want to say here.

 

[Feng Leng]

Those who still consider themselves Chinese are just unlucky ones. They are too weak to express their thoughts (so much for the freedom). On the other hand, the Chinese haters are united and formed a strong alliance with first Japan and then US to rule over this Chinese island. Their government is NOT delusional. Anyone who is apologetic about their government is himself delusional. Their people, especially those who still consider themselves Chinese, are also delusional. They bask themselves in the feel-good warmth of democracy and don't see the danger looming.

This is correct. DPP considers pro-unification sentiments to be treason and punishable by law. There is nothing sacred about having ethnic Chinese heritage. @j20blackdragon should stop being such a racialist. If anybody harbors anti-China views like this, they should be executed -- Chinese heritage or not.

 

[zn426]

Any battle for Taiwan is mainly an area denial/air superiority war. To defend Taiwan, there must be total control of the skies as that will create a vital choke point as China tries to send troops across the channel via ship, helicopter, or large cargo planes. That is the main reason the PRC has never attacked Taiwan-they never possessed the power projection capabilities that the US does with its aircraft carrier fleet. Attacking Taiwan would be a test of China's area denial strategy as they want to keep US forces out of the region so they can do as they please. If the US and Taiwan were to win even a limited war it would put a check on Chinese aspirations in the region for the while. For that reason, I do not believe that China will attack Taiwan until they are absolutely assured of total victory. Anything less would mean instability as others disgruntled with China in the region would seek to assert their own position.

 

[Feng Leng]

Good luck China!

You know the LSRAM is exactly the same specs as the YJ-18 we current deploy, right

Keep fantasizing though about your future super weapon like an Indian or Vietnamese

 

[F-22Raptor]

You know the LSRAM is exactly the same specs as the YJ-18 we current deploy, right

Keep fantasizing though about your future super weapon like an Indian or Vietnamese

The YJ-18 is in no way comparable to LRASM. It's neither a VLO design nor does it have the advanced autonomous capability of LRASM.

LRASM is the most advanced antiship missile design in the world.

 

[j20blackdragon]

This is correct. DPP considers pro-unification sentiments to be treason and punishable by law. There is nothing sacred about having ethnic Chinese heritage. @j20blackdragon should stop being such a racialist. If anybody harbors anti-China views like this, they should be executed -- Chinese heritage or not.

Picture of the first president of the Republic of China; and the first leader of the Kuomintang proudly displayed at Tiananmen Square.

Proudly displayed above Chinese President Xi Jinping.

 

[nang2]

Picture of the first president of the Republic of China; and the first leader of the Kuomintang proudly displayed at Tiananmen Square.
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Proudly displayed above Chinese President Xi Jinping.
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Yeah, even more proudly than Taiwanese.