{"id":188003,"date":"2011-01-01T21:27:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-02T02:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/01\/01\/this-is-a-classic-case-of-deterrence\/"},"modified":"2011-01-01T21:27:00","modified_gmt":"2011-01-02T02:27:00","slug":"this-is-a-classic-case-of-deterrence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/01\/01\/this-is-a-classic-case-of-deterrence\/","title":{"rendered":"This is a Classic Case of Deterrence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that the <a href=\"http:\/\/defensetech.org\/2010\/12\/28\/chinas-carrier-killer-ballistic-missiles-are-operational\/\">Chinese DF-21 anti-ship ballistic missile is operational<\/a>, a 900 mile range anti-ship missile, at least according to Admiral Robert Willard, Commander, U.S. Pacific Command.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s intended to be a carrier killer, and while the capabilities, particularly the targeting, are unclear, but considering that the Pershing II&#8217;s MARV (<u><b>MA<\/b><\/u>neuverable <u><b>R<\/b><\/u>eentry <u><b>V<\/b><\/u>ehicle) got a roughly 30 m CEP, it will certainly give a CVBG cause to pause.<\/p>\n<p>Even the warhead is nothing more than 150kg of high strength steel descending at 1000 m\/s, it will still completely ruing a carrier skipper&#8217;s day.<\/p>\n<p>There are 2 possibility two possibilities here, either this is an attempt by the Pentagon to hype the Chinese threat, or the Chinese are trying to create an effective no-go zone for the flat-tops by creating uncertainty steps to cut in the missile in an operational posture.<\/p>\n<p>Then again, it might be both.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that the Chinese DF-21 anti-ship ballistic missile is operational, a 900 mile range anti-ship missile, at least according to Admiral Robert Willard, Commander, U.S. Pacific Command. It&#8217;s intended to be a carrier killer, and while the capabilities, particularly the targeting, are unclear, but considering that the Pershing II&#8217;s MARV (MAneuverable Reentry Vehicle) got &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1170,1006,1180,1161],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-military","category-missiles","category-naval"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188003"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188003\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}