{"id":195589,"date":"2008-06-28T05:37:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-28T10:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/06\/28\/china-closing-in-on-anti-ship-ballistic-missile\/"},"modified":"2008-06-28T05:37:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-28T10:37:00","slug":"china-closing-in-on-anti-ship-ballistic-missile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/06\/28\/china-closing-in-on-anti-ship-ballistic-missile\/","title":{"rendered":"China Closing In On Anti-Ship Ballistic Missile"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s derived from their CSS-5 intermediate range missile and uses <a href=\"http:\/\/www.defensetech.org\/archives\/004265.html\">technology similar to that of the Pershing II<\/a>, which had a CEP in the single digit meter range.<\/p>\n<p>The current version has a range around 1800 km and a nuclear warhead that weighs around 600 kg.  I imagine an anti-ship (carrier killer) version would have a similar range and a similar weight warhead.<\/p>\n<p>In any case if one of these hits a flight deck at mach 4 or so, the warhead is guilding the lily.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s derived from their CSS-5 intermediate range missile and uses technology similar to that of the Pershing II, which had a CEP in the single digit meter range. The current version has a range around 1800 km and a nuclear warhead that weighs around 600 kg. I imagine an anti-ship (carrier killer) version would have &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-195589","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\/195589"}],"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=195589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195589\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}