{"id":195697,"date":"2019-10-02T08:44:24","date_gmt":"2019-10-02T08:44:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=195697"},"modified":"2019-10-04T07:22:54","modified_gmt":"2019-10-04T07:22:54","slug":"advanced-new-weaponry-lets-china-steal-a-march-on-rivals-and-exposes-us-navy-in-the-pacific","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=195697","title":{"rendered":"Advanced new weaponry lets China steal a march on rivals and exposes US Navy in the Pacific"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Malcolm Davis \u2013 Telegraph.co.uk Oct 1, 2019<\/strong><\/h1>\n<div align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7m5nHMS-9tc\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n&#8212;<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">China has marked the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People\u2019s Republic of China (PRC) with a display of its\u00a0military might, highlighting\u00a0a number of key advanced military capabilities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The message was clear to the US, and to China\u2019s neighbours in Asia. China is a fully developed state, with an advanced military capability designed to allow Beijing to challenge US strategic primacy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The PLA modernisation process, which began in the early 1990s, but accelerated and broadened under President Xi Jinping, is seeing China move determinedly towards its goal of being a world-class military by 2035.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">For China\u2019s neighbors in Asia, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2019\/10\/01\/china-beijing-celebrations-mark-70-years-communist-rule-pictures\/\">today\u2019s parade<\/a><\/strong><\/span> should be an eye-opener for defence planners as some of these systems imply a game-changing impact on future warfare. Speed, range, precision and offensive strike are appearing in China\u2019s PLA. They are not just paper capabilities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">This event had been anticipated for some time, and discussion among China analysts focused on likely new types of military systems to be shown for the first time by the People\u2019s Liberation Army (PLA).<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_195700\" style=\"width: 370px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/DF-17-hypersonic-glide-vehiclepng.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-195700\" class=\"wp-image-195700\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/DF-17-hypersonic-glide-vehiclepng.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/DF-17-hypersonic-glide-vehiclepng.png 480w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/DF-17-hypersonic-glide-vehiclepng-300x188.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-195700\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">DF-17 Hypersonic Glide Vehicle. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The most significant capability shown was the DF-17 missile with its DZ-ZF Hypersonic Glide Vehicle (or \u2018HGV\u2019 for short). China, along with Russia, currently has a lead over the United States in<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong> <a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2019\/09\/24\/british-tourists-will-able-fly-australia-4-hours-2030-uk-space\/\">hypersonic<\/a> <\/strong><\/span>weapons \u2013 that is missile systems which deliver a warhead at speeds greater than five times the speed of sound (faster than 3,800 mph).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The US is currently lagging behind China and is yet to deploy such a weapon. The DF-17 HGV may carry either a nuclear or conventional warhead, and its speed is such that no defence against this weapon exists, making US aircraft carrier battle groups in the Asia-Pacific highly vulnerable.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The Chinese also displayed the DF-41 intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), which has entered operational service. It is the most powerful ICBM in the world, is road-mobile, and able to carry up to ten nuclear warheads. It has overtaken the Russian SS-18 Satan ICBM in capability. The US has nothing comparable, at least in terms of ground-launched ICBMs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The Chinese also showed the Sharp Sword unmanned combat air vehicle (UCAV). This is an unmanned strike aircraft, and once again, China seems to have stolen a lead on the US. The US efforts to develop such a capability rested on an aircraft called the Northrop Grumman X-47B, which is now gathering dust in a hangar in Palmdale, California. In the meantime, the Chinese have moved to deploy an operational equivalent with the Sharp Sword.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">China also showed a supersonic reconnaissance drone, called the DR-8, designed to work with PLA rocket force, navy and air force to dash in at high supersonic speed, locate a US carrier battlegroup, and pass information on to strike forces, such as the DF-17, the Sharp Sword, and other systems.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Other military hardware on display included large numbers of tanks and armoured fighting vehicles, China\u2019s J-20 stealth fighter and the new H-6N bomber, and an array of YJ-18 supersonic antiship cruise missiles. Ballistic missile systems were on display, notably the DF-26 antiship capable intermediate range ballistic missile, which can strike out as far as Guam from the Chinese coast. Advanced information and electronic warfare capabilities featured as well.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The systems on show today highlight that China is developing anti-access and area denial (\u2018A2AD\u2019) capabilities to deny the US and its allies the ability to project military power and intervene in a regional crisis, such as that which might occur if <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2019\/07\/25\/us-ship-sails-taiwan-strait-threat-force-china-against-independence\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>China were to seek to invade Taiwan<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Advanced supersonic drones, hypersonic glide vehicles, sophisticated air combat capability and missile systems are designed with this role in mind. The goal is to deter and deny the US and its allies \u2018access\u2019 and freedom of manoeuvre, by striking them as far away from China as possible.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">For the US, that means it has to find a way to defeat Chinese \u2018A2AD\u2019 capabilities if it is to be able to support key allies, preserve critical alliance structures, and prevent China using military power aggressively. It needs to do this quickly. Today\u2019s parade was a warning western states ignore at their peril.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2019\/10\/01\/analysis-chinas-military-parade-should-raise-alarm-us\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Supersonic drones and hypersonic glide vehicles displayed suggest that China may soon challenge US Pacific regional dominance  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=195697"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":195707,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195697\/revisions\/195707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=195697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=195697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=195697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}