China already has beaten the US in a few areas with ASAT being the prominent example.
Really? Enlighten me, I do know little about it.
Not safe? How's the weapon going to penetrate the layers of US ECM,AAW,F/A-18 fighters? What about a US counter strike..that's going to hurt.
Really? Have you forgotten about the USN ASW capablity which is also multi layered? You do realize that each USN CSG has one or two LA Class SSN in the Strike Group. In wartime you'd expect more LA class roaming the area.
Yeah, it's not safe. Because their position is threated.
When US forces fought against coutries like Iraq, they were in a safe position because the enemy has no means to threat their fleet.
I know about US multilayered defence, I did not said PLAN will achive their goals in 100% of cases. I just said that this will make their work easier.
And just the fact that US fleet is forced to defend themself using ECM and other means is going to ease the work to Type 022 stealth missile craft.
Type 022 could rely completely on passive detection for the targeting,
and since it's stealth it will have higher penetration chances.
About US counterstrikes, I remember you F-18 has the half of range compared to DF-21.
The ASBM being so cost-prohibitive plus it doesn't work is a contradiction. If it doesn't work, why bother spending the money? Psychological effect? Then all you need to spend is for the shell not what the fantasy technology would actually cost. If it did work, there would be a budget to ensure effective deterrence and not for just a handful.
ASBM is very cost effective instead.
A missile has much less operating and maintainment costs compared to a aircraft.
By making a analogy to the Soviet Union, when US fielded GPS-guided cruised missile. URSS were very worried about it since they did not have an efficient counter weapon. So, in order to maintain the strategic balance, they fielded a lot of MiG-31 Foxhound.
The problem of using MiG-31 against cruise missile is that MiG-31 is big, it needs a crew who must be kept constantly trained, and it burns fuel at every training. It cost you a lot of resources just to keep it operative.
Few know about it, but the rise of the semi-conductor industry in US is one of the reason why URSS collapsed.
DF-21 is MRBM. Far more costly. And they would really have to be deployed across china´s entire coast, which isnt small. Like the coming USA-SK demonstrates, they cant neglect their north and central coast regions.
No. US fleet could move at 30 nodes at best ( just 50km/h ).
The DF-21 trucks can move at higher speed ( let's say 90+km/h ).
