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To: TobagoJack who wrote (10506)10/24/2006 9:36:20 PM
From: elmatador  Respond to of 217735
 
So far I've found only this:


This truck is suspicious!

Wouldn't be better if I just look to the roads signs?
"Missile launching site, 10Km"



To: TobagoJack who wrote (10506)10/24/2006 11:23:14 PM
From: Maurice Winn  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 217735
 
TJ, just on military tactics. Regarding the Sunburn ship to ship missile. I imagine the USA has the GPS coordinates constantly updated of China's military vessels. The USA also has long-range methods of delivering explosives. Lots of them. They can [at last] drop bombs in a barrel [that WWII claim was a gross exaggeration according to my father].

<3M-80E (SS-N-22) SHIP-TO-SHIP MISSILE

The PLA Navy (PLAN) received an unknown number of the Russian Raduga Design Bureau 3M-80E Moskit (NATO codename: SS-N-22 Sunburn) ramjet-powered supersonic anti-ship cruise missile (ASCM) along with the purchase of two Project 956 (Sovremenny class) destroyers in 2000~2001. The first test fire of the missile by the PLAN took place in 2001. It was reported that a new version developed especially for the PLAN, the 200km-range 3M-80MBE,
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200km range seems a bit limited. Good for sinking New Zealand frigates, but I don't think the average USA carrier fleet would be quite so vulnerable.

Mqurice