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Strategies & Market Trends : 2026 TeoTwawKi ... 2032 Darkest Interregnum -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: carranza2 who wrote (211404)2/18/2025 3:46:31 AM
From: TobagoJack  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 219871
 
re <<antiquated Soviet-era heap constituting, what, one third or one fourth of the PLAN carrier fleet>>

(1) The carrier and the planes on the carrier, by all reports, work well, and the way Team China got the carrier was astute by the Team's reckoning, saving much time, especially given the Team's capability and capacity to build build build



(2) Below (4) shows ages, and in any and all cases, as in every single one, obsoleted by a bouquet of thingies ...

(2-a) DF-21 en.wikipedia.org


(2-b) DF-26 en.wikipedia.org


(1-c) YJ-21 en.wikipedia.org



(2-d) KD21 theaviationist.com

(2-e) YU-10 globalsecurity.org

(2-f) cimsec.org
FIGHTING DMO, PT. 8: CHINA’S ANTI-SHIP FIREPOWER AND MASS FIRING SCHEMES
(2-g) fpri.org
Conclusion To be sure, China’s potential adversaries are aware of its ambitions to target ships at sea with ASBMs. They have once again begun to train their navies to strictly manage their electronic emissions to evade China’s ISR collection assets. Within the South China Sea, however, the time when such basic countermeasures are enough may be dwindling. While it may never be publicly known whether China’s 2019 or 2020 ASBM firings into the South China Sea were directed against mobile or fixed targets (or whether they were successful or not), the fact that the missile firings occurred at all so close to waters where commercial and naval ships often ply suggests that China was reasonably confident that its missiles would not hit those ships. Of course, that does not imply that China’s ASBM capability has become operational—it does imply that it may be one step closer.
(2-h) missilethreat.csis.org since you seem to like csis
On July 29, 2017, China flight tested 4 DF-26 missiles in Inner Mongolia, simulating a strike on a U.S. THAAD missile defense battery. In August 2020, the Chinese People’s Liberation Army Rocket Force (PLARF) flight tested an antiship DF-26 variant, the DF-26B, in the South China Sea, which reportedly struck a moving ship. 11 In June 2021, a PLARF missile brigade conducted a night exercise with DF-26 missiles, simulating the relocation of missile batteries in a conflict scenario. 12
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(3-a) nationalinterest.org might have been made by Boeing :0)
The Problem with U.S. Navy Ford-Class Aircraft Carriers

(3b) F35s on the Ford also problematic nationalinterest.org
The Navy’s F-35 Has an Embarrassing Flaw It Would Rather Not Admit
(3-c) twz.com
F-35Cs have become covered in rusty-looking deposits on their first operational carrier cruise.

(4) ages