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| Sino H-6K Badger Strategic Bomber of the Peoples Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF) carrying 6x CJ-10 Long Range Land Attack Cruise Missiles. |
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| Xi'an Aircraft Industrial Corporation (XAC) has used light weight composite materials in H-6K Badger Strategic Bomber airframe to reduce its overall weight and it is powered by efficient and powerful Russian D-30KP-2 turbofan engines which results in increased combat radius of 3,500 kilometres. |
Impressive load out of long range cruise missiles. 6 per plane and assuming a strike force of 10 airplanes and you're talking about alot of pain incoming.
And that's not a particularly large force.
Could our anti-ballistic missile system handle that many incoming "vampires"?
AEGIS could but what about our land based systems?
While putting up missile shields in Poland has merit, wouldn't it make more sense to get a few of those land based systems in Okinawa, Guam, Hawaii and maybe Australia (I won't mention Singapore because I don't think the political will is there...they're playing a great man in the middle game)?
Missile shield that will be ( or not, one day they say that they will build one, other that no... meh politics ) build on Polish land is part of strategic defense of NATO European members. And still I got my doubts if it is able to intercept low flying cruise missiles. Poland itself work on it's own national "missile shield" or rather try to create modern wide AA system because most of it is part of very old Warsaw Pact systems that are highly outdated.
ReplyDeleteQuestion. we all have some kind of cruise missiles in our arsenals, but does anyone have really good anti-cruise systems ? Not the long range fighter interceptors but land or ship based system ?
i was a bit tongue in cheek with the title. of course AEGIS on our destroyers can track it but so can the AWACS airplanes and even systems like the SAAB Giraffe, the Northrop GAT/OR and a few others that i forget.
Deletetracking isn't the problem. the problem is the decision making cycle and then the time it takes to spool up your anti-air defenses.
but for MCAS Futenma, we don't have US Army patriot batteries protecting it. the Japanese don't have any anti-air systems deployed near there and the USMC only has the pathetic little avenger. so if you can't get your fighters airborne you're screwed.
Even with a Patriot battery there it would be a problem. Let's say that full battery is 4 launchers, that give us... 16 ready to fire missiles. In perfect world every one of them would hit and eliminate the target, 16 cruises crack. 4 bombers payload eliminated from as you said attack group of minimum 6... 8 more missiles en route to target and no time to reload Patriots. Indeed without fighters in air or additional support the gates of hell will open.
DeleteBtw. you notice that even when they don't use rear guns station it's still there. H-6 it's still old Tu-16 without any airframe modification after all that years.
its worse than that. i'm not sure but i don't think the stinger missiles used are tested against cruise missile. even if they are its pretty damn short ranged and something is going to get hit with missile debris.
Deleteadditionally because of the range of the cruise weapons you're looking at a worse case scenario from the start. they're too long ranged to effectively shoot down the shooters so you're looking at first wave, second wave, third wave and then the first reloading to do it all over again.
people worry about losing Taiwan? i'm worried about our bases in Okinawa.
I wonder why the Chinese would even consider a strike on Futenma? I mean the largest Air Force air base, Kadena, outside of CONUS is located a mere 15 miles away from that small little field. A base thy genereated sorties of B-52 raids during Vietnam. Futenma is so small, we had doubts that large body aircraft (C-5, AN-124) could even launch from there (they can...barely). Even USMC helos coming in UDP have to utilize Kadena, there is a USMC hangar located there to put together the helos once de-planed.
ReplyDeleteA Badger strike can be shot down with nuclear tipped anti aircraft missiles and would be SOP or was at one time.
ReplyDeleteNow? POTUS would just bow down lower and kiss Chinese toes.