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China's UAVs capable of interfering with US aircraft carriers: reportsCNA June 25, 2012, 12:08 am TWN    China Briefing, a news website sponsored by the Washington-based Jamestown Foundation, said China's continued investment in UAV research will make it the second nation to have UAVs after the U.S., and its rapidly developed UAVs will enable Beijing to interfere with the situation in the two bodies of water. The UAV has become an important tool for the Chinese navy to carry out “anti-intervention and regional isolation operations,” and the vehicles will be used particularly in anti-aircraft carrier combat, it said. Jane's Defense Weekly reported that the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force displayed two pictures captured by its surveillance aircraft that show three People's Liberation Army Navy vessels crossing the Miyako waterway into the western Pacific on April 29. One of the pictures shows three UAVs practicing vertical take-offs and landings on the rear deck of China's Type 054A frigate “Zhoushan.” Based on the picture, analysts speculated that the UAVs have good stealth capability and can carry 34 kilograms for six hours. When performing reconnaissance missions, the UAVs have different types of sensors mounted on their bellies. Target images recorded by the UAVs will be transferred to frigates at sea using data link carriers, the weekly reported. Jane's Defense Weekly reported that the UAVs spotted by Japan's defense ministry are similar to the Camcopter S-100s built by Austria-based Schiebel Corp. The weekly magazine suspected that the Austrian company breached the European Union's arms embargo to China. But Schiebel Corp. said its sale of civil S-100 UAVs to China in 2010 was in line with European Union regulations and stressed that the UAVs shown in the photos were not S-100s. The company suspected they might be products developed independently by the Chinese army. Whatever the origin of the UAVs, James C. Bussert, editor at the U.S.-based Signal Magazine, said in an article that simply having UAVs would not be enough for the People's Liberation Army to attack U.S. aircraft carriers. The army will need to have a comprehensive operational support system for search, identification, track, locks, combat and assessments against the “sources of threats,” before it can complete a “kill chain,” Bussert said. He added, however, that the UAVs will be the integral part of the “kill chain.”
12 Comments  Submit Your Comment June 25, 2012 lwtinc63@ Reply If the Chinese have UAVs that can be used to detect carriers, DF21 'carrier killers' that can strike at long range, and Baidou navsats that can guide missiles to targets, doesn't that mean they may already have a complete defense chain? June 26, 2012 mevcatama@ DAMN! What do we expect? Chinese imitation products are scattered worldwide. Like their missile boat the concepts from Catamaran Ferries. They have no originality. June 26, 2012 gw@ The UAVs are for defense. The US are designed to attack China so the PLA has every right to deter the US. IF the US can deter China why can’t it be vice versa?Sooner or later with the credit crunch the US will become a banana republic or provoke a war with China when it has all the odds. It’s not as easy as it looks. Victory over China will be loaded with heavy military and political costs. June 27, 2012 mc@ What does the US expect China to do in the face of ac patrolling off China? Be defenseless like in the opium war until 2002? Then the US could if it wanted to could have disarmed the PLA at minimum cost. The fact is China is arming itself to defend potential US future attacks. China will lose but will make sure the US l pay an unacceptable price. Btw don’t give the bull sh** China will be a threat as it grows stronger. It will be a threat to US forces waiting to attack China. June 28, 2012 dannycj16@ mevcatama@ wrote: Tell me that the US and Japan never copied anything. As a matter of fact, Japan has been copying others since just before WWII when Germany had to help them build their subs and zero fighters. Where do you think the US rocket technology and space program came from? From a little fairy? They had to make a deal with former German Nazi scientists to work for them, so did the Soviets.DAMN! What do we expect? Chinese imitation products are scattered worldwide. Like their missile boat the concepts from Catamaran Ferries. They have no originality. One question you should ask yourself, why re-invent the wheel if it already exists? If there was something better, it would have already been build. Westerners were insulting China for being 50 years behind in the space program a few years ago. You can't expect the Chinese to, all the sudden, come up with a shuttle program from scratch? Westerners are not willing to help, so the Chinese have to take it one step at a time. So far, they are doing very well without help from the West. June 28, 2012 cd@ One Chinese official has described the US as a guy with a criminal record loitering outside China. Now what would the US do if China with hostile intent were lurking in the waters off the US?The Chinese have to be prepared for any eventuality probably with the US. That is why the PLA is pouring money to make sure a US strike, be it conventional or nuclear, would be deterred if need be answered in kind. June 30, 2012 ozivan99@ mevcatama@ wrote: They don't have to have originality in their weapons system or products for now. They need only to make sure they work effectively and lethal. DAMN! What do we expect? Chinese imitation products are scattered worldwide. Like their missile boat the concepts from Catamaran Ferries. They have no originality. To play catch-up, it is a clever policy to copy existing weapons already invented by others (despite the sneers) as it meant a quantum leap in catching up, until the day they are almost on par and then only they need to start innovating themselves. Don't forget in the 1960's, breakthroughs in technology were made by Westerners which the Japanese copied and improved upon them e.g. Sony miniaturized radio and audio equipment and lots more other inventions. Some may sneer now, but remember that 30 years ago the Westerners laughed that Communist China can never be economically dynamic until one wakes up one day realizing he has been caught with pants down. June 30, 2012 ozivan99@ cd@ wrote: The PLA should have in their future plans in the next 2 decades to have military bases in Latin America or the Caribbean and air surveillance along US coasts. This is called giving back the Americans their own bitter medicine for what the US is doing to China in Asia.One Chinese official has described the US as a guy with a criminal record loitering outside China. Now what would the US do if China with hostile intent were lurking in the waters off the US? The Chinese have to be prepared for any eventuality probably with the US. That is why the PLA is pouring money to make sure a US strike, be it conventional or nuclear, would be deterred if need be answered in kind. July 1, 2012 cd@ According to the news media, China has 1800 nuclear missiles aimed at Taiwan and deemed to be severe threat to its security. The US with 20000 nw is the greatest threat to the security of China.This report is to further push the US government to provide more money for the Pentagon, the greatest military force in the world and so give the US 100% immunity from PLA retaliation if the US were to launch a conventional or nuclear attack on China. It's a forlorn hope. The US maybe able to destroy China a thousand or million times but it will receive a severe mauling from PLA. This is what is making the Pentagon anxious because in all its wars, US bases and homeland were sanctuaries. Not any more. The capacity of the PLA to inflict more unacceptable damage will grow with time, US pivot to Asia not withstanding. July 19, 2012 hjtjl@ mevcatama@ wrote: How about when China invented paper, tofu, compass, gunpowder, crossbow, silk, toilet paper, printing press, discovered planetary movement before other civilizations, sun dial and etc... WHAT DID THE WORLD DO? COPIED CHINESE INVENTIONS DIDN'T THEY?DAMN! What do we expect? Chinese imitation products are scattered worldwide. Like their missile boat the concepts from Catamaran Ferries. They have no originality. July 30, 2012 cd@ What will the Pentagon do if China has destroyers loitering off California? The US will say the waters off the CC are out of bounds. That means whoever is stronger can have his way.The Chinese are outgunned by US conventional and nuclear power by a mammoth margin. The PLA ain’t going to seek parity with US forces. The ability to have the means to hit back after being attacked by US forces is good enough. And that is why the Pentagon is searching ways and means to limit damage to US forces and assets. It will be a futile hope. The PLA only needs to seek destruction 30 to 70% of all US assets to deter the pentagon from thinking it can attack without suffering commensurate punishment. Oh btw the destruction power of the PLA will grow with each passing day. October 16, 2012 digitalphotography@ lwtinc63@ wrote: US likes to come to people's front yard and say "protect the peace", which seems ridiculous! What would US think in 1962 when USSR sent missiles to Cuba right in the US back yard??? If the Chinese have UAVs that can be used to detect carriers, DF21 'carrier killers' that can strike at long range, and Baidou navsats that can guide missiles to targets, doesn't that mean they may already have a complete defense chain? Operation of "Iraqi freedom", do Iraqi people really have better life and "better freedom" than before? Back to Asian, the question is: the Pentagon really wants to attack China , because China's wealth (econ + military) will "threaten" US??? Think twice! 4000 men on each US carrier, if these carries attack China, sure enough the DF 21s will not "stand and watch"! |
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