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Here s What You Need To Remember: The DF-21D is as much a threat as it is a missile. China is attempting to send a signal: Don t start a war with us if you value your aircraft carriers. At the same time, though, there would be enormous consequences for shooting one at an American ship.
The DF-21D anti-ship ballistic missile (ASBM) has generated a tremendous amount of interest over the past five years. If it works, it poses a very serious threat to U.S. Navy (USN) carriers, as well as to the other advanced warships of the USN, of the Japanese Maritime Self Defense Force, and others.
1. CAPT Wayne P. Hughes Jr. and ADM Robert Girrier, USN (Ret.),
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2. Sam LaGrone, “SNA: Navy Surface Leaders Pitch More Lethal Ships, Surface Action Groups,”
USNI News, 15 January 2015, https://news.usni.org/2015/01/14/sna-navy-surface-leaders-pitch-lethal-ships-surface-action-groups.
3. VADM Thomas Rowden, RADM Peter Gumataotao, and RADM Peter Fanta, USN, “Distributed Lethality,” U.S. Naval Institute
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6. Normal range is the radius of sensors (r) from the ship. Two ships (two circles, each with radius r), 2r apart can see 3r in one direction instead of r. Surveillance range increases further with the inclusion of air assets.
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YOKOSUKA, Japan â Sonar Technician (Surface) 1st Class Tyler Davis, from Lemoore, assigned to Destroyer Squadron (DESRON) 15, serves as the Sea Combat tactical watch stander during Fleet Synthetic Training - Joint (FST-J) exercise aboard USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76).
FST-J is a week-long exercise that brings together multiple units from across the globe to train together in a virtual environment. As the U.S. Navy s largest forward deployed fleet, U.S. 7th Fleet routinely operates between 50-70 ships and submarines and 140 aircraft with approximately 20,000 Sailors. 7th Fleet s area of operation spans more than 124 million square kilometers, stretching from the International Date Line to the India/Pakistan border; and from the Kuril Islands in the North to the Antarctic in the South Pacific, providing security and stability to the region. 7th Fleet interacts with 35 other maritime nations to build partnerships that foster maritime security while conducting a wide-range of miss