Taiwan-based Want China Times has published suggestive evidence that China has tested its Dong Feng 21D anti-ship ballistic missile (ASBM), also known as the “Carrier Killer” to fans.
This missile will keep the “dog” out of China’s “backyard.”
According to the January 23 article, “PLA ‘sinks’ US carrier in DF-21D missile test in Gobi,”
the “People’s Liberation Army has successfully sunk a US aircraft
carrier, according to a satellite photo provided by Google Earth,
reports our sister paper Want Daily — though the strike was a war game,
the carrier a mock-up platform and the ‘sinking’ occurred on dry land in
a remote part of western China.”
“A satellite image reveals two large craters on a 200-meter-long
white platform in the Gobi desert used to simulate the flight deck of an
aircraft carrier. The photo was first posted on SAORBATS,
an internet forum based in Argentina. Military analysts believed the
craters would have been created by China’s DF-21D anti-ship missile.”
“While claiming that the missile has the capability to hit aircraft
carriers 2,000 kilometers away, the nationalistic Chinese tabloid Global
Times stated that the weapon was only designed for self-defense; the
DF-21D will never pose a serious threat to US national security because
it is not even able to reach Hawaii, the newspaper said, though fully
aware of the US naval deployment in the Western Pacific.”
“Underlining this point, Global Times
took a common line from China’s national defense doctrine before the
country acquired an aircraft carrier of its own — namely that carriers
are an offensive weapon while anti-ship missiles are defensive. ‘It can
be used like a stick to hit the dog intruding on our backyard, but it
can never be used to attack the house where the dog comes from,’ the
paper’s commentary said.”
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