China is likely developing a new strategic bomber, and has recently revealed that it has a supersonic, air-launched, anti-ship missile called the YJ-12, that can be launched by its bombers and fighter-bombers.
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These include: eight sophisticated diesel submarines, advanced SU-30 fighter aircraft, modern air-to-air and air-to-surface weapons, supersonic anti-ship cruise missiles and as many as 350 short- and medium-range ballistic missiles.
The Russians have also been marketing to international customers a family of deadly sea-skimming anti-ship cruise missiles with air-, surface- and submarine-launched variants.
Not to be outdone, Iran has, according to testimony before Senator Jon Kyl's Terrorism Subcommittee in March, performed mid-air detonations over the Caspian Sea using ship-launched ballistic missiles - a flight profile consistent with an EMP attack.
Washington could rely on ship-to-air and air-to-air missiles, but they would be less effective against low-flying craft.
Its disruptive technology is a novel air-breathing and rocket engine that would enable the ship to go to space in one leap.
This will require immediately expanding the number of Navy ships with the Aegis fleet air defense system that are equipped to intercept ship-launched ballistic missiles.
The 7, 350-tonne ship is designed to provide air defence cover.
Mr Haggerty reckons this would require (for openers) striking around 450 targets, including more than 20 command, control and early-warning radar centres, 150 SAM sites, 205 aircraft shelters, 32 additional air-base targets, 27 surface-to-surface (SS) missile batteries and 12 anti-ship cruise-missile batteries.
Other passengers reported no air-conditioning inside cabins and an increasing stink inside the ship from sick passengers and a lack of food refrigeration.
The crisis began in August when 528 cubic metres (116, 000 gallons) of toxic liquid unloaded from a ship called the Proba Koala were dumped in 11 open-air sites in residential areas around the commercial capital, Abidjan.
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" The wire service quotes the Pentagon analysis as saying this "concept appears to include a range of weapon systems and technologies related to information warfare, ballistic and anti-ship cruise missiles, advanced fighters and submarines, counterspace system and air defense.
Our Air Force was drastically down-sized and it became difficult to even maintain a 300-ship Navy, much less the 600-ship Navy that Reagan once envisioned.
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