China simulates attacks on US naval bases in the desert

China has accomplished new trials of attacks on United States warshipsthis time using their new hypersonic antiship missiles developed to destroy destroyers and aircraft carriers without the possibility of defense. The most serious thing is that they are offensive exercises to practice attacks on ships moored in portas happened in Pearl Harbor in 1941.

According to an analysis of the photographs that prove it — published by military expert HI Sutton in the US Naval Institute Newsletter — “the nature, location, and attacks on these sites suggest that the targets are intended to test ballistic missiles. These hypersonic anti-ship ballistic missiles [ASBM en sus siglas en inglés] They’re a increasingly significant threat for warships” of the US Navy.

What do the photos show

The new pictures were taken by Maxar Technologies satellites over the Taklamakanthe great desert of the Uyghur people to which the government of Xi Jinping slaughter and enslave in concentration camps. The location of the new tests is not far from other tests in which the Chinese military has carried out full-scale attacks on aircraft carriers and other warships simulating a location on the high seas, exercises designed to prepare for a potential conflict with the United States Navy in the Pacific.

The big difference in these new tests is how they are configured: instead of simulating an attack on the high seas, the Chinese have built these targets ‘moored’ to reproductions of ports of American naval bases.

What is most worrying is the apparent accuracy of these weapons. the ground-launched DF-21D and DF-26, as well as bomber- and cruiser-launched versions. Previously, Sutton says, anti-ship cruise missiles could not be used in attacks against ships at naval bases. Its flight and targeting systems are not smart and accurate enough to be used in the complex physical setting of a port.

Sutton claims that these photos demonstrate that these new hypersonic missiles could indeed distinguish ships correctly to “decapitate the fleet before it can escape and disperse in open water.” The author of the article points to the analysis of another defense expert — Damien Symons — who assures that “the design of the objectives is very calculated. orientations, shapes, and sizes are consistent across multiple lenses. There is nothing fortuitous about these sites.”

“Targets seem to be shaped by laying metal sheets on the ground,” says Symons, “a different material than docks and buildings. It may reflect heat or radar differently, this could also give us a indication of the complex systems and the effort behind these experiments.”

America’s nightmare

That the missile tests and the impressive increase in the number of Chinese military vessels — which is already the largest navy in the world with 355 ships and growing — clear evidence that China is preparing for a potential war in the Pacific is not news.

After all, the Chinese President has clearly telegraphed it, declaring the annexation of Taiwan as the primary and inescapable goal of the imperialist policy of the Asian country. After Russia’s illegal invasion of Ukraine, China not only has shown his support for Vladimir Putin with tangible deeds but also has increased its military exercises in an increasingly aggressive attitude towards the island country.

But this new development of testing attacks on US ships moored at naval bases leads to a much more serious and feared scenario since the Japanese forces commanded by Admiral Yamamoto devastated the port of Pearl Harbor. That attack by Japanese naval aviation was unstoppable thanks to a surprise factor that today would be impossible with the same weapons. Unfortunately, the futuristic weapons that China has tested in the desert reopen the possibility of an attack in port no possibility of defense until they develop new countermeasures.

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China has accomplished new trials of attacks on United States warshipsthis time using their new hypersonic antiship missiles developed to destroy destroyers and aircraft carriers without the possibility of defense. The most serious thing is that they are offensive exercises to practice attacks on ships moored in portas happened in Pearl Harbor in 1941.