China’s Military Has Surpassed US in Ships, Missiles and Air Defense, DoD Report Finds
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China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) has already surpassed the U.S. in missile development and its number of warships and air defense systems under the Chinese Communist Party’s plan to achieve dominance by 2049, the Defense Department said in a sobering report Tuesday.

The ultimate goal of the People’s Republic of China, or PRC, is to “develop a military by mid-Century that is equal to — or in some cases superior to — the U.S. military, or that of any other great power that the PRC views as a threat,” the DoD’s annual report to Congress said.

To that end, the PRC has “marshalled the resources, technology, and political will over the past two decades to strengthen and modernize the PLA in nearly every respect,” the report said.

If you believe this report, i have a bridge in lekki that i want to sell to you.

Fake News !

yoruba1914:
If you believe this report, i have a bridge in lekki that i want to sell to you.

this is not true

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The d..evil in us won't allow it

Lol....

Even if it's true, US is still numero Uno

Can't your just use your tiny brain for intelligence gathering before u post shits? China KO computer village ni

Nigerians above unhappy, wishing the report is false. Not as if Americas military dominance has played any serious positive roles in their lives. Unfortunately for those in doubt, the story maybe true.. The Chinese are on a mission and they have both the resources and manpower to achieve that. It takes them far less financial imputs to achieve the same kind of costly technological results seen in the West... This is a country led for nearly a century now by technocrats. They are almost there.. The next super power. I just hope they use the accompanying influence in more dignifying ways globally.. Nobody wants to see the kind of chaotic takeover going on in Hong Kong right now.

May be that's why China is bullying almost every country... Imagine with how big China land is, they still want to fight for tiny part of India land..

In the next 10 years, China should expect renegation from world countries starting from their backyard, Hong Kong and Taiwan

Rugaria:
Nigerians above unhappy, wishing the report is false. Not as if Americas military dominance has played any serious positive roles in their lives. Unfortunately for those in doubt, the story maybe true.. The Chinese are on a mission and they have both the resources and manpower to achieve that. It takes them far less financial imputs to achieve the same kind of costly technological results seen in the West... This is a country led for nearly a century now by technocrats. They are almost there.. The next super power. I just hope they use the accompanying influence in more dignifying ways globally.. Nobody wants to see the kind of chaotic takeover going on in Hong Kong right now.

Those are the ipob yoots supporting Trump....If Trump loses tomorrow, you would see them attacking America on daily basis. They did it under Obama they felt Obama supported Buhari.

They are the most deluded set of homo sapiens anywhere in the world.

Trash and mere Chinese propaganda.

IAF was laughing on them cause the jets J-20 they claim are highly stealth were actually visible on IAF`S Sukhoi-30 MKI`s AESA radars.

Pentagon’s latest salvo against China’s growing might: Cold War bombers
An American B-1B Lancer bomber flies over the Philippine Sea in May. U.S. Air Force/Handout via REUTERS

America is combining its decades-old bombers with cutting-edge weapons to counter Beijing’s advantage in the waterways off the Chinese coast. The U.S. wants to send a message that Chinese ships and land targets can be threatened at any time.

By DAVID LAGUE in HONG KONG Filed Sept. 1, 2020, noon GMT
On July 21, two U.S Air Force B-1B bombers took off from Guam and headed west over the Pacific Ocean to the hotly contested South China Sea. The sleek jets made a low-level pass over the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan and its escorting fleet, which was exercising nearby in the Philippines Sea, according to images released by the U.S. military.

The operation was part of the Trump administration’s intensifying challenge to China’s ruling Communist Party and its sweeping territorial claims over one of the world’s most important strategic waterways. While senior Trump officials launch diplomatic and rhetorical broadsides at Beijing, the U.S. Defense Department is turning to the firepower of its heavily armed, long-range bombers as it seeks to counter Beijing's bid to control the seas off the Chinese coast.


U.S. Air Force B-1B Lancers fly by the USS Ronald Reagan and its escorting fleet in the Philippine Sea during a bomber mission in July. U.S. Navy/Handout via REUTERS
Since late January, American B-1B and B-52 bombers, usually operating in pairs, have flown about 20 missions over key waterways, including the South China Sea, the East China Sea and the Sea of Japan, according to accounts of these flights from U.S. Air Force statements and official social media posts. These missions, military analysts say, are designed to send a crystal-clear signal: The United States can threaten China’s fleet and Chinese land targets at any time, from distant bases, without having to move America’s aircraft carriers and other expensive surface warships within range of Beijing's massive arsenal of missiles.

In this response to the growing power of China’s military, the Pentagon has combined some of its oldest weapons with some of its newest: Cold War-era bombers and cutting-edge, stealthy missiles. The supersonic B1-B first entered service in 1986; the newest plane in the B-52 fleet was built during the Kennedy administration. But these workhorses can carry a huge payload of precision weapons. A B-1B can carry 24 of the U.S. military’s stealthy new Long Range Anti-Ship Missiles, which entered service in 2018 and can strike targets at ranges of up to 600 kilometers, according to U.S. and other Western officials.

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“A single B-1 can deliver the same ordnance payload as an entire carrier battle group in a day,” said David Deptula, dean of the Washington-based Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies and a retired U.S. Air Force Lieutenant General. And, in a crisis, he added, bombers can be rapidly deployed.

“Depending on where they are, ships can take weeks to get in place,” said Deptula. “But by using bombers, they can respond in a matter of hours,” he adds, noting that the U.S. object is to deter war. “Nobody wants to engage in conflict with China.”

Chinese and western military strategists warn that a conflict between the two nuclear-armed powers could be difficult to contain.

In a clash with China, this fast response from the bomber force could be vital while the U.S. and its allies rush naval reinforcements to the Pacific to bolster the vastly outnumbered U.S. naval fleet stationed in the region, according to current and former U.S. and other Western military officers.

A spokeswoman for Pacific Air Forces, Captain Veronica Perez, said the U.S. Air Force had increased its publicity about its bomber missions to assure allies and partners of Washington's commitment to global security, regional stability and a free and open Indo-Pacific. “Though the frequency and scope of our operations vary based on the current operating environment, the U.S. has a persistent military presence and routinely operates throughout the Indo-Pacific,” she said.

China’s defense ministry did not respond to questions from Reuters.

While the bomber missions continue, relations between Washington and Beijing have reached their lowest point since the 1989 Tiananmen crackdown. In a show of force, Chinese fighter jets crossed the mid-line of the Taiwan Strait while U.S. Secretary for Health, Alex Azar, was visiting Taipei on Aug. 10 to congratulate the government of President Tsai Ing-wen on its successful containment of the COVID-19 virus. Azar was the most senior American official to visit Taiwan in four decades.

Taiwan’s missile radars tracked the Chinese fighters in only the third such incursion across the median line since 2016, the Taiwanese government said. Beijing condemned the visit. It regards the island as a province of China and hasn’t ruled out the use of force to bring it under Communist Party control.


Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen speaks during a meeting with U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar at the presidential office in Taipei last month. Azar was the most senior U.S. official to visit Taiwan in decades. Central News Agency/Pool via REUTERS

The DoD needs more money from Congress.

What better way than to draw up an imaginary threat from the common line "the Chinese now have better weapons than us".

Initially it was the Russians, but now it is China.

A single B-1 can deliver the same ordnance payload as an entire carrier battle group in a day.”

Retired U.S. Air Force Lieutenant General David Deptula
In a series of speeches ahead of Azar’s visit, top Trump officials had hammered China on multiple fronts, including its military build-up, territorial ambitions, domestic political repression, intellectual property theft, espionage, trade practices and its failure to alert the world to the danger of COVID-19.

In one of the most harshly worded attacks on China from an American official in decades, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on July 23 that China’s military, the People’s Liberation Army (PLA), was not a normal fighting force.

“Its purpose is to uphold the absolute rule of the Chinese Communist Party elites and expand a Chinese empire, not protect the Chinese people,” he said. “And so our Department of Defense has ramped up its efforts, freedom of navigation operations out and throughout the East and South China Seas and in the Taiwan Strait as well.” In July, Pompeo declared most of Beijing’s claims of sovereignty over the South China Sea illegal.


Secretary of State Mike Pompeo delivered a blistering attack on the Chinese Communist Party at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library in California in late July. Ashley Landis/Pool via REUTERS
With the combination of bombers and long-range missiles, the United States is trying to turn the tables on the PLA. Over more than two decades, China has assembled a force of ground, sea and air-launched missiles that would make it deadly for warships of the U.S. Navy and its allies to approach the Chinese coast in a conflict. This Chinese strategy is specifically tailored to threaten U.S. aircraft carrier battle groups and the network of bases that form the backbone of American power in Asia.

In a demonstration of this capability, the PLA launched one of its so-called carrier-killer missiles, the DF-26, in an exercise in the South China Sea following the deployment in July of two U.S. aircraft carriers to the area, China’s official military media reported in early August. And a U.S. defense official told Reuters that on Aug. 26, China launched four medium-range ballistic missiles that hit the South China Sea between Hainan Island and the Paracel Islands.

But the PLA Navy’s huge and rapidly expanding fleet is also vulnerable to long-range missiles. China has built the world’s biggest navy, including new aircraft carriers, amphibious assault ships and powerful cruisers and destroyers. And the PLA’s extensive network of bases and ports would also be targets for missiles.

In a conflict, U.S. bombers over the Western Pacific could target PLA Navy warships at their bases on the Chinese coast or underway inside the so-called first island chain, the string of islands that run from the Japanese archipelago through Taiwan, the Philippines and on to Borneo, enclosing China’s coastal seas. Chinese warships would be even more vulnerable if they broke out through the island chain into the Western Pacific, outside the coverage of the PLA’s land-based air defenses and strike aircraft.

In the aftermath of the Cold War, Washington assumed it had uncontested control of the oceans and neglected to arm its surface fleet with modern, long-range anti-ship missiles. To be sure, the U.S. and its allies, particularly Japan, still have a powerful fleet of attack submarines that would pose a deadly menace to PLA warships. But the bombers help fill the firepower gap in the U.S. surface fleet while the Pentagon is re-purposing existing missiles and introducing new versions to its destroyers and cruisers, according to maritime strategists.


People's Liberation Army soldiers on their armored vehicles equipped with anti-aircraft artillery roll to Tiananmen Square during the military parade marking the 70th anniversary of the end of World War Two in 2015. REUTERS/Damir Sagolj

Chinese military vehicles carrying so-called carrier-killer DF-26 missiles drive past Tiananmen Gate during the 2015 parade to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the end of World War Two. Andy Wong/Pool via REUTERS
The bomber deployments are one element of a much wider reshaping of forces and tactics that the U.S. and its allies in East Asia have launched to deter China from attacking Taiwan, expanding its hold over the South China Sea or seizing other disputed territories. These include the uninhabited group of isles in the East China Sea known as the Senkaku Islands in Japan and the Diaoyu Islands in China, which are claimed by both Tokyo and Beijing.

Tensions are on the rise around these islands, now under Japanese control. The commander of U.S. forces in Japan, Lieutenant General Kevin Schneider, pledged in July that America would help Japan monitor “unprecedented” Chinese incursions into waters around the Senkakus that were challenging Tokyo’s administration. Within an hour of Schneider’s comments, China’s foreign ministry fired back that the islands were “Chinese territory.”

Long-range U.S. bombers operating from distant airfields would remain a threat if Chinese missile attacks disabled key U.S. bases in Japan, South Korea and Guam. These bases, mostly a carry-over from World War Two and the Korean War, were built at a time when China had very limited means to attack them.

Now it does. In a clear acknowledgement that Guam is now at risk, the U.S. Air Force announced on April 17 it would end its continuous rotation of bombers to the island base and withdraw them to the U.S. mainland.


The absence of a permanent bomber presence at Guam is a blow to Washington’s ability to deter China and North Korea, airpower experts say. The island in the Western Pacific is less than a five-hour flight from the South China Sea.

“It makes it look like the Chinese military build-up has worked,” said Peter Layton, a visiting fellow at Griffith University in Australia and a retired Australian air force Group Captain who has worked at the Pentagon. “They are now taken out of range.”

Since then, the United States has sent bombers to Guam for short-term deployments from their continental bases. U.S. airpower researchers suggest that the availability of better training facilities at mainland U.S. bases was also a factor in the decision to withdraw the bombers. But in further evidence of Guam’s vulnerability, the head of the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, Admiral Philip Davidson, has asked Congress to fund a powerful missile defense system for the island by 2026.

Another hurdle for the Pentagon: America’s bomber force is shrinking just as the PLA challenge grows. From a force of more than 400 at the end of the Cold War, the U.S. bomber fleet has shrunk to 158 aircraft. Of those planes, 62 are B-1Bs and 76 are B-52S. The United States also has a smaller force of 20 newer B-2 stealth bombers.

The air force plans to retire 17 B-1Bs next year to concentrate resources on the remaining bombers until the planned introduction of a new generation of stealthy bomber, the B-21, toward the end of this decade. This bomber is expected to sharply improve the U.S. Air Force’s ability to penetrate Chinese airspace. Northrop Grumman is now building the first prototype, according to air force officials.


A U.S. Air Force B-52 bomber prepares for refueling during a mission over Afghanistan in this undated photo. U.S. Air Force/Handout via REUTERS

A B-52 heavy bomber strikes targets in Vietnam, in a photo taken between 1965 to 1973. U.S. Air Force/Handout via REUTERS
As the risk of conflict rises, some Western airpower experts doubt that U.S. bombers would deliver a decisive advantage in a clash with the PLA. They say the Chinese military has spent decades preparing formidable, integrated air defenses. Even if the U.S. bombers were able to sink PLA Navy warships and stealthily penetrate Chinese airspace to strike some ground targets, they say it would not necessarily translate into victory against a vast and powerful adversary.

And, they warn, it might be impossible to fight a limited conflict on China’s periphery. “It is not like fighting Saddam Hussein, it would be a major world war,” said Layton, the retired Australian air force officer. “Both sides have nuclear weapons and there is the potential for escalation. If either side is losing, what is going to happen then?”

Alongside relying on its bombers, the United States has been forced to develop other plans to offset the Chinese missile and naval threat. The U.S Marine Corps is planning to disperse smaller units armed with long-range anti-ship and land-attack missiles through the first island chain, where they could threaten the Chinese navy and land targets on China’s mainland.  

The U.S. Army also intends to spread forces through the first island chain and other outposts in the Western Pacific. It is planning a series of major exercises this year and next where troops would deploy to islands in the region, according to senior commanders and top Pentagon officials.


The aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan underway in the Philippine Sea in July. U.S. Navy/Handout via REUTERS
New weapons are in the pipeline that would give specially formed army task force units the firepower to strike at Chinese warships and other targets in a conflict. The U.S. Army’s top commander, General James McConville, told an online seminar hosted by the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies in late July that a very long-range hypersonic missile was under development and tests had been successful. And soldiers would have the tools to attack an enemy’s navy. “We are going to have mid-range missiles that can sink ships,” McConville said.

The U.S. and its allies also intend to link all their surveillance systems and weapons together in a regional network so that tracking information about a target could be shared between radar stations, satellites, surface warships, submarines, aircraft and land forces. In this system, a stealth fighter flying from a carrier could detect an enemy warship and relay this information to an army unit on an island, which could attack the foe with an anti-ship missile.

On May 21, two U.S. B-1B bombers from Guam flew to an area near Misawa Air Base in Japan, where they conducted long-range anti-ship missile training with a P-8 Poseidon maritime surveillance aircraft and the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan, according to a U.S. Pacific Air Force statement. This exercise demonstrated that the U.S. had the capability to “hold any target at risk, anytime and anywhere,” said Perez, the Pacific Air Forces spokeswoman.


B-1B bombers fly in formation with U.S. and Japanese fighters in a training exercise last month. U.S. Air Force/Handout via REUTERS
The ships and aircraft involved in this exercise likely practised the sharing of target information to mount a simulated attack, according to U.S. and Asian military experts. On other missions this year, the American bombers have held joint exercises with U.S., Japanese and South Korean fighters.

In this networked battlefield, the Pentagon's old warhorses of the air would be an even more formidable rival.          

The speed and range of America’s Cold War-vintage bombers would allow them to approach Chinese targets from different directions and fire salvos of difficult-to-detect missiles at multiple ships, according to current and retired U.S. air force officers. With even longer range missiles that Washington has in the pipeline, such attacks could be mounted from well outside the range of China’s powerful, land-based air defenses. American bombers can also drop precision-guided mines to block strategically important ocean passages or ports.

And the U.S. B-2 stealth bombers could penetrate more deeply into Chinese airspace and attack key targets with sharply less chance of detection than the older bombers. These bombers already carry a heavy payload of precision, land-attack munitions and could also be configured to carry the Long Range Anti-Ship Missile.


China's aircraft carrier Liaoning sails past a container ship as it enters Hong Kong in July 2017. REUTERS/Bobby Yip
A B-1B could take off from the continental United States, refuel from tanker aircraft en route, and arrive over the Western Pacific in about 15 hours, according to Deptula and other military aviation analysts. From Hawaii the trip would take about nine hours, they say. Even closer, from northern Australia, the transit would take six hours without refuelling.

The Australian government announced in February it would spend $814 million upgrading a key air base at Tindal in the Northern Territory, including a major extension to its runway. Part of the reason for the upgrade is to support expanded U.S. Air Force operations, the Australian government said. American bombers are already using the base.

The B-1B originally served as a nuclear bomber. That role has been phased out. It now carries around 34 metric tonnes (75,000 pounds) of conventional guided and unguided weapons, the biggest payload of any U.S. aircraft. In the military operations launched after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, these bombers were flown hard for almost two decades to provide ground support to American and allied troops in the Middle East and Afghanistan.

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With the Pentagon having turned its competitive sights on China, the B-1B is now increasingly employed as a ship killer. In future, it could also be armed with a new hypersonic missile, the Air-Launched Rapid Response Weapon (ARRW), now in testing, and a new long-range cruise missile, according to senior U.S. Air Force commanders. Hypersonic missiles traveling at more than five times the speed of sound would be hard to intercept.

The B-52 is an even older icon of American might, in service since the mid-1950s. It carries a slightly smaller payload than the B-1B. As part of this weapons load, it can be armed with up to 14 upgraded versions of the Cold War-era Harpoon anti-ship missile. And, it could also be configured in future to carry 20 Long Range Anti-Ship Missiles, according to air power experts. Along with the B-2, the B-52 can also launch nuclear missiles.

While these older bombers remain potent, American air power experts say a strong force of B-21 stealth bombers will be much more effective when they begin entering service later this decade. The new bomber is being developed in a highly classified program. “All the indications are that it is proceeding well in the development phases,” said Deptula.


B-1B Lancer mechanics take selfies as a B-1B flies overhead at Andersen Air Force Base in Guam in  May. U.S. Air Force/Handout via

The US military can never defeat China in the SCS

Nigeria pass China and USA combined in military might.


Ask Boko Haram.

rationalhuman:
Trash and mere Chinese propaganda.

IAF was laughing on them cause the jets J-20 they claim are highly stealth were actually visible on IAF`S Sukhoi-30 MKI`s AESA radars.

Decoy... They know you want to get the specifics of the new plane so they keep you busy with what they want you to see/know.. If there is any country so aware of Western treachery/plans, it is the Chinese. Most top level Chinese leaders in recent times were trained locally within China. They don't want to be in such situations where they send their best political prospects abroad to the west for further studies only for such students to come home as Western agents. Their engineers and business leaders may study outside but not aspiring members of the poliitiburu.. Compare that with say Nigeria whose whole top military echelon were/are trained in the West. So much so that during the early days of Jonathans regime, WikiLeaks reported that the then Chief of army staff was briefing the American ambassador to Nigeria on Jonathan's personality and all that.. Your chief of army staff..., A foreign spy! It's finished naa..

Lol. China go suffer las las

I don't know why guys feel happy and excited any time new war toy guns are made meant for killing humans

yoruba1914:
If you believe this report, i have a bridge in lekki that i want to sell to you.

Mumu learn to research before you show how ignorant you are to the world.
https://www.defense.gov/Newsroom/Releases/Release/Article/2332126/dod-releases-2020-report-on-military-and-security-developments-involving-the-pe/

mach7:
The DoD needs more money from Congress.

What better way than to draw up an imaginary threat from the common line "the Chinese now have better weapons than us".

Initially it was the Russians, but now it is China.

The white man thinks ahead, unlike you regressive thinkers, a man has complained about his adversary to Congress, you are hear saying otherwise? Solve Nigeria’s problem with Boko Haram, leave The Americans to their own problem, Nigeria’s complaint about China is loan repayments, not military hardware.

favor914:
Mumu learn to research before you show how ignorant you are to the world.
https://www.defense.gov/Newsroom/Releases/Release/Article/2332126/dod-releases-2020-report-on-military-and-security-developments-involving-the-pe/

China currently has two aircraft carriers, while America has about 20+.

tutudesz:

China currently has two aircraft carriers, while America has about 20+.

How many does Nigeria have? What concerns you with the Department of Defense?Go write your own report from Oluwole, and go and present it before The US Congress.

yoruba1914:
If you believe this report, i have a bridge in lekki that i want to sell to you.

Bro only God knows where the poster pulled the crap.

rationalhuman:
Trash and mere Chinese propaganda.

IAF was laughing on them cause the jets J-20 they claim are highly stealth were actually visible on IAF`S Sukhoi-30 MKI`s AESA radars.

Department of Defense report to Congress is thrash & propaganda to you?, Because you saw the stealth bombers from your IAF (Ipob Air Force) base in Abakaliki?

T

Dedetwo:

Bro only God knows where the poster pulled the crap.

Now you believe the crap, doubting Thomas?

https://www.defense.gov/Newsroom/Releases/Release/Article/2332126/dod-releases-2020-report-on-military-and-security-developments-involving-the-pe/

CilicMarin:


Those are the ipob yoots supporting Trump....If Trump loses tomorrow, you would see them attacking America on daily basis. They did it under Obama they felt Obama supported Buhari.

They are the most deluded set of homo sapiens anywhere in the world.

Why are you concerned with IPOB instead of the subject matter of the thread? This is one of the reasons Nigeria is called the basket of fools.

Dedetwo:


Why are you concerned with IPOB instead of the subject matter of the thread? This is one of the reasons Nigeria is called the basket of fools.

Never heard anyone call Nigeria the basket of fools, that statement must have been specifically targeted at you, not Nigerians in general?

Rugaria:
Nigerians above unhappy, wishing the report is false. Not as if Americas military dominance has played any serious positive roles in their lives. Unfortunately for those in doubt, the story maybe true.. The Chinese are on a mission and they have both the resources and manpower to achieve that. It takes them far less financial imputs to achieve the same kind of costly technological results seen in the West... This is a country led for nearly a century now by technocrats. They are almost there.. The next super power. I just hope they use the accompanying influence in more dignifying ways globally.. Nobody wants to see the kind of chaotic takeover going on in Hong Kong right now.

China has never proved itself in war. Every single war it fought in the past against other countries through history it has lost. The only edge it has now is that its economy is mighty today and it copied U.S. technology for decades. China would have a hard time subduing even India next door.

favor914:
Never heard anyone call Nigeria the basket of fools, that statement must have been specifically targeted at you, not Nigerians in general?

How could you have heard anything tangible about human nature when you have foolishly believed the crap about Chinese military prowess which surpassed that of USA? You are a live example of reason Nigeria is called basket of fools. By the way, which isle do you belong? I hate to cross words with a person I had to regret later.