It has emerged China’s newly expanded aerial kill zone was almost extended all the way up to the coast of the Japanese mainland – even as China announces successful tests of the world’s first “carrier killer” anti-ship ballistic missile.
According to Asahi, hard-line generals and military reseach institutes in China were pushing for an ADIZ extending out hundreds of kilometres from China’s EEZ, encompassing not only the Senkaku Islands but also extending up to the coast of Kyushu.
This represented a “political desire” on the part of some of China’s top leaders rather than any military necessity, it is said, but in the end the zone was extended from Chinese territorial waters instead, encompassing only parts of Okinawa, Taiwan and South Korea.
Even this generous compromise secured China massive international condemnation even from nations nowhere near its airspace, but the consequences of attempting to usurp control of the skies so close to Japan can only be guessed at.
In other – and perhaps far from unrelated – news, Japan’s air force is planning to increase its planned purchase of F-35s, whilst China has apparently just tested the world’s first ballistic anti-ship missile, the Dong Feng 21D, capable of eliminating aircraft carriers in one hit at a range of 3,000km.
Im still waiting for the day a war might start so I can go kill me some chinks
On the bright side.
What percentage of this hardware is Made in China?
99,999999999%
There is absolutely NO point!
Japan is done for, total radioaction there. Soon they will ALL dead, and few years after… we too.
Well we know the ‘blowing up’ part of these missiles will work fine. It’s just the ‘where’ and ‘when’ parts that are somewhat uncertain.
China would never go to war with the US. They’d be losing their biggest customer.
Not to mention destroy their own economy.
Tis a 2 way road. America would suffer immensely…so would majority of the world. As much as we like to complain about China’s human rights etc. we would bitch even more about everything going up in price.