I guess

 

this is why the Chairman of the Joint chiefs of Staff thinks they will wait "years" until they are ready to take back Taiwan?

China has an advantage over the US Navy that could mean a 'decisive' defeat for US warships in a fight at sea

(This is from three years ago and its still true today.)

"In the maritime battlespace, Chinese warships have an advantage over US Navy vessels that could prove "decisive" in a conflict.

While the US has China outgunned, having greater capacity than the Chinese, China's naval forces have greater range.

Were China to initiate hostilities from a safe distance, its clear range advantage could render the US Navy's capacity advantage irrelevant.

"China is arming its surface warships with supersonic anti-ship cruise missiles with far greater range than the Cold War-era subsonic missiles the US Navy has in its arsenal."

"In a ship-to-ship fight, it all comes down to range, capacity, and capability, and it looks like China has an advantage in at least one, if not two, of these areas.

"On any given day in the South China Sea, [the US and China] could find [themselves] in a situation where each side has about the same number of anti-ship cruise missiles, but one side has a much longer range than the other," Clark told BI."The US is going to be at a disadvantage."

"In a hypothetical naval conflict scenario with the same types and numbers of ships on each side, the US will undoubtedly have greater capacity, but if the Chinese side is able to launch at longer ranges, then the missiles on the US side wind up being irrelevant if China fires first from outside the range of the US warships.

"What could US ships be launching in response?" Clark asked. "At the ranges we are talking about, nothing."

"Right now, we do not have anything that reaches that far, and therefore, the range disadvantage ends up being dominant. You'll never get a shot. You'll never get a chance to exploit your capacity advantage."

"The range disadvantage ends up being decisive," he added. "Even having the larger capacity is not enough to make up for it if the Chinese initiate the hostilities."

(To think they are not going to and here soon would be foolish at this point.)

"This is why the US Navy is modifying the Tomahawk cruise missile to have a maritime strike capability. It's about getting that range back."

"The idea," Clark explained, "is that if you had the Maritime Strike Tomahawk, you would be able to threaten the PLAN at the kinds of ranges that the PLAN can threaten you." Theoretically, this would deter them from ever attacking."

"if you had..." 

Thats a pretty big if, dont ya think?

How's your soul?

Are you right with God?

Are you ready for what we are gonna be facing here in the not to distant future?

I sure hope so...

(Thx Pastor Bridgette :-).