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The China build a new kind of anti-ship missile like DF-26, what have an extremely long range and the mobile launchers. Those anti-ship missiles targets are United States aircraft carrier units, what they will hit with the speed of Mach 12. Those weapons are terrifying because the extremely high speed and the truck-mounted launchers can make that weapon extremely deadly.
Those very fast flying missiles are very problematic for the defense of those battlegroups. Even if those missiles will locate before the hit, the aircraft have the problem to fly about 1000 nautical miles to the target, and if the missiles have been launched, the attack will be useless. I’m almost sure that those missiles can be targeted by remote control via internet, and the missile crew must only to drive their truck to the launching point and leave the truck after the missiles are fired.
The locating the target would happen with satellites or patrolling airplanes, and after the aircraft carrier is located, the launching parameters can be sent by the Internet in the second, and then the missile will rise up from its launcher. The problem with that missile is that it will need no nuclear warhead to destroy their targets, and actually, those missiles destroy their targets with kinetic energy. And that makes the defense very difficult. Those kinetic warheads diameter can be very small size, and that will make those missiles very dangerous.
Of course, the United States might convert some of their ballistic Minuteman III missiles for that kind of strike. The kinetic energy missile needs very sharp guidance system, that they can strike precise to their target. And the guidance system of that missile can be IIR (Imaging Infra Red) what is very sharp. That kind of guidance system bases the camera, what makes a picture of the target. Another picture what is taken of the target is stored in those missiles computers, and then the computer will check that those pictures are fully one on the other. That’s how the missile will strike straight to the target.
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