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Re:New Warship’s Big Guns Have No Bullets by nl on Tuesday November 08, 2016 @06:54AM (#12899501)
The DF-21 "Sunburn"[1] anti-ship ballistic missile:

carr[ies] a warhead big enough to inflict significant damage on a large vessel, providing the Chinese the capability of destroying a U.S. supercarrier in one strike.

Additionally, Ships currently have no defense against a ballistic missile attack.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DF-21

[2] http://www.usni.org/news-and-features/chinese-kill-weapon

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Re:New Warship’s Big Guns Have No Bullets by gozur88 on Tuesday November 08, 2016 @06:02PM (#12904729)
>The DF-21 "Sunburn"[1] anti-ship ballistic missile

Only the "D" version. It's a complex system that involves satellites, which can be shot down, and multiple communications links that can be attacked. And it's expensive, which is why they don't have many.

>Additionally, Ships currently have no defense against a ballistic missile attack.

This is wrong. All US CBGs have ballistic missile defense.

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Re:New Warship’s Big Guns Have No Bullets by AlgorithmicTime on Tuesday November 08, 2016 @08:20AM (#12899959)
Well, that's not true. Many Aegis cruisers and destroyers are now armed with SM-3 missiles which are capable of anti-ballistic missile and anti-satellite.
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