{"id":2857,"date":"2017-12-19T00:26:26","date_gmt":"2017-12-19T00:26:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/?p=2857"},"modified":"2017-12-19T00:26:26","modified_gmt":"2017-12-19T00:26:26","slug":"ths-is-the-usn-master-plan-to-kill-chinas-aircraft-carriers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2017\/12\/19\/ths-is-the-usn-master-plan-to-kill-chinas-aircraft-carriers\/","title":{"rendered":"THS IS THE USN MASTER PLAN TO KILL CHINA\u2019S AIRCRAFT CARRIERS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2015\/10\/CV16-Liaoning.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-406\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2015\/10\/CV16-Liaoning-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"374\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2015\/10\/CV16-Liaoning-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2015\/10\/CV16-Liaoning-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2015\/10\/CV16-Liaoning-560x373.jpg 560w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2015\/10\/CV16-Liaoning-260x173.jpg 260w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2015\/10\/CV16-Liaoning-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sourced : The National Interest<\/p>\n<p>By <a href=\"http:\/\/nationalinterest.org\/profile\/james-holmes\">James Holmes<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fortress China is festooned with airfields and mobile antiship weaponry able to strike hundreds of miles out to sea. Yes, the U.S. Navy remains stronger than the PLA Navy in open-sea battle.<\/p>\n<p>A fleet-on-fleet engagement isolated from shore-based reinforcements would probably go America\u2019s way. But that hypothetical result may not make much difference since the two navies are more likely to join battle in confined Asian waters than on the open ocean.<\/p>\n<p>Ah, yes, the \u201ccarrier-killer.\u201d China is forever touting the array of guided missiles its weaponeers have devised to pummel U.S. Navy nuclear-powered aircraft carriers (CVNs).<\/p>\n<p>Most prominent among them are its DF-21D and DF-26 antiship ballistic missiles (ASBMs), which the People\u2019s Liberation Army (PLA) has made a mainstay of China\u2019s anti-access\/area-denial (A2\/AD) defenses.<\/p>\n<p>Image Sourced : Xinhua<\/p>\n<p>Read more at : http:\/\/nationalinterest.org\/blog\/the-buzz\/the-navys-master-plan-kill-chinas-aircraft-carriers-23665<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sourced : The National Interest By James Holmes Fortress China is festooned with airfields and mobile antiship weaponry able to strike hundreds of miles out to sea. Yes, the U.S. Navy remains stronger than the PLA Navy in open-sea battle. A fleet-on-fleet engagement isolated from shore-based reinforcements would probably go America\u2019s way. But that hypothetical&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2017\/12\/19\/ths-is-the-usn-master-plan-to-kill-chinas-aircraft-carriers\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">THS IS THE USN MASTER PLAN TO KILL CHINA\u2019S AIRCRAFT CARRIERS<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":406,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[80,1738,986],"class_list":["post-2857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security-and-strategy","tag-china","tag-df-21d","tag-u-s-navy","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2857"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2858,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2857\/revisions\/2858"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}