In post #4, Lethalforce stated: "when they innovate something instead of reverse enginneering Russian copies than people will believe these kind of claims."
In post #14, redragon stated: "I think it will take at least another 50 years, if not forever, for China to be really relying on it's own tech."
In post #24, Vladimir79 stated: "Considering RE is all China does, you make a good point." (RE = reverse engineering)
Let me try to persuade some DFI members that the world changes over time. Does an anti-ship ballistic missile that travels at Mach 10 before impact qualify as an innovation and indigenous technology?
"US panic at China's new ship killer"
The institute's report said the Dong Feng missile was thought to have a range of about 2000 kilometres and a speed of Mach 10: "The size of the missile enables it to carry a warhead big enough to inflict significant damage on a large vessel, providing the Chinese the capability of destroying a US supercarrier in one strike."
The result, 13 years later, is the Dong Feng 21. "It's a technological leap that's never [before] been made," says Schriver, now the head of a non-partisan research body, Project 2049 Institute, and a founding partner of the consulting firm Armitage International.
"The Russians couldn't do it. If it works, it will have the range of a ballistic missile and the accuracy of a cruise missile.
"The Chinese would have the ability to hold our carriers at a great distance - it almost makes the aircraft carriers obsolete.
"What did we do in 1996? We sent carriers. What are the Chinese doing? Taking the carriers out of the equation." He thinks it prudent to expect such missiles to be operating within a couple of years.
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US panic at China's new ship killer