Concern has grown in Congress and elsewhere since the 1990s about China 5 military modernization. Several of the U.S. Navy's most expensive acquisition programs, as well as Navy initiatives for homeporting ships and for training sailors, are for developing or maintaining capabilities that could be useful or critical in countering improved Chinese mantime military capabilities in coming years. The issue for Congress addressed in this report is: How should China's military modernization be factored into decisions about U.S. Navy programs. Several elements of China's military modernization have potential implications for future required U.S. Navy capabilities. These include theater- range ballistic missiles (TBMs), land-attack cruise missiles (LACMs), anti-ship cruise missiles (ASCMs), surface-to-air missiles (SAMs), land-based aircraft, naval mines, submarines, surface combatants, amphibious ships, nuclear weapons, and possibly high-power microwave (HPM) devices. China's naval limitations or weaknesses include capabilities for operating in waters more distant from China, joint operations, C4ISR (command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance), long-range surveillance and targeting systems, anti-air warfare (AAW), antisubmarine warfare (ASW), mine countermeasures (MCM), and shipbuilding dependence on foreign suppliers. Observers believe a near-term focus of China's military modernization is to field a force that can succeed in a short-duration conflict with Taiwan and act as an anti-access force to deter U.S. intervention or delay the arrival of U.S. forces, particularly naval and air forces, in such a conflict. Some analysts speculate that China may attain (or believe that it has attained) a capable maritime anti-access force, or elements of it, by about 2010. Other observers believe this will happen later.
China Naval Modernization: Implications for U.S. Navy Capabilities - Background and Issues for Congress
2008
144 pages
Report
Keine Angabe
Englisch
Military Sciences , Missile Technology , Surface Launched Missiles , Military forces(Foreign) , China , Military modernization , Military capabilities , Antiship missiles , Naval personnel , Mine countermeasures , Conflict , Surface to air missiles , Naval planning , Submarines , Surveillance , Shipbuilding , Antisubmarine warfare , Taiwan , Naval vessels , Congress , Guided missiles , Amphibious ships , Nuclear weapons , Military forces(United states) , Theater range ballistic missiles , Tbm(Theater range ballistic missile) , Lacm(Land-attack cruise missile) , Ascm(Anti-ship cruise missile) , Aaw(Anti-air warfare) , Naval capabilities , Land based aircraft , High power microwave devices