Chinese anti-ship ballistic missile (ASBM) development : drivers, trajectories, and strategies / by Andrew S. Erickson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Erickson, Andrew S., author.

Contributor:

Jamestown Foundation (Washington, D.C.)

John Penman Wood Library Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ballistic missiles--China.

Ballistic missiles.

Antiship missiles--China.

Antiship missiles.

China.

Physical Description:

148 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Other Title:

Chinese ASBM development

Place of Publication:

Washington, D. C. : Jamestown Foundation, [2013]

Summary:

China's Anti-Ship Ballistic Missile (ASBM), the DF-21D, has reached the equivalent of Initial Operational Capability. Although it probably has been deployed in small numbers, additional challenges and tests remain. This study examines the ASBM's capability and history, showing how the DF-21D meets multiple priorities in Chinese defense modernization and in the national security bureaucracy, as well its implications for the United States. The ASBM's physical threat to U.S. Navy ships will be determined by the development of associated systems and organizations, which currently limit data fusion and coordination in the complex task of identifying a U.S. aircraft carrier in the open ocean. Still, the ASBM poses a direct threat to the foundations of U.S. power projection in Asia and will undermine the U.S. position, unless efforts to counter its political-military effects are taken. Book jacket.

Contents:

I Executive Summary 1

II Key Judgments 4

III Current Status of the DF-21D ASBM 10

IV Background and Motivations for the ASBM Program 27

VI Constructing a System of Systems 81

VII Conclusion 116

VIII Appendix A: Knowledge Gaps and Key Questions 133

IX Appendix B: Post-1996 ASBM Publication Boom 139

X Appendix C: Chinese Analysis of the Pershing II 142.

Notes:

"May 2013."

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the John Penman Wood Library Fund.

ISBN:

9780983084266

0983084262

OCLC:

794708197