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Chinese government news service Xinhua reports that a newly built aircraft carrier was floated in the sea at Dalian (also known as Port Arthur). The ship must "undergo equipment debugging, outfitting and mooring trials." As yet, the Soviet-built Liaoning is China's only operating aircraft carrier.
According to Shanghaiist and Voice of America (U.S. government outlet), the carrier is named Shandong. Some other reports said that it is unnamed.
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Previously on SoylentNews: China Moving Full Speed Ahead in Construction of Aircraft Carriers
Chinese State Media Boasts About its New Electronic Reconnaissance Ship
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(Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Thursday April 27 2017, @02:02PM (1 child)
I'm going to assume that the anti-ICBM system is missiles fired from the Arleigh Burkes with assistance from their AEGIS system, possibly receiving data from not only each other but shore-based X-band radars.
Maybe even a THAAD, if it is positioned such that it can intercept before the ballistics.
It would be much more difficult to directly target the ship radars unless you have overwhelmed the carrier strike group. The thing about phased-array radars is that they can degrade gracefully and proportionately to how many elements (T/R modules, waveguide slots, etc.) you can take out.
(Score: 2) by akinliat on Friday April 28 2017, @12:17AM
The Burkes use the SM-3 in the the theater defense role. These are basically long-range(900+ nm) variants of the SM-2, which is the current standard anti-air missile in the Navy's inventory. They also have upgraded electronics for engaging ballistic missiles.
Note that these are intended for theater defense -- I don't think anyone has ever seriously considered shooting a ballistic missile at an moving target. The idea behind the SM-3 was that it would allow Aegis ships to protect cities and bases, which are after all more valuable than any ship or collection of ships.