Word: antiship
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...captures the idea: yibu daowei, one step and you're there. Instead of taking years to build carriers and subs, the Chinese are keen on constructing a sophisticated missile force that could pack a punch tomorrow. The Pentagon says China is developing sophisticated short-range ballistic missiles and lethal antiship cruise missiles. And though the Chinese have yet to adopt many of the tricks they picked up by stealing U.S. secrets--how to cram multiple warheads on a single missile, for instance--Representative Christopher Cox is not alone in his fear that the spying may have helped accelerate an Asian...
Pentagon officials are distressed over reports that Iran is trying to buy a sophisticated underwater mine from China. The rocket-propelled antiship mine, dubbed an EM53, can be planted on the sea floor and then propelled by rocket engine toward a target ship...