Study This Photo. A ‘Quicksink’ Missile Might Someday Sink China’s Navy
ByBrent M. EastwoodPublished8 seconds ago
New Weapon Aims to Be a Ship Killer Against the Chinese Navy: China has more warships than the United States, and its navy has become more technologically advanced and lethal over the last two decades. The U.S. military is looking at ways it can fatally strike China’s surface fleet including aircraft carrier strike groups that protect China’s strategic interests in Taiwan Strait and other areas of the Indo-Pacific.
Due to this need, the Americans have come up with a novel approach to anti-ship aerial warfare by converting an existing bomb into a killer of Chinese vessels.
Take a JDAM and Watch It Split a Ship in Two
This new weapon is called the “Quicksink program.” The U.S Air Force took an existing 2,000-pound GBU-31 Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM) and turned it into a ship destroyer. A Quicksink demonstration can be watched above.
The video was released by the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) September 19 and shows a mid-size target ship floating along with a dramatic munition cruising in and causing a massive explosion on board that split the target in half. The projectile looks like a missile in the video, but it is really the JDAM Quicksink munition.
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