-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Beijing's arms merchant Russian continues to sell communist regime high-tech weaponry ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Editor's note: In collaboration with the hard-hitting Washington, D.C., newsweekly Human Events, WorldNetDaily brings you this special report every Monday. Readers can subscribe to Human Events through WND's online store. By Timothy P. Carney � 2001 Human Events Nine feet above the water, traveling at twice the speed of sound, with a 200-kiloton nuclear warhead in its nose, the radar-guided Russian-built Sunburn missile can weave its way through smaller ships until it reaches its real target: a U.S. aircraft carrier. At the last instant, it would pop up from the ocean's surface, smash into the side of the carrier and set off a nuclear explosion six-times as powerful as Hiroshima. "The U.S. Navy has nothing that can stop it," professor June Teuffel told the House Armed Services Committee last July. The missile, like the Sovremenny-class destroyer that carries it, are now part of the naval arsenal of the People's Republic of China -- thanks to the Russian government. Since the end of the Cold War, Russia has profited by arming the PRC with tanks, warships, fighter jets, bombers, submarines, missiles, and radar and nuclear technology. International news sources, Jane's Defense Weekly and "Russia's Road to Corruption" -- a report issued by the House of Representatives' Speaker's Advisory Group on Russia chaired by Rep. Chris Cox, R-Calif. -- all document the arms trade between the two powers. A 1996 package, according to Jane's, included two Sovremenny destroyers equipped with the SS-N-22 Sunburn missiles, Sa-17 "Grizzly" anti-aircraft missiles and the "Helix-A" Ka-28 helicopters. The Grizzly flies at 4,000 feet per second and can hit an airplane flying 15 miles high, 31 miles away. The Helix, which flies off the destroyer, is an antisubmarine helicopter that can carry bombs, rockets, torpedoes and mines. The congressional report indicates that Russo-Chinese arms deals have been going on since at least 1992, when China bought a batch of Su-27 fighters. When the Russians completed their development of this plane in 1981, it was unequaled in maneuverability, range and sheer effectiveness, according to weaponry experts. The Chinese have purchased at least 46 of these planes that can travel at over 1,500 miles per hour, and now the Russians have given the PRC a license to build them in China. Russia also has sold the PRC 40 advanced Su-30MKK fighters, which the Financial Times describes as "a multi-purpose aircraft armed with different types of high-precision weapons [that] excels many of the world's best military aviation models in its tactical and technical characteristics." Nuclear capabilities According to Jane's, Russia has also agreed to sell China, in 2002, the newly developed Su-32 fighter, which is reported to have the capability to launch cruise missiles with a range of 620 miles. Finally, according to the congressional report, the Russians have sold Beijing Tu-22M Backfire supersonic bombers that can conduct "precision anti-ship missions, as well as conventional and nuclear strikes." Under the sea, China now has four Russian-built Kilo-class diesel-powered attack submarines. According to Defense News, China soon may also acquire nuclear-powered subs armed with long-range cruise missiles. The Kilo is covered in sonar-absorbent rubber to avoid detection and can track five targets simultaneously. It is armed with 18 torpedoes, including a model that is guided by a built-in active sonar system. According to a report in the London Times, these subs also may be armed with Soviet-built Shkval-E torpedoes. These computer-guided torpedoes are powered by rockets that propel them so fast they create an envelope of water vapor around themselves. Moreover, the Kilo sub can also shoot down planes with surface-to-air missiles. More ominously, the Russians are also aiding the Chinese with technology needed to develop Type 094 nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarines that will be armed with small ICBMs capable of targeting the continental United States with nuclear warheads. The Department of Defense's Annual Report on the Military Power of the People's Republic of China for 2000 points out that China's best diesel-powered sub, the SONG, also incorporates Russian technology. Additionally, Russia has armed Chinese ground forces. It has sold T-72 and T-80U tanks to the PRC and has discussed the sale of T-90C tanks, according to the congressional report. National security expert Richard Fisher of the Jamestown Institute says the People's Liberation Army air force has bought some Vympel R-77 air-to-air missiles that will give their fighter jets the ability to shoot down enemy jets from 55 miles away -- beyond visual range. Russia has provided China with training. Russian crews trained the Chinese on the Sovremenny destroyers. And last week, the Washington Times reported that Russia helped China stage a mock nuclear battle with Taiwan and U.S. forces in Asia. On Feb. 28, Moscow News wrote, "By scrapping the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, the United States would push Russia into supplying China with strategic arms." Chinese Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles "may be armed with multiple independently targetable warheads (MIRVs) based on technology provided by Russia and illicitly acquired from the United States," according to a congressional national security report released last year. *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for nonprofit research and educational purposes only.[Ref. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ] Want to be on our lists? Write at [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a menu of our lists! <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/";>www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER =========CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance�not soap-boxing�please! 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