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This Is How America Plans to Sink China's Warships ( Source- The National Interest / Author- Zachary Keck)

Tomahawk missile being fired from an American warship  ( Image source- Wikimedia Commons / Credits- United States Navy) Source- The National Interest Author- Zachary Keck This week the U.S. Navy detailed its plans to rectify the advantage China holds in the area of sophisticated anti-ship missiles. Starting in fiscal year 2017, the U.S. Navy will begin the Offensive Anti-Surface Warfare (OASuW) Increment II program aimed at fielding a more advanced anti-ship missile to replace the aging Boeing RGM-84 Harpoons the navy current relies on. Speaking at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, DC on Wednesday, Vice Adm. Joseph Aucoin, the deputy chief of naval operations warfare systems (N9), said that the Long Range Anti-Ship Missile (LRASM) will compete with the new Tomahawk Block IV for OASuW II. “What I would like to see happen is take those capabilities that we need and start inserting those into a Block IV [Tomahawk], and [compare tha