China’s Giant Moving Warship Target In The Desert Shows How Seriously It’s Taking The Naval Arms Race
China is expending considerable effort and resources to drastically increase the fidelity of its desert-based anti-ship weapons targets.
China is expending considerable effort and resources to drastically increase the fidelity of its desert-based anti-ship weapons targets.
The bold vision of a USMC that is far less dependent on the lumbering “Gator Navy” comes with a sacrificial offering of the force’s most sacred cow. Under the Commandant’s plan, the big beach assault made possible by increasingly costly and complex amphibious assault ships will no longer be the focus and primary planning construct of the service.
The Chinese have their own plans to use the missiles on land and at sea, but also hope to court foreign buyers.