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.
Iran sent ballistic missiles 1,000 miles out into the Indian Ocean, but it doesn’t mean they have a long-range anti-ship ballistic missile capability.
China has reportedly carried out at least one anti-ship ballistic missile test in the hotly contested South China Sea as part of a larger exercise. If true, it would be the first time the Chinese military has carried out this kind of activity in this region and represents a significant escalation in the country’s already aggressive efforts to assert its claims over this highly strategic portion of the Pacific Ocean.
This is the most recent in a series of increasingly provocative responses from China to American naval patrols in the disputed region.
A anti-ship ballistic missile carrying H-6N could extend China’s anti-access bubble even farther and put US naval strike groups at greater risk.
The media is hooked on military drama from the Korean Peninsula so be skeptical of reports on Pyongyang’s ballistic missile launches.