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 missile’s range would’ve violated a now-defunct treaty with Russia and this disclosure comes amid criticism of its utility in the Pacific region.
Air Force analysts were baffled by the massive light shows, which may have been a countermeasure against American early warning satellites.
China’s anti-ship ballistic missile capabilities remain something of a mystery, but their strategic purpose is anything but.
Details are still limited, but the U.S. military has confirmed that it launched a ground-launched ballistic missile, believed to be in the intermediate-range class, from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California this morning. This is the first U.S. test of this type of weapon since the collapse earlier this year of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, or INF, between the United States and Russia, which had prohibited both countries from developing and fielding missiles in this category.
Israel conducted a mysterious “rocket propulsion system” test earlier today from a base in the central part of the country. What few details are available has prompted speculation that this launch is related to the development of a new member of the country’s top-secret Jericho family of nuclear-armed ballistic missiles.
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.
The exotic capability may have been a countermeasure intended to blind American early warning satellites from detecting a first strike launch.
Just viewing the parade was a complicated affair, but here’s our recap of the important takeaways and highlights from the highly anticipated event.
Images seem to pointedly show that US pressure and threats haven’t curtailed the country’s ominous developments.