PACOM: Artificial Islands Have Carrier Killer Missiles

Editor’s Note: We’ve been talking a lot about these topics in recent days, all in an effort to educate you (and ourselves!) about how the landscape of tomorrow’s potential battlefield. The Chinese are certainly increasing their surface warfare and aerial warfare capabilities by leaps and bounds, to include the presence of new radars, 5th-generation aircraft, […]

Navy Admiral: U.S. to continue sailing through South China Sea despite tension

Featured photo by Ritchie B. Tongo (pool photo via AP, File) WASHINGTON: The US Navy will step up its operations in the South China Sea with “greater complexity”, a top US admiral has warned, drawing sharp rebuke from China which is building military facilities on islands in the hotly disputed area. “We’ll be doing them […]

New Radar Erected On Chinese Artificial Island?

Editor’s Note: This is in a similar vein of what we’ve been talking about with Chinese radar’s ability to detect and possibly track low-observable aircraft such as the F-22 and F-35. The PLAAF and its air defense efforts seems to be solely focused on the threat posed by LO aircraft, and that notion is reflected […]

Chinese Fighter Jets Deployed To Artificial Islands

Editor’s Note: Since the Chinese completed the runway and conducted initial tests on Woody Island, it was only a matter of time before aircraft from the People’s Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF) starting setting up shop there. So with the HQ-9 SAMs, as well as Shenyang J-11 “Flanker” and Xian JH-7 “Flounder” fighter jets, China has […]

China deploys advanced missiles to South Sea island

The Chinese military has deployed an advanced surface-to-air missile system to one of its contested islands in the South China Sea according to civilian satellite imagery exclusively obtained by Fox News, more evidence that China is increasingly “militarizing” its islands in the South China Sea and ramping up tensions in the region. The imagery from […]

China Fears Bring the U.S. Military Back to the Philippines

The Philippines booted the U.S. military out of the country 25 years ago, deriding the American troops as unwelcome guests and living symbols of colonialism. Now, fearful of a rising China, Manila is asking Washington to send them back. The push got a major boost Tuesday when the Philippine Supreme Court approved a landmark defense cooperation deal […]