
Military Thread V16
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Apr 5 2015, 11:38 AM
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AG-600 likely a military transport plane for Chinese troops in Pacific ![]() AG-600 amphibious flying boat, the largest seaplane in the world, designed by the Aviation Industry Corporation of China, can potentially be used as for military transport across the Pacific, according to Vasily Kashin an analyst from Moscow's Center for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies, according to Sputnik News. The AG-600, set to take its first flight next year, is being developed primarily to extinguish forest fires and carry out maritime humanitarian operations according to the Aviation Industry Corporation of China. However, Kashin said it is extremely unlike China to devote so much resources and money to design an aircraft purely for firefighting purposes. Kashin said that the AG-600 will likely be unfit for purpose as a search and rescue plane at sea, as it will not stand up to ocean waves. Kashin said it is also unsuited to long-range maritime patrol missions because most land-based aircraft with enough range can do the job better and more efficiently. With its large size, the AG-600 is more likely to be used as long-range transport to transfer cargo and personnel across the vast Pacific region. The People's Liberation Army Navy or Air Force may use it to project Chinese power and influence to the disputed South China Sea and any other region in the Western Pacific. http://www.wantchinatimes.com/news-subclas...000022&cid=1101 |
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The Pentagon’s $10-billion bet gone bad ![]() QUOTE It was the most powerful radar of its kind in the world, they told Congress. So powerful it could detect a baseball over San Francisco from the other side of the country. If North Korea launched a sneak attack, the Sea-Based X-Band Radar — SBX for short — would spot the incoming missiles, track them through space and guide U.S. rocket-interceptors to destroy them. Crucially, the system would be able to distinguish between actual missiles and decoys. SBX “represents a capability that is unmatched,” the director of the Missile Defense Agency told a Senate subcommittee in 2007. QUOTE In reality, the giant floating radar has been a $2.2-billion flop, a Los Angeles Times investigation found. http://graphics.latimes.com/missile-defense/ |
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Apr 5 2015, 07:20 PM
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China’s Coming War With Asia: trouble brews in neighbourhood ![]() QUOTE ‘‘China claims that its rise is intended to be peaceful,’’ defence analyst Andrew Krepinevich writes in the current issue of Foreign Affairs, ‘‘but its actions tell a different story: that of a revisionist power seeking to dominate the western Pacific.’’ Krepinevich argues forthrightly that the response of the US and other regional states should be ‘‘archipelagic defence’’, by which he means hi-tech defence of the first island chain — Japan, the Ryukyus, Taiwan and The Philippines — against Chinese revisionist claims and military intrusion. Quite certainly, this is the fault-line where the tectonic plates of American supremacy and Chinese ambition meet. http://www.theaustralian.com.au/arts/revie...h-1227290211398 |
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