Featured Image: Type 052D-class destroyer with the aircraft carrier Liaoning and other Chinese warships in April 2018. REUTERS/Stringer
Business Insider: “China has launched new, more advanced ships at a steady clip in recent years, building what is now the world’s largest navy. It has also sent those ships on more complex operations across a wider swath of the Pacific. That larger, more capable force was on display in August 2022 during exercises of unprecedented size around Taiwan following House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to the island.”
“Wicked” threat from China’s air defenses.
“China’s navy has rapidly increased the size and capability of its fleet.
That expansion worries the US military, and it has reemphasized anti-ship warfare in its training.
That’s not a new task for US pilots, but they now face a “wicked” threat from China’s air defenses.”
“Were there a clash with China over Taiwan, “the first target that we’re going to have to deal with is the ships because you saw when Speaker Pelosi went to Taiwan what they did with their ships. They put them on the east side of Taiwan as a sort of blockade,” Gen. Kenneth Wilsbach, the commander of the US Pacific Air Forces, said at an Air and Space Forces Association conference in March.”
https://www.businessinsider.com/china-air-defense-weapons-wicked-problem-for-us-air-force-2023-11
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