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Send a HeroBox Care Package Today!Multiple sources are reporting that the Pentagon may be sending additional military assets closer to China in the Indo-Pacific theater. Most of these added assets are expected to be based in Guam and Australia.
This according to the Pentagon’s latest report.
The classified Global Posture Review is designed to help advise where to position various forces across the globe over the next two to three years.
According to this review, the assessment plans for improvements to the airfields and other infrastructure at U.S. bases in Guam and Australia, augmenting a previously announced deployment of fighter and bomber aircrafts, defense officials said.
According to the EurAsian Times, this U.S. military expansion means that the United States is expected to “send extra fighter jets including F-22 Raptors, F-35 Lightning II, B-2 stealth bombers to Australia to deter possible Chinese military aggression and threats from North Korea.”
It adds that:
the increased aircraft rotations in Australia are an indication that the U.S. is moving forward with the strategy as a major pillar of its tougher defense posture to deter China. … The U.S. military’s ability to act freely in Asian waterways and airspace has been hindered by China’s growing arsenal of missiles directed at U.S. bases in Japan, Guam, and warships.
19fortyfive reported that Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Mara Karlin told reporters at the Pentagon that “You’ll see new rotational fighter and bomber aircraft deployments in Australia.” The rotational deployments are expected to include bombers that are capable of carrying anti-ship missiles to deter the ever-growing Chinese warships in the region.
While the U.S. strategic shift to face China nominally began under the Obama administration, it only gained true resonance under President Trump which named China as a ‘strategic competitor’ in 2018. As the Stars and Stripes reported:
…that concept, nicknamed the ‘Pacific Pivot’ during former President Barack Obama’s administration, was supported in the [Trump] 2018 National Defense Strategy, which listed China as the ‘strategic competitor’ with the United States because of its rapidly growing military, operations to influence other nations and ‘predatory economics’ used in an attempt to dominate the Indo-Pacific region.
Unfortunately, these deployments are not nearly enough to face the growing China threat or fulfill President Biden’s stated commitment to fully counter China.
The Wall Street Journal noted:
While some details about the repositioning of military capabilities are classified and others have been previously announced, defense specialists said the review’s lack of sizable adjustments to military forces in Asia shows the challenges the U.S. faces in rebalancing resources to confront China while maintaining other global commitments.
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Russia and China will have the capability to hit carrier groups with hyper-sonic missiles before they can get in operational range to launch airstrikes, as the upcoming F-35 stealth fighter jets have a combat radius of 450-600 miles, meanwhile hyper-sonic missiles potentially have a range in excess of 1,200 miles.
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All the West’s Air Craft Carriers are merely targets against fast nuclear torpedoes and fast maneuvering mach 4 (plus) hyper-sonic anti-ship and mach 8 (plus) hyper-glide ‘anti-anything else’ intercontinental missiles Russia has deployed in 2019 and 2020. China and Iran will soon follow.
The US Navy Sea Wiz 20mm Vulcan Gatling-style rotary cannon can only track one target at a time. A mass launch of missiles from very short range will defeat it.
US radar must have the capability to track multiple (10 to 20 Mach 4 Hyper-sonic anti-ship missiles from very short range, say inside the sea of Japan, Yellow Sea, Formosa Straight, Persian Gulf or the Black Sea.
Russia and China will have the capability to hit carrier groups with hyper-sonic missiles before they can get in operational range to launch airstrikes, as the upcoming F-35 stealth fighter jets have a combat radius of 450-600 miles, meanwhile hyper-sonic missiles potentially have a range in excess of 1,200 miles.
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