So much for Lockheed's aforementioned plans to get a deal to build F16s in India if the Indian MoD is eyeing an Indian-made Super Hornet instead:
Defence Update
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"Wow, just wow" is all I have to say after tonight's episode! Finally a sea battle between China and the USN! Though it's sad how the USS Shackleton and the USS Hayward got the worst of it with multiple SSMs hitting them...
Must be that time of year when the certain defense publications come out with their usual "we don't have enough carriers, panic!" fear mongering articles:
National Interest
:facepalm: Any religion that does not permit a degree of secularism in its host society like these clerics won't survive till the next century.
Japan Times
The thing is, all the conflicts the PRC has been directly involved in since 1949 have been mainly land campaigns, with the exception of botched PLA amphibious landings on the Taiwan-held offshore island bases like Kinmen and Quemoy in the 1950s.
Chinese 1945-49 Civil War: mainly a ground war on...
An SSBN named after Washington DC?
Perhaps this will add fuel to the fiery US debate that DC should also have its own senators if it has an SSBN named after it - the same way full US states do. [:D
US Naval Institute
Would the CCP really be willing to risk China losing 30 years' worth of economic development and better living standards for its people simply for their claim on the South China Sea? Would Xi and the current seatholders of the Politburo Standing Committee really lose face if they blinked like...
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