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China has a credible route to sink a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier in a war. In fact, it was this very topic that led...
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China has a credible route to sink a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier in a war. In fact, it was this very topic that led...
Long-term projections envision a Chinese fleet of six to nine aircraft carriers. Beijing currently possesses three. The Liaoning is a converted Soviet hull. The...
For decades, strategists have warned that the aircraft carrier is going the way of the battleship — too big, too costly, too easy to...
The U.S. Air Force has quietly outfitted the B-2 Spirit to carry the Long-Range Anti-Ship Missile, reportedly up to 16 of them. It is...
For the first time, China has released footage of its DF-17 hypersonic missile launching, filmed during a desert exercise simulating waves of strikes. Flying...
The debate over what China’s military is actually for keeps producing the wrong answer because it keeps asking the wrong question. Global power projection...
The China Missile Threat to U.S. Bases in the Indo-Pacific Must Now Be Taken Seriously To quote a RAND report on the subject: “China’s...
Brandon J. Weichert, a senior national security editor and author, evaluates the end of the U.S. Navy’s "era of impunity" in the Indo-Pacific. The...
Summary and Key Points – Brandon J. Weichert, Senior National Security Editor at 19FortyFive, analyzes how China’s new Chengdu J-20S—the world’s first two-seat fifth-generation...
Summary and Key Points: China appears to be evolving its “carrier-killer” missile concept (DF-21D/DF-26B) into a weapon with intercontinental reach, threatening U.S. carrier strike...