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In the event of war between the United States and China in the western Pacific region, the outposts likely would be important targets for the Americans.

Do we really believe the era of low-intensity wars has ended? Heres What You Need to Remember: In again putting the A-10 on the chopping block, the Air Force is assuming it won’t ever fight anything short of a full-scale war against a peer enemy. The U.S. Air Force in its 2021 budget proposal asked Congress to let it retire 44 of its roughly 280 A-10 Warthog attack jets. It’s the second time in recent years that the flying branch has tried to slash the A-10 fleet.  It’s fair to say that,...

Why Chinas Missile Capabilities Should Terrify the U.S. Military China has conducted several missile tests in the South China Sea in recent years and placed anti-ship missiles in strategic areas which could threaten American interests.  Heres What You Need to Remember: In moving a dozen DF-26 launchers to Inner Mongolia, around 2,000 miles from the Paracels, China reportedly aims to protect the rockets from boost-phase interception. The Chinese military lobbed anti-ship ballistic missiles in...

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The U.S. Defense Department’s regional command for South America  is the smallest of the department’s 10 unified commands. It permanently oversees just 1,200 personnel plus a few thousand troops and a handful of ships on temporary deployments. But that doesn’t mean the U.S. military couldn’t invade Venezuela in the event Washington makes good on past threats and orders the Pentagon to intervene in the slowly-collapsing South American country. Not, of course, that invading Venezuela i...

1 (4 votes) Airspace Secured: Italian F-35 Fighter Jets Arrive In Estonia To Guard The Baltics 1 out of 5 based on 4 ratings. 4 user reviews. Airspace Secured: Italian F-35 Fighter Jets Arrive In Estonia To Guard The Baltics Support SouthFront On April 30 th, Italian Air Force F-35 Lightning II fighter jets arrived in Estonia to protect the airspace of the Baltic countries. According to the press service of the General Staff of the Estonian Defense Forces, they will replace the ...

The  Cyclones-class patrol boats are fast and heavily armed - perfect for first response to Iranian aggression in the Persian Gulf. Heres What You Need To Remember: The Cyclones spent a decade in a kind of planning limbo. But then in 2003, the United States invaded Iraq. The patrol boats suddenly found their calling. If the United States and Iran go to war in the Persian Gulf, the U.S. Navy’s smallest warships could be the first to see combat. The Navy’s 13 Cyclone-class patrol boats --...

Sweden says its capabilities have been overstated.

Izumo-class helicopter carriers to embark F-35B stealth fighters. South Korea is getting an aircraft carrier. The vessel could help Seoul’s navy to compete with its main rivals, the Chinese and Japanese fleets. The South Korean joint chiefs of staff decided on July 12, 2019 to acquire an assault ship capable of operating fixed-wing aircraft, Defense News reported. The vessel presumably would embark vertical-landing F-35B stealth fighters. Seoul for years has mulled a purchase of F-35Bs to co...

The DF-26 could be vulnerable to the latest American defenses.  Heres What You Need To Remember: China in recent years has occupied several disputed islands in the China Seas, dredged their endangered coral reefs and built atop them sprawling airfields and barracks and installations for cruise missiles and air-defense systems. The Chinese military lobbed anti-ship ballistic missiles into the South China Sea in tests in early July 2019. The missile trials underscored Beijing’s increasing mil...