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Chinese news sources have accused the U.S. Navy of behaving in a provocative way.
The People’s Liberation Army-Navy has sent its first indigenous carrier on deployment in the South China Sea along with something resembling a carrier strike group. This move immediately follows the deployment of China’s first carrier to the region.
The Shandong, the first Chinese-built carrier, has been operational for a while and has been deployed on a sphere of missions in the region, including the South China Sea. The move might not seem surprising in light of a recent Chinese news report accusing a U.S. destroyer of “stalking” its Liaoning carrier group. While the Chinese claim the U.S. destroyer was “risking an accident” and behaving in a provocative way, the U.S. Navy very routinely operates destroyers, carriers, and even amphibious assault ships on patrol in the Pacific to ensure stability and conduct exercises and war preparations as needed. As part of this overall strategy,
The 3M22 Tsirkon is a part of a long-standing modernization effort by the Russian Navy.
The Russian Navy is arming its attack submarines with a first-of-its-kind submarine-launched hypersonic missile engineered to travel 600 miles at Mach 8 speeds toward ship targets at sea as well as fixed land targets within range.
The addition of the missile, which is now reported to be in testing for deployment, is now taking place as part of Russia’s Project 949AM submarine modernization effort arming the Irkutsk submarine for hypersonic attack by 2023, according to a report from Russia’s TASS news agency. The new missile is called the 3M22 Tsirkon, according to the TASS report.