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The Soviet supercarrier
Ulyanovsk would have been a naval behemoth more than 1,000 feet long, with an 85,000-ton displacement.
Here s What You Need to Remember: Great nations have carriers, Russia considers itself a great nation, and therefore the ship would be a symbol of national revival and destiny. In other words, a new carrier would be one more reason to forget the bad old days when the Soviet Union disintegrated.
Had she ever sailed, the Soviet supercarrier
Ulyanovsk would have been a naval behemoth more than 1,000 feet long, with an 85,000-ton displacement and enough storage to carry an air group of up to 70 fixed and rotary wing aircraft.
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Beijing has a navy it doesn t even admit exists, experts say. And it s swarming parts of the South China Sea
Updated 6:17 AM ET, Tue April 13, 2021
This satellite image provided by Maxar Technologies shows Chinese vessels in the Whitsun Reef located in the disputed South China Sea. Tuesday, March 23, 2021.
Hong Kong (CNN)They ve been dubbed China s Little Blue Men, an allegedly Beijing-controlled maritime militia that analysts say could be hundreds of boats and thousands of crew members strong.
China doesn t acknowledge their existence and when questioned, refers to them as a so-called maritime militia.
But Western experts say the alleged militia is an integral part of Beijing s efforts to exert its territorial claims in the South China Sea and beyond. They claim its blue-painted vessels and their crews allegedly funded and controlled by the People s Liberation Army can quickly bring a Chinese presence so large around disputed reefs and islands they are a
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Washington’s hypocrisy and the frontiers of its New Cold War (of choice) appear to know no bounds. Eastern Europe is the classic theater of course, but you’ll hear the Pentagon’s new buzzword-acronym priority purpose, great power competition (GPC) – etched in senseless stone with the 2018 National Defense Strategy (NDS) – peddled to justify military missions in the Middle East, Central and East Asia, across Africa, and now at the very roof of the world: the frigid Arctic. Hey, it’s hard to think of a better setting for a Cold War, am I right? At least if you’re into playing what
Taiwan Defense Ministry
Chinese military flights around Taiwan have increased in recent weeks.
Those flights are seen as Chinese efforts to test Taiwan and send a message to its partners, especially the US.
But the aircraft included in those operations hint at a larger Chinese effort to improve its military s capabilities.
China s military flights around Taiwan have intensified in recent weeks in what is seen as an effort to test Taiwan and to send a message to its partners, especially the US.
Amid those operations, China appears to be continuing an ongoing effort to improve its military s ability to fight below the waters off its coast.