China is putting weapons on its artificial islands in the South China Sea

Business Insider ^ | 05/28/15 | John Garnaut, David Wroe

[Enlightened1]

Diplomatic tensions surrounding disputed territories in the South China Sea could escalate dramatically following reports China is now putting weapons on its artificial islands in the area.

Australia’s defence force is considering joining the U.S. in flying and sailing “freedom of navigation” missions over the disputed territory, where China has been building islands by dragging sand from a reef and piling it up to create structures now being monitored by satellites.

Fairfax Media reports the Australian fly-over expeditions may occur as a result of heightened concerns that China is enhancing its military capabilities and reach across the maritime expanse.

[Enlightened1]

[Enlightened1]

[Dr. Thorne]

Time to bomb.

[Scrambler Bob]

Well Darn,

I’ve been losing my weapons in lakes, ponds, rivers and streams.

[Army Air Corps]

Ping.

[Enlightened1]

[Enlightened1]

LOL!

[The Toll]

So act like America and put weapons on the Moon. Screw these people! Stop buying their crap!

[Darteaus94025]

Thanks China, for creating a target rich environment!

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

So act like America and put weapons on the Moon.

The aliens working on the dark side might get upset with that.

[Texan5]

Now some scientist here needs to devise a way to create a directional tsunami...

[familyop]

China is surrounded by quite a few allies, formal and informal, some quite militarily powerful, some with large nuclear weapons forces, more with ABM defense systems. The situation now is why a large part of our own defense was moved to the area for a decade or so.

She’s bluffing.

[edpc]

I’m not logging in to read the article. What weapon systems do they say are being implement?

[Rebelbase]

Time for that DARPA weather machine to kick up a CAT 5 cyclone.

[knarf]

We won't do a damned thing ... not in THIS administration and I dare say ... not even Ted Cruz (though I'd want to THINK he would stop them)

I'll need to do more research on the ownership of the islands before I can intelligently comment on this

I know this, though ... the Philippines have been in the past and are now ... threatened.

[Robert A Cook PE]

Shitte.

[Rebelbase]

"Thanks China, for creating a target rich environment!"

China thanks you.

[central_va]

Ever notice how the Free Republic Free Trade Army (Free Traitors for short) avoid the “Chinese hostilities likely” threads like the plague.

[Rebelbase]

Not as impressive as ours 70 years ago.

[Enlightened1]

Perhaps a Ballistic Missile detector like this?