Free Republic

The U.S. Indo-Pacific Command said on Tuesday that a Chinese fighter performed an unprofessional maneuver against a U.S. military plane in the South China Sea on Friday. Image courtesy Indo-Pacific Command May 31 (UPI) -- The Pentagon said Tuesday that a Chinese J-16 fighter pilot performed "an unnecessarily aggressive maneuver" against a U.S. Air Force plane operating in the South China Sea last week. The U.S. Indo-Pacific Command stated that an Air ForceRC-135 operating in international waters on Friday was intercepted by a Chinese fighter. "The PRC pilot flew directly in front of the nose of the RC-135, forcing the...

China blew up the world’s largest aircraft carrier, the USS Gerald R. Ford, with hypersonic missiles in a menacing simulation — which Chinese researchers say proves the US Navy warship could be “destroyed with certainty.” Using a war game simulation system, China’s military forces sank the carrier fleet using a volley of 24 hypersonic anti-ship missiles over the course of 20 intense battles. The results of the simulations were made public in a May paper published by the Chinese-language Journal of Test and Management Technology, according to the South China Morning Post. In the scenario, the US vessels are attacked...

China is expanding the populations it targets for the draft, even as a leaked U.S. military assessment says its current Air Force can achieve superiority over Taiwan. China said that if war comes, veterans and college-educated individuals will be a priority to be called into the military, Fox News reported. Although no specific goal was announced, in the past, U.S. officials have said they believe war could break out by 2027. Heino Klinck, former deputy assistant secretary of defense for east Asia and military attaché to China, told Fox News that the step is designed to offset the 2 million-strong...