On August 19, Bryan Clark gave a presentation at the Hudson Institute concerning the threat the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) poses to the U.S. surface fleets operating in the Western Pacific.
There is a great deal of talk about hypersonic weapons and their possible impact on the battlefield. Some consider them the ultimate weapon of war, others feel they are merely an evolutionary development along a predictable track.
China is rapidly increasing the size, variety and capabilities of its missile force and the United States must change how it defends both the homeland and its forward-deployed forces in the Western Pacific to counter the growing threat, a panel of experts said Aug. 19.
Three years after the Missile Defense Agency mothballed its massive Airborne Laser, MDA is planning to reboot the concept for a new era.
New tests for the first-in-class supercarrier are likely to delay the ship’s arrival in the fleet, and experts say the delays will lead to less presence overseas or the last-minute ship schedule changes that officials have been trying to avoid.
Pentagon officials are divided over how many new details to reveal about the upcoming U.S. Air Force long-range bomber funded by the military’s “black budget,” which is shrouded in secrecy. The B-2 bomber’s most precious technical details are expected to remain under wraps, though the public could learn about advanced weapons systems and intelligence capabilities of which only government developers are aware.
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