Affidabilità dei sistemi d'arma prodotti dalla Cina ... c'è di che essere perplessi ...
Le esportazioni di armi cinesi stanno registrando un notevole aumento.
Tra i principali clienti di Pechino figurano il Pakistan, il Bangladesh, il Myanmar e lo Sri Lanka.
Tuttavia si sta verificando una crescente insoddisfazione tra gli stati clienti per il livello qualitativo delle attrezzature fornite.
Le principali lamentele riguarderebbero l’inadeguatezza del sistema di assistenza e la fornitura dei pezzi di ricambio difettosi.
I paesi clienti hanno espresso più di un dubbio circa il costo elevato, relativo al ciclo di vita dei sistemi d’arma cinesi, rispetto a quelli occidentali.
Rapporto al Congresso sulla modernizzazione navale della Cina ...
China’s military modernization effort, including its naval modernization effort, is the top focus of U.S. defense planning and budgeting.
China’s naval modernization effort has been underway for more than 25 years, since the early to mid-1990s, and has transformed China’s navy into a much more modern and capable force.
China’s navy is a formidable military force within China’s near-seas region, and it is conducting a growing number of operations in the broader waters of the Western Pacific, the Indian Ocean, and waters around Europe.
China’s navy is, by far, the largest of any country in East Asia, and sometime between 2015 and 2020 it surpassed the U.S. Navy in numbers of battle force ships (meaning the types of ships that count toward the quoted size of the U.S. Navy).
DOD states that China’s navy “is the largest navy in the world with a battle force of approximately 340 platforms, including major surface combatants, submarines, ocean-going amphibious ships, mine warfare ships, aircraft carriers, and fleet auxiliaries …
La Cina potrebbe avere 1.500 testate nucleari entro il 2035 ...
China is rapidly modernizing its nuclear forces and aims to flex its growing military clout, according to a Pentagon report released Nov. 29.The annual study, the China Military Power Report, says China may have 1,500 nuclear warheads by 2035.
“If you look at where we are compared to a couple of years ago, it certainly is a dramatically accelerated pace,” a senior defense official told reporters.
“They’ve got a rapid buildup that is kind of too substantial to keep under wraps.”
The report comes one month after the release of the 2022 National Defense Strategy, which outlined China as the Defense Department’s “pacing” challenge.
“China is the one country out there that geopolitically has the power potential to be a significant challenge to the United States,” said Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, at a recent news conference.
Un funzionario del Pentagono ammonisce la Cina ... "dovrebbe prendere in considerazione il fatto che l'invasione di Taiwan potrebbe risultarle assai costosa" ...
When it comes to Taiwan, the United States’ goal is to ensure Beijing understands an invasion is “never easy to do rapidly or cost-free,” the senior Pentagon official for the Indo-Pacific said Thursday.
Ely Ratner, speaking at the American Enterprise Institute, added, “what we are trying to do [is] ensure when Beijing looks at the problem, [it decides] today is not the day.”
It would be “a really bad idea” for Beijing to pursue 2027 as the year for military action to bring the self-governing island under its control, he said.
I lavori di modifica sulla porta-elicotteri giapponese JS Kaga per renderla in grado di ospitare gli F-35B stanno per essere ultimati ...
Modification work turning Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force helicopter destroyer JS Kaga into an F-35B aircraft carrier are nearing completion at a dock in Kure City, Hiroshima Prefecture, located in the western part of Japan’s Honshu Island.
Kaga, the second ship of the Izumo-class DDH, has been primarily designed to carry SH-60 helicopters and to operate as a core ship in anti-submarine warfare.
In 2018, however, the Japanese government decided to modify the Izumo-class DDH to allow it to operate F-35B fighter jets.
The main purpose of this is to strengthen air defense capabilities, especially in the Pacific region, and to complement the U.S. Navy’s LHA/LHD operations with the F-35B.
Nel frattempo, nel Mar Cinese Orientale, sta volgendo al termine l'importante manovra aeronavale congiunta Russo-Cinese"Joint Sea 2022" ...
The Russian Navy and the People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) wrapped up their Joint Sea 2022 exercise in the East China Sea on Tuesday.
The Russian surface action group transited northeast through the Tsushima Strait while the PLAN Liaoning Carrier Strike Group (CSG) continued its deployment to the Philippine Sea.
On Tuesday, a Russian cruiser, destroyer and two corvettes were sighted about 85 miles northwest of the Danjo Islands in the East China Sea ...
Un caccia della Marina Cinese ha volato a una distanza inferiore ai 20 piedi da un velivolo dell'USAF sopra il Mar Cinese Meridionale ...
A Chinese Navy jet intercepted a U.S. Air Force reconnaissance plane in an incident over the South China Sea last week, U.S. Indo-Pacific Command said Thursday.
“On Dec. 21 (China Standard Time), a People’s Liberation Army – Navy J-11 fighter pilot performed an unsafe maneuver during an intercept of a U.S. Air Force RC-135 aircraft, which was lawfully conducting routine operations over the South China Sea in international airspace. The PLAN pilot flew an unsafe maneuver by flying in front of and within 20 feet of the nose of the RC-135, forcing the RC-135 to take evasive maneuvers to avoid a collision,” INDOPACOM said in the statement.
Da un "wargame" un avvertimento alla Cina ... "Se tenterete di sbarcare aTaiwan ... le buscherete" ...
The U.S. could take thousands of casualties but in most cases would ultimately prevail: These were the conclusions drawn from a series of 24 wargames run by the Center for Strategic and International Studies that assessed a scenario in which China attempted an amphibious invasion of Taiwan in 2026.
Wargames are a common way for civilian and military decision-makers to test out strategies or plan for conflict.
Often, they are highly classified and their conclusions, methodologies, and assumptions are never publicly explained in detail.
But as Taiwan has emerged as a point of major contention between Washington and Beijing, CSIS took the unusual step of releasing its findings and methodology.
Un funzionario del Pentagono afferma che il costo elevato dell'invasione di Taiwan dissuaderà la Cina ...
China will not attempt to invade Taiwan before the end of the decade because it understands the high cost, the senior Pentagon official in charge of Indo-Pacific security said Thursday.
“Deterrence is real; deterrence is strong” today and tomorrow, said Ely Ratner, the assistant secretary for the Indo-Pacific.
The United States can likely deter Beijing from attacking the self-governing island 100 miles off the Chinese coast, he said.
Speaking at a Hudson Institute event Thursday (*), Ratner cited the administration’s position that the Peoples Republic of China “is the only country with the capability and intent to overthrow the international order.”
But in the past year, Washington, its allies and partners have built-up capabilities to “ensure that kind of coercion and bullying” – from threats of attack to interfering with transiting aircraft and shipping – doesn’t succeed, he said.
Gli incrociatori lanciamissili tipo 055 di classe "Renhai" sono le più importanti navi da guerra di superficie della Marina cinese ...
The People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) Type 055 Renhai-class guided-missile cruisers are among the most formidable warships afloat.
They represent the culmination of China’s efforts to build powerful long-range surface combatants to project power and escort the PLAN’s growing fleet of aircraft carriers.
China is continuing the nuclear weapons modernization program that it initiated in the 1990s and 2000s, but is expanding it significantly by fielding more types and greater numbers of nuclear weapons than ever before.
Since our previous "Nuclear Notebook" on China in November 2021, China has continued to modernize its road-mobile intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), has significantly advanced the construction of its three new missile silo fields for solid-fuel ICBMs, and has also expanded the construction of new silos for its liquid-fuel DF-5 ICBMs. China is also significantly expanding its DF-26 intermediate-range ballistic missile force and has also begun replacing some older conventional short- range ballistic missiles with new DF-17 medium-range ballistic missiles equipped with hypersonic glide vehicles.
At sea, China apparently has refitted its six Type-094 ballistic missile submarines with the longer-range JL-3 submarine-launched ballistic missile.
In addition, China has recently reassigned a nuclear mission to its bombers and is developing an air-launched ballistic missile that might have nuclear capability.
Per la quarta volta quest'anno, i bombardieri strategici americani B-1 si uniscono ai caccia sudcoreani per una dimostrazione di forza ...
A pair of B-1B Lancers flew alongside American F-16s and South Korean F-35s over the Korean Peninsula on March 19, the same day North Korea reportedly launched another missile test off its coast.
The combined air training flight was part of the joint combined exercise Freedom Shield 23, which incorporated both live training and simulated command and control scenarios.
That event, which began March 13, coincides with Warrior Shield FTX, the biggest U.S.-South Korean exercise in five years.
Two B-1s from Ellsworth Air Force Base, South Dakota, joined four ROK F-35s and four USAF F-16s from Kunsan Air Base, South Korea, over the peninsula.
Una strategia di contenimento per il Pacifico Occidentale ...
The primary threat to core U.S. interests is that China could dominate Asia, and from that position atop more than half the global economy, undermine Americans’ prosperity, freedom, and even security.
This is not a merely speculative fear. Beijing is pursuing regional hegemony over Asia, and if successful, it will very likely pursue the kind of global preeminence that would enable it to directly intervene in and exercise a domineering influence over Americans’ lives.
As a result, nothing else in the international system is as fundamentally dangerous to U.S. interests as Chinese hegemony over Asia.
Accordingly, U.S. policy must prioritize avoiding that outcome, but must do so in ways that correlate the risks and costs the American people incur in doing so with the stakes, which are vital but not genuinely existential.
In practice, this requires working together with Asian states in an antihegemonic coalition focused on denying Beijing dominance over the region.
Contrary to some commentary that suggests the military dimension in this dynamic is not that important, the U.S. military’s role in this strategy is central.
This is because Beijing will likely not be able to dominate Asia without resorting to military force.
While China has enormous and growing economic and other nonmilitary forms of influence, it is finding it difficult to use its leverage to get neighboring countries to accept what would essentially be a tributary relationship.
Its efforts to do so have largely backfired - as demonstrated in places such as Australia, India, Japan, and Taiwan - and an increasingly aggressive China’s standing (as reflected in global polling) has declined precipitously.
Quattro B-52 del 96th Expeditionary Bomb Squadron sono atterrati a Guam per partecipare a esercitazioni e missioni di addestramento con altri servizi, nonché alleati e partner ...
The Air Force continues to BUFF up its presence in the Pacific.
Four B-52 bombers and more than 200 Airmen from Barksdale Air Force Base, La., arrived at Andersen Air Force Base on Guam on March 30 to kick off the service’s latest Bomber Task Force deployment in the Indo-Pacific.
The aircraft and personnel are part of the 96th Expeditionary Bomb Squadron.
While deployed to Andersen, they will participate in training exercises and missions with other services, as well as allies and partners, Pacific Air Forces announced in a release.
“The bomber task force, and specifically the B-52s in the Indo-Pacific region, not only allows our crew force to hone their superior technical and weapons system expertise, but also sends an extremely important message,” Lt. Col. Vanessa Wilcox, commander of the 96th Bomb Squadron, said in a statement.
“It demonstrates our continued readiness and commitment to our allies in the region to ensure freedom of movement now and in the future, as well as ensures stability in the region.”
Dieci navi da guerra cinesi e dieci taiwanesi si affrontano nello stretto di Taiwan ...
Ten Chinese warships reportedly engaged in a confrontation with ten Taiwanese warships in the Taiwan Strait on Sunday (April 9), while seventy Chinese warplanes were detected around Taiwan.
Citing a security source, Reuters on Sunday reported that twenty military vessels, half of which are Chinese and half are Taiwanese were involved in a "stand-off" close to the Taiwan Strait median line (*).
According to the source, the warships “did not behave provocatively.”
Portaerei Americane e Cinesi operano contemporaneamente nella zona di Taiwan ...
Both a U.S. and a Chinese carrier strike group are operating near Taiwan as political tensions continue to simmer following a Taiwanese presidential meeting with U.S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), USNI News has learned.
On Monday, the Nimitz Carrier Strike Group was operating in the vicinity of Taiwan in the Philippine Sea, according to the USNI News Fleet and Marine Tracker. USS Nimitz (CVN-68) is also operating in the Philippine Sea following a series of exercises with Japanese and Koreans with Exercise Ssang 2023.
“We will not be deterred from operating safely and responsibly in the season skies of the Western Pacific consistent with international law, and in keeping with that the Nimitz carrier strike group and a Marine Amphibious Readiness Group continue to conduct routine operations in the Philippine Sea and will remain in the region,” Chris Meagher, assistant to the secretary of defense for public affairs, told reporters Monday.
The Shandong Carrier Strike Group launched 80 J-15 Flying Shark fighter missions from Friday through Sunday from People’s Liberation Army Navy carrier CNS Shandong (17), according to Japanese officials. Shandong transited the Bashi Channel Wednesday and has since been operating off of Taiwan’s east coast, USNI News previously reported.
Il Dipartimento della Difesa degli Stati Uniti afferma che la Cina mostra una "Preoccupante mancanza di interesse nei colloqui" ...
U.S. officials expressed growing concern April 18 about the lack of communication between the Chinese and American militaries in light of increasingly aggressive actions by Beijing.
It has now been nearly five months since Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III last spoke to his Chinese counterpart, despite a number of high-profile incidents involving the countries’ forces.
In written testimony to the House Armed Services Committee, principal deputy assistant secretary of defense for Indo-Pacific security affairs Jedidiah P. Royal said China had “a concerning lack of interest in the important lines of communication that underpin a stable defense relationship between our countries.”
In addition to Austin’s lack of communication with his Chinese counterpart, Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s planned trip to China - originally set for February - has been postponed indefinitely.
“There is clearly a high level of frustration with the lack of engagement from Beijing,” Zack Cooper, a China expert at the American Enterprise Institute, told Air & Space Forces Magazine.
La portaerei giapponese JS Kaga (DDH-184), convertita per l'impiego degli F-35B, ha lasciato il molo sfoggiando una nuova prua ...
New images show the heavily modified bow of Japan’s Izumo class JS Kaga (DDH-184) ‘helicopter-carrying destroyer’ as the vessel left its dock recently. Kaga is currently being turned into an F-35B Joint Strike Fighter carrier for the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF).
Photos of the vessel pulling away from its dock in Kure City, Hiroshima Prefecture accompanied by various tugboats began circulating online around April 19.
According to Naval News, the first set of modifications to Kaga (originally slated to end in March) included changing the shape of the vessel's bow section and applying a heat-resistant coating to its deck.
The next set of modifications, which will involve re-balancing and structurally reinforcing Kaga's hull, are expected to be completed by March 2024.
Su sollecitazione degli Stati Uniti il Governo sta inviando navi da guerra nell'Indo-pacifico ...
Non solo Ucraina, ma anche Pacifico.
Dopo il conflitto tra Kiev e Mosca, l’alleanza atlantica sta ponendo le proprie attenzioni nei confronti della Cina, non solo in un’ottica di possibile aiuto militare a fianco di Vladimir Putin, ma soprattutto per un’eventuale invasione – o “riunificazione”, come ribadisce ogni volta la propaganda comunista di Pechino – con l’Isola di Taiwan.
L’occupazione è programmata ufficialmente entro il 2049, centenario della nascita della Repubblica Popolare Cinese, ma molti analisti hanno già stimato un intervento entro il 2029, o addirittura il 2025.
Gli Stati Uniti, sia sotto la guida di Donald Trump che di Joe Biden, sono stati chiarissimi fin dall’inizio.
In caso di invasione della Cina, non vi sarà un semplice sostegno economico e militare da parte di Washington, così come sta avvenendo in Ucraina.
Al contrario, si procederà con una vera e propria risposta militare a fianco della resistenza taiwanese.
Il sorvolo dello Stretto di Taiwan da parte di un P-8 della Marina degli Stati Uniti ha costretto la Cina a far decollare i suoi caccia intercettori per monitorarlo ...
China’s People’s Liberation Army scrambled fighter jets to monitor a U.S. Navy P-8A Poseidon that flew over the Taiwan Strait Friday, according to U.S. and Chinese statements.
The P-8A flew over the Taiwan Strait in international airspace early Friday local time, according to a U.S. Navy news release (*).
Sembra che, in Siria, i Russi stiano adescando i piloti dei caccia statunitensi per indurli ad accettare combattimenti aerei ...
Russian pilots have begun buzzing American fighter jets over Syria in apparent invitations to dogfight, according to the three-star general in charge of U.S. air operations in the Middle East.
It’s the latest example of Russian troops growing increasingly confrontational toward the U.S. and its allies as they cross paths over war zones and in shared airspace around the world. Russian airmen are “increasingly bellicose” in their approach and “aggressively maneuvering, almost like they’re trying to dogfight,” Air Forces Central Command boss Lt. Gen. Alexus Grynkewich told the publication Defense One(*).
“Our protocols would say we’re supposed to stay … several miles apart and just monitor each other.”
He cautioned American airmen not to engage.
Taiwan si sta rivolgendo agli appaltatori statunitensi per rafforzare le scorte della difesa ...
A delegation of 25 U.S. defense contractors is visiting Taiwan this week to discuss an old idea with new urgency: joint production of arms crucial for the island democracy’s security in the face of a rising threat from China.
Several factors are conspiring to create meaningful challenges to quickly standing up any coproduction.
While the need for the weapons may be obvious, questions remain about who will provide them and how.
“The purpose of the delegation is to capitalize on one of the central pillars of Taiwan’s economic plan, which is the growth of the defense industrial base,” says Rupert Hammond-Chambers, president of the U.S.-Taiwan Business Council and a participant in the delegation.
“Taiwanese companies would play the role of systems integrator in the defense realm, and the U.S. would provide niche technology for them to fill any gaps they have.”
Gli esperti affermano che un'escalation involontaria potrebbe portare alla guerra con la Cina ...
Il rischio di una guerra con la Cina è in aumento, hanno affermato gli esperti il 1° maggio.
La causa più probabile: una conflagrazione USA-Cina nello Stretto di Taiwan che potrebbe andare fuori controllo.
"Le prospettive di guerra stanno crescendo", ha detto Bonnie Glaser, direttrice del programma "Trans-Pacific" del "German Marshall Fund" degli Stati Uniti durante un webinar della Brookings Institution.
"Non credo che inizierebbe con una dichiarazione di indipendenza taiwanese", ha detto, perché l'elettorato taiwanese ha mostrato scarso entusiasmo per tale dichiarazione, sapendo che la Cina avrebbe probabilmente intrapreso un'azione militare in risposta.
C'è altrettanto poco appetito per aderire al cosiddetto concetto di una nazione, due sistemi di Pechino, soprattutto dopo che la Repubblica popolare ha rinnegato stridentemente tale promessa a Hong Kong.
Piuttosto, sosteneva la Glaser, lo Stretto è "davvero l'unico potenziale fattore scatenante di una grande guerra tra Stati Uniti e Cina".
La Marina Militare Italiana mette alla prova l'elicottero SH-90 nel dispiegamento nella regione Asia-Pacifico ...
La Marina Militare Italiana sta compiendo ulteriori passi per garantire l'operabilità e l'affidabilità dei suoi elicotteri navali SH-90 mentre inizia un dispiegamento di cinque mesi nella regione Asia-Pacifico a bordo della nave da pattugliamento d'altura di classe "Thaon di Revel" "ITS Francesco Morosini". SH-90 è la designazione italiana dell'elicottero NATO NH90.
L'ufficiale comandante del "Grupelicot 4" ha dichiarato ad "Aerospace DAILY" alla fiera "IMDEX Asia" che l'unità ha un database delle date di scadenza dei componenti dell'elicottero e ha fornito alla nave eventuali ricambi che potrebbero scadere durante il dispiegamento.
Il distaccamento aereo è relativamente piccolo, composto da tre piloti, tre operatori di sistema e sette tecnici e specialisti.
Guam ... il Pentagono ha dato inizio ai lavori per realizzare una capacità di difesa contro i missili balistici ...
Il Pentagono sta compiendo i primi passi per fornire Guam di un sistema di difesa missilistica persistente a 360 gradi contro gli attacchi Cinesi e Nordcoreani, ha affermato martedì il Vice Ammiraglio Jon Hill, direttore della "Missile Defense Agency", in occasione di un panel tenutosi al Senato.
Testimoniando davanti alla Sottocommissione del Senato per le Forze Strategiche delle Forze Armate, Hill ha affermato che sono in corso valutazioni ambientali in una dozzina di siti selezionati dall'Agenzia e dall'Esercito.
Il Leader legislativo di Taiwan mette in guardia dalla volontà di dominio globale della Cina ...
Il Partito Comunista Cinese vuole essere un egemone globale e Taiwan fa parte di quel progetto, ha avvertito il Presidente della Legislatura dell'isola in un discorso pronunciato Martedì.
"Se non prendiamo sul serio la minaccia cinese, un futuro oscuro attende tutta l'umanità", ha affermato You Si-kun parlando all'Hudson Institute tramite un traduttore.
Ha indicato il giro di vite di Pechino sulla democrazia a Hong Kong e il trattamento della sua minoranza Uigura come esempi della sua recente storia interna.
Il Partito è sia comunista che autoritario e ha, come obiettivo prefissato, rendere "il mondo intero soggetto a una regola".
Nel frattempo ... è stato appena pubblicato un "Rapporto Al Congresso", aggiornato al 15 Maggio 2023, che tratta della modernizzazione navale della Cina ...
La portaerei USS Nimitz è arrivata in Giappone prima del vertice del G-7 mentre navi da guerra cinesi stanno operando nelle vicinanze ...
Secondo quanto dichiarato dall'US Navy, la portaerei USS Nimitz (CVN-68) è entrata nel porto giapponese di Sasebo Venerdì scorso mentre la conferenza del G-7 stava iniziando a Hiroshima.
Il porto di Sasebo ha accolto anche il cacciatorpediniere USS Wayne E. Meyer (DDG-108).
Le restanti navi del Nimitz Carrier Strike Group sono l'incrociatore USS Bunker Hill (CG-52) e i cacciatorpediniere USS Chung-Hoon (DDG-93), USS Decatur (DDG-73) e USS Paul Hamilton (DDG-60).
Operazione predatoria cinese al largo della Malesia, con relativa violazione sacrilega dei relitti della corazzata HMS Prince of Wales e dell'incrociatore da battaglia HMS Repulse che sono, in realtà, le tombe di guerra dei marinai britannici caduti ...
Un'operazione illegale cinese di recupero sta facendo irruzione in due relitti di navi da guerra britanniche della Seconda Guerra Mondiale al largo della costa della Malesia alla ricerca di rottami di acciaio, alluminio e raccordi in ottone, provocando una dichiarazione di preoccupazione da parte della Royal Navy(*) ...
La nave cinese da recupero Chuan Hong 68 ha utilizzato una grande gru da dragaggio per estrarre i rottami dai relitti della corazzata HMS Prince of Wales e dell'incrociatore da battaglia HMS Repulse, secondo quanto riportato dalla stampa locale.
Entrambe furono affondate il 10 Dicembre 1941, giorni dopo l'attacco a Pearl Harbor, dai bombardieri giapponesi, provocando la perdita di 840 marinai.
Le Autorità malesi hanno bloccato una nave cinese sospettata di aver recuperato relitti britannici della Seconda Guerra Mondiale ...
La Guardia Costiera malese ha bloccato una nave da carico alla rinfusa cinese che trasportava proiettili inesplosi che potrebbero essere stati saccheggiati dai relitti della corazzata HMS Prince of Wales e dell'incrociatore da battaglia HMS Repulse entrambi affondati da siluri pochi giorni dopo l'attacco giapponese a Pearl Harbor.
La Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency sta interrogando i 32 membri dell'equipaggio sulle recenti attività della nave nelle sue acque.
Gli investigatori di diverse Forze dell'Ordine malesi e del Dipartimento del Patrimonio malese stanno cercando sulla nave carichi sospetti che potrebbero essere collegati alla ricerca illegale di rifiuti marini in altri siti di relitti della Seconda Guerra Mondiale o prelevati da depositi di ordigni inesplosi scoperti in un recente raid in un deposito di rottami di Johor.
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