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| Tango01 | 01 Sep 2020 8:30 p.m. PST |
… is the US's best hope against China. "On July 21, two U.S Air Force B-1B bombers took off from Guam and headed west over the Pacific Ocean to the hotly contested South China Sea. The sleek jets made a low-level pass over the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan and its escorting fleet, which was exercising nearby in the Philippines Sea, according to images released by the U.S. military. The operation was part of the Trump administration's intensifying challenge to China's ruling Communist Party and its sweeping territorial claims over one of the world's most important strategic waterways. While senior Trump officials launch diplomatic and rhetorical broadsides at Beijing, the U.S. Defense Department is turning to the firepower of its heavily armed, long-range bombers as it seeks to counter Beijing's bid to control the seas off the Chinese coast…"
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 Legion 4   | 02 Sep 2020 3:36 p.m. PST |
They certainly play a big part in the equation, along with non-nuclear Sub payloads. IIRC the USN has 4 subs outfitted like that. |
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