China is starting to ramp up its scramjet propulsion work -- an initiative that will benefit high-speed missile programs. Over the next several decades, the scramjet work could eventually provide China with a tactical hypersonic global-strike capability beyond the country's strategic ballistic missile force. The U.S. has similar goals for its own growing scramjet program.
The US is increasingly concerned about China's deployment of mobile land and sea-based ballistic nuclear missiles that have the range to hit the US, according to people familiar with an imminent Pentagon report on China's military.
India carried out a successful test on Thursday of its longest-range ballistic missile, the Agni III, which is capable of carrying a nuclear warhead more than 3,000 km (1,900 miles). Defense analysts say the Agni III is primarily designed to counter the military strength of China, which also has nuclear weapons.
The author looks at what impact U.S. cooperation with Japan on theater missile defense will have on the Asian security dynamic.
China is upgrading its nuclear arsenal and deploying more sophisticated missiles able to target “virtually all of the United States,” according to a new assessment from the U.S. Defense Department.
Japan is actively increasing its role in military space by jointly developing missile defense systems, new generations of military spy satellites, and planning for manned stations on the moon. The author argues that these developments risk igniting an arms race with China.
The latest evidence shows no signs that China is significantly expanding its long-range nuclear weapons capabilities to counter the United States and its planned national missile defense system, according to a private U.S. nuclear weapons analyst.
The FAS Project on Government Secrecy has posted a document prepared last year for the Defense Intelligence Agency on "China's potential responses to U.S. deployment of ballistic missile defenses in light of the historical development of Chinese policy."
China is modifying short-range mobile missiles to target U.S. forces in Okinawa and is sharply increasing the number of missiles aimed at Taiwan, according to the Pentagon's latest annual report on Chinese military power.
Although the development of Chinese missile defense countermeasures is not likely to keep pace with U.S. technologies, the United States should still monitor China?s efforts, says a report released by the U.S. Army War College?s Strategic Studies Institute.