China’s submarine fleet is now one of the world’s largest with nearly 85 vessels. More than that, old and unreliable boats mostly acquired from the old Soviet Union are being rapidly replaced by modern submarines armed with highly sophisticated anti-ship missiles and radar-dodging cruise missiles able to attack land targets.
Beijing is even building at least [...]

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Russia’s increasing belligerency is of great concern to U.S. and NATO leaders. The invasion of Georgia comes on the heels of such actions as the resumption of nuclear-armed bomber patrols off the U.S. coast, the planting of the Russian flag under the Arctic ice, the manipulation of natural gas supplies to the Ukraine and a [...]

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China has completed the upgrade of its intermediate range CSS2 ballistic missiles in Tibet from liquid to solid fuel.
Missile experts say the upgrade reduces the logistic train for these missiles and will enable shorter launch times, increasing India’s vulnerability to a pre-emptive strike.
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China’s Boomers
[Ballistic missile submarines are called "boomers".]
This summer’s public revelation that China [...]

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According to the 2007 edition of the Pentagon’s annual report on Chinese military power, China is developing a capability beyond regional war at a pace that both surprises and concerns U.S. officials, a capability that includes a new generation of ballistic missile submarines and the capability of a first-strike attack on our military satellites.
Appropriately, the [...]

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