Pacific arms race

A Chinese KS-1 SAM mobile launcher. Over the last decade, China has added an impressive collection of conventionally-armed ballistic and cruise missiles to defence inventories, making the country the largest SRBM force on the planet, beefed up by surface-to-air defence purchases of around 1000 Russian-made S-300 missiles.

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  The guided missile destroyer USS Fitzgerald manoeuvres with the Chinese...
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  A Eurofighter Typhoon – one of the finalists in India's Medium Multirole...
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  In June, China formally announced the construction of the country's first...
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  A Kiev-class carrier; the Indian Navy plan to have the refurbished INS...
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  A Chinese KS-1 SAM mobile launcher. Over the last decade, China has added an...

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