Current Events in Asia-Pacific

Manfred Meyer (edited by Larry Bond and Chris Carlson), Modern Chinese Maritime Forces, Second Edition (Admiralty Trilogy Group, 1 July 2024).

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/philippine-ship-chinese-vessel-collide-in-south-china-sea-beijing/ar-BB1ol1TV?ocid=U507DHP&pc=U507&cvid=2e2efada942749a6a6dea6be6d3c94f6&ei=63 I think we need 'Ram' as a HC weapon?

These things are pretty cool: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K9_Thunder

Improving installations in Yap and other places https://www.airandspaceforces.com/air-force-yap-airfield-upgrades-ace/

Interesting article of an author I read few weeks ago. Sometimes slightly anti-Western comments, but interesting reads: https://www.eurasiantimes.com/salvo-of-chinese-yj-21-hypersonic-missiles-attack-us/

The First Battle of the Next War: Wargaming a Chinese Invasion of Taiwan (CSIS, 9 January)

Bulldogs Away 2022 Fiction Essay Contest Winner (Proceedings, November 2022)

Command Investigation of the Apparent Striking of a Submerged Object by USS Connecticut (SSN 22) While Underway in the U.S. Seventh Fleet Area of Operations on 2 October 2021 (Commander, Pacific Fleet)

Eight New Points on the Porcupine: More Ukrainian Lessons for Taiwan (War on the Rocks)

From australian ABC news service: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-02-22/japanese-ambassador-slams-china-over-raaf-laser-incident/100849886

https://thediplomat.com/2022/02/what-a-19-year-old-study-tells-us-about-chinas-j-20/ https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/thediplomat_2022-02-14-191931.pdf

A China-US war in space: The after-action report (Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists)

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-01-19/work-begins-on-us-jet-fuel-facility-outside-darwin/100764194

maybe useful for a model of a PRC Carrier Group

Australia dumps troubled European-designed Taipan helicopters for US Black Hawks and Seahawks https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-12-10/australia-dumps-troubled-mrh-90-taipan-helicopters/100688550

How Powerful Is China’s Military? The Pentagon’s New China Report Offers Answers (1945) Link to the CMPR: Military and Security Developments Involving the PRC 2021 (DOD, pdf) The Pentagon’s 2021 China Military Power Report: My Summary (Andrew Erickson)

China’s Claim That Its Fractional Orbital Bombardment System Was A Spaceplane Test Doesn’t Add Up (The War Zone)

China's New Y-20U Tanker Joined Dozens Of Other Warplanes Flying Near Taiwan (The War Zone)

Australia to Pursue Nuclear Attack Subs in New Agreement with U.S., U.K. (USNI News) Huge news for the Aussies.

Last night during the Zoom meeting there was talk about the PLAN super carrier and that they were going to use the same cats that we're using. Maybe not....to this old shipfitters eyes it looks like a standard Kuznetov design with a ski ramp and no angle...which means they can't launch and recover at the same time....oops.... Byron