China hints at carrier-borne airpower breakthrough

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China’s Fujian air wing is slowly taking shape, possibly making it the first carrier worldwide capable of launching 5th-generation stealth fighters from its decks. This month, the South China Morning Post (SCMP) reported that China might be preparing to deploy a new stealth fighter or perhaps a stealth drone from its Fujian aircraft carrier, incrementally […]Continue Reading

Ukraine is going to lose

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There’s a notion floating around the Internet that the current conflict in Ukraine is going to remain a static war of attrition that will bleed the Russian army dry. So what if it decimates Ukraine’s society and eradicates most of its population? At least the dreaded Russian war machine will have been ground to a halt in […]Continue Reading

China using AI for decisive edge in South China Sea

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China has just used artificial intelligence (AI) to simulate its island-building activities in the South China Sea, a move that if and when actualized could help to bolster its maritime claims in the hotly contested maritime region. This month, South China Morning Post (SCMP) reported that a team from the Transportation Science and Engineering College, […]Continue Reading

New Cold War reaches China’s Tiangong space station

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A computer-generated rendering of the Tiangong space station, set to be up and running in 2022. Photo: Handout

On January 25, 2023, Space News reported that the European Space Agency (ESA) no longer intends to send European astronauts to Tiangong, China’s newly completed space station. The report quoted the ESA Director General Josef Aschbacher saying that the agency was already “very busy” with its International Space Station (ISS) commitments and that it currently lacked both the budgetary […]Continue Reading