This unusual new Air Force tactic is likely raising alarms in China, expert says
Story by David Roza • Yesterday 8:54 AM
The U.S. Air Force is thinking outside the box, and it is probably keeping Chinese military leaders up at night.
Chinese military officials are likely alarmed by the Air Force’s efforts to launch cruise missiles out of cargo aircraft, according to an analysis by a U.S. Air Force civilian researcher who specializes in Chinese aerospace studies.
Launching weapons out of cargo aircraft could complicate an enemy’s targeting priorities, make it more difficult for them to detect an incoming threat, and give the U.S. and its allies more options for striking the enemy at a low cost.
That enemy may be China’s People’s Liberation Army in the near future, if the predictions of U.S. national security officials prove accurate.
“[T]he PLA likely regards Rapid Dragon in particular as a credible threat,” wrote Derek Solen, a senior researcher at the U.S. Air Force’s China Aerospace Studies Institute, in a Dec. 22 article for The Jamestown Foundation, a national security think tank based in Washington, D.C.
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