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Defense News: Satellite images reveal Chinese expansion in South China Sea
Imagery captured Monday from an ImageSat International (ISI) Eros B satellite indicates Chinese preparations for new land-based missile installations on an increasingly strategic island base in the South China Sea.
The high-resolution imagery, shown here for the first time, reveals recent changes in the layout of the People’s Liberation Army’s Yulin Naval Base at the tip of Hainan Island in the disputed South China Sea. In less than two months, the PLA deployed multiple missile launchers on the western side of the base, deployments that ISI imagery analyst Amit Gur has concluded are anti-ship missiles.
“The direction in which the launchers are facing leads us to believe these are shore-to-ship missiles,” Gur told Defense News.
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More News On China Installing Missile Systems On South China Sea Islands
South China Sea: Missiles for Attacking Ships Installed, New Satellite Images Show -- Newsweek
Satellite Images Suggest China Is Arming Strategic South China Sea Base With Missiles -- National Interest
Satellite Images Suggest China Is Arming Strategic South China Sea Base With Missiles -- Daily Caller
Satellite Images: Beijing Installing Missile Systems on South China Sea Islands -- Sputnik
Will the South China Sea Become the New Crimea? -- Nicholas Lyall, National Interest
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