Wednesday, March 27, 2013

China Steps Up On Drone Deployment


Game Of Drones -- Bill Gertz, Washington Free Beacon

China stepping up drone deployment.

China’s military is expanding its unmanned aerial vehicle forces with a new Predator-like armed drone and a new unmanned combat aircraft amid growing tensions with neighbors in Asia, according to U.S. intelligence officials.

New unarmed drone deployments include the recent stationing of reconnaissance and ocean surveillance drones in Northeast Asia near Japan and the Senkaku islands and along China’s southern coast. Drones also are planned for the South China Sea where China has been encroaching on international waters and bullying nations of that region in asserting control over international waters, said officials familiar with intelligence reports.

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Previous Posts: China's Growing Drone Fleet Rises To Challenge U.S. Power -- March 14, 2013
                          Here Comes China's Drone Fleet -- March 2, 2013

WNU Editor
: A good video on this development is below.




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