Navy brass warns China may invade soon: We need to prepare ourselves for a fight

Revelations 6:3-4 “when he opened the second seal, I heard the second living creature say, “Come!” 4 And out came another horse, bright red. Its rider was permitted to take peace from the earth, so that people should slay one another, and he was given a great sword.

Important Takeaways:

  • China could invade Taiwan later this year, top Navy officer warns
  • Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Mike Gilday said China’s 20-year track record of delivering “every promise they’ve made earlier than they said” indicated the Communist country could try to take Taiwan by force any day now.
  • “It’s how the Chinese behave and what they do,” Gilday said during an Atlantic Council event. “So when we talk about the 2027 window, in my mind, that has to be a 2022 window or potentially a 2023 window.”
  • The prediction coincides with Chinese President Xi Jinping’s promise to make 2027 the year to bring China to the forefront of global power, as it will mark the end of what the country considers its “hundred years of humiliation.”
  • In preparation for such a possibility, Gilday says, the Navy now has “our eyes on preparing ourselves for a potential fight tonight.”

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US Navy in pursuit of Hypersonic anti-ship missile by 2028

Revelations 6:3-4 “when he opened the second seal, I heard the second living creature say, “Come!” 4 And out came another horse, bright red. Its rider was permitted to take peace from the earth, so that people should slay one another, and he was given a great sword.

Important Takeaways:

  • US Navy Scrambles To Catch Up With Russia, China; Wants Hypersonic Anti-Ship Missile ‘HALO’ Before 2028
  • The U.S. Navy, in its latest budget request, has highlighted the need for an air-launched hypersonic anti-ship cruise missile before 2028, for it to counter Russia and China.
  • Recently, a video from China had shown a People’s Liberation Army Xian H-6N bomber carrying a potent and mysterious air-launched anti-ship ballistic missile slung along the bottom of its fuselage.
  • Two days later, the Chinese state released a video showing the test-fire of a mysterious missile, thought to be hypersonic YJ-21, from one of its huge Type 055 destroyers
  • Though the U.S. Navy’s priority right now would be to acquire a hypersonic anti-ship cruise missile, it may later develop HALO to incorporate land-attack capability. That being case, the budget proposal makes it clear that the Navy views HALO as instrumental in ensuring the Force’s ability to conduct aerial stand-off strikes

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