February 17 2014 War-rumor-nerves? What is going on with the deployment of warships? The states have some on our east coast, now Autralia is getting similar “visits”. Australia scrambled an air force surveillance plane earlier this month to monitor an unannounced Chinese military exercise that took the emerging superpower’s ships closer to Australian territory than ever before. In what observers say is a significant strategic development, China carried out combat simulations at the beginning of the month between Christmas Island and Indonesia in an apparent flexing of its growing naval muscle. China had not announced the exercise. When Australia became aware that the three Chinese vessels were sailing across the waters to the north, the Royal Australian Air Force sent an AP-3C Orion maritime surveillance plane from RAAF Base Edinburgh, near Adelaide, to observe. Are you prepared? beforeitsnews/war-and-conflict/2014/02/more-warship-matters-australia-scrambles-planes-in-response-to-chinese-warships-near-australian-waters-video-2450420.html
Posted on: Mon, 17 Mar 2014 12:46:23 +0000
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