Russia says it's thinking of putting missiles in Asia if the US keeps deploying weapons systems there

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Medium-range BUK surface-to-air missile systems are paraded in Moscow in 2015.
A Russian foreign deputy minister said Moscow is keeping open the option of deploying missiles in Asia if the US starts putting weapons in the Indo-Pacific.

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These are the biggest challenges facing the US Army in the Pacific, according to a general readying for the next war

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A US Army soldier is kneeling low to the ground and talking into a radio. A wet tree branch is next to him, and a line of trees is in the background.
Soldiers recently completed a massive joint-force and multinational war game in Hawaii.

U.S. Army photo by Pfc. Mariah Aguilar

In tropical jungles, US Army soldiers are training to own the night in a Pacific war

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Two US soldiers stand next to a gun on a hill of rocks with a grassy mountain in the background. The photo is tinted lime green and taken at night through night vision.
Nighttime operations present soldiers with a number of opportunities to gain the advantage, Maj. Gen. Evans said.

U.S. Army photo by Sgt. 1st Class Ryele Bertoch

The Ukraine war is showing US soldiers they need to be hard to find in the electromagnetic spectrum in a high-end fight

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A US Army soldier wearing camouflage aims a weapon with a scope attached towards the sky, with a brown and green grassy background.
The US Army's Joint Pacific Multinational Readiness Center training in Hawaii tested soldiers' capabilities in tropical war-fighting conditions.

U.S. Army photo by Sgt. 1st Class Ryele Bertoch

Why China would want to launch an intercontinental ballistic missile out into the Pacific

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China's DF-31A intercontinental ballistic missiles on mobile carriers are parked in front of Chinese military personnel standing in formation.
China's ICBM test was its first in the Pacific in over 40 years.

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US forces on Guam are facing a Chinese missile threat unlike anything else and need more air defenses with deeper magazines, Army officials say

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A group of US airmen stand around a tall, long missile defense system that is pointing up towards a cloudy sky.
A US Army soldier points out the components of the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense, or THAAD, missile defense system to airmen of the 23rd Expeditionary Bomb Squadron during a site visit to Task Force Talon in February 2024.

U.S. Air Force photo by Capt. Stephen J. Collier

Allied P-8 Poseidon crew shares what it was like hunting down and torpedoing a US Navy nuclear submarine in big Pacific drills

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US Navy P-8A Poseidon flying over the Pacific Northwest
US Navy P-8A Poseidon

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The US is upgrading its fighter fleets in Japan, boosting its Pacific airpower with the newest jets

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A US Air Force F-35A fighter jet flies across a blue key with some smoke surrounding the edges of the plane.
The US is sending F-35 stealth fighters and upgraded F-15EX strike fighters to its forward-bases n Japan.

U.S. Air Force photo by Capt. Kip Sumner

The US Navy's only forward-deployed aircraft carrier, USS Ronald Reagan, is leaving Japan after nearly a decade in the Pacific

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USS Ronald Reagan
USS Ronald Reagan

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China has a lot more missiles — with US warships and bases in its sights

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U.S Navy carrier ship in China's crosshairs

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American warships and bases in the Pacific are within reach of an increasingly worrying threat, a missile force unlike anything the US has faced in combat.

China's ever-expanding Rocket Force is armed with thousands of missiles with ominous nicknames such as "carrier killers" and the "Guam Express."

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