China Built Out ‘Unparalleled’ Intelligence Coverage in South China Sea Past Few Years: Think Tank
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Category: Wars & Rumors of Wars
Summary:
The Center for Strategic and International Studies think tank’s Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative (AMTI) reported that China has developed new intelligence and electronic warfare facilities on its artificial islands in the South China Sea over recent years. Satellite imagery analysis revealed installations on China’s three major Spratly outposts: Fiery Cross, Mischief, and Subi reefs. These facilities are likely designed to support vehicle-deployed electronic warfare and intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) systems. The upgrades highlight the bases' role in providing extensive ISR coverage of the South China Sea.
Tags: China, South China Sea, Spratly Islands, intelligence facilities, electronic warfare, ISR systems
Source Excerpt:
The Chinese regime has built out several new facilities with intelligence and electronic warfare capabilities on its artificial islands in the South China Sea over the past few years, according to a recent analysis of satellite imagery by the Center for Strategic and International Studies think tank’s Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative (AMTI). “New facilities likely designed to support vehicle-deployed [electronic warfare] or intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) systems have been installed on all of China’s ‘big-three’ Spratly outposts: Fiery Cross, Mischief, and Subi reefs,” according to AMTI’s Dec. 2 report. “These upgrades underscore the fact that a major function of China’s bases is to provide unparalleled ISR coverage of the South China Sea.”......
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Source: Algemeiner
Posted on 12-04-2025 02:06