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Red China flexes muscles with drills amid island row
France 24 ^ | 10/19/2012

Posted on 10/19/2012 12:07:21 AM PDT by bruinbirdman

Edited on 10/19/2012 12:42:19 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

China was set to dispatch naval vessels and aircraft to the East China Sea on Friday, flexing its muscles in exercises likely to further stoke a bristling territorial dispute with Japan.


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1 posted on 10/19/2012 12:07:28 AM PDT by bruinbirdman
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Mines. They cost almost nothing when compared to the cost of a fleet. They deny the “enemy” access to the area. They can be set so only you can get through them. You can make them with a very low tech base.


2 posted on 10/19/2012 4:13:26 AM PDT by Gen.Blather
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