US Adding Air Power to Naval Operations in Disputed South China Sea.

US Adding Air Power to Naval Operations in Disputed South China Sea.
Regional experts say U.S. officials are using a range of aircraft to make speedy yet thorough checks on China’s expansion in a disputed Asian sea.

The flights, added to the more obvious passages of navy ships through the South China Sea, will further inflame China, analysts say, adding that planes see more than ships as well as complete their missions faster.

Aircraft can handily survey the sea as well as due to their altitude see “a lot of things a vessel cannot” from a “bird’s eye” view, said Alexander Vuving, a professor at the Daniel K. Inouye Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies in Hawaii. Planes come as well as go faster than ships, he added. U.S. warship passages into the South China Sea doubled in 2019.

The Worldwide planes fly more than 22 kilometers from China’s shoreline, Vuving said.

“Whether it’s intensifying or not is already accepted, even already included, in China’s strategic calculations,” said Eduardo Araral, associate professor at the National University of Singapore’s public policy school.

Range of aircraft

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