EurAsian Times

1 week ago | eurasiantimes.com | Ritu Sharma

China has been following a sustained strategy of frequent unannounced incursions into the Exclusive Economic Zone of countries with whom it has contested claims over international waters. After perfecting the ‘Gray Zone’ tactics in the South China Sea, the Chinese warships are militarising the Yellow Sea to bolster their claims on the international water body it shares with South Korea.

2 weeks ago | eurasiantimes.com | Ritu Sharma

The US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has reignited the debate about the safety of the US Navy’s massive aircraft carriers in the face of China’s burgeoning hypersonic missile arsenal. He contends that hypersonic missiles could sink all US aircraft carriers within minutes of a potential conflict. However, this prognosis contradicts the evidence gathered from the sinking of the only supercarrier ever.

2 weeks ago | eurasiantimes.com | Ritu Sharma

India and France have signed their largest defense deal, marking the first-ever export order of the naval variant of the French fighter jet, the Rafale-M (Marine). Unlike the previous deal for the Indian Air Force (IAF), the contract also paves the way for local manufacturing of the aircraft’s fuselage and the setting up of Maintenance, Repair, and Overhaul facilities for aircraft engines and sensors.

2 weeks ago | eurasiantimes.com | Ritu Sharma

In a freak incident, a US Navy F/A-18 Super Hornet fighter jet, costing about $60 million, sank into the Red Sea after it fell overboard from the American aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman. This is not the first incident of an aircraft lost at sea. On an earlier occasion, a British F-35B jet plunged into the Mediterranean Sea as it left the runway of HMS Queen Elizabeth in November 2021.

3 weeks ago | eurasiantimes.com | Ritu Sharma

After aggressive posturing in the South China Sea, China is upping the ante in the Yellow Sea, following the building of a gigantic steel rig. This has been a bone of contention between South Korea and China. The Coast Guards of the two countries recently had a standoff after Korean ships wanted to investigate the steel structure. South Korean news agency Yonhap quoted diplomatic sources as saying that the two coast guards had engaged in a two-hour-long standoff.