China’s push for mass military modernization includes new, more advanced submarines to add to the world’s largest navy, causing U.S. partners in the region to scramble to acquire new capabilities of their own.
Their answer to the rising underwater threat is a passenger plane-sized submarine killer called the P-8 Poseidon, and orders for the aircraft are pouring in from countries like Australia and India. Both are members of the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue, which also includes the U.S. and Japan as part of a quasi-alliance that seeks to enforce a “free and open Indo-Pacific.”
And countries as far away as Germany, Norway and the United Kingdom have also purchased the aircraft.
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