Kyle’s Far East Roundup 5/15/09


From War Is Boring:

by KYLE MIZOKAMI

Noteworthy reading on events in Asia and the Pacific.

CHINA
The excellent blog Manoeuvre in Maritime Asia picked up an interesting photograph from a South Korean Website of a PLAN Type 022 patrol boat in an interesting position. Blogger Mingi Hyun speculates it could be a hybrid fast attack craft/submersible. This advanced technology appears, at least for now, exclusive to the PLAN and apparently designed to confound think tanks and the bean counters of potential adversaries.

Read more ....