Grant, who is a national security analyst with Washington, DC-based IRIS Independent Research, connected the intercept and shoot-down – the first-ever air-to-air kill of a cruise missile by an F-35 – with China’s well-known anti-access, area-denial (A2AD) strategy which is founded upon large volumes of cruise and other missiles to strike, hold at long range and defeat western forces in the Pacific.
Noted analyst, Rebecca Grant, says an Israeli F-35I which shot down what’s believed to be a Houthi cruise missile has set a precedent which is “bad news” for China.
Grant, who is a national security analyst with Washington, DC-based IRIS Independent Research, connected the intercept and shoot-down – the first-ever air-to-air kill of a cruise missile by an F-35 – with China’s well-known anti-access, area-denial (A2AD) strategy which is founded upon large volumes of cruise and other missiles to strike, hold at long range and defeat western forces in the Pacific.
