Increase of US Fleet Asset In Asia Pacific

23/12/2012- The US plans to deployed several of its high tech assets to Asia Pacific as part of its strategy to shift its military power to the region. Pentagon will deploy Boeing P-8 Poseidon MMA, Virginia class submarines, Littoral Combat Ships (LCS) as well as Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II JSF.

Boeing P-8A MMA

Virginia class submarine

USS Freedom, an LCS will be deployed to Singapore

Lokheed Martin F-35C Lightning II

Asia has been the US next focus after a decade of war in Iraq and Afghanistan as a result of China’s military expansion as well as its aggressive stance on maritime territorial disputes with other countries.

America has previously planned to send more than half of its fleet to Asia Pacific with its LCS being deployed to Singapore. The F-35B stealth fighters will be deployed to Iwakuni AB in Japan by 2017. Iwakuni is an air station for United States Marine Corp (USMC).