Experts: US Navy’s newest air-to-air missile could tilt balance in South China Sea

The U.S. Navy’s deployment of new extremely long-range air-to-air missiles in the Indo-Pacific could erase China’s advantage in aerial reach, experts say, part of an intensifying focus on projecting power amid high tensions in the region. The AIM-174B, developed from the readily available Raytheon (RTX.N) SM-6 air defence missile, is the longest-range such missile the...