{"id":58562,"date":"2017-05-08T20:49:38","date_gmt":"2017-05-08T20:49:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/uncategorized\/2017\/05\/08\/satellite-images-reveal-chinese-expansion-in-south-china-sea\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T00:20:31","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T00:20:31","slug":"satellite-images-reveal-chinese-expansion-in-south-china-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/space\/2017\/05\/08\/satellite-images-reveal-chinese-expansion-in-south-china-sea\/","title":{"rendered":"Satellite images reveal Chinese expansion in South China Sea"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>TEL AVIV, Israel\u00a0\u2014\u00a0Imagery captured Monday from an ImageSat International (ISI) Eros B satellite indicates Chinese preparations for new land-based missile installations on an increasingly strategic island base in the South China Sea.<br\/><br\/> The high-resolution imagery, shown here for the first time, reveals recent changes in the layout of the People\u2019s Liberation Army\u2019s Yulin Naval Base at the tip of Hainan Island in the\u00a0disputed\u00a0South China Sea. In less than two months, the PLA deployed multiple missile launchers on the western side of the base, deployments that\u00a0 ISI imagery analyst Amit Gur has concluded are anti-ship missiles.<br\/><br\/> &#8220;The direction in which the launchers are facing leads us to believe these are shore-to-ship missiles,&#8221; Gur told Defense News.<br\/><br\/><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Yulin Naval base - suspected anti-ship missile deployment\" data-alignment=\"center\" data-object-id=\"0000015b-e9cf-d16a-a5db-efef6f0d0000\" data-type=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/snagfilms-a.akamaihd.net\/7e\/33\/6c6558f94c1e897fc5b883a38deb\/yulin-naval-base-suspected-anti-ship-missile-deployment.png\"\/><figcaption> <span>Photo Credit: ImageSat International<\/span><\/figcaption><br\/>He said that similar systems had shown up in satellite data about two years ago, but had been removed in recent months to accommodate infrastructure upgrades at the site. ISI&#8217;s imagery from March 15 shows an empty plateau, but by May 8 the firm\u2019s Eros B captured a clear image of newly paved infrastructure and multiple launch sites.<br\/><br\/> &#8220;They must have concluded renovation work, as the systems are clearly visible,&#8221; Gur said. &#8220;We just don\u2019t know if they are new systems, or a [redeployment] of the ones that were stored during the renovation.&#8221;<br\/><br\/><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Perhaps even more interesting, according to ISI, is progress taking place on Yulin\u2019s eastern side. &#8220;We\u2019re seeing the building of infrastructure that wasn\u2019t there before and what looks like preparations for shore-to-ship missiles, just like on the western side,&#8221; company spokesman Gil Or said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1148\" height=\"840\" 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