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Air Force picks remote Pacific atoll as site for cargo rocket trials.

COMMENT. Dressed up as “humanitarian aid” blah blah.  They never give up until they’ve wrecked every beautiful indigenous home.

By SETH ROBSON STARS AND STRIPES • March 4, 2025

The Department of the Air Force has tagged an isolated Pacific island as a test site for landing rockets capable of delivering tons of cargo anywhere on the planet at lightning speed. The department signaled its intent Monday to build two rocket landing pads on Johnston Island within Johnston Atoll, an unincorporated U.S. territory 717 nautical miles southwest of Honolulu, according to a notice in the Federal Register.

……………………………………………………………In October 2020, Army Gen. Stephen Lyons, at the time the head of the U.S. Transportation Command, told the National Defense Transportation Association that officials were working with Elon Musk’s Space X on rocket cargo deliveries. The Federal Register notice does not mention Space X participation in the trial.

………………..U.S. forces are preparing to disperse across the Indo-Pacific in the expectation of missile attacks on established bases in a conflict with China over Taiwan or in the South China Sea.

To sustain forces across a vast swathe of territory the Air Force has been renovating World War II-era airfields from Micronesia to the Philippines.

………………………..Officials also considered Kwajalein Atoll, Midway Island and Wake Island as rocket landing sites, according to the Federal Register notice states. March 4, 2025

https://www.stripes.com/theaters/asia_pacific/2025-03-04/cargo-rocket-pacific-johnston-atoll-air-force-17026030.html?utm_source=Stars+and+Stripes+Emails&utm_campaign=Daily+Headlines&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Stars+and+Stripes+Emails&utm_campaign=f89cfbcf28-Newsletter+-+Daily+Headlines&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_0ab8697a7f-f89cfbcf28-296870507

March 6, 2025 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | OCEANIA, weapons and war