Iran attack seen as ‘wake-up call’ for China on electronic warfare and intelligence

The U.S. and Israel’s air strikes against Iran, accompanied by electronic and cyber capabilities, were a “wake-up call” for China’s intelligence strategy and how its military will use advanced technologies in modern warfare, analysts say.

During the weekend air strikes against Iran – dubbed Operation Epic Fury – that killed its supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the US unleashed an array of weaponry against more than 1,000 Iranian targets, including Tomahawk cruise missiles, stealth fighters and bombers.

And for the first time in combat, it deployed low-cost one-way attack drones modelled after Iranian designs

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