The USS Fitzgerald (DDG 62) was the first destroyer to fire a Naval Strike Missile during the Pacific Rim exercise last July 18 (U.S. Navy Photo)
To deter China, long-range fires and counter command, control, communications, computers, cyber, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (C5ISR) are top priorities for U.S. Navy Adm. Samuel Paparo, the head of U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, he told the Senate…