Iran is using Chinese satellite technology to target sensitive US military sites with precision accuracy, the Daily Mail has learned.

Beijing is orchestrating a proxy war by targeting deadly strikes on US bases throughout the Middle East, a former UK intelligence officer revealed.

China's involvement in the US-Iran conflict threatens to redraw the security map in the region and could alter the security balance in the Pacific, sources say.

That is because with every successful Iranian strike, the Communist state is learning how to penetrate US defences.

The conflict in the Middle East – which has destroyed US hardware worth billions of pounds and killed 16 American soldiers – is exposing the vulnerability of US 'forward airfields' in locations such as Guam in the Pacific.