China flexed its military muscle in the South China Sea on Wednesday, putting to test its army's most advanced land-based anti-ship ballistic missile.
When China flexed its military muscle in the South China Sea on Wednesday, it put the PLA’s most advanced land-based anti-ship ballistic missile to the test: the “aircraft-carrier killer”.
The missiles were fired a day after China said a US U-2 spy plane had entered a no-fly zone without permission during a Chinese live-fire naval drill in the Bohai Sea off its north coast, and amid escalating tensions between Beijing and Washington in the region. From the launch site in Qinghai to the target area in the South China Sea, the “aircraft-carrier killer” would have travelled about 2,500km , while the distance from Zhejiang for the DF-21D was about 1,600km .
Apart from its road-mobile “aircraft-carrier killer”, unveiled in 2015, the People’s Liberation Army also has the world’s first hypersonic glide missile in service, the DF-17, which was revealed in 2019.
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