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Ranks of the PLA Air Force. v. t. e. The People's Liberation Army Rocket Force, [ a] formerly the Second Artillery Corps, [ b] is the strategic and tactical missile force of the People's Republic of China. The PLARF is the 4th branch of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) and controls China's arsenal of land-based ballistic, hypersonic, cruise ...
The People's Republic of China has developed and possesses weapons of mass destruction, including chemical and nuclear weapons. The first of China's nuclear weapons tests took place in 1964, and its first hydrogen bomb test occurred in 1966 at Lop Nur. [ 5] Tests continued until 1996, when the country signed the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban ...
AGM-158 JASSM. The AGM-158 JASSM ( Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile) is a low detection standoff air-launched cruise missile developed by Lockheed Martin for the United States Armed Forces. [ 7] It is a large, stealthy long-range weapon with a 1,000-pound (450 kg) armor piercing warhead. It completed testing and entered service with the U ...
Mach 3.5. FIM-92 Stinger. Infrared homing. Mach 2.54. MIM-104 Patriot. Command midcourse and. Terminal Semi-active radar homing. Mach 5.
United States–China security cooperation refers to various projects, combined operations, communications, official dialogues, joint exchanges, and joint exercises, between agencies, groups, and individuals within the government of United States and the People's Republic of China, in a number of areas pertaining to global security, defense policy, and various forms of military and security ...
The "distance in the Indo-Pacific and sheer size of (China's) Navy means the U.S. needs more ship-killing missiles that can reach distant targets," Representative Mike Gallagher told Reuters.
China’s rapidly growing arsenal of anti-satellite weapons could cripple America’s military in a crisis and the U.S. is scrambling to shore up its defenses miles above the Earth.
PL-17. The PL-17 ( NATO reporting name: CH-AA-12 Auger [ 1]) or PL-20 is an active radar-guided beyond-visual-range air-to-air missile developed by the People's Republic of China for the People's Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF). The missile has claimed range more than 400 km (250 mi) and is intended to target high value airborne assets (HVAA ...