Militarily, China right this moment is a power to be reckoned with. Lately its Individuals’s Liberation Military has made huge strides in know-how and innovation in addition to numbers. China’s Dong Feng hypersonic missiles, for instance, can journey at speeds in extra of Mach 5 (5 occasions the velocity of sound), armed with both a excessive explosive or nuclear warhead. That is giving the US Navy’s seventh Fleet, primarily based at Yokosuka, Japan, pause for thought as to only how shut it’s ready to threat crusing to China’s massed missile batteries onshore.
