INDOPACOM: China to field 200 hypersonic missiles by 2025, also increase aircraft, maritime fleets

By Jason Sherman / March 11, 2021 at 6:05 PM
China is expected by 2025 to introduce as many as 200 operational hypersonic missiles to its force as part of a sweeping modernization program to challenge U.S. dominance in the Asia-Pacific region that also includes growing the People's Liberation Army's fighter and bomber fleets by 56% and 29% respectively while also ratcheting up the size of its maritime surface combatant fleet. That is the assessment of a previously non-public appendix to Indo-Pacific Command's recent report to Congress that Sen. Roger...

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