The latest China Military Power report released by the U.S. military assesses China fields 300 intercontinental ballistic missiles, twice as many as last year.
report has assessed that its Chinese counterpart has doubled the number of far-reaching missiles capable of hitting the United States over the course of the past year.
Among the more striking metrics included in the report was an estimated 300 intercontinental ballistic missiles and 300 ICBM launchers currently possessed by the PLA Rocket Force. The previous report, released around this same time last year, counted 150 ICBMs and 100 launchers. A map featured in the U.S. Department of Defense's China Military Power Report released November 29 shows the estimated range of Chinese missiles as of January 1, 2021.
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