Fifteen thousand troops marched through central Beijing, accompanied by 580 pieces of weaponry and more than 160 aircraft
CHINA HAS held many large military parades, but few as grand or cutting-edge as the display on October 1st marking 70 years of Communist rule. . Antoine Bondaz and Stéphane Delory of the Foundation for Strategic Research, a French think-tank, call the flaunting of firepower on this scale “unprecedented” in China.
The parade also highlighted China’s ability to strike from the sea by showing off the JL-2 for the first time outside of tests. This intercontinental missile can be launched from China’s new Jin-class nuclear submarines, of which China has put six into service over the past four years. Each sub can carry a dozen of the missiles. But the JL-2 does not have the range of the DF-41. It could “at best attack Seattle” says Owen Cote of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
China also exhibited two new drones, the supersonic WZ-8 and the sleek and stealthy Sharp Sword. Both of these could be used to spot faraway targets for hypersonic and other missiles, point out Mr Bondaz and Mr Delory.
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