The Chinese naval build up continues with the launch of Sichuan amphibious assault ship, the lead ship of the Type 076 class, ...

The Pentagon said China is on track to have over 1,000 warheads by 2030, putting it closer to being a nuclear peer of the US ...

China has held a launch ceremony for its first super-sized Type 076 amphibious assault ship, now named Sichuan, though the ...

The Sichuan is equipped with an electromagnetic catapult that will allow fighter jets to launch directly off its deck.

China is closing the missile-tube gap with ... The US has 8,400 vertical-launch-system missile cells across its dozens of surface combatants, while the Chinese navy has almost 4,300 on a similar ...

Under a U.S. defense concept known as the first island chain, Japan forms a north-south blockade with Taiwan, a self-governing island that has claimed by China as its territory, and the ...

Guam would almost certainly be a target in a war with China, which has missiles ... AN/TPY-6 and vertical launch system based on the Mark 41 shipborne missile system. American warships, such ...

Such tests ensure that the warhead’s re-entry vehicle works as it should. China may ... implementing a “launch on warning” policy, meaning it would fire its own nuclear missiles at the ...