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China’s PLA now fields up to 600 hypersonic missiles aimed at US carriers and destroyers, weapons that maneuver mid-flight at five times the speed of sound

The People’s Liberation Army has assembled a growing arsenal of hypersonic missiles designed to strike U.S. Navy carriers and destroyers at speeds exceeding Mach 5, with the weapons able to change course mid-flight in ways that current shipboard defenses struggle to track. U.S. government reports tie this buildup to the DF-17 missile system and its […]