China's armed forces are expected to roll out an array of new weapons at a military parade in Beijing next week as President Xi Jinping shows off his ambitious military modernization program.
China's advanced missiles will be a main attraction at the Oct. 1 parade to mark seven decades of communist China. Many of them are designed to attack the aircraft carriers and bases that undergird U.S. military strength in the region.
Among them are the so-called carrier killer Dongfeng-21D (DF-21D), unveiled at a parade in 2015, which China says can hit warships at a range of up to 1,500 kilometers, and the DF-26 intermediate range missile, dubbed "Guam killer" in reference to the U.S. Pacific island base.