{"id":7152,"date":"2020-01-04T06:49:44","date_gmt":"2020-01-04T06:49:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=7152"},"modified":"2020-01-04T06:49:45","modified_gmt":"2020-01-04T06:49:45","slug":"china-launches-two-powerful-naval-destroyers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/china-launches-two-powerful-naval-destroyers\/","title":{"rendered":"China launches two powerful naval destroyers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>China has launched two powerful naval destroyers. It is\nbuilding a massive pier at the Djibouti naval base in the Indian Ocean to dock\nits aircraft carriers, as the state media described 2019 the \u201cyear of harvest\u201d\nfor the Chinese military, which has acquired a whole range of modern weapons.\nWith the launch of new destroyers, the Navy will become significantly more\npowerful and capable of safeguarding China&#8217;s sovereignty and overseas interests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/current-affairs-quiz-2019-daily-gk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Daily Current\nAffairs Quiz 2020<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chinese military also launched the WZ-8 high-altitude,\nhigh-speed reconnaissance drone and GJ-11 stealth attack drones and utility\nhelicopter Z-20 also entered service. The Chinese army has also commissioned\nType 15 light battle tank to be deployed in high altitude Tibet. Together with\nthe Type 99 main battle tank and other armoured vehicles, China can launch\narmoured assaults on all terrains including water-dense, muddy, rugged and high\naltitude. At its military parade this year, China has also revealed its most\nadvanced intercontinental ballistic missile: the DF-41, which can carry\nmultiple independently targetable nuclear warheads capable of hitting anywhere\non Earth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China has launched two powerful naval destroyers. It is building a massive pier at the Djibouti naval base in the Indian Ocean to dock its aircraft carriers, as the state media described 2019 the \u201cyear of harvest\u201d for the Chinese military, which has acquired a whole range of modern weapons. With the launch of new [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":7153,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[871],"tags":[447],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-7152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-january-2020","tag-china"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7152"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7154,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7152\/revisions\/7154"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7152"},{"taxonomy":"offerexpiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/offerexpiration?post=7152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}