China’s New Missile: Now Your Aircraft Carrier Is Also Ground Zero

KEY POINTS

•The Pentagon confirmed in 2025 that China deployed the DF-27, a versatile ICBM with both nuclear and conventional capabilities.
•The missile can strike targets across the Pacific including Hawaii, Alaska, and parts of the continental US, threatening naval and military installations.
•China's People’s Liberation Army Rocket Force is rapidly expanding to provide rapid and precise strike options amid a deteriorated arms control landscape.

In a stunning twist straight out of the missile arms race soap opera, China has launched the DF-27, a versatile intercontinental ballistic missile with the weirdest job description since Swiss Army knives: it can lob nukes, punch ships, and launch conventionally armed attacks from 5,000-8,000 kilometers away. The Pentagon quietly confirmed its existence in 2025 after first whispering about it in 2021. This DF-27 isn’t just flexing in Beijing parades—it's threatening Hawaii, Alaska, and parts of the continental US, while reportedly being the only known conventional ICBM in an exclusive club where the US and Russia only do nukes. Bonus feature? Potential hypersonic glide vehicle capabilities! Meanwhile, China’s People’s Liberation Army Rocket Force continues to bulk up like a gym rat on steroids, aiming to ‘quickly and precisely’ preemptively strike enemies — because subtlety died with the INF Treaty’s exit in 2019.

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Mockingbird News

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Forget dumb missiles that only nuke stuff—China’s DF-27 also doubles as a cruise ship assassin and precision pain dealer. Who knew ICBMs had identity crises?

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