China now has the largest navy in the world in numbers of surface fleet. Although China still lags begind the U.S Navy in terms of overall tonnage.
The PLAN has a surface fleet of 360 surface vessels
Beijing has six nuclear powered ballistic missile submarines (SSBNs) that are armed with nuclear missiles and 40 attack submarines, of which six are nuclear-powered.
Three aircraft carriers. China commissioned its first carrier, the Liaoning, in 2012
There are speculations China is working on put anti-ship ballistic missiles on its new cruisers. These are the weapons dubbed ‘Aircraft Carrier Killers’ because of their massive hitting power. It would be the first time any navy has put this category of weapon on a warship.
Chinese Navy cruisers would then be arguably the most heavily armed surface combatants in the world.
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