---
title: "China is Preparing for Drone Warfare"
description: "China’s military plans to produce nearly 42,000 land-based and sea-based unmanned weapons and sensor platforms as part of its continuing, large-scale military buildup."
date: "2015-05-09"
modified: "2015-08-13"
authors:
  - name: "Alex Klokus"
    link: "https://futurism.com/authors/alex-klokus"
url: "https://futurism.com/china-is-preparing-for-drone-warfare"
categories:
  - "Advanced Transport"
  - "Drones"
  - "Robotics"
  - "Robots and Machines"
tags:
  - "transport"
---

# China is Preparing for Drone Warfare

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- China currently operates several armed and unarmed drone aircraft and is developing long-range range unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for both intelligence gathering and bombing attacks.
- “The United States and China acknowledge that the Chinese tested a hypersonic glide vehicle in 2014,” the report noted.It was the first time the Pentagon confirmed the existence of what is known as the Wu-14 hypersonic glide vehicle, a strike weapon that travels at the edge of space at nearly 10 times the speed of sound.
- China’s ability to use drones is increasing and the report said China “plans to produce upwards of 41,800 land- and sea-based unmanned systems, worth about $10.5 billion, between 2014 and 2023.”

### Author social links  
[LinkedIn](<https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexklokus>)