China developing long-range strategic bombers to deliver nukes: Pentagon

The PLAAF already fields the nuclear capable Xian H-6K bomber, with a range of 3,500 kilometres - enough to strike targets in India with the cruise missiles it car

The Pentagon revealed on Thursday that the Chinese air force “has been reassigned a nuclear mission”, and is developing long-range strategic bombers to deliver nuclear weapons. 

 “The deployment and integration of nuclear capable bombers would, for the first time, provide China with a nuclear ‘triad’ of delivery systems dispersed across land, sea, and air,” it said.

 The US Congress-mandated “Annual Report on Military and Security Developments Involving the People’s Republic of China” is a Pentagon summary of Chinese military developments over the preceding year.

 The People’s Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF) already fields the nuclear capable Xian H-6K bomber, with