Overview

• Xi Jinping will preside over a 70-minute Victory Day review in Tiananmen Square marking 80 years since Japan’s surrender.
• Officials say more than 10,000 personnel, over 100 aircraft and several hundred ground vehicles will participate.
• All equipment on display is domestically produced and in active service, featuring fourth-generation tanks and aircraft plus unmanned, counter-unmanned, directed-energy and electronic-warfare systems.
• The lineup will include advanced missiles including hypersonic systems, while rehearsal images suggest previously unseen hypersonic weapons and large unmanned undersea vehicles.
• Beijing has imposed road closures, drone bans, overpass guards and late-night rehearsals, as most Western leaders plan to skip and Russia takes guest-of-honor status.