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It is a two-stage missile with a range of 3000 km. Weight may have been reduced by using composite materials. [54] The War Zone reported two possible warhead configurations; a DF-21D-style "double-cone" tip, and a hypersonic glide vehicle (HGV) similar to the DF-ZF on the DF-17 missile. [52] It was in development by 2018. [53]
The latest variant, the DF-21D, has a maximum range exceeding 1,450 kilometres (900 mi; 780 nmi) according to the U.S. National Air and Space Intelligence Center. It is hailed as the world's first anti-ship ballistic missile (ASBM) system, capable of targeting a moving carrier strike group from long-range
Beijing's most sophisticated anti-ship ballistic missile, the DF-27, which uses a hypersonic glide vehicle to maneuver to its target, was tested in 2023. The Pentagon's China military report that ...
US DoD designations for SS-N series naval surface-to-surface missiles (fired from ships and submarines), with Soviet designations: . SS-N-1 "Scrubber" (4K40) (P-1); SS-N-2 "Styx" (4K51) (P-15)
One of the biggest threats facing the U.S. Navy today is a new anti-ship ballistic missile recently fielded by China. Officially designated the "DF-21D," American military men have another name ...
China’s development of the DF-21D missile garnered much attention—it was even noted in an episode of the The Office—and in the 2010s, the Navy began deploying a spectrum of new air defenses ...
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The Advanced Hypersonic Weapon (AHW) performs its first flight in 2011 on a STARS missile from the Pacific Missile Range Facility at Kauai in Hawaii On 18 November 2011, the first advanced hypersonic weapon (AHW) glide vehicle was successfully tested by the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command as part of the Prompt Global Strike program.