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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, land-based mobile launchers.
China has already developed a formidable arsenal of anti-ship ballistic missiles, including the DF-21D "carrier killer," and anti-ship warheads for its DF-26 intermediate-range ballistic missile ...
Testing of the DN-3 has primarily occurred at the Korla Missile Test Complex. [3] A 2010 midcourse defense test was most likely a test of the DF-3. [1] In 2015 the DN-3’s anti-satellite capabilities are believed to have been tested. [4] In February 2018 the DN-3 was tested against a DF-21 based target in space. [5]
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 ...
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.
The People’s Liberation Army has thousands of anti-ship missiles on air, sea and especially land-based launchers like these DF-21D ’carrier killer’ missiles on parade in 2015.