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  2. DF-21 - Wikipedia

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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]

  3. Fearing China's hypersonic weapons, US Navy seeks to arm ...

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    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 ...

  4. We Might Have Just Seen the World's First Anti-Ship ... - AOL

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    The DF-21D represents a far more advanced threat than the Khalij Fars and its Houthi spinoffs, and likely has served as the benchmark for U.S. Navy efforts to deploy better anti-ballistic missile ...

  5. Dongfeng (missile) - Wikipedia

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    The DF-4 (CSS-3) "Chingyu" is China's first two-stage ballistic missile, with 5,550-7,000 km range and 2,200 kg payload (3 Mt nuclear warhead). It was developed in late 1960s to provide strike capability against Moscow and Guam. The DF-4 missile also served as basis for China's first space launch vehicle, Chang Zheng 1 (Long March 1). Approx ...

  6. The Navy Test-Fired a Powerful Supersonic Missile From ... - AOL

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    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.

  7. Conventional Prompt Strike - Wikipedia

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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.

  8. Aegis system equipped vessels (ASEV) - Wikipedia

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    Additionally, senior defense analyst Felix Chang of the Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI) observed that the proposed ASEV warships would be extremely vulnerable to such next-generation Chinese anti-ship ballistic missiles as the DF-21D and DF-26, with DF-21D having a range of 1,500 kilometers while the DF-26 has a range of 4,000 kilometers.

  9. Analysis-Missile defence successes in Gulf, Ukraine fuel ...

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    But it also fields steerable warheads meant to hit ships at sea, including the DF-21D and variants of the DF-26, developed by the state-owned China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation.