The DF-21, as well as its subsequent variants—notably the DF-21D—and all the rest of China’s growing missile arsenal is a new age version of this Great Wall mentality that dominated the ...

The DF-21 has a range of 2,150 km and — with a 600 ... Ukraine with a medium-range ballistic missile on November 21, 2024. Putin said Russian forces were testing the new weapon, called the ...

The missile's most likely target has earned it ... brigades to full strength or if they could represent additional DF-21 replacements," he said on X. What makes the DF-26 so dangerous?

Like the DF-21, the DF-26 has a conventionally armed variant ... ICBM force in the late 1990s with a new road-mobile solid fuel missile, the DF-31. Over the course of the next two decades ...

The PLA's anti-access/area denial arsenal is slowly but steadily expanding.

The missile used in the test is thought to have been a DF-31AG, a variant of a third-generation weapon that went into service about two decades ago. But the People’s Liberation Army has ...

Summary: China's military strategy includes a significant focus on expanding its arsenal of Dong-Feng 21 (DF-21D) ballistic missiles, known as "carrier killers," to counter U.S. naval capabilities.

Indeed, the DF-21 is first-and-foremost a psychological ... Much More Than an Anti-Ship Ballistic Missile But the DF-21D is so much more than just a potent anti-ship ballistic missile.