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YJ-21. The YJ-21 ( Chinese: 鹰击-21; pinyin: Yīngjī-èryāo; lit. 'eagle strike 21') is a Chinese hypersonic anti-ship ballistic missile. [1] [2] The missile is possibly based on an export-oriented ballistic missile produced by China, named CM-401, but with more advanced features and capabilities. [3] According to a 2023 People's Liberation ...
The US Department of Defense stated in 2010 that China has developed and reached initial operating capability (IOC) [15] of a conventionally armed [16] high hypersonic [17] land-based anti-ship ballistic missile based on the DF-21.
The DF-ZF is a hypersonic glide vehicle (HGV) developed by the People's Republic of China. It is launched by the DF-17 medium-range ballistic missile. The combined weapon system was likely operational by October 2019. [ 2][ 3] The United States once referred to the DF-ZF as the WU-14. [ 1] The DF-17 was previously referred to as the DF-ZF.
China’s rapidly growing arsenal of anti-satellite weapons could cripple America’s military in a crisis and the U.S. is scrambling to ... hypersonic missiles fly at least 20 times the speed of ...
YJ-12B. Land-based variant with a 250 nmi (290 mi; 460 km) range. [ 13] CM-302. Export variant. According to the China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation, it is an anti-ship and land-attack missile with a 280 km (170 mi; 150 nmi) range, a 250 kg (550 lb) warhead, and launched from air, land, and naval platforms The missile uses BeiDou ...
'East Wind-17'; NATO reporting name: CH-SS-22 [5]), is a Chinese solid-fuelled road-mobile medium-range ballistic missile [3] designed to carry the DF-ZF hypersonic glide vehicle. [6] The missile likely entered service in the second half of 2019. It is the first operationally deployed tactical ballistic missile with an HGV. [6]
Description. The United States believes the YJ-18 is similar to, [4] or is a copy of, [3] the Russian 3M-54 Klub. According to the United States Department of Defense, the YJ-18 has a subsonic cruise mode and a supersonic terminal attack. [4] Performance estimates include a range of 290 nautical miles (330 mi; 540 km), [5] with a threat ring of ...
Hsiung Feng III. The Hsiung Feng III ( HF-3; Chinese: 雄風三型; pinyin: Xióngfēng sān xíng, "Brave Wind III") is a medium range supersonic missile with capabilities to destroy both land based targets and naval targets developed by the National Chung-Shan Institute of Science and Technology (NCSIST) in Taiwan. [6] [7] [8]