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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 ...
Launched from a rocket, hypersonic missiles fly at least 20 times the speed of sound, can circle the Earth and strike a target while evading most ground-based air defenses. Hypersonic vehicles ...
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.
The US Air Force has tested a hypersonic cruise missile in the Pacific for the first time, in what analysts say is a signal to China that Washington still competes in a weapons arena where many ...
Congress, meanwhile, has stepped up Pentagon funding for its hypersonic program, allocating $4.7 billion in 2023 on top of $3.8 billion for 2022. Each hypersonic missile in the U.S. currently ...
'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]
Hypersonic cruise missiles, which are powered by scramjets, are limited to below 30 km (19 mi); [c] hypersonic glide vehicles can travel higher. Hypersonic vehicles are much slower than ballistic (i.e. sub-orbital or fractional orbital) missiles, because they travel in the atmosphere, and ballistic missiles travel in the vacuum above the ...
The People's Liberation Army Rocket Force, [ a] formerly the Second Artillery Corps, [ b] is the strategic and tactical missile force of the People's Republic of China. The PLARF is the 4th branch of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) and controls China's arsenal of land-based ballistic, hypersonic, cruise missiles—both nuclear and conventional.