Thursday, July 24, 2014

China DF-21D Anti-Ship Ballistic Missile

China DF-21D Anti-Ship Ballistic Missile ---

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  • Wikipedia The Dong-Feng 21 (DF-21; NATO reporting name CSS-5 - Dong-Feng (Chinese: 东风; literally: "East Wind") is a two-stage, solid-propellant, single-warhead medium-range ballistic missile (MRBM) in the Dong Feng series developed by China Changfeng Mechanics and Electronics Technology Academy. Development started in the late 1960s and was completed around 1985-86, but it was not deployed until 1991. It was developed from the submarine-launched JL-1 missile, and is China's first solid-fuel land-based missile. The U.S. Department of Defense in 2008 estimated that China had 60-80 missiles and 60 launchers. The DF-21D reentry vehicle appears to bear similarities to the American Pershing II missile's RV, deployed in 1983 and withdrawn in 1988 as part of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty. The Pershing II's RV weighed 1,400 lb (640 kg) and traveled at Mach 8. It was fitted with four control fins to perform a 25-G pull-up after reentering the atmosphere, then glided 30 nmi (35 mi; 56 km) to the target and pitched into a terminal dive. Originally developed as a strategic weapon, the DF-21's later variants were designed for both nuclear and conventional missions


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U.S. Navy's Biggest Ships Are in China's Sights  TIME by Mark Thompson Jul 17, 2014 - A new missile threatens American aircraft carriers in the Pacific. In Afghanistan and Iraq, each carrier aircraft dropped an average of 16 weapons at a cost of $7.5 million each, four times the cost of a Tomahawk cruise missile. DF-21 as far as is known has not been tested against a floating, let alone moving target, but was successful against a silhouette on the Gobi Desert floor in 2013. Launchers could be destroyed on the ground, but of 2,493 Scud killer flights in the 1991 Gulf War, 0 were destroyed.

Exclusive: CIA Helped Saudis in Secret Chinese Missile Deal Jan 29, 2014 - The solid-fueled, medium-range DF-21 East Wind missiles are an ... as well as recent claims by the BBC and Time magazine - citing a former  ...audi Arabia bought ballistic missiles from China in 2007 in a hitherto unreported deal that won Washington's quiet approval on the condition that CIA technical experts could verify they were not designed to carry nuclear warheads. The solid-fueled, medium-range DF-21 East Wind missiles are an improvement over the DF-3s the Saudis clandestinely acquired from China in 1988, experts say, although they differ on how much of an upgrade they were. newer CSS-5s in NATO parlance, have a shorter range but greater accuracy, making them more useful against "high-value targets in Tehran, like presidential palaces or supreme-leader palaces," Jeffrey Lewis, director of the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies at the Monterey Institute of International Studies, tells Newsweek. They can also be fired much more quickly.




  • In China's Sights: A New Missile Threatens the U.S. Navy's ...



  • www.andrewerickson.com/.../in-chinas-sights-a-new-missile-threatens-th...

    7 days ago - Mark Thompson, “In China's Sights: A New Missile Threatens the U.S. Navy's Biggest Warships—And Stability in the Pacific,” Time, 28 July ...




  • China's Carrier Killer - Air Force Magazine

    www.airforcemag.com/MagazineArchive/.../1213c...

    Air Force Association
    Daily Report · News · Air Force Magazine · Editorials · Almanac · Wingman ... The DF-21D missile is a legitimate threat to carrier-based airpower, but at times the  ...





  • DF-21 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DF-21

    Wikipedia
    DF-21A and transporter erector launcher vehicle at the Beijing Military Museum. ....Finally, the missile may have a hard time hitting its target. To hit ships moving at ....Proceedings Magazine (United States Naval Institute) 135 (5). Retrieved 3  ...





  • USNI Blog » DF-21D

    blog.usni.org/tag/df-21d

    The DF-21D Anti-Ship Ballistic Missile (ASBM) is in play again in the press and ...Surfacing this discussion was the publication of an article in the Taipei Times  ...





  • Report: Chinese Develop Special "Kill Weapon" to Destroy US

    www.usni.org/news-and.../chinese-kill-weap...

    United States Naval Institute
    Magazine Archives ... The ASBM is said to be a modified DF-21 ... within national defense circles for quite some time, the fact that information is now coming from  ...





  • How to Kill China's 'Carrier-Killer' Missile: Jam, Spoof and ...

    www.wired.com/2012/03/killing-chinas-carrier-killer/

    Wired
    by Spencer Ackerman - Mar 16, 2012 - Subscribe · Subscribe to WIRED magazine ...Some involve convincing the DF-21D that the carrier is in a different place. Others involve... There's also something that Greenert didn't mention: he has time on his side. The Navy  ...





  • China's Navy Doubles Aircraft Carrier Fleet In Size | TIME.com

    swampland.time.com/2014/.../china-doubling-its-aircraft-carrier-fle...

    Time
    by Mark Thompson - Jan 20, 2014 - Instead of only challenging U.S. carriers on the high seas with similar warships, it's developing land-based DF-21D missiles with maneuverable  ...





  • Information Dissemination: Who's Afraid of the DF-21D

    www.informationdissemination.net/2013/10/whos-afraid-of-df-21d.html

    Oct 10, 2013 - The Chinese DF-21D (CSS-5 Mod 4) anti-ship ballistic missile has ....There is certainly time to develop an effective counter to the DF-21D.





  • Disclosure of Top Secret Data on Accuracy of China's DF ...

    tiananmenstremendousachievements.wordpress.com/.../disclosure-of-top-...

    Oct 28, 2013 - The website of Japanese The Diplomat magazine recently disclosed top confidential ... Disclosure of top secret information about the accuracy of DF-21D anti-aircraft carrier missile ... Heya i am for the primary time here.



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    July 24, 2014

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