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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The DF-21D reentry vehicle appears to bear similarities to the American Pershing II missile's RV, deployed in 1983 and withdrawn in 1988 as part of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty.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.
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