Summary and Key Points: China’s Dong Feng-21 missile, first deployed in 1991, embodies Beijing’s long-standing strategy of “Active Defense,” which is strategically defensive but operationally ...

Designed specifically to destroy US aircraft carriers, the DF-21D anti-ship ballistic missile (ASBM) is one of China’s key anti-access area denial weapons. However, how it would work exactly has been ...

China fired off multiple mid-range missiles into the South China Sea in August. The head of INDOPACOM said Tuesday that China fired off DF-21D anti-ship ballistic missiles. He said the move was ...

December 28, 2010: The U.S. Navy believes that the long rumored Chinese anti-ship ballistic missile, the DF-21D, is operational. This despite the fact that, as far as anyone knows, or will admit, the ...

There’s no doubt that China’s Dong Feng 21D (DF-21D) anti-ship ballistic missile (ASBM) is, in theory, a formidable anti-access weapon. Since its alleged deployment circa 2010, many defense analysts ...

One of the biggest threats facing the U.S. Navy today is a new anti-ship ballistic missile recently fielded by China. Officially designated the "DF-21D," American military men have another name for it ...

Key Points and Summary - China's "carrier-killer" missile strategy relies on three key land-based systems. The DF-21D is the original, a medium-range ballistic missile (MRBM) with a maneuverable ...

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — China fired a “carrier killer” anti-ship ballistic missile (ASBM) into the South China Sea on Wednesday (Aug. 26), the day after the U.S. sent a U-2 aircraft to spy on Chinese ...

Chinese state media aired footage of the country’s most powerful strategic nuclear-capable weapons, including anti-ship “carrier killers”, to mark National Day, a move seen as a warning to the US as ...

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.