The U.S. Navy doesn’t need to abandon its carriers. It needs to use them differently—and it’s already moving in that ...

Three decades ago, China introduced its DF-21D (Dong Feng-21, CSS-5), a medium-range, road-mobile ballistic missile. It has been described as the world's first anti-ship ballistic missile (ASBM ...

March 27, 2025: Over the last few decades China has been building many more warships than the United States. By the end of 2025 China will have 777 ships and nearly 400,000 personnel. The U.S. Navy ...

The Dong-Feng-21D ballistic missile is expected to ring China's coast ... But Defense analyst Roger Cliff points out to The Diplomat that the DF-21 faces a greater challenge than what it faced ...

To compliment the DF-21D, China has also deployed the DF-26 ... a small number of obsolete liquid-fuel intercontinental ballistic missiles as their strategic deterrent. These missiles have a ...

US military authorities say China launched four ballistic missiles on ... be used in nuclear strikes. The other missile is understood to have been a DF-21D, launched from the eastern province ...

when Beijing launched a DF-5 missile into the South Pacific. Usually, the PLA test-fires ballistic missiles in China’s remote Xinjiang region or in the Bohai Sea. China choosing the Pacific ...

On Monday, the Japan Institute for National Fundamentals reported that China might deploy three types of conventionally armed missiles—specifically the DF-17 medium-range ballistic missile (MRBM ...