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YJ-21 Ship-launched ballistic missile. KD-21 Air-launched ballistic missile. First shown in Airshow China 2022. The missile was marked with the designation 2PZD-21 (Chinese: 配重导弹; pinyin: Pèi zhòng dǎo dàn), which indicates that it is a missile counterweight or inert missile. [7]
China's test of an intercontinental ballistic missile this week, which saw the country lob the long-range weapon far out into the Pacific Ocean, was a very public display of Chinese military power ...
China said Wednesday that it had successfully test-fired an intercontinental ballistic missile into the Pacific Ocean, in a rare public test that may raise international concerns as the country ...
The People's Liberation Army Navy was interested in a large destroyer from as early as the late-1960s. A development program, code-named "055", initiated in 1976 was cancelled in 1983 after encountering insurmountable technical obstacles from industrial underdevelopment; for example, the required gas turbine power plants could neither be produced domestically nor imported at acceptable prices.
The People's Liberation Army Navy had traditionally focused on the principles of coastal defense. With this came a series of warship designs based on the Soviet Navy's destroyers and frigates. The first PLAN destroyers were the Anshan class, directly purchased from the Soviet Union. These were armed with torpedoes and various surface- and air ...
The destroyer USS Fitzgerald fires an SM-3 missile in a ballistic missile defense exercise in October 2012. The SM-3 can defend very large areas against even high-flying ballistic missiles. HUM ...
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.
The purchase of Russian Sovremenny class destroyers meant China obtained the medium-range SA-N-7 SAM and its subsequent improved models. This missile was far more advanced than any Chinese indigenous design. The missile was soon adapted for service on board the PLAN's 052B class destroyer. China sought to import the Russian SA-N-6 long-range ...