In this explosive breakdown, we take you inside the world’s fastest and most powerful missiles — Russia’s Avangard and Sarmat, China’s DF-41, the US Trident II D5 and Minuteman III — and ...

The DF-26 IRBM ( Intermediate-Range Ballistic Missile) can reach 3,500 kilometers, putting Guam within its engagement range. The PLARF is also slated to soon field the DF-27, which carries an HGV ...

The crown jewel of China’s ballistic missile inventory is the ‘carrier-killing’ 1,500-2,000 km range DF-21D ASBM (Anti-Ship Ballistic Missile), which can hit the second island chains and any ...

With a range of 12,000-15,000 km, a payload capacity of 2,500 kg, and the ability to deliver multiple warheads to different targets simultaneously, the fourth-generation DF-41 of the Dongfeng (meaning ...

The PLARF's 624 Missile Brigade is stationed in Hainan, but that unit possesses DF- 21D anti-ship ballistic missiles. In fact, the nearest DF-31AG unit to Hainan is 632 Brigade stationed in ...

Chinas rare ICBM test in the Pacific from Hainan Island, the first since 1980, demonstrates its reach to the USA, stirring regional and international concerns. The test, involving a DF-31AG missile, ...

The missile fired into the Pacific travelled around 12,000km and appears to have been a model that can be fired from a mobile launcher suited to rough terrain.

China has not said which missile was tested, but the military has shared pictures online. China watchers and experts initially suggested it could've been a DF-41, one of PLARF's newer ICBMs.

The DF-31 was China's first solid-fuel, road-mobile ICBM with a range of 4,470 miles, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists said. The missile's base model, which was revealed in 2006, could not ...