MRBM

The Dong Feng-21 (DF-21, CSS-5) is China’s first-generation mobile-launch, solid-fuelled medium-range ballistic missile (MRBM), developed from the JL-1 SLBM. The missile can be either nuclear- or conventionally-armed.

The Dong Feng-3 (DF-3, CSS-2) is a liquid-propellant, nuclear- or conventionally-armed medium-range ballistic missile (MRBM) introduced in 1969, capable of reaching U.S. military bases in the First Island Chain.

China’s first indigenous ballistic missile based on the DF-1/R-2. The improved DF-2A was China’s first operational nuclear missile system and delivered a live nuclear missile test in 1966.