The Chinese also displayed the modified DF-2C missile. The US Department of Defense has stated that China is developing a high hypersonic land-based anti-ship ballistic missile based on the DF-21, with a range of up to 3,000 kilometres (1,900 mi).
These would combine manoeuvrable reentry vehicles (MaRVs) with some kind of satellite-based guidance system. Such a missile may have been tested in 2005-6, and the launch of the Jianbing-5/YaoGan-1 and Jianbing-6/YaoGan-2 satellites would give the Chinese targeting information from SAR and visual imaging respectively. The upgrades would allow China to employ the missile to destroy US Navy aircraft carriers.
source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DF-21
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