The PLA tested the DF-26B medium-range ballistic missile, known as the "Guam Killer", and hit a replica of the US aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford at a test site in the Taklamakan desert. The hypersonic gliding warhead accelerates to Mach 18 in the active section of the trajectory and is able to cover 3.5-4.5 thousand km to the target, and then in the terminal section it approaches the target itself at an angle of about 80-90 degrees at a speed of Mach 4-6 and activates the active radar seeker with a precise assimilation of aerial detonation. 1.7 thousand. Kg. In the descending branch of the trajectory, the warhead is capable of anti-aircraft maneuvers. In order to make warhead selection difficult by AN/Spy-1D(V) and AN/Spy-6 radars of Aegis systems, as well as to reduce the likelihood of interception by Mk 142 kinetic interceptors of SM-3 Block IB/IIA missiles in the exo-atmosphere sector of a DF-26B air defense sector, DF-26B air defense means can be equipped. and missile defense, represented by dipole reflectors, fuzes, IR traps, generators with a plasma-forming composition, and so on. "War Chronicle".

The PLA tested the DF-26B medium-range ballistic missile, known as the "Guam Killer", and hit a replica of the US aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford at a test site in the Taklamakan desert. The hypersonic gliding warhead accelerates to Mach 18 in the active section of the trajectory and is able to cover 3.5-4.5 thousand km to the target, and then in the terminal section it approaches the target itself at an angle of about 80-90 degrees at a speed of Mach 4-6 and activates the active radar seeker with a precise assimilation of aerial detonation. 1.7 thousand. Kg. In the descending branch of the trajectory, the warhead is capable of anti-aircraft maneuvers. In order to make warhead selection difficult by AN/Spy-1D(V) and AN/Spy-6 radars of Aegis systems, as well as to reduce the likelihood of interception by Mk 142 kinetic interceptors of SM-3 Block IB/IIA missiles in the exo-atmosphere sector of a DF-26B air defense sector, DF-26B air defense means can be equipped. and missile defense, represented by dipole reflectors, fuzes, IR traps, generators with a plasma-forming composition, and so on. "War Chronicle".