CSS-10 ICBM

The Dong Feng 31 (East Wind, DF-31) (U.S. designation: CSS-10) is an intercontinental ballistic missile that may have entered service as early as 1999. Some sources indicate it was not fielded until 2006. Western analysts believed it significantly narrowed the technology and performance gap among Chinese, Russian and U.S. designs. A sea-launched variant of the missile, designated the CSS-N-14 (Chinese designation: JL-2; see "Variants," below), was also under development at that...