[lentulusgracchus]

If the Chinese Politburo is going to insult us on July 4th, maybe we need to insult them back by sending an Aegis ship to intercept and destroy their ballistic missiles in midflight.

[artaxerces]

The DF-21 has a re-entry terminal velocity of somewhere around Mach 7 or 8. SM3s are capable of boost phase, apex and terminal intercepts of objects traveling at Mach 3.

Now the DF-21c supposedly come in 2 variants, a kinetic kill vehicle and a chemical based EMP. The only effective way to stop this is with a directed energy weapon.