NASIC's quadrennial ballistic and cruise missile threat report is out. media.defense.gov/2021/Jan/11/20… 
Come on, NASIC. KN14 is not Hwasong-14.
If DF-41 is no longer CSS-X-20 (the 'X' implying developmental) then this sentence doesn't really make sense. Is the DF-41 past the development phase or not?
DF-17's WSSIC designator is finally public.
Still no formal mod designator for the DF-26 ASBM (continues to be described as a "variant"). I suspect this has to do with warhead interchangeability (which creates no physically distinguishing features on the launchers themselves).
Pukguksong-2, Hwasong-12, Hwasong-14, Hwasong-15, and Avangard.
Sign of the times: ALBMs get a shoutout.
"Nearly all of our adversaries are concerned with US missile defenses and have devised various methods to complicate missile defense operations."
NASIC report doesn't reflect the Nasr's 10 km range extension (per Pakistani sources, it's now a 70 km-range system).
Full Hwasong-12 testing history (including the 3 failed April 2017 tests).
This is interesting: first USG scale diagram of Pakistan's MIRVed Ababeel I recall seeing. Khorramshahr is also shown as significantly larger than the Musudan here.
DF-17 is described as a medium-range HGV, but its maximum range is UNK (unknown).
Khorramshahr ranges still at 2,000 km, per NASIC.
In case anyone is looking for yet another official USG publication saying Hwasong-14 and Hwasong-15 are capable of ranging the US.
Agni VI gets a mention in the NASIC report.
Dhanush, the world's sole nuclear-capable ShLBM, gets a shoutout again.
Interesting to see the Pukguksong-3 featured with a "UNK" for "warheads per missile."
Section of cruise missiles seems pretty pared-down. Was hoping for an update on Babur-3, but ... nothing on any countries apart from Russia/China/Iran. (Nothing on North Korea's KN19, for instance.)
Reiteration of previously known assessments of PLARF force structure here. "More than 200" SRBM launchers; "Approximately 350" MRBM/IRBM launchers. With DoD's 2020 China mil power report estimating 200 DF-26 launchers, this is to be expected.
https://twitter.com/nktpnd/status/1300900973360148481
Agni IV and Agni V still not deployed (which we know from press reports). Agni V still classified as an IRBM and not an ICBM per NASIC.
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