Chinese Missiles News & Discussions

925boy · Jul 5, 2020

Figaro said:
What is the status of the HQ-9C? Its range is said to be over 400km

Great question. China should already have good #s of longer range AD systems than the HQ9s and HQ16s..

JSCh · Jul 5, 2020

S10 · Jul 6, 2020

I am stealing this from CD. Possible arrangement of HGV in the near future in ICBMs.

samsara · Jul 6, 2020

S10 said:
I am stealing this from CD. Possible arrangement of HGV in the near future in ICBMs.

DF-45, three stages, Diameter (straight): 2.6 meters
8 × 650 kiloton HGV (warheads)

JL-3 (SLBM), the 2nd stage has diameter of 2.2 meters, and the 3rd stage has diameter of 1.2 meters.
8 × 150kt HGV

DF-41, the 2nd stage has diameter of 2 meters
8 × 150kt HGV

DF-41, the 3rd stage has diameter of 1.7 meters
4 × 650kt HGV

150kt HGV: height 0.45m, width 0.8m, weight 200kg

650kt HGV: height 0.625m, width 1.0m, weight 450kg

ozranger · Jul 6, 2020

samsara said:
DF-45, three stages, Diameter (straight): 2.6 meters
8 × 650 kiloton HGV (warheads)

JL-3 (SLBM), the 2nd stage has diameter of 2.2 meters, and the 3rd stage has diameter of 1.2 meters.
8 × 150kt HGV

DF-41, the 2nd stage has diameter of 2 meters
8 × 150kt HGV

DF-41, the 3rd stage has diameter of 1.7 meters
4 × 650kt HGV

150kt HGV: height 0.45m, width 0.8m, weight 200kg

650kt HGV: height 0.625m, width 1.0m, weight 450kg

While the DF-45 is very interesting, worth noting that the new DF-41 releases HGVs very early from the 2nd stage. Not sure if it is truly authentic though.

Assuming that is true, I guess this new version of DF-41 will release the smaller HGVs from stage 2 to attack the relatively near targets when the stage 3 is detached. Then stage 3 will continue its trip to hit farther targets with later released 4 bigger HGVs.

LKJ86 · Jul 6, 2020

Via @央视军事报道 from Weixin

samsara · Jul 6, 2020

ozranger said:
While the DF-45 is very interesting, worth noting that the new DF-41 releases HGVs very early from the 2nd stage. Not sure if it is truly authentic though.

Assuming that is true, I guess this new version of DF-41 will release the smaller HGVs from stage 2 to attack the relatively near targets when the stage 3 is detached. Then stage 3 will continue its trip to hit farther targets with later released 4 bigger HGVs.

How about if the DF-41 is designed or modified to have more than one variant? Let say one variant with two stages and the other one with three stages. Then HGV warheads.

I don't have further info, and never read as such. But when I see this info, I am thinking perhaps the DF-41 has dual variants. Just my two cents.