Chinese Missiles News & Discussions

[Broccoli]

“Assuming that a brigade counts up to 12 mobile launchers and 12 missiles, this may amount to 48 DF-31A missiles, or multiples of 48 if the [People’s Liberation Army] plans reloads for this ICBM,” Fisher said.

Fisher said the DF-31A appears to be a single-warhead missile, but published photos of the warhead released in 2008 reveal that the warhead seems capable of rapid maneuvers and likely would use decoys to enhance its survivability from missile defenses.

China conducts fourth flight test of mobile ICBM | Washington Free Beacon


Does anyone have those photos of DF-31 warhead? I haven't managed to find them.

 

[The Deterrent]

How many different kind of missiles could you identify in this video?

DF-15 A, B and C.

 

[Great China]

Why purchasing a good system when you can clone it?
I'm sure our version has some improvements over the original tor m1.

 

[Great China]

At first sight this could be a simple CJ-10 transporter, but IMO it could be a new version. Because it doesn't make sense using such advanced 8x8 vehicle just for transporting 3 missiles.
I'm sure the vehicle is identical to this one:

 

[hk299792458]

A new C4ISR platform is entered into service in Second Artillery...

 

[mosu]

China’s DF-31A MIRV ICBM Missile Is A Big Deal
During the nuclear honed days of the Cold War, the Soviet Union developed a nuclear missile able to strike anywhere in the U.S.

Loaded with multiple maneuverable warheads (MIRVs), while carrying decoys and chaff to keep from getting struck down, the missiles undermined the entire balance of power between the two superpowers and struck fear into hard hearts at the Kremlin and the Pentagon alike.

When China successfully tested its DF-31A missile several days ago, it confirmed another country now has proven nuclear ability reach any city in the U.S. with precisely the type of missiles that troubled the U.S. decades ago.

The DF-31A is believed to have three warheads per missile and a range of about 7,000 miles, which allows it to target anywhere in the U.S. While that ability isn’t new, China’s CSS-4 has that capability as well, that missile requires a stationary launch pad and contains but one nuclear warhead.

The DF-31A is portable and launches from the back of a tank, train, or truck. China also has more than 3,000 miles of underground tunnels and highly reinforced military bunkers where it can stash the highly mobile ordnance.

Notoriously cryptic about the extent of its nuclear arsenal, China announced the launch on a Chinese military news site.

Bill Gertz at The Washington Free Beacon confirms what the site claims, reporting that U.S. intelligence, airborne, and space sensors picked up the launch from China’s Wuzhai Space and Missile Test Center in western China when it happened.

From the Beacon:

It was the second DF-31A flight test since August and highlights China’s growing strategic nuclear buildup, a modernization program largely carried out in secret. The DF-31A test also took place on the last day of a rare U.S.-China military exercise in Chengdu that practiced joint disaster relief efforts.

China is known to use its missile tests to send political signals, as in 1996 when it bracketed Taiwan with missile flight tests that impacted north and south of the island prior to a presidential election. Analysts say the DF-31A test likely was intended to bolster the Chinese military’s hardline stance toward the United States and particularly the U.S. military, regarded by Beijing as its main adversary.

Richard Fisher, a China military affairs specialist, told the Beacon, the development “suggests that China may be building toward a ‘counterstrike’ strategy that would require the secret buildup of many more missiles and warheads than suggested by public ICBM number estimates made available by the U.S. Intelligence Community.”

A viable counterstrike is one potential scenario China may be planning for, but what unsettled both the U.S. and the Soviets about the MIRVs when they came around the first time was the “enhancement of a first strike capability.”

Basically, having multiple warheads per missile vastly increases the chances of successfully striking the U.S. and at multiple sites. The belief was that this degree of confidence would do little to decrease the chances of nuclear war.

But with so much going on in the world today at a pace the warriors of the Cold War never imagined, it’s easy to overlook just one more missile test. Which is why it could be important to remember that it’s missiles like this that helped lift the arms race to the frenzied heights it achieved before the Iron Curtain fell in the early 1990s and defined a generation.

If China shares the MIRV technology with Iran, Pakistan, Syria, and North Korea like it has shared nuclear, missile materials, and technology in the past it could prompt an entirely new round of concerns.

 

[XName]

There is some mistakes in this, for starters DF-31's NATO codename is actually CSS-10.

DF-31: CSS-10 Mod 1
DF-31A: CSS-10 Mod 2
http://www.fas.org/irp/threat/missile/naic/NASIC2009.pdf

I find some sources,using
DF-31:CSS-9
DF-41:CSS-X-10
Missiles of the World | Missile ThreatMissile Threat
Chinese BaiDu encyclopedia "ICBM"
http://baike.baidu.com/view/481437.htm
and some using DF31:CSS-10
DF-31 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
also your thread
http://www.defence.pk/forums/chinese-defence/134920-nato-reporting-name-df-31-missiles.html

and some specifications also different,like warhead,range

 

[Broccoli]

I find some sources,using
DF-31:CSS-9
DF-41:CSS-X-10
Missiles of the World | Missile ThreatMissile Threat
Chinese BaiDu encyclopedia "ICBM"
ICBM_°Ù¶È°Ù¿Æ
and some using DF31:CSS-10
DF-31 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
also your thread
http://www.defence.pk/forums/chinese-defence/134920-nato-reporting-name-df-31-missiles.html

and some specifications also different,like warhead,range

All Pentagon reports use "CSS-10"... I think it's the correct codename. Some older sources still use CSS-9, but it's clearly outdated because Pentagon does not use it. There is also wrong information about weight of the DF-31 RV, The National Air Intelligence Center (NAIC) reported back in 1996 that DF-31 RV weights 470kg, most non-governmental websites report RV's weight to be more than 1000kg.

 

[Vitchilo]

If China shares the MIRV technology with Iran, Pakistan, Syria, and North Korea like it has shared nuclear, missile materials, and technology in the past it could prompt an entirely new round of concerns.

There's no way China would give this technology to Iran, Syria or North Korea. Pakistan might already have it... and if they don't it wouldn't be such a big deal.

 

[Broccoli]

There's no way China would give this technology to Iran, Syria or North Korea. Pakistan might already have it... and if they don't it wouldn't be such a big deal.

Most of those countries are potential enemies of China... it would be bad policy to give them such technology. MIRV and ICBM technologies are "crown jewels", and such things won't be usually shared with anyone... not even with friends.

Brits and US are probably only ones who have done such things, and when UK launches Tridents there is always US NAVY personnel in their submarine (not very independent).

 

[hk299792458]

MRO drill of 2nd artillery on DF-15 and old DF-3...

 

[hk299792458]

Launch at the same time of at least 7 SRBM DF-11A...

 

[mil-avia]

About DF-21D Anti-Ship Ballistic Missile

 

[Broccoli]

MRO drill of 2nd artillery on DF-15 and old DF-3...

Shame that they didn't show more of that DF-31 TEL.

 

[yusheng]

DF21 warhead types: traditional warheads are MaRV MIRV EMP

hit results, testing

The DF21 coverage range, red for estimates of DF-21C range of 1700 kilometers. Orange for claims a DF-21D 3000 km range.