IDN TAKE: CHINESE IMPRINT ON PAKISTAN'S SHAHEEN-III MISSILE

[Zarvan]

SHAHEEN-III (Chinese M-18) Medium-Range Ballistic Missile (MRBM)
by Aravind Kumar G

It is nothing short of a paradox that China and Pakistan, with their much blemished record on non-proliferation, are attempting to block India’s bid to gain NSG membership—a body primarily tasked for reducing nuclear proliferation by controlling the export and re-transfer of materials used to make weapons. Pakistan has latched onto China to stall India’s NSG bid.

Perhaps the most disquieting development is that China’s covert nuclear and missile assistance and transfers to Pakistan continue till date. The selling of outdated and untested ACC-1000 nuclear reactors (Hualong-1) that China has yet to build at home has come under international scanner. State-owned China National Nuclear Cooperation has found the perfect “testing ground” to practice and gain experience at building nuclear power plants abroad, though, falling far short of international nuclear safety standards. In fact, a Pakistani nuclear physicist has branded Islamabad as becoming a “guinea pig” for China’s nuclear experiments.

SHAHEEN III - CHINATOWN LAD
Besides, in another major development, the test-launch and display of the medium-range Shaheen-3 surface-to-surface ballistic missile, capable of carrying nuclear and conventional warheads, within a range of 2,750 km, has put the spotlight back on the China-Pakistan missile collaboration. Pakistan claims that Shaheen-3 is capable of striking targets across India including the Northeast and the first Tri-Service Command located in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.

The vehicle that transports, and eventually launches missiles is called a transporter-erector-launcher (TEL). In case of the Shaheen-3 missile, the TEL identically matches a Chinese design that Beijing had exported to North Korea in 2011. Key components of TELs typically include chassis (a sturdy flexible undercarriage of the vehicle), specialized hydraulics for erecting and launching the missile, and systems to control the pressure of the tires to protect the missile on varied terrain. The Chinese, North Korean and Pakistani TELs have been identified to be sharing identical chassis slope, foothold shape, and exhaust processing system over the engine compartment. American analyst Richard Fisher made this assertion and stated that if established—it would make ground to call for fresh sanctions against China at the United Nations, and further enforcement of existing US sanctions. Subsequently, the clamour regarding the displayed TEL for Shaheen-3 has grown in US government corridors with letters being dispatched to US National Intelligence.

The Shaheen III is a spruced-up version of the Shaheen II. Since the missile is sold fueled it does not require complex hardware adjustments to modify the fuel tanks to improve range cover. Interestingly, similar techniques have been adopted by other countries desperate to attain ballistic missile range capability such as Iran and North Korea, they have tinkered extensively to re-engineer the infamous Soviet era SCUD missile system.

It should be recalled that North Korean missile aspirations began many decades ago with the production of a Chinese Type 63 multiple rocket launcher and the supply of the HY-1 naval missiles from Beijing to Pyongyang. Further, six Chinese TELs showed up in downtown Pyongyang on 15 April 2012. North Korea has a history of acquiring demilitarised vehicles and thereafter adapting them. It has been well documented that North Korea procures chassis from abroad given that they are too expensive and complex to produce indigenously.

Wanshan Special Vehicle Factory, a subsidiary of Sanjiang Space Group began to reverse-engineer Russian MAZ543 missile transporter-erector-launcher (TEL) vehicle in the mid-1980s

Linkages in this reference can be traced between Wanshan, a company based in Xiaogan, in the easternmost part of central China’s Hubei Province. Wanshan remains under control of the 9th Academy of state-owned China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation (CASIC). Known for producing specialty vehicles and chassis for civilian and military applications, records of the Information Bureau of Yuan’an County have shown that Wanshan traded with North Korea as of 2009, however, does not specifically disclose the type of trade that occurred. Wanshan remains critical because it produces WS-series vehicles for use as TELs that are used by China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA).

It is about time that China be questioned and castigated for spinning an unlawful nuclear and missile web throughout Asia for more than three decades, which shall continue to haunt Asian security and stability for a long time ahead. Beijing should work towards contributing to the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons and technology by means of the NSG, rather than putting spokes for India as it prepares to join the NSG club only because that suits China’s regional strategic objective of keeping India confined regionally. (Adapted from SGL by Monika Chansoria)

Arvind Kumar G is the science reporter for IDN

http://www.indiandefensenews.in/2017/06/idn-take-chinese-imprint-on-pakistans.html

 

[sparten]

ince the missile is since the missile is sold fueled it does not require complex hardware adjustments to modify the fuel tanks to improve range cover. Interestingly, similar techniques have been adopted by other countries desperate to attain ballistic missile range capability such as Iran and North Korea, they have tinkered extensively to re-engineer the infamous Soviet era SCUD missile system.old fueled it does not require complex hardware adjustments to modify the fuel tanks to improve range cover. Interestingly, similar techniques have been adopted by other countries desperate to attain ballistic missile range capability such as Iran and North Korea, they have tinkered extensively to re-engineer the infamous Soviet era SCUD missile system.

FYI, Scud is liquid fueled, not solid fuled, the idiot Lala is contradicting himself.
Also its no simple task. The First stage motor is completely different, longer, which means different aerodynamics, different nozzel and missile body pressures, different thurst etc etc. Its a completely new missile. The "ease" he is talking about occur when additional upper stages are added, that is not as complex (its not simple) but for a first stage? Fuggit about it.

 

[SHAH820]

for indians hey look that missile look something like chineese cause its have same pointed warhead and same cylindrical body so it must be chinese copy despite work mechanism is completely different

 

[Rajputra]

Shaheen 2 looks Ugl(just like Agni), I like the Ghori and Shaheen 1 tho.looks Bad@ss.