Request: Chinese ICBM Silo pictures

[Broccoli]

I would like know if there is pictures of DF-31 missiles in silos? I have managed to find only DF-5 pictures so far.

DF-5 in a silo.



Most pictures of DF-31 are ones where they are hauling them with TEL's.

 

[below_freezing]

DF31s are mobile launched.

 

[Broccoli]

I always thought DF-31's were going to replace DF-5's in silos too... so in the future all Chinese ICBM's will be mobile?

 

[below_freezing]

I always thought DF-31's were going to replace DF-5's in silos too... so in the future all Chinese ICBM's will be mobile?

Until the DF-5s deteriorate too much, then they will be all mobile. It is also easier to make standard roads, empty silos and elevators for TEL vehicles underground for the Underground Great Wall, than bulky specialized railroad tracks for moving vertical missiles.

 

[ChineseTiger1986]

I always thought DF-31's were going to replace DF-5's in silos too... so in the future all Chinese ICBM's will be mobile?

It is going to replace the old DF-5, but not DF-5A and DF-5B.

 

[Broccoli]

Pentagon's 2011 China report: Reducing Nuclear Transparency.
Pentagon

Here is full report.
http://www.defense.gov/pubs/pdfs/2011_CMPR_Final.pdf

I dont think chinese are going to waste those silos, would make more sense to fill them with DF-31A's.