China ICBM/SLBM, nuclear arms thread

[RoastGooseHKer]

Cute Orca implied that the canister contains only the first two or three stages and does not contain the nose cone or PBV. In other words, the full missile will be wider and longer than the DF-41.

This is the warhead? I thought it was for DF-5.

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[Temstar]

I do vaguely recall seeing images of cone shaped warheads covered in blue plastic wraps on the back of trucks entering Beijing for the parade, but I thought that was for DF-5.

In their big 2 hour long paid podcast Shilao and co mentioned that this year PLARF will do something that's never been done before. Not only are they going to parade the warheads (only for ICBM presumably) separately from the missile, they will actually parade the individual MIRVs outside on their own, separate from their warhead bus.

 

[RoastGooseHKer]

In their big 2 hour long paid podcast Shilao and co mentioned that this year PLARF will do something that's never been done before. Not only are they going to parade the warheads (only for ICBM presumably) separately from the missile, they will actually parade the individual MIRVs outside on their own, separate from their warhead bus.

Could you please send me the link of your happen to have it? Thanks.

 

[Temstar]

Could you please send me the link of your happen to have it? Thanks.

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[Kalec]

IIRC none of current or legacy Soviet/U.S. silo missile was emplaced into "one-in-all" canister for both booster and PBV/warheads part.

For instance here is the emplacement procedure of R-36M

First the missileer load the booster part with gas generator into the silo in one canister.

Notably everything in the red box is installed AFTER the booster loaded into silo and it contains PBV/warhead bus/fairing.



The fairing part is still out of the canister when it is inside the silo.

 

[Kalec]

The same goes to MX Peacekeeper, whose nose cone and dome is outside the canister and protected by debris collar.