China IRBM/SRBM (and non-ICBM/SLBM) thread
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FriedRiceNSpice
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But weren't Americans/Russians prohibited from pursuing IRBMs by treaty?
Yes,1980's INF Treaty which banned US Pershing and Soviet SS20 IRBM's and prohibited development and deployment of missiles 1000km-5500 km range-I truly hope China NEVER signs anything so stupid like INF and Washington Naval Treaty.And now China has the world's largest,most advanced,most numerous and most comprehensive SRBM/IRBM forces-a great asset to say the least in this ever dangerous times.
Interesting that they used the word surprise. I heard them use this earlier in reference to a munition that splits in 2.
E.g. Imagine you have a DF-26 incoming and you launch an ABM missile at it, just to find that it’s actually 2 warheads, quite the surprise.
Air Launched Ballistic Missile (ALBM) with what appears to be a manoeuverable warhead section which we can classify as a MaRV weapon if it goes outside the atmosphere or it could be one of the basic types of dual conical gliders which qualify as a form of HGV so it doesn't exactly need to go exoatmsophere and rely on a "depressed" trajectory after being launched from the aircraft.
Likely candidates for launch platform include H-6 and there was some rumours flying around that it could be launched by some new bomber platform, H-20 etc. Seems like a stretch given the size but those are the rumours.
What it is aimed at is unknown. Likely candidates include ships or static land targets. Range of just the missile appears MRBM ranged so tops out around 2000km-3000km. With air launch from higher altitude and with some speed, range could be up to 3000km - 4000km? as a finger in the air sort of estimate. Could be off by 2000km in either direction.
JL-1 is Nuclear ALBM. Its the Air component of the Nuclear triad. Whether it can be used conventionally or not is likely not known, however, if it is conventional capable, it should be able to hit something like Hawaii when launched from H-6N.
