I thought I read about that somewhere here. DF-16, 17 are 1 stage rockets, DF-21, 26 are 2 stage rockets, Df-31 is 3 stages and so on. That's how the naming convention came.
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Ok I got a place where the staging is mentioned.
Well, no, pretty sure that all missiles are either two staged or three staged. Suggesting single stage or four stages on such a missile is to be taken with a huge heap of salt.
Liquid fueled rockets could have a different naming convention.
Ayi: We have some adults celebrate 61 (June 1st) Children's Day
Cute Orca: Farewell 41, Welcome 51 and 61
Wuyingxia: Finally farewell to April's Fool (04/01) and now on Labor's day (05/01) and Children's Day (06/01)
It was an educated guess, never confirmed.
The original poster means new cruise missiles, DF-17, DF-27, there are three types of missiles in one picture
Or maybe the idea was not valid in the first place. After all we cannot always prove a negative for every silly idea out there.
At this point I wonder what else they could really develop from a ICBM pov, assuming 51 and 61 are going to be legitimate designations and meant for ICBM ranged weapons.
DF-41 seemed like it should have mostly met their requirements for a relatively high end road mobile ICBM that is able to cover CONTUS. Improving throw weight or if they want to have an ICBM ranged hypersonic glide payload could potentially require another larger road mobile ICBM altogether, or perhaps operationalizing a genuine FOBS weapon (but whether that would be suitable for a road mobile system is another matter).
In recent years my expectation was that the next major ICBM we would expect would be the large silo based solid fuel ICBM (called DF-45).
Reposting this here, a somewhat comprehensive video of air formation rehearsal
Yankee mentioned in the podcast that he would expect US side to say something like "what that's a SS-18 Satan!" and the words "ampoulized" was said. But I'm not sure if he used ampoulized ICBM as an analogy for "some new tech that we haven't seen before in PLARF" or it is specifically intended to describe this new heavy silo based ICBM.