China Ballistic Missiles and Nuclear Arms Thread

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Schumacher

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Re: China's DF-41

Below is a report quoting SingTao newspaper of HK talking abt new photos of PLA BM. I think it's referring to the ones Fishhead posted.
It says they are MRBM DF-25, modified from DF-21 with range of 3200km, solid fueled, capable of carrying 3 nuke warheads.

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中国东风25导弹曝光

(2007-07-15)

  (联合早报网讯)星岛日报消息,中国神秘的第二代战略导弹东风二十五(DF-25)昨日曝光。中国最大的门户网站新浪网在其「新浪军事」网页上登出了两张图片,并标明是首次曝光的东风二十五战略导弹。

  中国在近期有多种新军事装备曝光,海外有评论认为,中国当局是故意让一些新装备曝光,其目的一方面收阻吓作用,另外也为将曝光的航母让外界有心理准备。

  昨日在新浪网出现的东风二十五导弹图片共有两张,照片极为清晰,显然不是偷拍,而且其中一张显示两枚导弹已垂直竖立在机动发射车後,已作好发射的准备。

  东风二十五导弹是中国最先进的第二代战略导弹之一,中国的第二代战略导弹包括东风二十一、二十五、三十一、四十一及巨浪二型,这些导弹全部以机动发射,可带核弹头,准确而且存活系数高。

  东风二十五是近年在原东风二十一基础上改进,才装备军队不久的最先进中程地对地战略导弹,其有效射程为三千二百公里,在中国本土发射可及亚洲大部分地区,包括美军太平洋关岛基地。其采用高能固体火箭推动,弹头舱能够携带三枚分导式核弹头,是目前世界上唯一能够携带多枚弹头的中程导弹。
 

yehe

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Re: China's DF-41

^ That is correct. The photographs released of an TEL vehicle apparently being driven around and tested on the road is the DF-31A.

[qimg]http://img408.imageshack.us/img408/3254/12mb2.jpg[/qimg]
[qimg]http://img167.imageshack.us/img167/4738/44ag3.jpg[/qimg]

Compare this TEL vehicle with the Topol-M. Look at the placement of the rear view mirrors and the headlights. Look at the wheels -- two wheels followed by a gap, and then followed by six wheels. It's clear that the TEL vehicles are identical. The only difference between the DF-31A and Topol-M vehicles shown is that the DF-31A missile tube has a different surface texture.

[qimg]http://www.defesanet.com.br/imagens/russia/topol-m_1.jpg[/qimg]

Hmm, there is differences, look at the windows and the front of the TEL vehicle .
 

Roger604

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Re: China's DF-41

Hmm, there is differences, look at the windows and the front of the TEL vehicle .

What do you mean? Where's the difference?

I don't know if you noticed, the Chinese vehicle's doors are open, while the Russian vehicle's doors are closed (since it's moving), so that's why perhaps you thought the Chinese vehicle is wider or has four windows.

Pay particular attention to the rear view mirror on the driver's side door of the Chinese vehicle. The rear view mirror is exactly the same size, shape and position as on the Russian vehicle!
 

Violet Oboe

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SingTao is suspiciously well informed...:D (...the entire story seems to be an intentional leak and SingTao paper has a certain reputation in Hong Kong).

Indeed the identification as DF-25 could prove correct but what should we think about all that ´bullshit´written in hundreds of scientific papers and repeated ad nauseam on ´expert´ websites like FAS and Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists for ten years that DF-25 is a dead or at least dormant project terminated in the mid 90's!
Actually PLA seems to be very adept in disinformation just keeping all those fools in the dark :roll: !

(Just as someone:D has been predicting: Watch out surprises will keep on coming...!)
 

zaky

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This article is talking abot DF-25 a new generation of Intermediate-Range Ballistic Missiles witch is a further development of DF-21

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Roger604

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That article says this new MRBM (DF-25?) has a throw weight of 2,000 kg! That's a very heavy MRBM. You can probably mount 10 MIRV warheads on that thing. More practical, I think, would be using it to launch several satellites.
 

Roger604

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Re: China's DF-41

This appears to be a DF-5A

df5anx1.jpg
 

Violet Oboe

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Probably the latest DF-21 modification/derivative. :china:

After all Second Artillery appears to put some effort in boosting her IRBM strike force (...and some guys like Lewis and Kristensen were telling us until recently that this force was almost:D non existent! :rofl:)

(...last pic is a couple of months old; could be the mysterious DF-25...:coffee:)
 
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