China Ballistic Missiles and Nuclear Arms Thread

[Broccoli]

Chinese (nuclear) RV's.

DF-2 yield 12-15kt

DF-3 yield 3-4MT

DF-4 yield 3-4MT

DF-5 yield 4-5MT

DF-31 yield 250-600kt. I don't add DF-31A since we haven't seen it's RV yet (could be modernized DF-21 RV).

JL-1/DF-21 Yield supposedly between 200-300kt.

 

[ladioussupp]

Latest DF41 photo

 

[broadsword]

China confirms new generation long range missiles

China confirms new generation long range missiles: report
PUBLISHED : Friday, 01 August, 2014, 1:09pm
UPDATED : Friday, 01 August, 2014, 1:14pm

Agence France-Presse in Beijing


China has acknowledged the existence of a new intercontinental ballistic missile said to be capable of carrying multiple nuclear warheads as far as the United States, state-run media reported Friday.

A government environmental monitoring centre in Shaanxi said on its website that a military facility in the province was developing Dongfeng-41 (DF-41) missiles, the Global Times reported.

The DF-41 is designed to have a range of 12,000 kilometres, according to a report by Jane’s Strategic Weapon Systems, putting it among the world’s longest-range missiles.

Photos published by the PLA Daily in January 2014 show for the first time members of the Second Artillery Forces launching a Dongfeng-31 missile. Photo: SCMP PicturesIt is “possibly capable of carrying multiple independently targetable re-entry vehicles”, the US Defense Department said in a report in June, referring to a payload of several nuclear warheads.

China’s military is highly secretive, and the Global Times said it had not previously acknowledged the existence of the DF-41.

The original government web post appeared to have been deleted on Friday, but the newspaper posted a screengrab.

It also quoted a Chinese military analyst as saying: “As the US continues to strengthen its missile defence system, developing third generation nuclear weapons capable of carrying multiple warheads is the trend.”

China’s defence ministry in January responded to reports that it had tested a hypersonic missile delivery vehicle by saying that any military experiments were “not targeted at any country and at any specific goals”.

It made the same response last December when asked about reports that it had tested the DF-41.

Tensions between Washington and Beijing have risen in recent months over territorial disputes with US allies in the East and South China Seas, and cyber-hacking.

Beijing has boosted its military spending by double digit amounts for several years as it seeks to modernise its armed forces, and now has the world’s second biggest military outlays after the US.

Chinese President Xi Jinping said last month that any confrontation between the two powers “will surely spell disaster for both countries and for the world”.

China’s previous longest range missile was the DF-5A, which can carry a single warhead as far as 12,000 km, according to Jane’s.

The DF-5A had its first test flight in 1971, and has to be fuelled for around two hours prior to firing, limiting its effectiveness as a weapon, according to analysts.

 

[ladioussupp]

China confirms new generation long range missiles

DF41 mentioned in this government report.

 

[antiterror13]

DF41 mentioned in this government report.

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Does it mean DF-41 is already operational ?

 

[Broccoli]

Could someone translate it for us who don't speak Chinese? From the yahoo article I got the impression that it's still in development so it would nice to know what the original article says.

 

[luhai]

It appears to a internal memo from the Chinese EPA, all listing all sorts of environmental evaluations completions for various project. One project is 2nd phase of a DF-41 research facility.

Top Secret project leaked by the EPA, that would be a first for China.

 

[clone7803]

The information above is from a goverment website in ShangXi province. The website belongs to the ShangXi

environment inspect center. They listed 14 things they had done from 2014-06-09 to 2014-06-13. The enhanced part in the

NO.13 is that they inspected the environmental conditions of the logistic build for DF-41 ICBM reseach by the 43th

institution , the 4th college of AVIC .I just checked their wbsite and been told the website is on maitainance,perhaps someone

isn't happy that they leaked the DF-41 ICBM information.

 

[delft]

A few years ago someone ( who ? ) said that only US and Israel believe in the efficacy of war. That might be an exaggeration but there can be no serious prospect of war between Russia and China, just as there is no such prospect for war between Germany and France. R500 is not being developed for use against China.

 

[ladioussupp]

Another work summary report of ShangXi Provence Environmental Monitor Station during March 3 to 7.

In this report, it mentioned R&D of DF-26, DF-27, HQ-19 and HQ-26.