China Ballistic Missiles and Nuclear Arms Thread

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kroko

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Re: DF-41 Missile\

RedMercury said:
Um, I highly doubt those TELs actually had rounds in them. It would be just asking for a first strike to put your deterrence all in your capital, along side all your key leaders. They were just TELs, and TELs are cheap.
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I agree. Those TEL´s were empty.

Roger604 said:
That is exactly the point. PLA avoids showing the length of the canisters when they intentionally "leak" those photo. But in the 60th anniversary parade, the DF-31A was explicitly named and showed. Makes one wonder if the length on the offroad vehicle is the same as the one road-mobile TEL in the parade.
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No. Its not the same length. Look the picture below. The offroad canister is 22% longer then the road-mobile version. I wonder why...

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Re: DF-41 Missile\

RedMercury said:
Um, I highly doubt those TELs actually had rounds in them. It would be just asking for a first strike to put your deterrence all in your capital, along side all your key leaders. They were just TELs, and TELs are cheap.
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Of course the TELs didn't have rounds in them. It's the unit that would be diverted from duty.

There must be at least 8x or 10x more where that DF-31A unit came from.
 
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Violet Oboe

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Some experts agree that rail-mobile DF-31A have already been deployed. In my view both versions probably have a different payload and warhead configuration (MIRV quantity, range, CEP) resulting in distinctive roles in Second Artillery's deterrence strategy.

What about the many rumors and speculations surfacing after the October parade that actually a new type of ICBM notionally called ´DF-51´ is already in an advanced stage of development? Indeed (thanks for the pic, kroko), a couple of pictures are showing neither a DF-31/A nor probably a DF-41 launcher and furthermore China has tested under strict secrecy ICBM class missiles during the last three years (...though the Pentagon does not disclose any details about this; don't ask why!:D).

So could Second Artillery have a already a new ´ace in the hole´, what do you think guys?
 
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Mightypeon

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Re: A China Without Nuclear Weapons?

Actually, as a significant conventional power, Nuclear disarmament would open some new avenues of military expansion for the Chinese, who however, have openly stated that they dont want this.
 
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And all these came from the Indians. I am wondering what the US are doing, I thought they have the most accurate information gathering agencies around the world. Plus the Indian said that it is a DF-31A... which I believe was already operational, so really no need for secrecy.
 
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