only 3 countries in P5 have ICBM (USA, Russia and China). UK and France never have ICBM ..... but they do have SLBM
China already have had ICBM since 1981 when DF-5 successfully in service 1981, almost 40 years ago. Imagine the technology gap China was in 1981 compared to now 2019
I was of the belief that the French used to have an ICBM capability. Turns out they only had IRBMs. Good to know.
But the liquid propellant DF-5 were nevertheless technologically inferior. I believe that solid propellant powered are better due to ease of mobility and deployment ?. Other factors like Astro-Inertial Guidance technology, MIRVing, warhead miniaturization, onboard circuit protection, Range etc need to be considered.
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