China Ballistic Missiles and Nuclear Arms Thread

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Hendrik_2000

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For those of you who recently join SDF(last 5 years) Here is an excellent report detailing the development of ASBM by Andrew Erickson It is old from 2013 By now old the surveillance system must be in place and should be in full operation instead of IOC
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I read it before but get fresh look at it again, There should be no doubt that this is real weapon and not vaporware. From 2009 ONI report
In November 2009, ONI’s Senior Intelligence Officer for China, Scott Bray, added to this concern, stating the “ASBM development has progressed at a remarkable rate…In a little over a decade, China has taken the ASBM program from the conceptual phase to nearing an operational capability…

China has elements of an OTH [over-the-horizon] network already in place and is working to expand its horizon, timeliness and accuracy.”21 By this time, U.S. analysts already were aware how the PLA was building an ASBM. Unclassified assessments between 2006 and 2009 noted China was using a variant of the DF-21/CSS-5 medium-range solid propellant ballistic missile and equipping it with maneuvering reentry vehicles (MaRVs)22 with radar or infrared seekers to adjust the trajectory as the missile approached the target.23

The most thorough public comments by a U.S. official to date indicate that the ASBM is operational and at least has the minimum support infrastructure to fire at large ships operating in the Western Pacific.

In response to media queries on January 3, 2011, Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Information Dominance Vice Admiral David Dorsett worked to clarify U.S. views of the ASBM’s current operational status. He explained that, even though the effectiveness of the DF-21D itself was still uncertain, the PLA also “likely has the space-based intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR), command and control structure, and ground processing capabilities necessary to support DF-21D employment...[and also] employs an array of non-space based sensors and surveillance assets capable of providing the targeting information.” 24 In a separate interview two days later,

Vice Admiral Dorsett added to his remarks, stating “The Chinese have tested the DF-21D missile system over land a sufficient number of times that the missile system itself is truly competent and capable. The entire weapon capability, they have ISR, they have sensors on board ship that can feed into the targeting aspect of it. So could they start to employ that and field it operationally? Yes, I think so.”2
 
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styx

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if USA will deploy intermediate missiles in Australia, will china Deploy df-21d and df-26 in Venezuela or Cuba or other south american partners?
 

vincent

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if USA will deploy intermediate missiles in Australia, will china Deploy df-21d and df-26 in Venezuela or Cuba or other south american partners?

as if the Aussies want to be the receiving end of a nuclear strike
 

AssassinsMace

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The US dropped more bombs on Vietnam than all the bombs dropped during WWII. Just like Prompt Global Strike, intermediate range missiles for the US is just a more expensive way of doing the same job of a fighter/bomber. Can the US build enough to inflict the same amount of damage. Yeah they can just put a nuke on it but like the US wouldn't have used nukes before? That just complicates which countries are going to allow them in their country especially if they're nukes. If not they'll all be in Guam and that makes it easier for China.
 

by78

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DF-26 launch and missile debris.

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Debris from an earlier launch:
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Xizor

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on the Transport erector Launchers :
8-axis TEL chassis used by the Dongfeng-41 and Dongfeng-31AG intercontinental missiles are manufactured by Taian special vehicles. From the current data, they belong to the HTF5980 series, which are divided into HTF5980A and HTF5980B.
In addition to the Dongfeng-41 and Dongfeng-31AG, the 6-axis chassis for the Dongfeng-26 missile is Taian's HTF5680.
Dongfeng 31A still uses Hanyang HY4330 trailer chassis

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