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China ICBM/SLBM, nuclear arms thread
- Thread starter Blitzo
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antiterror13
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Topol-M has a single warhead and its counterpart in Chinese ICBM arsenal is DF-31A or DF-31BJ (Topol-M also has both TEL & silo deployments). DF-41 is like RS-24 (3 warheads) and DF-61 probably features some improvements in rockets/body materials/guidance and/or PBV as well, but likely the same diameter for 1st-stage.
Topol-M is equivalent to DF-31A, while DF-31B/AG is equivalent to RS-24 Yars
I don't think there is Russian equivalent (yet) to DF-41 (solid fuel)
One idea has come to my mind. We know that Df-61 is real and shares the same TEL as df-41. But last year, we saw 10-axel TEL which was huge! some members here even calculated its payload which kinda amounted to what American general said. So, I thought that Df-61 and that 10-axel missile, loikely named df-45 or df-51, were competing designs and pla has decided to go with df-61 which is smaller to eventually comply with the START treaty limits of 800 launchers and 1550 warheads. If PLA had chosen that 10-axel TEL, probably 800 launchers with their warheads would have surpassed the treaty limits.in other words, that TEL was unnecessarily large, and pla chose df-61.