China IRBM/SRBM (and non-ICBM/SLBM) thread
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Does people know what upgrades were made to DF-26D compared to old DF-26?
Also the D designation makes me wonder what happened to B, and C variants. Cause we have never seen those before.
It may be a dedicated anti-ship version, in tribute to the DF-21D
DF-26 was always anti-ship capable?? Df-21 also had B and C variants before D came along.
I don't know, maybe it used more advanced guidance components and possible decoys? In any case, they clearly wanted to demonstrate the anti-ship capabilities
It's no man's land, its nothing but deserts for hundreds of miles. People that stumble across these are probably the very occasional and sometimes illegal expedition teams.
Df-21D wasnt a anti ship variant per say, it is just a more capable variant. Most guidance would be in the warhead anyways and for the DF-26 the warhead is interchangeable, so I wonder what could possibly be improved upon to warrant the D variant. DF-26 most likely can have a multitude of warheads, but I personally suspect the DF-26D might be able to have the carry weight to support MRIV'S which are very heavy. Also to note, a DF-26 would always be better than a DF-16 simply due to being able to come in at a higher attack angle, like iskanders approach angles being faster or slower depending on how deep inside ukraine it is. Or even more impossible to intercept which was Oreshnik which as you can see from videos came from a almost 90 degree angle. I personally believe that China already has Oreshnik like missiles, that is conventional MIRV capable IRBM's. Its like the issue with Iranian missiles, they are easy to intercept due to their low speed and low attack angle due to the range not being long enough.
Conventional prompt strike was going to be like that, but of course America attempted to be "cheap" and use ICBM's and thus caused the problem of them thinking it could be seen as a nuclear attack, unlike IRBM's.
It's not just the attack angle.
It's the higher speed (twice the speed?) of a DF-26 compared to the DF-21