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The People's Liberation Army Rocket Force, [a] formerly the Second Artillery Corps, [b] is the strategic and tactical missile force of the People's Republic of China.The PLARF is the 4th branch of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) and controls China's arsenal of land-based ballistic, hypersonic, cruise missiles—both nuclear and conventional.
The "KF-21" (possible Chinese designation, [52] NATO designation: CH-AS-X-13) is reported to be an air-launched variant of the DF-21 [53] with a nuclear or anti-ship role. It is a two-stage missile with a range of 3000 km. Weight may have been reduced by using composite materials. [54]
The YJ-91 designation ultimately went to the Chinese development of the Russian Kh-31. [9] Externally, the YJ-12 resembled a lengthened Kh-31. [3] The YJ-12 appeared at the 2015 China Victory Day Parade, [10] indicating that the missile had entered active service since all weapons showcased during the parade are actively inducted prior to the ...
Satellite images taken in 2021 showed more than 100 new silos for nuclear missiles were being built in China, suggesting the country's efforts to expand its "silo-based force," according to the ...
It is launched from a 10×10 wheeled TEL similar to that of the DF-21, but instead of a "cold launch" missile storage tube it uses a new protective "shell" to cover the missile. [25] [26] Nuclear capable. [27] The missile was shown to the public during the 2015 China Victory Day Parade in Beijing celebrating 70-year anniversary of the end of ...
China's DF-26 IRBM is a two-stage missile capable of reaching targets out to roughly 4,000 km. The weapon entered service in 2016 after being officially unveiled during China's 2015 parade ...
The Dongfeng-41 or DF-41 (simplified Chinese: 东风-41; traditional Chinese: 東風-41; lit. 'East Wind-41'; NATO reporting name: CH-SS-20 [4]; previously reported as CSS-10 [5]) is a fourth-generation Chinese solid-fuelled road-mobile intercontinental ballistic missile operated by the People's Liberation Army Rocket Force (formerly the Second Artillery Corps).
Fearing China will deploy hypersonic weapons to sink ships in the Pacific, the U.S. Navy is moving forward with a plan to arm some of its vessels with Patriot interceptor missiles, two senior ...