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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 Dong Feng -26 or DF-26 (simplified Chinese: 东风-26; traditional Chinese: 東風-26; lit. 'East Wind-26'; NATO reporting name: CH-SS-18[4]) is an intermediate-range ballistic missile deployed by the People's Liberation Army Rocket Force and produced by the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC). [5]
China has revealed two new leaders of its People’s Liberation Army Rocket Force this week in a surprise shake-up that has raised questions about the inner workings at the top of the military ...
The Dongfeng-17 (simplified Chinese: 东风-17; traditional Chinese: 東風-17; pinyin: dōngfēng-17; lit. 'East Wind-17'; NATO reporting name: CH-SS-22 [5]), is a Chinese solid-fuelled road-mobile medium-range ballistic missile [3] designed to carry the DF-ZF hypersonic glide vehicle.
The ICBM, carrying a dummy warhead, was launched by the People's Liberation Army Rocket Force at 08:44 a.m. Beijing time (0044 GMT) on Wednesday and "fell into expected sea areas," the Chinese ...
The China Aerospace Studies Institute (CASI) is a United States Department of the Air Force think tank which examines all facets of the People's Republic of China and Chinese Communist Party 's efforts to project power in the air and space domains. Part of Air University, it provides support to the Air Force, the Space Force, the joint services ...
The DF-ZF is a hypersonic glide vehicle (HGV) developed by the People's Republic of China. It is launched by the DF-17 medium-range ballistic missile. The combined weapon system was likely operational by October 2019. [2][3] The United States once referred to the DF-ZF as the WU-14. [1] The DF-17 was previously referred to as the DF-ZF.
H-6K bomber. The CJ-100 (Chinese: 长剑-100; pinyin: Cháng Jiàn 100; lit. 'long sword 100'; NATO reporting name: CH-SSC-13 Splinter), [4][5] also known as DF-100 (Chinese: 东风-100; pinyin: Dōngfēng 100; lit. 'east wind 100'), [1] is a Chinese strategic, long range high- supersonic land-attack cruise missile. The missile system is ...