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[citation needed] China has also developed the DF-31A, an intercontinental ballistic missile with a range of 11,200+ km with possibly 3–6 multiple independently targetable reentry vehicle (MIRV) capability. [citation needed] China stores many of its missiles in huge tunnel complexes; US Representative Michael Turner [46] referring to 2009 ...
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.
Anti-tank guided missiles HJ-20/50: Anti-tank guided missile China: HJ-16: Anti-tank guided missile: Tandem shaped charge HEAT China: Universal light-weight anti-tank guided missile. Pre- or post-launch lock on with top attack capability. Developed from QN-502C missile. [31] HJ-13: Anti-tank guided missile China: HJ-12: Anti-tank guided missile
China's DF-21 missiles aren't the only anti-ship munition capable of threatening the US naval fleet. China's Rocket Force has a growing stockpile of intermediate-range ballistic missiles known as ...
Tianran said that China's interior missile tests likely have given China sufficient confidence in the capabilities of its weapons, but the test in the Pacific was a rare opportunity to mimic what ...
The missile is a single-stage, solid-fuel SRBM with a 600 km range and a 500 kg payload. During the 1995-1996 Taiwan strait crisis, the PLA launched six DF-15's near Taiwan in a demonstration of the missile's capability. Although the DF-15 is marketed for export, its range would violate the Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR) agreement ...
The US Department of Defense stated in 2010 that China has developed and reached initial operating capability (IOC) [15] of a conventionally armed [16] high hypersonic [17] land-based anti-ship ballistic missile based on the DF-21.
The missile system has been widely compared to the United States' Patriot and Russia's mobile long range S-300 surface-to-air missile system. Although it has a shorter range than S-300 variants such as the S-300PMU-2, it is thought to benefit from superior electronic countermeasures (ECM) and superior capabilities against stealth targets at ...