China has successfully tested it’s newest and longest range intercontinental ballistic missile amid heightened tensions with the US over the South China Sea.
The missile is capable of striking the United States in around 30 minutes, either through a polar trajectory or over the Pacific.
BYPASS THE CENSORS
Sign up to get unfiltered news delivered straight to your inbox.
You can unsubscribe any time. By subscribing you agree to our Terms of Use
RT reports:
The launch of China’s Dongfeng-41 (East Wind, DF-41) missile was registered by the US satellite tracking system in real time, the Washington Free Beacon reports, although the location of the launch was not immediately revealed. The launch was made from a new road-mobile platform, and is reportedly the seventh test-firing of the DF-41.
American experts estimate the DF-41 to be an 80-ton, three-stage solid-fuel missile capable of carrying between six and 10 nuclear warheads.
The test was made with a DF-41 missile armed with two independently targetable reentry vehicles.
“As with previous MIRV tests, the PLA has used a small number of reentry vehicles to mask the real capability of the DF-41, which is estimated to be able to loft up to 10 warheads,” the WFB cited China military affairs analyst Rick Fisher as saying.
China allegedly tested its deadliest nuclear missile on April 13 – about the time when the People’s Liberation Army’s high-ranking Gen. Fan Changlong headed a group of military commanders to inspect construction work at a man-made island in the Spratly Islands group. The exact date of the visit was not officially announced.
The test reportedly took place three days before US Defense Secretary Ash Carter visited the aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis, operating in the South China Sea close to the disputed Spratly Islands claimed by Beijing.
The first information about the third generation Chinese ballistic missile – which according to the WFB is capable of reaching any location within the US – emerged in the American media in July 2014.
According to the Washington Free Beacon, the Chinese military staged its previous DF-41 ballistic missile test launch on December 5, 2015, when a missile was launched from a container mounted on a special railroad car.
Niamh Harris
Latest posts by Niamh Harris (see all)
- French President Emmanuel Macron Calls For ‘Isolation’ Of Iran - April 15, 2024
- Russia’s Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Slams Israeli Envoy’s Call To Condemn Iran Attack - April 15, 2024
- UN Chief Warns Middle East Is On Verge Of Full-Scale War - April 15, 2024
China and russia have both had the hypersonical nukes for over 30 years now so that time frame is wrong as that type of missle is a cold war weapon from the 1970`s that russia most likely sold them in the nunn-lugar agreement.YOUR WAR PROPAGANDA algorithms can be recognized just more WAR DRUMMING for WW3rd trying to build a DMZ ant hill ukraine tizzy into a bizzy