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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.
China: In service. HJ-10 missile deployed on ZBD-04A, ZBL-08, FAW MV3 ground vehicle platforms. AFT-9 Carrier: Anti-tank missile carrier China: In service. HJ-9 missile deployed on WZ-551 ground vehicle platform. AFT-8C/D/E Carrier: Anti-tank missile carrier China: In service. AFT-8C, D, and E variants can mounted on BJ2022 and other light ...
Japan, South Korea and Poland [citation needed] are generally considered de facto nuclear states due to their believed ability to wield nuclear weapons within 1 to 3 years. [17] [18] [19] South Africa produced six nuclear weapons in the 1980s, but dismantled them in the early 1990s. South Africa signed the NPT in 1991.
The DF-5 ( CSS-4) is an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), designed to carry a 3 megaton (Mt) nuclear warhead to distance up to 12,000 km. The DF-5 is a silo-based, two-stage missile, and its rocket served as the basis for the space-launch vehicle Fengbao-Tempest (FB-1) used to launch satellites.
India. Akash: surface-to-air missile. Akash-NG: successor to Akash and Akash-1S surface-to-air missiles (Under testing) Barak 8: long-range surface-to-air missile. MR-SAM : IAF and IA variants. LR-SAM : Indian navy variants. QRSAM : DRDO, BEL and BDL's quick reaction surface-to-air missile.
The People's Republic of China has developed and possesses weapons of mass destruction, including chemical and nuclear weapons. The first of China's nuclear weapons tests took place in 1964, and its first hydrogen bomb test occurred in 1966 at Lop Nur. [5] Tests continued until 1996, when the country signed the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban ...
China’s rapidly growing arsenal of anti-satellite weapons could cripple America’s military in a crisis and the U.S. is scrambling to shore up its defenses miles above the Earth.
Harbah missile — Anti-ship cruise missile with land attack capability; People's Republic of China. SY-1 (SS-N-2 Styx) – Shang You 1 is a Chinese copy of the Soviet P-15 Styx ship-to-ship missile, initially produced in the 1960s under license with Soviet-supplied kits.