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Monday, March 05, 2012

Chinese Mobile ICBMs Seen in Central China


Small launch unit near Haiyan


809 Brigade base in Datong
Recent satellite images show that China is setting up launch units for its newest road-mobile Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) in central China. Several launchers of the new DF-31/31A appeared at two sites in the eastern part of the Qinghai province in June 2011. This is part of China’s slow modernization of its small (compared with Russia and the United States) nuclear arsenal.

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