China Ballistic Missiles and Nuclear Arms Thread

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Hendrik_2000

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Is 6th HGV test imminent ?. Over at CDF RAJ post A NOTAM has been issue in the general area where the last HGV were tested It must be high priority system with one test after another. It could be related to 2017 if Taiwan strait relation goes south. We will watch for Gertz article in Free Beacon
 

Equation

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Is 6th HGV test imminent ?. Over at CDF RAJ post A NOTAM has been issue in the general area where the last HGV were tested It must be high priority system with one test after another. It could be related to 2017 if Taiwan strait relation goes south. We will watch for Gertz article in Free Beacon

I don't think China's HGV testing has anything to do with the Mainland's relationship to Taiwan at all. If the progress of the program are going smoothly and meets the latest expectations they will go on to the next stage of testing.
 

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China Again Tests Nuclear Hypersonic Missile:
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China carried out a sixth flight test of its new high-speed nuclear attack vehicle on Monday designed to defeat U.S. missile defenses or carry out global strikes.

The ultra-fast maneuvering strike weapon known as the DF-ZF hypersonic glide vehicle was launched atop a ballistic missile fired from the Wuzhai missile test center in central China’s Shanxi Province, according defense officials.
The vehicle separated from its launcher near the edge of the atmosphere and then glided to an impact range several thousand miles away in western China, said officials familiar with details of the test.

The DF-ZF flight was tracked by U.S. intelligence agencies and flew at speeds beyond Mach 5, or five times the speed of sound. Pentagon spokesman Cmdr. Bill Urban declined to comment. “We do not comment on specific PRC weapons tests, but we do monitor Chinese military modernization carefully,” Urban told the Washington Free Beacon.

It was the sixth time the hypersonic glider has been flight tested since last year.The website China Spaceflight
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Sunday that the test would take place, based on the Chinese government announcement of airspace closures along what would ultimately become the zone used by the glide vehicle during the flight test. The website reported that the airspace restrictions were similar to closures announced prior to an August DF-ZF flight test.

The airspace was closed to commercial and military air traffic between 12:53 a.m. and 1:40 a.m. Beijing time on Nov. 23—the likely timeframe of the test.China’s most recent DF-ZF
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took place Aug. 19, also from Wuzhai, and like Monday’s flight test was judged a success.

U.S. intelligence agencies have assessed the DF-ZF to be a nuclear delivery vehicle for Chinese missiles, with maneuverability and high speeds that would allow it to defeat U.S. missile defenses, currently designed to counter non-maneuvering warheads with more easily-tracked ballistic trajectories.

China also could use the DF-ZF for conventional-armed rapid global strike capability, according to military specialists.The vehicle is believed to reach speeds of between Mach 5 and Mach 10, or 3,836 miles per hour and 7,680 miles per hour.

The high rate of testing for the glide vehicle is an indication China has placed a high priority on the weapon program and that it is making rapid progress.The Chinese conducted earlier flight tests on June 7, and on Jan. 9, 2014, Aug. 7, 2014, and Dec. 2, 2014. All the tests were first reported by the Free Beacon.

The commander of the U.S. Strategic Command told reporters last summer that hypersonic glide vehicles are new strategic warfare technology and an emerging threat.

“As I look at that [hypersonic] threat, clearly the mobility, the flight profile, those kinds of things are things we have to keep in mind and be able to address across that full kill chain,” Cecil Haney said in an interview in July, using the military term for the process used to target and attack enemy missiles.

Air Force Lt. Gen. James Kowalski, then-deputy commander of Strategic Command, said at the same time that hypersonic missiles offer a number of advantages as strategic weapons.

“It offers a number of different ways to overcome defenses, whether those are conventional, or if someone would decide to use a nuclear warhead, I think gives it an even more complicated dimension,” Kowalski said.Currently, no nation has deployed hypersonic weapons but “it remains something that concerns us,” Kowalski added.

The annual report of the congressional U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, made public Nov. 18, stated that China’s hypersonic weapons are in the developmental stages and are “progressing rapidly.” The glide vehicle could be deployed by 2020, and a separate high-technology ramjet-propelled cruise missile could be deployed by 2025, the report said.

The Mach 5 to Mach 10 speeds allow the arms to “strike any target on earth in under an hour,” it stated.“The very high speeds of these weapons, combined with their maneuverability and ability to travel at lower, radar-evading altitudes, would make them far less vulnerable than existing missiles to current missile defenses,” the report said.

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Since China has refused to negotiate limits on its strategic weapons and remains highly secretive about all its arms programs, “the safe course for Washington would be to avoid any further delay in developing its own Prompt Global Strike capability to deploy if China does the same.”
 
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Hendrik_2000

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I don't think China's HGV testing has anything to do with the Mainland's relationship to Taiwan at all. If the progress of the program are going smoothly and meets the latest expectations they will go on to the next stage of testing.

You cannot separate weapon development from geopolitics and strategic consideration
Whoever replace KMT or Obama will be less friendly toward China

Assuming DPP take reign of Taiwan and who knows what kind hot head might take control of Taiwan Politic. 2017 will be critical year for China
The only scenario I can see that China will go to war is Taiwan because of Politic and Strategic consideration

Let take stock of China strategic weapon The missile that can reached CONUS are all silo based easy to decapitate with first strike . The submarine based missile doesn't have the range if it fired from China's coastal water.

Anyway China has only few submarine based that can be easily monitored
The DF31 A& B doesn't yet have the range to reach all of CONUS

The US have submarine that can fired hundred of missiles with impunity. So how you deal with that!

You need equalizer That what hyper sonic glide platform are for. They can INCREASE the range of existing missile and can strike with impunity Any OPFOR need to take that into consideration
Therefore the urgency and you need to get this platform operational ASAP. I never seen such a fast paced development . JL2 take 1 decade to develop
 

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This makes it the 6th successful tests of the DZ-ZF (WU-14) HGV so far.:)
China Successfully Tests Hypersonic Attack Vehicle
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The sixth flight test of the DZ-ZF hypersonic glide vehicle was declared a success on Monday, moving China closer to possessing a global strike capability.

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China is working on the ultra-fast maneuverable strike weapon, which will be able to penetrate existing missile defense systems, writes Bill Gertz for
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. The glide vehicle was launched on top of a ballistic missile from the Wuzhai missile test center in Central China, according to defense officials.

Hypersonic vehicle could deliver nuclear or conventional warheads
After detaching from the launcher near the edge of space, the vehicle glided to an impact site several thousand miles away. U.S. intelligence agencies tracked the flight, during which the vehicle reach speeds of over five times the speed of sound (Mach 5).

Pentagon spokesman Cmdr. Bill Urban declined to comment. “We do not comment on specific PRC weapons tests, but we do monitor Chinese
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carefully,” he said.

Beijing appears to be placing a high priority on developing the vehicle, which has been tested 6 times since last year. U.S. intelligence agencies believe that the DZ-ZF is a nuclear delivery vehicle that boasts such maneuverability at high speeds that it would dodge existing missile defense systems.

Military specialists also think that the DZ-ZF could be used to deliver conventional weapons around the globe. It travels at between Mach 5 and Mach 10, or 3,836 miles per hour and 7,680 miles per hour.

Chinese research projects worrying for U.S. officials
Cecil Haney, commander of the U.S. Strategic Command, expressed his worries over hypersonic glide vehicles last year. The annual report of the congressional U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission states that China’s research into hypersonic weapons is “progressing rapidly.”

The report says that the DZ-ZF could be ready by 2020, and a ramjet-propelled cruise missile by 2025. It is thought that
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would use nuclear-armed hypersonic vehicles in its retaliatory strike capabilities, while conventional warheads could be delivered over long-distances.

Air Force Lt. Gen. James Kowalski, former deputy commander of Strategic Command, said that hypersonic missiles offer a number of advantages. “It offers a number of different ways to overcome defenses, whether those are conventional, or if someone would decide to use a nuclear warhead, I think gives it an even more complicated dimension,” Kowalski said.

At this time only China, the United States and Russia are working on hypersonic weapons. Rick Fisher, a senior fellow at the International Assessment and Strategy Center, said that Beijing may be working on a conventional global attack capability much like the Prompt Global Strike program that is being developed by the U.S.

China close to having global strike capability
Fisher claims that China’s new Kuaizhou-2 launcher could be used in conjunction with Beijing’s anti-satellite missiles in addition to boosting the DZ-ZF to intercontinental range. At the same time China is developing surveillance satellites that will enable it to use precision global strike weapons.

By 2030 China will have around 138 satellites in space, which “means that an intercontinental [Prompt Global Strike] launched from China against U.S. targets could benefit from multiple target location updates,” Fisher said.

China maintains a veil of secrecy around its military technology programs and has refused to negotiate limits on strategic weapons, raising fears in
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. Some are calling for the U.S. to push ahead with developing its own Prompt Global Strike capability in order to compete with China.

Relations between the two nations are becoming increasingly strained due to various geopolitical factors, and the development of hypersonic weapons could give one nation the edge over the other.

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