"Dongfeng Express, the mission will be achieved!"
China's special military branch "rocket force" has made all countries in the world fearful, and even the old world hegemon, the United States, is afraid of three points.
According to relevant scholars in the United States, once China and the United States go to war, it will be difficult to prevent Dongfeng missiles from China with the US air defense system, and this is still under the premise that China will disclose all missile types.
However, it is well known that, according to Chinese custom, the strongest weapons are always more advanced than those that have been announced and put into service.
The Rocket Force is one of the killer features of the mainland, and in the Rocket Force, there is also a member of the Dongfeng family called Dongfeng-100, which is known as the killer of the Rocket Force.
As early as the 2019 military parade, although the Dongfeng-100 appeared and there were reports about it, but so far, there has been no news!
What type of missile is the DF-100? What kind of performance and power does it have?
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A new member of the Dongfeng family
In the 2019 military parade, two mysterious missiles appeared, they are the new members of the Dongfeng family: the DF-17 and the DF-100.
Once upon a time, the Dongfeng-41 intercontinental ballistic missile was the most powerful weapon in the Dongfeng series of missiles, and it was a deterrent weapon that the world's countries did not dare to underestimate, but since the appearance of the Dongfeng-17 and Dongfeng-100 missiles, the popularity of the Dongfeng-41 quickly converged!
The DF-17 and DF-100 have instantly become upstarts in the eyes of military experts in various countries, eager to know relevant information about these two missiles.
The DF-17 is a supersonic ballistic missile, which belongs to the large killer in the medium and short range range, and its special shape has made many military fans marvel as soon as it is unveiled! Its superior performance and power have brought the mainland's national defense undertaking to a new level.
In the following years, the mainland also released some information about the DF-17, as well as the video of its launch, and it was these public information that made experts from various countries feast their eyes.
However, compared to the Dongfeng-17, the Dongfeng-100 can be described as full of mystery. Although it has made several appearances, it has not been disclosed to the outside world so far, and each appearance is also packed in a lid and covered tightly. So what type of missile is the DF-100?
In the Dongfeng series of missiles, although the "generation" of the Dongfeng-100 is behind, as everyone knows, it has another name, that is, the Changjian-100, which is not only one of the few cruise missiles on the mainland, but also the world's first supersonic long-range cruise missile announced so far.
Ballistic missiles are known for their long range and speed, while cruise missiles are known for their concealment and accuracy.
Compared with ballistic missiles, cruise missiles are more like sniper guns in the gun class, which can carry out precision strikes, but most cruise missiles have the same weakness, that is, limited range.
But even so, as the world's only active supersonic cruise missile, the DF-100 naturally has its unique charm.
Break through speed, break through convention
As a major killer in war, cruise missiles are famous for their high accuracy and making the enemy defenseless. The most famous of these is the American Tomahawk missile. However, cruise missiles also have significant disadvantages, that is, they generally have a long range and have certain speed limitations.
After the launch of ballistic missiles, they generally fly high in the air outside the atmosphere, and because the air is thin, the resistance to the missile flight is also small, which makes the ballistic missile fly faster.
However, cruise missiles will not fly at such a high altitude, which will undoubtedly affect the stability and accuracy of cruise missiles, so that the flight resistance of cruise missiles is very large, as strong as the American Tomahawk missile, the maximum flight speed is only close to the speed of sound, the general speed is only Mach 0.9, and the range is only about 2500 kilometers.
The mainland's DF-100 borrows many characteristics of Dongfeng ballistic missiles in terms of design concept and flight mode.
The performance of the DF-100 is enough to support its flight at an altitude of about 20,000 meters, and it is extremely stable, which makes it suffer from very little drag and fly faster.
The DF-100 has a flight speed of Mach 4 and a maximum range of 3,000 kilometers.
In terms of accuracy, a leader of a rocket force once commented on the DF-100, "Ordinary cruise missiles are aimed at a small range of surfaces, while the accuracy of the DF-100 is enough to hit points in the target surface, and its accuracy is enough to use meters as a unit!" ”
The difference between the point and the surface is enough to prove that the accuracy of the Dongfeng 100 has reached nearly 100%.
The concealment of the DF-100 cannot be ignored. As a cruise missile that attaches importance to precision strikes, if the DF-100 wants to be effective, it must ensure that it can hit the target, which requires that it must have strong concealment during flight.
According to the speculation of some scholars and the analysis of its related structure, it was finally concluded that the reason why the Dongfeng-100 did not reveal its true body is probably related to the concealment of its shape, and its shape may enable it to carry out more concealed precision strikes. ”！
Based on the above aspects, it is not difficult to conclude that once the world's strongest Tomahawk missile is already a small witch in the face of the DF-100.
Strong Motherland
In fact, the idea of a supersonic long-range cruise missile has long appeared, that is, the American "Fast Hawk missile" program at the beginning of the 21st century!
At that time, the United States envisaged developing a missile with supersonic speed and ultra-long range compatibility, so as to match their military deployment and implement a layout that can carry out rapid and accurate strikes anywhere in the world in a short period of time.
But so far, due to various restrictions, the development of the United States has not been successful, but the mainland's DF-100 is one step ahead.
However, the mainland has no ambition to dominate the world, nor does it want to start a war, and the reason why the Dongfeng-100 appears is only to enhance the mainland's national defense strength.
According to the development of cruise missiles in the world today, the DF-100 is undoubtedly the world's most advanced cruise missile, but some foreign experts speculate that this is not the case.
Foreign military experts believe that according to the previous style, the reason why China chose to disclose the DF-100 means that China is likely to have more powerful weapons than the DF-100.
In fact, whether it is the DF-17 or the DF-100, the mainland has only one purpose in constantly developing missiles, that is, to defend the country, defend the people, and avoid the history of backwardness and beating.