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Preface
Today, when the international situation is tense, the military strength of various countries has also become the focus of people's mouths, and the range of missiles can symbolize a country's military strength.
And now, the range of the Russian "Sarmat" has reached 18,000 kilometers, and the coverage range of the American "Minuteman 3" can also reach 13,000 kilometers.
So what is the range of Chinese missiles?
The strongest Sarmat in the world
Russia's "Sarmat" is a new strategic weapon system in the intercontinental missile, and with its independent technical characteristics and tactical performance, it also allows him to accurately achieve firepower coverage.
Therefore, after Russia developed the "Sarmat" intercontinental missile, it did not choose to use it until after the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, and Russia did not consider putting this missile into combat readiness.
Therefore, the reason why Sarmat, as Russia's intercontinental missile, can be called the strongest in the world is not groundless.
When the Sarmat missile knows the launch trajectory and the place of strike, it can also be adjusted to achieve precise strikes, which is also related to the technology it uses.
Source: Douyin Encyclopedia - "Sarmat" ICBM
Russia has adopted the Sarmat into a satellite orbit, which allows the missile to quickly reach orbital speed with its own thrust when launched, and allows the target to be helpless even if it finds the missile flying in the sky.
Because the orbital velocity itself is the first speed in the universe, the advantage of speed and the altitude of flight, coupled with the inability to predict the trajectory of its flight, also makes many anti-aircraft missiles empty talk.
Based on these alone, this missile is not the strongest in the world, but the Sarmat has a Type 4202 hypersonic vehicle inside, which is capable of reaching Mach 20 in the high-altitude phase, and this data can tell us.
After it is launched in the sky, this speed, it can fly out at a distance of four kilometers per second, imagine what kind of nightmare it will be for such terrifying data.
But it doesn't stop there, there is also an even more terrifying booster stage technology, which can suddenly accelerate on the eve of the enemy's interception of the missile, so as to evade the missile's interception technology.
So this is also the reason why it is called the strongest in the world, because from the perspective of these technologies, as long as this Russian missile can be launched, then even if the enemy is told where the target to be hit, then the target still cannot make a prediction, and can even watch the shell land in front of him and explode.
The range of the explosion is also the reason for the horror of this missile, the warhead of this missile, using MIRV multiple warheads, each of which is equivalent to carrying 750,000 tons of TNT explosives, and even if 16 500,000 tons of TNT are loaded, the destruction area can reach 400,000 square kilometers.
What you must know is that the entire land area of some countries is less than 400,000 square kilometers, and this artillery shell will directly make their countries disappear into the world.
But American missiles are not weaker than Russia's.
American Minuteman III. Intercontinental Ballistic Missile
The US Militia III ICBM was developed in the 60s of the last century, and the United States at that time, relying on its proud scientific and technological strength, also made other countries fearful in terms of weapons.
Therefore, when the Minuteman III began to be developed, the US missiles were already in the lead, and then after the development of the US Militia III, it has undergone many transformations, but each change will make the Militia III more powerful.
According to media reports, in November 2023, when the U.S. Air Force tested the bombing that day, a golden light rushed into the sky, but due to special circumstances at that time, the bomb was forced to explode over the Pacific Ocean.
Information source: Global Times - US media: The US military test-fired the "Minuteman III" intercontinental missile suddenly abnormalized and was forced to detonate in the air 2023-11-02 13:52
Despite this, the power of the US Minuteman III should not be underestimated, because from the perspective of construction composition, the US Minuteman III ICBM is composed of three stages of discontinuity, but at each intermission, there will be a small section for transition.
So in each section, the materials of the equipment are all different, and if you look at the whole picture of this missile, you can know that they even have three engines.
And this is also what allows Minuteman III to better prevent the interception of air defense weapons, and even this weapon uses a variety of special materials, which is also the reason why it can be so powerful.
Its power plant system is equipped with solid rocket engines, which are placed at the first and second stages of the engine, and the third stage engine is equipped with ANB-3066 propellant, which allows the vacuum to punch for 284.8 seconds.
You know, when normal fuel burns, you must use oxygen to help combustion, and this one is completely unnecessary, in a vacuum environment, it can make the ability reach the maximum limit, and it can sprint for 284.8 seconds, which is enough to see how strong this weapon is.
After all the performance is stacked together, the range of the Minuteman III can also reach 13,000 kilometers, and the range of accurate hitting the target is only 185~227 meters, and the difference between the two warheads also makes their error nearly half.
When the militia three is loaded with MK12 warheads, the error is large, and it can have 370~450 meters, which is his strike range, compared with MK12A, the weight is also reduced, but the accuracy is not as good as MK12A.
At launch, after the three-stage separation of the missile, it can fly at an altitude of about 240 kilometers, and then rise to an altitude of 960 kilometers again through the booster system, and then pass through the target set at the time of launch, and start dropping the projectile.
In this process, the end of the missile begins to be boosted again, and this time it is not raised, but a small range of lateral flight, the missile carries the projectile to be dropped, and in these ways, the distance between the projectile landing points can be adjusted to 60-90KM, or longer than this.
When everything is dropped, the Minuteman ICBM is launched, and this strike method can also allow the target to be destroyed with wide coverage.
The carrying capacity of the MK-12 warhead is 3*175ktTNT equivalent, and the carrying capacity of the MK-12A warhead is 3*355ktTNT equivalent, which also allows us to know that the blasting area of the MK-12 warhead is about 39 square kilometers, and the blasting area of MK-12A is about 52 square kilometers.
In this way, the calculation is only the range of a warhead's explosion, you must know that a single launch can be equipped with multiple warheads, and the killing range is not known.
But judging from the stock of US ICBMs alone, if they were to explode completely, it would not be an empty phrase to destroy half the world.
Having seen Russia and learned about American missiles, what happened to our Chinese missiles?
Dongfeng-41
China's DF-41 was officially unveiled at China's 70th anniversary parade in 2019, and according to the Global Times, China's DF-41 is a solid-state intercontinental ballistic missile developed by the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation.
Information source: Jimu News - To be honest, CCTV announced: Dongfeng-41 is the most powerful intercontinental missile in the world today
This missile is close to 20 meters in Chengdu, with a body diameter of more than 2 meters and a maximum range of 14,000 kilometers.
Therefore, even if the range of China's Dongfeng-41 intercontinental missile is not as far as that of Russia, it can reach most countries in the world at 14,000 kilometers and carry out precision strikes.
Of course, the mainland has always taken pacifism as the criterion, and as the saying goes, if the enemy does not offend us, I will not offend the enemy, and if the enemy offends us, he will be punished even if he is far away.
This sentence is not an empty word, because for China, strong military strength is the confidence to defend its own rights and interests, if it does not have strength, then it will attract the enemy to treat China as a lamb to be slaughtered on the board, and everyone wants to come to China to take a bite.
At the beginning, the Eight-Nation Alliance's burning of the Old Summer Palace was not precisely because the country's science and technology were not advanced enough, and Cixi did not win the support of the people and retreated step by step, that China suffered huge losses, resulting in the mainland's cultural property remaining in other countries.
There is also Japan's war of aggression against China, the cruelty to China, the Nanjing Massacre alone killed 300,000 people, not to mention the losses outside the war, and the eight-year anti-Japanese war career also made the mainland make up its mind.
We must develop science and technology, because science and technology are the foundation of the country, if we don't have it, then we will be threatened by foreign countries, and this is why after the founding of New China, China put the development of the atomic bomb on the journey.
After many years of incognito by scientific researchers, the atomic bomb was finally successfully manufactured, which also gave a shot in the arm to all the Chinese people, and at the same time, China already has a strong strength.
Therefore, at the military parade marking the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China, the appearance of the Dongfeng-41 intercontinental ballistic missile, which has attracted global attention, showed China's strength to the whole world with its majestic majesty, and even more importantly, to tell the people that we also have the power to defend peace.
If we carefully recall the course of China's weapons development, we have really done it step by step from scratch, from a small part, to the current behemoth, from a small artillery battle, to the current mushroom cloud.
All this shows that China is moving towards the forefront of the world step by step, and China has never been proud and indulgent, let alone suppressed other weak and small countries, and has always adhered to the concept of peace and forged ahead.
Behind China's strength, it is also inseparable from the scientific research personnel who have worked hard behind it, and it is precisely because of them that the people of the mainland can not be oppressed by the Western powers.
epilogue
Today, when China is becoming stronger and stronger, it is inseparable from the help of the people and the spirit of the whole country condensed into a rope, so it can be done now.
The difference in the range of weapons and missiles is not a measure of a country's military strength, but it can only make us more intuitively understand that there are people outside the people, and there are heavens outside the sky, and we should not be complacent, but should concentrate on research, take the essence of it, and remove the dross, only in this way can China become stronger.
Source: Douyin Encyclopedia - "Sarmat" ICBM
Information source: Jimu News - To be honest, CCTV announced: Dongfeng-41 is the most powerful intercontinental missile in the world today
Information source: Global Times - US media: The US military test-fired the "Minuteman III" intercontinental missile suddenly abnormalized and was forced to detonate in the air 2023-11-02 13:52