Regarding China's launch of the intercontinental missile Dongfeng-31AG, it is still fermenting abroad. India's Eurasian Times reported that this was the first such launch by the PLA in more than 40 years. India media said analysts believe that it is a signal to United States and its allies amid rising regional tensions.
The Indian media rarely praised the DF-31AG ICBM, believing that it is launched from a mobile platform and can effectively fight in rough terrain. The test firing had an actual range of 12,000 kilometers, passing near the Philippines and Guam and falling into the Pacific Ocean near the Marquesas Islands in French Polynesia, demonstrating its ability to strike long-range targets.
In addition, according to the Eurasian Times, the PLA has 3 brigades of Dongfeng-31AG ICBMs, a total of 36 launchers, and according to the calculation that one Dongfeng missile can carry 10 nuclear warheads, it can launch 360 media nuclear bombs in a salvo.
It may not be clear to many people that the missile launcher has an important role, it can maneuver, conceal, launch on any terrain, making it difficult for the enemy to predict and destroy. The official name of the missile launcher is called Heavy Special Military Truck Off-Road Vehicle, which is a super-heavy, multi-axle drive, high-mobility special off-road vehicle with independent suspension system and automatic tire pressure regulation system. It should be suitable for driving in harsh environments such as high cold, high temperature, high humidity, high altitude, etc., in addition, the load generated by the intercontinental missile on the ground during the launch process is very large; Especially when firing from unprepared positions, the pressure bearing capacity of the ground is not enough to counteract the huge recoil. At this time, if no measures are taken to deal with it, the missile launcher will sink due to the ground, which will affect the launch effect and strike accuracy of the ICBM. According to the current international level, tactical missile launchers can withstand more than 20 repeated launches; Medium- and short-range tactical surface-to-surface ballistic missile launchers do not need to be overhauled if they are fired more than 10 times.
The technical difficulty of this vehicle is very complicated, carrying hundreds of tons of missiles, and carrying out large-scale maneuvering and deployment, which is not possible with ordinary vehicles, so only four countries in the world, Russia, Belarus, China, and United States, have mastered it.
China's missile launchers are even more stealthy, and China has developed an intelligent concealment system. It is said that this intelligent concealment system is very similar to the chameleon in the biological world, and can automatically adjust the color of the missile launch vehicle itself according to the changes in the surrounding environment and temperature, so that it can be integrated with the surrounding environment, so as to effectively evade the observation of optical and infrared reconnaissance satellites, so as to conceal the missile launch vehicle itself.
Even the U.S. military has a very limited number of missile launchers, and if China really has so many missile launchers, it will undoubtedly show that China has the world's advanced level in the field of missile launchers.
It should be noted that the speculation of the Indian media is not authoritative, because the number of Chinese ICBMs and missile launchers is classified.
China's launch of the Dongfeng 31AG this time, also because the power and range are too amazing, they do not believe that China's launch of the East is the Dongfeng 31AG, because if the Dongfeng 31AG is so powerful, then the power of the PLA's Dongfeng 41 is even more unimaginable.
Therefore, both the British and American media said that the ICBM tested by the PLA this time is by no means the Dongfeng-31AG, but the more advanced Dongfeng-41 ICBM currently in service with the PLA. Foreign media believe that the 12,000-kilometer ultra-long-range strike, maneuvering orbit change and sub-warhead technology displayed by the missile in this test launch activity are all characteristics of the PLA's third-generation intercontinental missile, and according to the classification, the Dongfeng 31AG is only a "second-and-a-half-generation" missile based on the second-generation intercontinental missile Dongfeng 31A, which is simply not enough to have so many advanced and complex technologies.
Even when the People's Liberation Army (PLA) made public a high-profile picture of the live missile test, the European United States still refused to accept such a reality, which is actually a manifestation of the spread of "Dongfeng 41 phobia" among the European United States.