name your countrys best nuke missiles (or cruise missiles) and we can compare them too see who has the best tactical and strategic nuclear forces. also list the best1 in development. post links pls.
heres chinas
DF-31 Intercontinental Ballistic Missile
NAME
PLA designation: Dong Feng-31 (DF-31)
NATO code-name: CSS-9
CONTRACTOR: China Academy of Rocket Motors Technology (ARMT)
SERVICE STATUS: The deployment of the missile may have already begun, though more test fires might be needed before the missile becomes fully operational
PROGRAMME
The Dong Feng-31 (DF-31) represents a new generation of ICBM for the PLA 2nd Artillery. As with the JL-1/DF-21 combination, the DF-31 and JL-2 are land-based and sea-based variants of the same missile. Development of the three-stage solid-fuel DF-25 began in 1978, but was later halted. In 1985 the programme was resumed and renamed as DF-31.
The DF-31 first fired in April 1992, however exploded shortly after launch due to faulty components in the booster assembly, killing 21 people and injuring another 58. The second fire was also said to be a failure. The first successful fire test took place in 1995. The military parade celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the founding of the PRC on the 1st of October 1999 saw the DF-31 show itself to the world, hauled by a 16-wheeled Hongyan transporter-erector-launcher (TEL) vehicle through Tiananmen Square.
DF-31 ICBM system
Two live fires were conducted in November and December of 2000 as US Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Henry Shelton visited Nanjing for PLA war games. The shots were fired from the Wuzhai Space and Missile Centre and were monitored by US intelligence ships. The close proximity in timing of the two tests came as a surprise to foreign observers, nonetheless the underlying political statement was clear. Another test came on the 23rd of November 2002, this time blasting off from Shandong Province and flew for 1,700 km to a designated target in the Xinjiang desert.
DESIGN FEATURES
The DF-31 is a three-stage, solid fuel, 12,000 km range ICBM, which could reach targets in entire Europe, the west coast and several northern Rocky Mountain states of America. Current load of the missile is a single 700 kg one-megaton yield thermonuclear warhead, although MIRV with lighter yield warheads is an expected option.
As part of the new generation of missiles, the DF-31's characteristics include road mobility, advanced materials engineering for payload and booster, improved solid-fuel propellant as well as endoatmospheric re-entry decoys, making it very difficult to counterattack at any stage of its operation, from pre-flight mobile operations through to terminal flight phases.
DF-31 ICBM carried on a Hongyan TEL
So far the DF-31 has only been seen carried on a sixteen-wheel TEL derived from civilian truck for road mobility. The appearance of the TEL suggests that the system only possesses very limited, if any, off-road deployment capability. China has been studying the Russian-made six-axis TEL which can mobile in cross-country conditions, but has yet produced a capable TEL capable of carrying over 30-ton payload.
As well as being road mobile, the DF-31 might also be rail deployed. There are reports that suggest the limited deployment capability of the road mobile variant, where specific road conditions are required, therefore the rail-deployed variant seems very credible.
SPECIFICATIONS
Configuration: Three stage
Length: ~10 m
Diameter: ~2 m
Launch Weight: >20,000 kg
Propellant: Solid fuel
Guidance: Inertial (?)
Range: 8,000 km
Deployment: Silo or mobile
Re-entry Vehicle Mass: ~700 kg
Warhead: One single 1,000 kT, or up to three 50~100 kT multiple independently targetable re-entry vehicle (MIRV)
CEP: 400 to 500 m
Launch Preparation Time: ~15 min
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DF-41 Intercontinental Ballistic Missile
NAME
PLA designation: Dong Feng-41 (DF-41)
NATO code-name: CSS-X-10
CONTRACTOR: China Academy of Rocket Motors Technology (ARMT)
SERVICE STATUS: Currently under development
PROGRAMME
The Dong Feng-41 (DF-41) is planned as main the spear tip of the PLA’s strategic nuclear forces of future. A further development of the DF-31, the 12,000 km ranged DF-41 is expected to have an augmented third stage booster, enabling an extra 4000 km range increase. Unlike the DF-31, the DF-41 is purely a land-based system hence the size is not restricted by the dimensions of a submarine launch silo.
Similar in size to the Russian SS-25 Topol 'Sickle' and US Minuteman, this missile went through simulated tests in 1999 and is reported to include stellar guidance in combination with inertial system, though at the present this cannot be confirmed. Stellar or Star guidance compare computerised star maps onboard the missile with photos taken of the galaxy from the missile. Discrepancies, which reflect trajectory inaccuracies, are then corrected. A combined inertial/stellar system would tremendously enhance accuracy, shrinking the circular error probability (CEP) from an average of 600 to 800m for a typical computerised inertial system to less than 100m.
Technical details regarding the DF-41 remain vague, and will continue to do so for the near future given the strategic importance of this system. However as with the DF-31, this system very likely to incorporate key design features including road mobility, use of solid fuel propellant, MIRV and decoy technologies. With a payload of around 1000kg, 3-6 re-entry vehicles are expected, and scheduled to supersede the DF-5 around 2008-2010, albeit various reports indicate that the DF-41 development has now ceased and replaced by an enhanced DF-31 due to development difficulties. (Author: Tony)
SPECIFICATIONS
Configuration: Three stage
Length: ~15 m
Diameter: ~2 m
Launch Weight: ~30,000 kg
Propellant: Solid fuel
Guidance: Inertial (?)
Range: >12,000 km
Deployment: Silo or mobile
Re-entry Vehicle Mass: ~1,000 kg
Warhead: Multiple independently targetable re-entry vehicle (MIRV)
CEP: 700 to 800 m
Launch Preparation Time: ~15 min
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