Chinese military conducted a test firing of strategic cruise missiles, land-based DF-10A. During a workout, the missile troops of the People's Liberation Army of China successfully hit the targets with cruise missiles, representing a residential high-rise buildings, transfers “Warspot” with reference to the information portal Sina.
The report said, that the shooting took place in the weekend, aim missiles was complex high-rise buildings, that after the simultaneous salvo, at least six missiles, It was completely destroyed. Other details were not disclosed past firings.
DF-10A, sometimes called the CJ-10 and DH-10 – subsonic cruise missile, designed to destroy ground and surface targets. guidance system – combined, inertial + GPS / GLONASS; missile caliber – 514 mm; missile length – 6300 mm; The starting weight of the rocket – 1090 kg; weight warhead – 500 kg; Maximum range – 1500-2500 km; The speed of the missile, M – 0,8. It can be equipped with a nuclear warhead.
According to the statement of some experts, this development is a Chinese copy of the Soviet Kh-55 strategic cruise missile, documentation that, including samples, came to China from Ukraine. Ukraine itself on this and do not deny, Expressing, that in the creation of the Chinese missiles used Ukrainian missile development “Kite” (a copy of the Soviet Kh-55). At the same China's claim, that the cruise missile DF-10 is a proprietary Chinese, without the use of foreign technology.
