Analyst Believes China’s Missiles Near Russian Borders Target USA
By TASS
Earlier, the daily Global Times said China had deployed inter-continental ballistic missiles of its own design (DF-41) in northeastern Heilongjiang province bordering Russia.
Selecting this area for deploying the missiles targeted against Russian territory would be not expedient from the military point of view.
"If that were the purpose, the missiles should have been stationed deep inside mainland China or on its southern border," Sivkov explained.
In his opinion missiles of that class stationed where they are will have the capability to reach targets in the United States, Canada and Europe.
"This is China’s response to threats pronounced by the new US president, Donald Trump. Also, Chinese missiles would be able to use a more advantageous northern strategic route for approaching targets in the United States, thus bypassing the US missile defense," Sivkov said.
The three-stage solid propellant ICBM DF-41 (Dongfeng-41, also known by its NATO reporting name CSS-X-10), was designed by China’s Academy of Rocket Motor Technology. It is presumably armed with a multiple warhead consisting of ten to twelve independently targetable reentry vehicles.
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