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From DF-10A to Ballistic Missiles ... PLARF Launches Sky Sword Exercise (25 June)
For reasons that are still unknown, the commander of a battalion of the Chinese Rocket Force (PLA Rocket Force / PLARF) has been widely covered in recent days. Although the focus is obviously on the human and also on the new Ground-Ground DF-10A cruise missile that exploits his unit, but the whole seems to be part of a much more global event, namely the annual exercise known as "Sky Sword" ("天剑"系列演训).
(tweet from Henri Kenhmann (East Pendulum): "Burst firing exercise of the new DF-10A cruise missile" on 23 June 2018)
If we are confined initially to this commander in question, we know that his name is Luo Yinsheng (罗寅生) and he is at the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. Regulator of a master's degree in a Chinese Army University and decorated at least five times individually, he was promoted to commander of the 6th (??) battalion of a Rocket Force brigade in March 2017 and led his first real shots four months later.
The images broadcast by the national military channel CCTV-7 suggest that Luo is actually serving in the 821st PLARF Brigade, based in Luorong in the mountainous province of Guangxi in the south of China, itself belonging to Base No. 62 formerly known as "Base No. 53".
It is also this 821 Brigade which is nicknamed today "First Cruise Missile Brigade" in China.
[4 pics, look at author's site]
According to the official videos released, it is reported that Luo and his battalion have fired several real shots of a "new type of cruise missile" since the end of May, one of which took place between June 20 and 22 .
Launch vehicle analysis (TEL) shows that this is clearly the DF-10A cruise missile, first revealed in September 2015 during the military parade to celebrate the victory against the Japanese invaders in World War II, and whose characteristics are kept secret but it is thought that its range of up to 2,000 to 2,500 km.
Comments from television reports include words such as "precision strike", "day and night penetration", "volley of shots in multiple waves" and "confrontation Red-Blue" for this series of maneuvers. And we can see images where six DF-10A missiles were fired simultaneously from a vast meadow while other launches took place visibly in the night, and two life-size buildings serving as targets that were hit hard.
With the help of our colleague Raj, one of these target buildings could be located in the Gobi Desert, among a large field of fire used by the Chinese Army for many years. The comparison of the images of this seven-storey building released this weekend by the state media and those dating a few years ago actually suggests that these first would be recent.
We see then that a missile, supposed DF-10A, touched the fourth floor of the building and caused a sharp explosion. These images are therefore a priori consistent with the description of a journalist who witnessed one of the shots of the Luo unit .
"End of June [...] In the space of a few tens of minutes, several cruise missiles of the same model have crossed windows to destroy targets located more than a thousand li ¹, and this in a surgical way," writes the reporters of the journal of the Science and Technology Daily, institutional everyday Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST), "the scene is impressive ...".
[5 pics, look at author's site]
To be able to respond to the new strategic requirement of the country, namely "deterrence and combat any zone, both nuclear and conventional", the force of Chinese rockets organizes since 2012 a new series of annual exercises called "Sky Sword" ("The Sword of the Sky"), which focuses particularly on the rapprochement to modern combat conditions, confrontation as well as interoperability with the other air forces, marine and land forces of the Chinese army.
And the "Sky Sword" drills began at the end of May this year - if you would take the Chinese Army newspaper - and the focus also shifts from "Brigade Level Assault" from previous years to "Real Fire Confrontation," and assault by group of armies. The units involved in the launches, namely several cruise missile and ballistic missile brigades, were chosen in a "random" and "unscheduled" manner according to official evidence.
The videos also show the presence of Chinese Air Force anti-aircraft units, so it is not excluded that penetration and interception simulations have occurred, as was already the case. During the "Sky Sword 2016" where ten missiles MRBM DF-21C were fired in salvo and about twenty SAM systems of the Air Force simulated their interception.
Apart from the widely reported DF-10A cruise missiles, short and medium range ballistic missiles such as DF-15 and DF-16 also appeared in the reports. A salvo of ten ballistic missiles was also filmed, like the exercise carried out a few years ago on the Tibetan plateau.
As for the locations of this year's maneuvers, the institutional media simply mentioned "the desert to the northwest" and "the forest to the northeast" (戈壁 大漠, 东北 密林). But airmail messages (NOTAM) indicated, for example, the presence of several no-go zones in northwestern China between June 20 and 22. The locations, dates and characteristics of these closed areas are therefore consistent with the shooting reported by Science and Technology Daily journalists (the article was published on June 22).
[The impact site of the DF-10A missile, and the NOTAM dated June 20 in the morning. Not everything is related to the exercise in question. (Image: East Pendulum)]
Henri Kenhmann
http://www.eastpendulum.com/du-df-10a-aux-missiles-balistiques-plarf-lance-lexercice-sky-sword
¹ Li (里, lǐ) is a Chinese distance measurement unit that has varied considerably in value over time, but is now standardized at the equivalent of 500 meters.
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The PLARF "Missile Impact Range" analysis indicates perfect navigation accuracy.Seven storied target building has 10 impact points with AOI (Area of Investigation/Interest) almost 90 degree. Great read on recent PLARF exercise:
http://www.eastpendulum.com/du-df-10a-aux-missiles-balistiques-plarf-lance-lexercice-sky-sword
A tweet from Raj47 on 6:33 PM — 25 June 2018
@rajfortyseven is the Tweeter's handle of Col. Vinayak Bhat, a military intelligence veteran of the Indian Army. He has studied Chinese and has worked as an interpreter in the Indian Army. He specialises in satellite imagery interpretation and analysis. He works mostly on Chinese PLA and Pakistan armed forces.
For reasons that are still unknown, the commander of a battalion of the Chinese Rocket Force (PLA Rocket Force / PLARF) has been widely covered in recent days. Although the focus is obviously on the human and also on the new Ground-Ground DF-10A cruise missile that exploits his unit, but the whole seems to be part of a much more global event, namely the annual exercise known as "Sky Sword" ("天剑"系列演训).
(tweet from Henri Kenhmann (East Pendulum): "Burst firing exercise of the new DF-10A cruise missile" on 23 June 2018)
If we are confined initially to this commander in question, we know that his name is Luo Yinsheng (罗寅生) and he is at the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. Regulator of a master's degree in a Chinese Army University and decorated at least five times individually, he was promoted to commander of the 6th (??) battalion of a Rocket Force brigade in March 2017 and led his first real shots four months later.
The images broadcast by the national military channel CCTV-7 suggest that Luo is actually serving in the 821st PLARF Brigade, based in Luorong in the mountainous province of Guangxi in the south of China, itself belonging to Base No. 62 formerly known as "Base No. 53".
It is also this 821 Brigade which is nicknamed today "First Cruise Missile Brigade" in China.
[4 pics, look at author's site]
According to the official videos released, it is reported that Luo and his battalion have fired several real shots of a "new type of cruise missile" since the end of May, one of which took place between June 20 and 22 .
Launch vehicle analysis (TEL) shows that this is clearly the DF-10A cruise missile, first revealed in September 2015 during the military parade to celebrate the victory against the Japanese invaders in World War II, and whose characteristics are kept secret but it is thought that its range of up to 2,000 to 2,500 km.
Comments from television reports include words such as "precision strike", "day and night penetration", "volley of shots in multiple waves" and "confrontation Red-Blue" for this series of maneuvers. And we can see images where six DF-10A missiles were fired simultaneously from a vast meadow while other launches took place visibly in the night, and two life-size buildings serving as targets that were hit hard.
With the help of our colleague Raj, one of these target buildings could be located in the Gobi Desert, among a large field of fire used by the Chinese Army for many years. The comparison of the images of this seven-storey building released this weekend by the state media and those dating a few years ago actually suggests that these first would be recent.
We see then that a missile, supposed DF-10A, touched the fourth floor of the building and caused a sharp explosion. These images are therefore a priori consistent with the description of a journalist who witnessed one of the shots of the Luo unit .
"End of June [...] In the space of a few tens of minutes, several cruise missiles of the same model have crossed windows to destroy targets located more than a thousand li ¹, and this in a surgical way," writes the reporters of the journal of the Science and Technology Daily, institutional everyday Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST), "the scene is impressive ...".
[5 pics, look at author's site]
To be able to respond to the new strategic requirement of the country, namely "deterrence and combat any zone, both nuclear and conventional", the force of Chinese rockets organizes since 2012 a new series of annual exercises called "Sky Sword" ("The Sword of the Sky"), which focuses particularly on the rapprochement to modern combat conditions, confrontation as well as interoperability with the other air forces, marine and land forces of the Chinese army.
And the "Sky Sword" drills began at the end of May this year - if you would take the Chinese Army newspaper - and the focus also shifts from "Brigade Level Assault" from previous years to "Real Fire Confrontation," and assault by group of armies. The units involved in the launches, namely several cruise missile and ballistic missile brigades, were chosen in a "random" and "unscheduled" manner according to official evidence.
The videos also show the presence of Chinese Air Force anti-aircraft units, so it is not excluded that penetration and interception simulations have occurred, as was already the case. During the "Sky Sword 2016" where ten missiles MRBM DF-21C were fired in salvo and about twenty SAM systems of the Air Force simulated their interception.
Apart from the widely reported DF-10A cruise missiles, short and medium range ballistic missiles such as DF-15 and DF-16 also appeared in the reports. A salvo of ten ballistic missiles was also filmed, like the exercise carried out a few years ago on the Tibetan plateau.
As for the locations of this year's maneuvers, the institutional media simply mentioned "the desert to the northwest" and "the forest to the northeast" (戈壁 大漠, 东北 密林). But airmail messages (NOTAM) indicated, for example, the presence of several no-go zones in northwestern China between June 20 and 22. The locations, dates and characteristics of these closed areas are therefore consistent with the shooting reported by Science and Technology Daily journalists (the article was published on June 22).
[The impact site of the DF-10A missile, and the NOTAM dated June 20 in the morning. Not everything is related to the exercise in question. (Image: East Pendulum)]
Henri Kenhmann
http://www.eastpendulum.com/du-df-10a-aux-missiles-balistiques-plarf-lance-lexercice-sky-sword
¹ Li (里, lǐ) is a Chinese distance measurement unit that has varied considerably in value over time, but is now standardized at the equivalent of 500 meters.
——————
The PLARF "Missile Impact Range" analysis indicates perfect navigation accuracy.Seven storied target building has 10 impact points with AOI (Area of Investigation/Interest) almost 90 degree. Great read on recent PLARF exercise:
http://www.eastpendulum.com/du-df-10a-aux-missiles-balistiques-plarf-lance-lexercice-sky-sword
A tweet from Raj47 on 6:33 PM — 25 June 2018
@rajfortyseven is the Tweeter's handle of Col. Vinayak Bhat, a military intelligence veteran of the Indian Army. He has studied Chinese and has worked as an interpreter in the Indian Army. He specialises in satellite imagery interpretation and analysis. He works mostly on Chinese PLA and Pakistan armed forces.
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Launch vehicle analysis (TEL) shows that this is clearly the DF-10A cruise missile, first revealed in September 2015 during the military parade to celebrate the victory against the Japanese invaders in World War II, and whose characteristics are kept secret but it is thought that its range of up to 2,000 to 2,500 km
Wrong. It should be range of 3XXXkm.
Wrong. It should be range of 3XXXkm.
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https://mbd.baidu.com/newspage/data/landingshare?pageType=1&isBdboxFrom=1&context={"nid":"news_15584051564957578340"}
CH-T1 has already been passed the test of designing finalization.
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HQ-29 doesn't even exist“Rumours" have it that HQ-19, HQ-26 and HQ-29 have all be inducted into the PLAAF.
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What is the Sino-PAC3 called and what is its status?
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“Rumours" have it that HQ-19, HQ-26 and HQ-29 have all be inducted into the PLAAF.
Could you provide a link to these rumors? The HQ-26 is a naval missile and is generally comparable to the HQ-19, so it makes no sense for the PLAAF to induct it.
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