There is a news that has attracted the attention of the majority of netizens! On July 23, the South China Morning Post quoted a report by researchers at Middlebury University's Monterey School of International Studies in the United States, which said that a commercial spy satellite had been used to photograph and analyze the movement of the Chinese People's Liberation Army rocket force.
The results of this analysis were surprising, and the rocket army suddenly showed great strength. As U.S. commercial spy satellites passed through China's southeastern region, the footage showed the Rocket Force deploying large-scale short-range ballistic missiles** along the southeast coast, including new types such as the DF-17 and DF-26.
According to the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies in the United States, the Dongfeng-17 equipped Rocket Force 817 Brigade is only 400 kilometers from Taiwan at its station in Yong'an, Fujian Province, and US aircraft carriers and military bases may also be targeted.
This information was also confirmed by the British newspaper Jane's Defense Weekly. Journalist Cagar said that the Dongfeng-17 hypersonic ballistic missile has entered the southeast coast of the mainland and will replace the Dongfeng-11 and Dongfeng-15 deployed here for many years.
Despite this, the Rocket Force still has thousands of short-range missiles aimed at Taiwan. This news is undoubtedly a major signal released by Chinese mainland to the Taiwan authorities and the United States, indicating that the squadron is fully prepared.
The DF-17 conventional missile is a high-profile **. It made its public debut at the Grand Military Parade in 2019 and attracted widespread attention for its unique appearance and excellent performance.
This missile adopts the boost-glide composite waverider hypersonic technology, the maximum speed can reach Mach 10, the range is about 2,000 kilometers, with all-weather, unsupported, strong penetration characteristics, can carry out precision strikes on medium and short-range targets.
The unique design and powerful performance of the DF-17 missile make it the only missile in service in the world that adopts this technology, demonstrating China's strong strength in the field of military science and technology.
Qian Xuesen's ballistics is the core technology of today's Dongfeng-17 missile, which originated from the flight plan proposed by Qian Xuesen at the annual meeting of the Rocket Society in 1948. The scheme proposes an intercontinental flight of a winged rocket, which, after several tens of minutes of engine operation, rises by about 90 kilometers at its previous speed, and the highest point of the track is 300 kilometers.
The rocket then lowers its altitude under the influence of the Earth's gravity, re-enters the atmosphere and glides unpowered through the atmosphere with the help of the lift provided by the air, and finally lands at a speed of 150 kilometers per hour.
This unique boost-glide flight trajectory is the later Qian Xuesen ballistic. Many scientists have studied it and found that this high-performance missile that glides after entering outer space and then entering the atmosphere is difficult to **, and the hypersonic speed makes it impossible for radar to capture, and it is likely to become a "killer weapon" to break through the enemy's defense system.
The US side once believed that it would be extremely difficult for the missile to achieve such a flight trajectory, and in addition, Qian Xuesen returned to China after many difficulties, and the research on Qian Xuesen's trajectory gradually faded out of people's field of vision.
However, our scientific researchers have been working hard in obscurity, and in the end, Dongfeng 17 was born. The Dongfeng 17 was able to successfully evade enemy interception, mainly due to its flight trajectory design.
After a ballistic missile is lifted into the air, the enemy will take interception measures at the first opportunity. However, the flight trajectory of the Dongfeng 17 is different, it adopts the design of "playing in the water", which makes its trajectory cannot be accurately **, so it is difficult to be intercepted.
The key to missile interception lies in the prediction of the target and the means of interception. At present, the world's leading ballistic missiles are basically designed to intercept ballistic missiles in a fixed orbit in space, which means that they can only intercept ballistic missiles with relatively stable flight trajectories.
However, the flight trajectory of the Dongfeng 17 was "drifting" and could not be predicted and intercepted. Therefore, the emergence of Dongfeng-17 has broken the traditional missile interception theory and become a major weapon for our side.
China's Dongfeng-17 missile is the world's first Mach 10-class hypersonic missile, and its peculiar warhead shape and aerodynamic rudder surface make it extremely capable of penetrating defenses.
Since its deployment in 2020, this "mass killer" has attracted widespread attention from the international community, especially the United States, which has been very concerned about it. The DF-17's complex flight trajectory makes it very difficult to intercept, and its long range allows it to hit important air defense systems and other high-value targets.
The DF-17 and DF-26 are important aspects of the area denial strategy of the China Rocket Force. The DF-17 has a powerful anti-access denial capability and is suitable for striking aircraft carrier battle groups near the "first island chain."
The Dongfeng-26 can be targeted at the second island chain or the first U.S. Navy formation, whether it is to achieve nuclear counterattack missions, or conventional medium and long-range precision strikes on medium and large ships sailing at sea, it has a strong strategic deterrent.
Both missiles are important for the Chinese Navy in the face of the threat of U.S. aircraft carriers, and it can be said that they were specially designed to deal with U.S. aircraft carriers.
Our missile forces have a wide range of missiles, including short-range, long-range and medium- and long-range missiles. The DF-26 is a medium- and long-range missile, which has the characteristics of completely independent intellectual property rights, both nuclear and conventional, land and sea, and the integration of a number of new technologies.
Suppose the PLA decides to reclaim Taiwan by force, and if the United States chooses to intervene, then to strike important military targets on the island of Taiwan, we can use long-range rocket artillery for fire coverage, or use more backward missiles to clear stockpiles.
For the intervention of the US military, the Rocket Force will initiate an operation, using a mixture of Dongfeng-11, Dongfeng-15, Dongfeng-17 and Dongfeng-26 to form a complete three-layer firepower network of near, medium and far.
This will allow the US military to discover that no base in all of Asia is safe.
To put it simply, Dongfeng 11 and 15 are inexpensive and well-stocked to counter Taiwan's resistance and neighboring countries that want to intervene. The DF-17 is responsible for breaking through defenses, while the DF-26 is aimed at targets such as large ships, military ports, and logistics facilities.
Now the massive deployment of the Dongfeng-17 and 26 is aimed not only at Taiwan, but also against American aircraft carriers. The PLA has a deep memory and knows the importance of firepower.
Military fans often say that the PLA has a "phobia of insufficient firepower", which means that in a war in the Taiwan Strait, if the United States intervenes, it may be attacked by a salvo of 10,000 missiles from the Rocket Force, and it will not be able to defend at all.
For example, in January 2018, the official account of the Western Theater of the People's Liberation Army released a paragraph **, with the title "If you are poor, tactics will be interspersed, and if you reach it, you will blow up Lao Tzu!" "Now, at a critical moment in China's rise, the Western hostile forces, led by the United States, do not want to see it and may resort to all means, including war.
As this phrase suggests, the massive deployment of the Rocket Forces on the southeast coast of the Dongfeng-17 sends a strong signal.
This action is not only aimed at "the best forces and external hostile forces that attempt to meddle in the Taiwan issue, but is also an important declaration by the Chinese People's Liberation Army to defend the territorial integrity of the motherland with practical actions."