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Analyst
Believes China’s Missiles Near Russian Borders Target
USA
An analyst says China has deployed inter-continental
ballistic missiles near Russia with the aim to be able
to reach targets in the US, Canada and Europe
By TASS
MOSCOW, January
24. /TASS/. China has deployed inter-continental
ballistic missiles near Russia with the aim to be able
to reach targets in the United States, Canada and
Europe, the president of the Academy of Geopolitical
Problems, Doctor of Military Science Konstantin Sivkov,
has said.
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.
"This is an
inter-continental class missile with an effective range
of ten thousand to twelve thousand kilometers. The
missile’s dead zone is no less than three thousand
kilometers. A large territory of Russia, practically the
entire Far East and West Siberia are not within the
missile’s reach," Sivkov told TASS.
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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