The U.S. Department of Defense said last year that images showed a suspected 230 silo-based ICBM launch sites in Yumen, Gansu, and Hami, Xinjiang, in China.
The Dongfeng-2 Chinese missile is shown during the Chinese army's 80th anniversary celebration of its founding, joined by 20 armored vehicles, a tank, an anti-aircraft battery, missiles and bombers. The Dongfeng series of missiles is arguably the most powerful in the world, and the DF-41 model can travel as far as Europe and the United States.Military-Today called China's DF-41 among the deadliest intercontinental ballistic missile in the world.
A DF-41 fired in the United States' direction would reportedly take 20 to 25 minutes to reach its target, causing"extremely devastating" effects that can hypothetically"wipe out entire countries."of the"growing threat the world faces" from China's expanding nuclear arsenal after images showed a suspected 230 silo-based ICBM launch sites in Yumen, Gansu, and Hami, Xinjiang.
China's DF-41 operational missile range is more than 14,000 kilometers , GlobalSecurity.org reported, and makes it the world's longest-range missile—longer than the U.S. LGM-30 Minuteman, which can travel about 13,000 kilometers .
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