The Rocket Force is equipped with the "Dongfeng" series of missiles, among which the nuclear missile forces are our main nuclear forces at present. What powerful nuclear warheads does China have?

Follow all the friends who follow the military should know something about our PLA's Rocket Force .

Rocket Force is equipped with "Dongfeng" series missiles , among which the nuclear missile force is Our current main nuclear force . The reason why

nuclear missile can become a national weapon, in addition to its range of up to tens of thousands of kilometers, also has the nuclear warhead it is equipped with.

What powerful nuclear warheads do China have?

Since the model and performance of the nuclear warhead are highly confidential information , we cannot obtain specific information about the nuclear warheads we are equipped with.

From some of our nuclear industry institutes' public papers , we can learn some general information.

The information is publicly released, but during the release process, fuzzed some key information to achieve the effect of confidentiality. This processing method is called "decryption processing" .

Of course, for us, these data after "decryption processing" are also of great reference value.

By asking some people who have more research on our nuclear weapons , plus the public information I read, I roughly checked and understood the current development status of my country's nuclear warheads.

Here we need to clarify a rumor that has been circulating for a long time , that is, "my country is the only country that has hydrogen bomb , and has 30 hydrogen bombs."

The fact is that the current nuclear warheads of the five permanent members, are all " three-phase bomb " configurations, and they all belong to the category of hydrogen bomb .

We have only developed our own " sensitive configuration ", thereby reducing the cost and maintenance difficulty of hydrogen bombs. However, the configuration of hydrogen bombs abroad is not impossible to use . After

we will explain the truth of this rumor and how it is twisted into what it is now.

Since 1964, we have conducted dozens of nuclear tests, using one-tenth of the number of nuclear tests in the United States and the Soviet Union, has completed the collection of our nuclear test data and the finalization of the first generation of nuclear warheads .

Due to the age of a relatively long time, the information about the first generation of nuclear warheads has been disclosed more.

This is the first generation nuclear warhead in China called 506 nuclear warhead . has 3 million tons of TNT equivalent , and the warhead weight reaches more than 3 tons. The power of

is not a symbol of advanced technology, but it shows that our missile technology was lagging behind at that time.

Because the missile we used to launch the 506 nuclear warhead at that time was the first generation of Dongfeng 5 intercontinental missile, the range of is only more than 9,000 kilometers, and the accuracy is not high.

Judging from some information, the CEP (circular error probability) of the Dongfeng 5 intercontinental missile is hundreds of meters in .

That is to say, Dongfeng 5 aims at a target point, and after launch, may hit any place several hundred meters around this target point, , with a relatively large error.

Therefore, the 506 nuclear warhead needs to have enough power to make up for the insufficient accuracy of Dongfeng 5.

At the same time, the combination of the 506 nuclear warhead and Dongfeng 5 is also the source of our above rumors.

When we served Dongfeng 5 and 506 nuclear warheads in the 1980s and 1990s, The United States and the Soviet Union had generally equipped the more advanced intercontinental ballistic missile , as well as the smaller-weight nuclear warheads .

Like the main nuclear warhead of the United States, W88, its equivalent is 470,000 tons, much smaller than the Type 506 nuclear warhead, but its weight is only more than 300 kilograms, which is much smaller than the Type 506 nuclear warhead.

In professional terms, W88 is much higher than equivalent (equivalent to weight ratio), and means more advanced technology.

8 W88 warheads have a total equivalent of more than 3.5 million tons, which is higher than the 506 warheads, but the total weight is only about 2.7 tons of .

So at that time, the number of advanced warheads in the United States and the Soviet Union was in service, although the equivalent was small, it was higher than the equivalent. and the missile hit accuracy reached dozens of meters .

, the intercontinental missiles of the United States and the Soviet Union at that time had a strike effect that was twice that of our Dongfeng 5 missile.

. At that time, the number of Dongfeng 5 missiles deployed was dozens. When had already used advanced small nuclear warheads abroad, we were limited by the technology of missiles and nuclear warheads, and could only use large-scale nuclear warheads. In the later media processing, such a situation became "only China has 30 hydrogen bombs", which is a relatively big mistake.

Currently, the Dongfeng 5 missile has been retired, and is replaced by its improved model Dongfeng 5B missile . The nuclear missile versions of

Dongfeng 5B missile, Dongfeng 31 series missile, Dongfeng 41, and Dongfeng 26 are currently using the same warhead.

This is our own small nuclear warhead , which is at the same level as the US W88 nuclear warhead in terms of specific equivalents.

Of course, this model of nuclear warhead is an active weapon and equipment, and the specific data and information are strictly confidential.

The data used by the author here, is the data after "decryption processing" in various public papers. It may be consistent with the original data in roughly the order of magnitude, but there are quite a deviation in specificity.

According to public data, the model of this nuclear warhead is called the 5xx nuclear warhead, which has a significantly lower weight than the 506 nuclear warhead, and is only a few hundred kilograms of . The equivalent of the

5xx nuclear warhead is different in different papers. The data of is about 600,000 tonnes of TNT equivalent , which is almost one-quarter to one-fifth of the 506 nuclear warhead. The specific equivalent of the

5xx nuclear warhead is greatly improved compared with the 506 nuclear warhead, which allows our nuclear missile to use the sub-guided multi-warhead configuration , and a missile strikes several targets.

According to the paper, our Dongfeng 5B nuclear missile can carry several 5xx warheads, with a total TNT equivalent of more than 4 million tons. Compared with the W88 warheads in the United States, our 5xx warhead is more powerful and has a lot more powerful , which is similar in technology.

, but our performance requirements for nuclear warheads are somewhat different from those of the Americans.

While flipping through the data, the author noticed a data description, saying that 5xx nuclear warheads have a larger volume of due to cost and technical reasons.

So when our Dongfeng missile fairing space is limited, there are actually not many 5xx nuclear warheads equipped.

This reminds me of the point that the US W88 nuclear warhead has been criticized, which is to pursue the limit of size requirements , W88 uses some expensive design methods.

Although this makes the W88 nuclear warhead very small in size, , the maintenance cost has been greatly increased, and it also affects the reliability of the W88 nuclear warhead .

I wonder which method is better if you all readers think?

Of course, a 5xx nuclear warhead obviously cannot meet our extensive range of Dongfeng missile needs.

Like our air-launched ballistic missile , air-launched nuclear cruise missile, has the corresponding nuclear warhead model . Unfortunately, there is too little public information on these models, and the author cannot access enough information.

However, the author believes that our Dongfeng nuclear missile, , as our nuclear deterrent, is a fully qualified .