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DongFeng 15 (Export name: M-9; NATO codename: CSS-6, Chinese: East Wind 15), a Short-Range Ballistic Missile, is the only non-nuclear missile in service with the PLA Second Artillery Corps (i.e. strategic missile force).
The missile shown here is most probably a DongFeng15B, which is fitted with four small fins at midsection for corrections at the final phase of the flight.
This vehicle is a TAS5450 or WS2400 8X8 transporter-erector-launcher (TEL) vehicle.
Apparently, only after this vehicle had paraded passed the Tiananmen Square was the camuoflage sheet pulled over the missile.
For more information about this type of missile, please see:
www.sinodefence.com/strategic/missile/df15.asp
DSC_0113
DongFeng 15 (Export name: M-9; NATO codename: CSS-6, Chinese: East Wind 15), a Short-Range Ballistic Missile, is the only non-nuclear missile in service with the PLA Second Artillery Corps (i.e. strategic missile force).
The missile shown here is most probably a DongFeng15B, which is fitted with four small fins at midsection for corrections at the final phase of the flight.
This vehicle is a TAS5450 or WS2400 8X8 transporter-erector-launcher (TEL) vehicle.
Apparently, only after this vehicle had paraded passed the Tiananmen Square was the camuoflage sheet pulled over the missile.
For more information about this type of missile, please see:
www.sinodefence.com/strategic/missile/df15.asp