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| | Chinese Defence Today - Nuclear Missiles |
 | | China has deployed a small number of the DF-31 (CSS-9) 8,000km-range, solid-fuel, road-mobile ballistic missile introduced in the 1990s, and is currently developing two follow-on versions: an ICBM version DF-31A with an extended range of 10,000km, and a solid-propellant submarine-launched ballistic missile the JL-2 (CSS-N-2). |
 | | There is also evidence showing that China is developing the MIRV capability for the DF-31A and JL-2 to improve their strike capabilities. |
 | | However, some other sources indicated that by 2000 the PLA Second Artillery Corps could have deployed eight ICBM brigades, including three DF-5 brigades, three DF-4A brigades and two DF-31 brigades, each brigade with 12 ICBMs, giving the total number of ICBM in China’s inventory 96. |
| www.sinodefence.com /nuclear/icbm/df31.asp (833 words) |
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