Missile with a 1,000km range
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A highly accurate Chinese ballistic missile has made its latest appearance at recent Rocket Force drills.
The medium-range DF-16 featured in a video posted last week on the defense ministry’s Website showing the missiles aboard their 10-wheeled mobile launch vehicles being deployed in deep forest during exercises over the Lunar New Year holiday.
First displayed at a Beijing military parade in 2015, the missile is believed to have a range of 1,000 kilometers, putting it within striking distance of Okinawa, home to several US military installations.
The DF-16 replaces the older, shorter range DF-11, with a final stage that can adjust its trajectory to strike slow moving targets and evade anti-missile defenses such as the US Patriot system deployed by Taiwan.
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