Strategic Missile Forces (100,000 personnel)
STRATEGIC MISSILE FORCES
Ofensive:The
Second Artillery Force organises and commandsits own troops to launch nuclear
countera acks withstrategic missiles and to conduct operations with
conventional missiles. It comprises missile and training bases, and relevant
support troopsOrg as 27 launch bdes subordinate to 6 army-level msl bases; org
varies by msl type; one testing and one trg base
MSL • STRATEGIC
442
ICBM 66: ε12 DF-31
(CSS-9) (1 bde); 24 DF31A (CSS9 Mod 2) (2 bde); 10 DF-4 (CSS-3) (1 bde); 20
DF-5A
(CSS-4 Mod 2) (3 bdes)
IRBM 118:
80 DF-21 (CSS-5) (5 bde); 36 DF21C (CSS5 Mod 3) (2 bde); 2
DF-3A (CSS-2 Mod) (1 bde)
SRBM 204
108 DF-11A/M-11A (CSS-7 Mod 2) (4 bde); 96 DF15/M-9 (CSS-6)
(6 bde)
LACM 54 CJ-10
(DH-10); (2 bde)
NAVY SUBMARINES • STRATEGIC • SSBN 3:
1 Xia equiped with 12 JL-1 (CSS-N-3) strategic SLBM
2 Jin equiped with up to 12 JL-2 (CSS-NX-4)
strategic SLBM (full operational status unkown; 3rd and 4th vessels in build)
Defensive
RADAR • STRATEGIC: some phased array radar; some detection and
tracking radars (covering Central Asia and Shanxi (northern border)) located at
Xinjiang 
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