Chinese army deploys latest ballistic missiles to newest brigade
According to the China Daily, the People's Liberation Army Rocket Force has established a new brigade and armed it with one of the nation's most powerful ballistic missiles. A commissioning ceremony was held recently by the PLA Rocket Force at the new brigade's base at an unidentified location to mark the delivery of "a new type of missile", the Rocket Force said in a statement on 16 April. The move indicated that the brigade has finished the establishment and trial run phases and has begun to gain full combat capability, it said.
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| The DF-26 is an intermediate-range ballistic missile of the Chinese-made Dongfeng (DF) missile family produced by China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC) (Picture source: Chinese MoD) |
