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B-611
Type Ballistic surface-to-surface missile
Place of origin  China
Service history
In service 1998 – present
Used by China, Turkey
Production history
Manufacturer China Precision Machinery Import and Export Corporation (CPMIEC)
Produced 1998
Specifications
Weight ≈ 2 ton
Warhead 480 kg warhead, conventional or nuclear, maneuverable reentry vehicle
Detonation
mechanism		 impact / proximity
Engine rocket motor
Propellant solid fuel
Operational
range		 80 to 400+ km
Speed supersonic
Guidance
system		 Inertial / ImIR / TV
Launch
platform		 8 x 8 cross country truck

B-611 missile and its derivatives are a series of Chinese short-range ballistic missiles (SRBM) first developed in the late 1990s by the China Precision Machinery Import and Export Corporation (CPMIEC). Typical targets intended for B-611 include supply line, warehouse, missiles sites, battery units, command centers, airfields, transportation hubs, and area targets in urban surroundings.

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B-611

B-611 missile with NATO reporting name CSS-X-11 is the follow-on of earlier Dongfeng-11 (M-11, with NATO reporting name CSS-7) missile. The missile weighs approximately two tons and is powered by a solid rocket motor. The inertial guidance system with mechanical gyro provides an accuracy of CEP 150 meter or better, and this can be upgraded with laser gyro or fiber-optical gyro based on the customer’s request, thanks to the modular design concept adopted. When combined with other guidance system such as satellite guidance system, the accuracy is increased ten folds. Thanks to the same modular design concept, a variety of warhead can be equipped, increasing the versatility of the missile. Typical B-611 battery would include three vehicles, the transporter / erector / launcher housing the missile, the communication and command vehicle, and a support vehicle.

The system is highly digitized and the transporter / erector / launcher only requires three operators, and can be deployed and operated independently if needed. The deployment time is less than twenty-five minutes from the traveling state to the launch of the missile, and any targets within the ±45° sector can be attacked. After launch, it would only take less than five minutes to retreat from the spot, thus reducing the risk and exposure of possible counterattacks from the enemy. Though the 480 kg payload of B-611 can include a single tactical nuclear warhead, it is not normally carried.

J-600T missile

With the exception of a very limited number in Chinese military for evaluation purposes, B-611 missile has not entered Chinese service en masse. Instead, Chinese military would later place large orders for B-611M missile, the follow-up of B-611 missile instead. However, B-611 found its way to Turkish military, when CPMIEC secured a successful export deal of B-611. Information provided by CPMIEC(China Precision Machinery Import-Export Corporation) pointed out after Turkish Army failed to secure a deal to import M270 rocket launchers, B-611 missile system was then considered by Turkish authority, negotiation with CPMIEC was started soon afterwards.[1] After signing a contract for the licensed production of the Chinese WS-1A and WS-1B rockets in Turkey under the name of Kasırga in 1997, a similar contract was signed with CPMIEC for the Chinese B-611 SRBM system in 1998, for the licensed production of 200+ B-611 missiles in Turkey, at a reported cost of 300 million US dollars.

The Turkish renamed the missile as J-600T, and developed its own version of the transporter / erector / launcher named F-600T, which is based on MAN 26.372 6x6 truck, which is also the chassis of the Turkish-built T-122 Sakarya and T-300 Kasırga Multi Barrel Rocket Launchers. Using the same chassis has greatly simplified logistics and reduced costs.

P-12

P-12 SRBM is a development of B-611, and it made its public debut at the sixth Zhuhai Airshow. P-12 is a shorter version of B-611 and is vertically launched. The chassis of the transporter / erector / launcher is a cross country 6 x 6 truck, and a total of two missiles are carried in an enclosed compartment in the back of the truck. The short deployment time of B-611 is inherited by P-12, despite the number of missiles carried has been doubled. During the launch, the first missile is erected and fired, and then the second one is erected and fired, and all of this can be achieved as short as a minute. The range of P-12 is 150 km, while the warhead is around 300 kg. A variety of warhead can be selected, and the cluster warhead of P-12 contains a total of nineteen sub munitions.

Designed as a low-cost tactical ballistic missile, P-12 adopts the same modular design concept inherited from its predecessor B-611, and this means that subsystems of the missile can be selected from a wide range of options based on the customers’ affordability. For example, the most basic form of inertial guidance system of P-12 provide an accuracy of CEP of 80 meter or better, but this can be greatly improved to as much as ±2 meters when combined with other measures, such as satellite, radar, optical guidance. Video footage of test fires shown at the 7th Zhuhai Airshow by the developer has revealed that the combined guidance system of P-12 enables it to hit a target of an ordinary family house sized warehouse at its maximum range, but the developer did not reveal the exact types of guidance systems deployed. P-12 missile has entered Chinese service, along with B-611M.

B-611M

A successor of B-611, B-611M has been developed and entered Chinese service, utilizing the experienced gained from both B-611 and P-12 missiles. The basic performance of B-611M is similar to that of B-611, but the firepower is doubled when adopting the same practice of P-12 missile: putting two missiles on a single transporter / erector / launcher. As with P-12, the two missiles can be erected and launched within a minute, though the simultaneous launch of two missiles is not possible. As with P-12, B-611M has some maneuverability at the terminal stage of the flight, making it more difficult for enemy to intercept.

The chassis of the transporter / erector / launcher of B-611M is based on a 8 x 8 cross country truck of Baotou Beiben Heavy-Duty Truck Co. Ltd. (北方奔驰重型卡车有限公司) at Baotou. Two missiles are stored in the compartment in the back, each with its own launcher / storage container, as opposed to the exposed missiles of P-12, and the rectangular launcher / storage containers of B-611M are filled with nitrogen for added protection from environment. As with B-611M and P-12, the transporter / erector / launcher of B-611M is capable of fighting independently under emergency situations.

BP-12

The existence of BP-12 was revealed during the 8th Zhuhai Airshow held at the end of 2010. BP-12 is the first of the series that branched out of B-611/P-12 family. In contrast to B-611/P-12 which adopts inertial guidance, BP-12 adopts satellite guidance instead, namely, GPS, and based on the best accuracy commercial GPS could provide, the accuracy of BP-12 was given by the developer as CEP of 30 meters or better.[2] After entering Chinese service in very limited numbers for evaluation, it was further developed into Type 621 missile.

Type 621

Type 621 missile is the first development of BP-12,[3] incorporating additional satellite guidance systems such as Glonass & Beidou navigation system, in case GPS is not available. The external visual difference between BP-12 & Type 621 missile system is that missile for Type 621 missile system is that unlike B-611 where the missile is exposed, Type 621 missile is enclosed in a container that also acts as transporter / erector.

Type 631

Type 631 is a further development of Type 621, with firepower doubled when two containers / transporters / erectors are incorporated, a design feature rooted from B-611M. It is rumored that Type 631 has a range greater than 400 km, and thus it cannot be marketed internationally, however, such claim has yet to be confirmed by official sources of west or Chinese government.

BP-12A

Model of BP-12A was shown in the 8th Zhuhai Airshow, and externally, the system appears very similar to Type 631 described in the brochure, but the max range of the BP-12A missile is just below 300 km to meet the export restriction of the international arms trade regulation. However, the most important upgrade is that the fire control interface of BP-12A is identical to SY-400 MLRS, thus reducing the cost.

M20

M20 tactical ballistic missile (TBM) was first revealed in 2011 at defense exhibition in UAE,[4] and it's another member of B-611 family.[5] Very little info is released about M20 TBM, but many western observers suspected that it has absorbed technologies of Russian SS-26, such as addition of infrared guidance and the ability to change course at the terminal stage of the flight to make it more difficult to be intercepted.[6] Many Chinese internet sources have claimed that China had obtained technologies of SS-26 not by reverse engineering, but instead, hiring former missile experts from Russian and Ukraine after the former-USSR dissolved. Because M20 TBM is marketed by Chinese on the world arms market, its maximum range is just blow 300 km to meet international arms trade regulations.[7]

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Reference Links

  1. ^ "Chinese ballistic missile exported to Turkey". AirForceWorld.com. http://www.airforceworld.com/weapon/pla/chinese-export-ballistic-missile/chinese-export-ballistic-missile.htm. Retrieved 5 Oct 2011. 
  2. ^ "Accuracy of BP-12 series (in Chinese)"
  3. ^ "Defence International December 2010 (in Chinese)"
  4. ^ M20Ttactical Ballistic Missile
  5. ^ M20 TBM
  6. ^ M20
  7. ^ M20 Missile Weapon System
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