China "Playing Muscle": NVAK has launched a long-range missile YJ-62 near South Korea

The missiles were adopted by the Chinese army in the 2000s. Although it is not the latest weapon, one such rocket can disable the ship up to 3000 tons. The China's People's Liberation Army (NVAK) launched the anti-ship winged YJ-62 rockets during the exercises that took place in Shandong province near North Korea. Thus, long -range complexes cover the yellow sea, the north of the China itself and the Korean peninsula. This was reported on January 27 by Naval News.

The authors of the publication drew attention to the video published by the Chinese CCTV TV company, at which the brigade conducted training with four WS2400 starting installations, each of which was equipped with three YJ-62 missiles and one command-staff machine. It is noted that this type of weapon is not the latest (they were adopted in the early 2000s), but the missiles are quite powerful-one YJ-62 can disable the ship with a water ton of up to 3000 tons.

On this occasion, Defense Express experts write that such complexes were placed closer to the island of Taiwan. Now the Chinese military has moved them closer to the borders of the DPRK. According to the observers, such a decision can be a "manifestation of Beijing's concern" due to the significant activation of rocket launchers in North Korea.

In addition, such a step on the part of the NVAC may indicate that China can consider South Korea at least an unfriendly country, before which it is necessary to "play muscles" in the event of a hypothetical conflict on the Korean Peninsula. YJ-62 is a medium-range turbouative anti-ship that can run from air, land or sea. According to Global Security, the maximum flight range of the rocket is 500 kilometers, it can carry 450 kg of fugas armor -piercing warheads. The maximum speed is a meter, 0.