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DF-3 Tsien
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DF-3 Tsien
DF-3 Tsien
Conceptual drawing of the original Tsien DF-3 ICBM design. True configuration still unknown.
Credit: © Mark Wade
Development of the original DF-3 10,000 km missile was undertaken personally by Tsien Hue Shen, the father of Chinese rocketry, but faced insurmountable technical and management difficulties. It was cancelled and replaced by the DF-4.

Status: Cancelled 1962.

Tsien was appointed Chief Designer of the missile on 14 November 1961. It was to be an ICBM using liquid oxygen and kerosene propellants, analogous to the American Atlas or Titan 1. However this was simply too great a leap forward for Chinese rocket technology. Furthermore, Tsien found himself to be unsuited to personal management of a large development project. Therefore, by the end of 1963, the project was cancelled.



Family: ICBM. Country: China. Agency: CALT. Bibliography: 31, 87.

1964 September 12 - . LV Family: DF-3. Launch Vehicle: DF-1, DF-3 Tsien, DF-4.

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