What TEL???

Hyper.. no way that TEL is carrying any misssile as such.. the best possible scenario is that, it is a Command and Control Vehicle or a retractable Radar…

My strong feeling is that of it being a Command vehicle..

That is WS-2400 series.. a derivative of MAZ
http://legion.wplus.net/guide/army/tr/maz543.shtml

Ah, good work hima…..

I should have looked harder at sinodefence…….. 😮

But, which missile does it carry…..DF-11/15 (8 wheel)….DF-21/31 completely different. Is it a Command & Control vehicle or retractable RADAR thinggy then? :confused:

http://www.sinodefence.com/army/transport/ws2400.asp

That is WS-2400 series.. a derivative of MAZ
http://legion.wplus.net/guide/army/tr/maz543.shtml

It’s not Iskander, the Iskander TEL is too small. A self-contained, mobile 5N66 is an interesting theory. It doesn’t look like an ICBM TEL as there are no extendable support leg things visible anywhere.

Yes, I thought that the absence of legs forecloses this thing being a mobile missile launcher (just didn’t want to open an extra post on that fact).

It could be a extendable radar akin to the Russian IL13-3 NEBO-SV.
Or it could be something mundane like a big tent, for a mobile mess e.g.

It’s not Iskander, the Iskander TEL is too small. A self-contained, mobile 5N66 is an interesting theory. It doesn’t look like an ICBM TEL as there are no extendable support leg things visible anywhere.

Iskander

May be a Chinese version of 5Н66М:

You can clearly see hinges along the top of the cargo hold which would point to this vehicle being a TEL. Would this mean the phased array radar it transports is retractable to ease the vehicle’s movements in the field? It is a very impressive beast to say the least!

Doubt that it is Russian. If Chinese, the chassis is either Wanshan WS2500 (10×8), or TAS5500A (10X10, max load 28 tons, used as the chassis to carry the phased array radar of the HQ-9/FT-2000 SAM system) or TAS5570/A (10X10, max load 30 tons). I’m leaning towards the latter.