A TEL that is widely used by the PLA due to the sheer numbers of Chinese SRBM assets. The WS2400 is one of the principal mobile workhorse/platforms in mounting and firing China's short-range ballistic missiles.
Wanshan Special Vehicle (湖北三江航天万山特种车辆有限公司) is a wholly owned subsidiary of China Aerospace Sanjiang Space Co. Ltd (中国航天三江集团)], which is in turn a subsidiary of
China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation (CASIC)]. The advantage of the WS2400 compared to the MAZ is that it utilizes a
German diesel engine, transmission and hydraulics manufactured by
Wanshan in China, built using technologies transferred from
ZF Friedrichshafen and
Allison Transmission. The WS2400 has a maximum payload capacity of 22 tons, as such, it is used as the base for a number of conventional and
ballistic missile systems the
DF-11 SRBM and
A-100 MRL platforms. The much larger
WS2500 and
WS2600 is a more developed evolution of the WS2400 meant to carry MRBMs and IRBMs. ==Variants==