DH - 10 The DongHai 10 ( DH - 10 ; ) is a cruise missile developed in the People ' s Republic of China by the Third Academy by CASIC . According to Janes , the DH - 10 is a second - generation land - attack cruise missile ( LACM ) , integrated inertial navigation system , GPS , terrain contour mapping system , and digital scene - matching terminal - homing system . The missile is estimated to have a circular error probable ( CEP ) of 10 meters . In 2008 , a Pentagon report estimated the range of the DH - 10 as over 4 , 000 km and that from 50 to 250 missiles had been deployed However , since the PRC has not released any specs for the DH - 10 , the specs can only be considered best estimates by western military analysts . Background . The PLA is known having been seeking long - range land - attack cruise missile ( LACM ) technology since the early 1990s . So far a number of developmental cruise missiles have been reported , though no detailed information has yet been published . China ’ s development of strategic LACM may have been assisted by Russian and Ukrainian technologies . Some sources predicted that the first operational deployment of Chinese indigenous LACM took place in 2004 ~ 2005 . The PLA Second Artillery Corps ( Strategic Missile Force ) has formed a Cruise Missile Brigade based at Jianshui , Yunnan Province in southern China . China ’ s LACM research and development is aided by an aggressive effort to acquire foreign cruise missile technology , particularly from Russia and Ukraine . China also seeks dual - use technologies and subsystems from the United States and other foreign countries . According to a recent report , Ukraine exported at least 18 examples of the 3 , 000 km - range , nuclear capable Kh - 55 ( NATO codename : AS - 15 Kent ) strategic cruise missiles to China and Iran between 1999 and 2001 . China may have also obtained the design of the Kh - 65SE , a shorter - range export version of the Kh - 55 from Russia . Cruise missile guidance . The guidance system represents the most significant challenge for a long - range cruise missile programme . The proposed Chinese cruise missile is likely going to be equipped with a multiple guidance system with an inertial navigation system ( INS ) , global positioning system ( GPS ) , and terrain comparison ( TERCOM ) . China would require an extensive database of accurate topographic information to use terrain comparison ( TERCOM ) guidance . But TERCOM would probably be relatively ineffective in areas such as the South China Sea , which present few navigational reference points . Published reports suggest that GPS would initially be used as the primary guidance system , possibly to be supplemented subsequently with TERCOM . The potential use of the American GPS system would render this system vulnerable to jamming of the unencrypted civil signal ( CA code ) from GPS satellites within view of the Chinese area of operations , or to local jamming and spoofing in the target area . Chinese cruise missiles could still find their targets using inertial navigation system ( INS ) technology , but without GPS updates they would be significantly less accurate . It is likely that even if the US tried to deny GPS signals to China , the PLA ' s cruise missiles could still function via the Russian GLONASS , or in the future the European GALILEO navigation signals . China could also use its own “ Compass Satellite Navigation System ” , which would comprise five Geostationary Earth Orbit ( GEO ) satellites and 30 medium Earth orbit satellites to provide a global cover , but the compass navigation system only covers Asia , and part of the Pacific region right now . It will take approximately another five years to complete the whole system to have global coverage and compete with GPS . Powerplant . China has developed a range of small turbojet engines to power its anti - ship cruise missiles such as HY - 4 ( C - 401 ) and YJ - 82 ( C - 802 ) . China is also actively developing more advanced turbofan engines for its next generation fighter aircraft , such as the 16 . 87 kN thrust WS - 11 turbofan engine to power its JL - 8 / K - 8 jet trainer aircraft . The same technology can used to develop a suitable turbofan engine for the cruise missile . Further Development . The DH - 10 has been further developed into the CJ - 10 cruise missile family . In addition , a submarine - launched version utilizing technologies used on another Chinese land attack cruise missile HN - 2000 is also rumored to be under development , and designated as DH - 2000 , it would also be used as an anti - ship missile . However , claims about DH - 2000 has yet remained to be verified .