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The BF-11 (Bei Feng-11, "North Wind-11") is an old design of liquid-fueled ICBM from Songguo. A small number of modernized BF-11s still serve in the Strategic Missile Troops as part of the nuclear deterrent, but have largely been superseded by the BF-21. Some of the technical data used to build the BF-11 was probably stolen from Kaxakh through Operation 0185, as it bears some resemblances to the Kaxakhi R-7 missile. They are not MIRV-capable.

BF-11s were originally designed to carry only a single thermonuclear warhead, as the first H-bombs were extremely heavy. As lighter warheads were developed, the BF-11s were kept in service, and the Strategic Missile Troops decided that they would carry special super-heavy warheads designed to have the maximum explosive yield possible (thought to be around 20 megatons). For this reason, the BF-11 has been nicknamed "the Staff of the Monkey King", a reference to the magical weapon of the Monkey King Sun Wukong in Songhua mythology. This is often translated by many Euclean cultures as "the Hammer of God".

BF-11s are liquid-fueled and kept at undisclosed, extremely secure locations in remote regions of the country, in hardened underground bases. Their liquid-fuel engines make them impractical as second strike weapons and difficult to prepare for launch, but the Songhua have tried to minimize the threats to them by ensconcing them in extremely secure silos.