China IRBM/SRBM (and non-ICBM/SLBM) thread

[Wrought]

Is there any benefit of selling surplus DF-21Ds to Venezuela or other allies to push back on Typhoon deployments in the Philippines?

Lmao no. Without ISR or sundry support networks, those launchers are useless paperweights. They are significant for Manila in a political—not military—sense because they signal alignment with the US. Otherwise it's trivial to destroy them. The Philippines itself has no military muscle to speak of; it's all American. Likewise, any sale of a few Chinese missiles would only be significant if it was bundled alongside basing and so forth.

Also it's Typhon, not Typhoon.

 

[pipaster]

Lmao no. Without ISR or sundry support networks, those launchers are useless paperweights. They are significant for Manila in a political—not military—sense because they signal alignment with the US. Otherwise it's trivial to destroy them. The Philippines itself has no military muscle to speak of; it's all American. Likewise, any sale of a few Chinese missiles would only be significant if it was bundled alongside basing and so forth.

Also it's Typhon, not Typhoon.

Just simply providing coordinates from Google maps could put many of Florida based military facilities at some risk. Again this would be for deterrence, both against US invasion of a sovereign country, and for China to play a Cuban missile crisis 2.

It looks like that the US is starting to impose a blockade (already on sanctioned oil tankers). So this talk is moot.

Typhon, thanks for the correction. Learned about some ancient Greek history today.