2025 Victory Day parade thread (workup, 3rd Sept)

vincent

vincent

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ACuriousPLAFan said:
DF-15 is getting retired (if not already, or only remaining in the training brigades to clear up the remaining stockpiles).

The DF-16 and DF-17 certainly aren't cheap. This is apart from the facts where the DF-17:
1. Can actually strike father away (and potentially reaching some parts of the 2IC), and
2. Has many other more important targets to strike farther away.

In fact, I'd say that the DF-17 (and the DF-16 to a certain degree) should be reserved for more critical targets along the Ryukyu Island Chain + Taiwan, and let the TBMs + cruise missiles do the heavy work for ground-based bombardment missions.

In addition, there's the Xizang frontier to consider as well.
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What will PLAAF do if PLARF takes care of everything? PLARF just needs to take out key defense points such as C & C nodes, radar sites and runways. PLAAF can smash the rest of the targets on the First Island Chain with glide bombs and short range cruise missiles.
 
Blitzo

Blitzo

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ACuriousPLAFan said:
Huh. Kinda hoping for a successor to the PHL-16 (if any) to show up instead.
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PHL-16/191 already is a modular MLRS, so it can carry 300mm, 370mm guided long range rockets, as well as TBM/SRBM payloads.

We can already see that they're going to showcase the TBM/SRBM payload for PHL-191:

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.... which we know for a few years now that they have been able to launch in the past

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For the PLA, I don't think they necessarily need any other new system for the foreseeable future.
At most, they could maybe develop some new payloads for PHL-191, but they don't necessarily need to develop a whole new vehicle and system for it.
 
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