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Does anyone good places to watch the ZQ3's second launch?
Is there a Chinese equivalent of the Pentagon Pizza Index? Like a Mixue Index or something like that?
PiSigma
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Sulfur is actually very easy and cheap to make. It's just cheaper to import before. Just need sour oil and natural gas and Clause effect unit. Can literally make millions of tons of it.
One would need to build the infrastructure to make it at scale domestically. Not a long-term problem, but something that would need addressing in the short term.
PiSigma
"the engineer"
China got plenty of sour gas and oil. The super clause effect unit was invented before I was born. It is so standard everyone learns it in chemE school.
There is none.
The distances between the launch sites in China and the CONUS are much greater than the distances between the launch sites in the CONUS and USSR, meaning that such an ICBM will never be as small as the Midgetman ICBM. In addition, as the TEL-launched ICBM grows bigger to cover such extended ranges, they might as well go with more than one warhead per missile (whereas the Midgetman only has one warhead per missile).
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Uh, the Midgetman had a range in excess of 11,000 km, enough to strike significant portions of China North of the Yangtze. Plus, propellant technology has likely improved significantly in the intervening 30+ years, so I would hardly count out future hypothetical PLARF developments in that direction.
Right, so why isn't anyone doing that today?