China Ballistic Missiles and Nuclear Arms Thread

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Rachmaninov

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Xsizor said:
Mid course interception might be the most technologically challenging, right? So probably against an Indian attack.

But it ought to be terminal course that China be focusing on when considering the threat posed by US.
China's ABM is extremely secretive. I know next to nothing on that.
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China's been doing mid course intercepts for a while now. The last demonstration was so many years ago I can't even recall when it was but the announcement was of a similarly presented way. Foreign observers sitting in the western Pacific see it all unfold.

Mid course is no harder than intercepting a LEO satellite moving much quicker than a ballistic missile or warhead outside the atmosphere. Hitting a LEO of much higher orbit than a warhead would be, all on the first try, on the only shot and using a kinetic kill warhead is about as hard as it gets for BMD. The detection and tracking capabilities are the stars of the show. The rest is a matter of energy and range.

Terminal phase interception is much more an issue of range and energy and I would imagine is actually more difficult to perform than mid course interception. Depends a lot on where your interceptors are positioned. Key targets are probably a safe bet.
 
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On 04/02/2021, China have successfully conducted a land based mid-course anti-ballistic missile interception test within its border, the test reached its goal. This test is defensive in nature and is not aimed at any country.
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China TJS-2/5 (FireEye) early missile warning sats probably used in this test
 
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China successfully tests missile interception​



China conducted a land-based, mid-course missile interception test on Thursday, the Defense Ministry said, noting the test had achieved its goals.

The ministry said in a brief statement that the operation was defensive in its nature and wasn’t targeted at any other country.

This was the fifth land-based, mid-course missile interception test China has publicly announced. Before it, the nation successfully completed four such tests in 2010, 2013, 2014 and 2018.

An advanced anti-missile interceptor requires cutting-edge technologies, best manufacturing techniques and top materials and will only be successful after a great number of tests, experts said.
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Hendrik_2000

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Midcourse is the most practical I thought? Boost phase is pretty much useless against giant countries like China/Russia/US because they can hide missiles in the middle of the country where you'll be hard pressed to reach with anything but crazy stuff like orbit based gamma ray laser. Terminal is hard because you're up against a crap load of warheads due to MIRV and even warhead decoys.

Land based mid course ABM is not useful for China to defend against US ICMBs and questionably useful against any MRBMs based around Asia, for both of those you would want the system to be sea based so you can push the intercept further out.

However land based mid course ABM is very useful against India's arsenal.
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I don't think land based ABM is useless, use in conjunction Early missile warning system that China is perfecting now It can met the missile halfway across the ocean ! before final stage. Of course ideally ship based system is better
 
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Midcourse is the most practical I thought? Boost phase is pretty much useless against giant countries like China/Russia/US because they can hide missiles in the middle of the country where you'll be hard pressed to reach with anything but crazy stuff like orbit based gamma ray laser. Terminal is hard because you're up against a crap load of warheads due to MIRV and even warhead decoys.

Land based mid course ABM is not useful for China to defend against US ICMBs and questionably useful against any MRBMs based around Asia, for both of those you would want the system to be sea based so you can push the intercept further out.

However land based mid course ABM is very useful against India's arsenal.
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The issue with Mid course, is the tracking part as the lack of thermal release prevents Infrared sensors from tracking. I don't know much regarding Chinese infrared sensor abilities.

Boost phase interception might be the easiest (regarding tracking) as you said and MIRVs indeed are an issue with Terminal.
 
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