Like I said, a third silo site...
As I said nothing prevent China from enlarging their strategic missile forces With this new find we can be sure that China's Sibir is now in place and they change their strategy to LOW
Adm. , commander of the U.S. Strategic Command, said Thursday that the first two missile fields being built are part of an “explosive” expansion of nuclear forces by .
The
officials said the missile field will be used for the DF-41,
‘s newest ICBM, which is believed to be able to accommodate up to 10 warheads carried on multiple, independently targetable reentry vehicles, or MIRVs.
No details were provided on the location of the third ICBM field, but it is believed to also be in western
, where most of
‘s missiles and underground nuclear complexes are located. The other missile fields under construction were identified in commercial satellite imagery over the past two months by non-government analysts. Those bases are located at
, in western
, and
, near Mongolia in northwestern
.
T
ogether, the three new missile bases will house 350 to 400 new long-range nuclear missiles, U.S. officials said. If 10 warheads are deployed on the DF-41s, ‘s warhead level will increase to more than 4,000 warheads on its DF-41s alone.
By contrast, the United States has an estimated 3,800 warheads, with 1,357 deployed for use and the rest in storage.
Adm.
noted that the United States has a larger warhead stockpile than
but said two-thirds of those weapons are “operationally unavailable” because of treaty constraints, such as provisions of the New START treaty with Russia.
The
estimated in its annual report on the Chinese military last year that the number of warheads stockpiled by
is in the “low 200s” and will increase by around 200 in the coming years. Adm.
told Congress in April that intelligence estimates of Chinese nuclear buildup needed to be updated weekly because of the fast pace of Beijing’s strategic arms development.
