China Ballistic Missiles and Nuclear Arms Thread

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taxiya

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Broccoli said:
He is basing that claim on scenario that all silos would have DF-41 and each would carry 6-10 warheads but we don't really know how many warheads DF-41can carry and what type. That's why I dont put much weight on articles like that.

It's estimated that China made enough plutonium for 900-1100 warheads before stopping so China could add at least 600 new warheads on it's inventory.
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That figure was revealed in a presentation "National Defense Education in College" in 2019. The presentations (nation wide, hundreds of them) were conducted by PLA or 人民武装部 (National Military Mobilization Department). So it is authoritative unless PLA deliberately lied to fool everybody.
 
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ZeEa5KPul said:
That looked like it broke up.
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At those speeds, if it broke up with it massively decelerated and fly wildly in all directions. The fact that the track remained true and straight suggests it was fully under control. The markedly different contrail looks like it activated an engine and the widened tail is the exhaust, whereas before the contrail was just from atmospheres.
 
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plawolf said:
At those speeds, if it broke up with it massively decelerated and fly wildly in all directions. The fact that the track remained true and straight suggests it was fully under control. The markedly different contrail looks like it activated an engine and the widened tail is the exhaust, whereas before the contrail was just from atmospheres.
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Yeah, there's a part where it looks like an engine ignites, but after that by a second or so it looks like something leaks or disintegrates and there's vortices and the video abruptly cuts.
 
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taxiya said:
That figure was revealed in a presentation "National Defense Education in College" in 2019. The presentations (nation wide, hundreds of them) were conducted by PLA or 人民武装部 (National Military Mobilization Department). So it is authoritative unless PLA deliberately lied to fool everybody.
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is there a link to the presentation
 
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antiterror13

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Broccoli said:
He is basing that claim on scenario that all silos would have DF-41 and each would carry 6-10 warheads but we don't really know how many warheads DF-41can carry and what type. That's why I dont put much weight on articles like that.

It's estimated that China made enough plutonium for 900-1100 warheads before stopping so China could add at least 600 new warheads on it's inventory.
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Estimated by who? ...... I think it is a wishful thinking ;)
 
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taxiya said:
That figure was revealed in a presentation "National Defense Education in College" in 2019. The presentations (nation wide, hundreds of them) were conducted by PLA or 人民武装部 (National Military Mobilization Department). So it is authoritative unless PLA deliberately lied to fool everybody.
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Well, based on what we know, the DF-41 has only been tested with 2 reentry dummy warheads so far. Only the DF-5B/C has been tested with 10 warheads.
 
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is there a link to the presentation
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Maybe you could find it here if you are lucky, it was probably posted in this forum two years ago.

Any original links in China are long cleaned. Someone at the time leaked a photo of that page to the internet. Lots of people saw it including the author of the CSIS article. Believe it or not is up to you. I am not authorized to show anything. This is how Chinese play the game. ;)
 
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