China Ballistic Missiles and Nuclear Arms Thread

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2. It is also possible for missiles to sweep the open parking areas of these airbases. Using cluster munitions can greatly increase the efficiency of such an attack. This will surely destroy any aircraft parked in the open and increase repair times. For example, 100 DF-26s can be used to make a full sweep of all unsheltered aircraft parking areas and keep the Andersen air force base shut to large aircraft for 11 days. (
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You would need far fewer missiles for aircraft in the open.

A 17 gram Tungsten ball bearing travelling at Mach 15 has the same kinetic energy as a DPICM cluster submunition.

So if you have 600kg of Tungsten balls on a DF-26, that would be 35000+ balls.

You can play around with the weights and speeds, but you still end up with a huge number of submunitions on a single missile.
 
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AndrewS said:
You would need far fewer missiles for aircraft in the open.

A 17 gram Tungsten ball bearing travelling at Mach 15 has the same kinetic energy as a DPICM cluster submunition.

So if you have 600kg of Tungsten balls on a DF-26, that would be 35000+ balls.

You can play around with the weights and speeds, but you still end up with a huge number of submunitions on a single missile.
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True. However, the 100 missiles used are not for one single wave of attack. Rather, it is for waves of missile sweeps whenever you can see an aircraft parking in the open.
 
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The inflatable tents for one of the silo fields have been removed, indicating construction may be complete. The whole process took 7 month. In comparison back in the 60s when US was building their own silo fields they generally took 1.5 to 2 years to complete.
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Go go go go go, need these up as quick as possible. US is becoming crazier and crazier and will likely continue to try to push China into a corner. Just look at what they are doing to Russia.

1,000 nukes by 2030 my ass, should be an absolute minimum of 4,000 strategic nukes. Hopefully the US estimates are just garbage as always.
 
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Do you have sources/further reading for this? Haven't seen anyone on nuke twitter mention it yet.

Also, does anyone have news on degree of mobile ICBM expansion in the PLARF, which isn't as obvious as these fixed silos? Things like images of specific units getting more new DF-41/DF-31s or something.
 
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To play devil's advocate, maybe the interior systems (ignition, communications, maintenance, etc) are not finished yet. So maybe they will come online in a few months.
 
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