Is there some new technology to stop engines from producing noise? Bombing deep into China is a fantasy. Those B-21's and cruise missiles will be easily detected by a network of microphones, similar to what is deployed in cities like New York where they can geo-locate gunshots in seconds. This is pure nonsense you are spouting here.
Sure but even the designers agree nuclear penetrators namely B-61-11 and B-83 can make a large (hundreds of meters) collapse. They described that in their own publications.
For early warning, you need to deploy the microphones in a huge region, namely more than 1M km^2 and mostly depopulated land. It’s not impossible but we should have found some hints from public publications if they have a plan.
Have you ever heard a plane Ion their cruising altitude? No offense but just curiosity. They are even almost invisible in that altitude.
To be more accurate, a 300kt B61-11 may cause ~90m fully compacted tunnel, ~150m filled up by gravels and extra 200m damaged tunnel. The total length of damage is ~400m. I guess for B-83 the length would be ~500m.
I tell you what during the WWII the allied bomb the hell out of German submarine pen none of them penetrate the pen! So theory and practice is not the same . They certainly know the destructive power of N bomb They have simulator so hold your. horses . They certainly prepared and they have been building for 4 decades and spread over the width of Chinese territory it is not concentrated in one place So how are you going to find all the tunnel You make everything sound so easy that is the problem with people believing their own propaganda Yeah USA USA Supa powa is GOD
I don’t know why WWII bomb is relevant to guided bomb in 2022.
Yeah but Chinese don’t hide their nuclear construction. They didn’t try to cheat satellites. And that’s the designers themselves claimed their tunnels can be closed by B61-11. Those tunnels perfectly protected TELs but the counterattack should be delayed for several weeks. Again, I didn’t add any own idea and all those opinions are from the designers of Chinese tunnels.
Yes but obviously there’s no order of magnitude gap. although the damage distance can be 200m or 600m, it still takes several weeks for any counterattack.
A simple fact is that US is highly likely to leave new START in a few years, e.g. in 2024, but those silos must run for decades.
And China is not gonna end up with only 350 silos either. US alone has 450 Minuteman silos in active, I see no reason why China should not seek parity in silos with US.