China Ballistic Missiles and Nuclear Arms Thread

[Kalec]

I think I have figured out what exactly "Three-in-one" test means. It is actually a separation test between the missile's first stage and secodn stage.

For example, Ceres-1 Rocket completed its "three-in-one" test on 09/29/2019 and planned to launch its maiden flight earlier 2020. But everyone knows that Covid then hit in and everything was severely delayed and the actual flight date was 11/07/2020, one year after it completed such test.

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So if the engine follows the timeline of Ceres-1, it should conduct its maiden in the middle of 2023 as there is no more COVID delay.

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开年以来，401所一室全体职工迅速全面开展试验任务，一天之内在田王、辋川、白鹿原三地多点开展试验准备、点火等各项工作，成功完成了以某重点型号三合一联试为代表的地面点火试验，为2023年全年任务全面完成开创了良好新开局。

"(CASC) successfully completed the ground ignition test represented by the "three-in-one" joint test of a key model, creating a good new start for the full completion of the task in 2023."

It was really quick and I don't even expect it to be this quick as they have completed the separation test during Chinese new year. Another possibility apart from ICBM is ORIENSPACE's Gravitation-1, which aimed to make its maiden flight by the end of 2023.

However, it is not likely to be this case. First of all, key model always means to be rocket/missile developed by CASC itself not other commercial company and particularly strategic rockets in official cliche. Furthermore, as the Ceres-1 example shows, this rocket should take maiden flight around the middle of 2023 whereas Gravitation-1 is very likely to be delayed until 2024. And most importantly, as it has been noted, no commercial rocket ever used T800 carbon fiber in its design.

 

[Kalec]

Shiyan-10-02 has reached its orbit and China has two HEO EW satellite to cover northern hemisphere rn.

 

[FairAndUnbiased]

Shiyan-10-02 has reached its orbit and China has two HEO EW satellite to cover northern hemisphere rn.

View attachment 106094

Anything for southern EW for SLBMs?

 

[by78]

DF-26s at PLA Rocket Force's training base somewhere in Inner Mongolia.

 

[by78]

A group photo (dated 7/29/1996) of technicians and scientists conducting China's last underground nuclear test.

 

[escobar]

PRC has one of the busiest missile test ranges in the world. In early January, a twin-engine aircraft target was destroyed in a missile test.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1622282585526403073

 

[TK3600]

Nowadays are nuclear warhead cheaper to make than cold war? Would it be relatively easy to arm up in case of tension?

 

[antiterror13]

Nowadays are nuclear warhead cheaper to make than cold war? Would it be relatively easy to arm up in case of tension?

I believe so, as Chinese technology now is like 100x + more advanced than in 1990s
The bottleneck is the weapon grade plutonium

 

[Biscuits]

Nowadays are nuclear warhead cheaper to make than cold war? Would it be relatively easy to arm up in case of tension?

The warhead itself might be marginally cheaper, but the platforms themselves are more expensive, because they're generally much more capable.

During peacetime, China keeps large parts of their arsenal disassembled, so it is likely that they can surge several hundreds to several thousands of nukes in only the time it takes to put the arming devices and warheads back together.

 

[escobar]

The U.S. military has notified Congress that China now has more land-based intercontinental-range missile launchers than the U.S. “The number of land-based fixed and mobile ICBM launchers in China exceeds the number of ICBM launchers in the United States,” the commander of the U.S. Strategic Command, which oversees nuclear forces, wrote the Senate’s and House’s Armed Services Committees

Many of China’s land-based launchers still consist of empty silos, according to U.S. officials and experts outside government. The Strategic Command also notified Congress that the U.S. has more intercontinental-range, land-based missiles and more nuclear warheads mounted on those missiles, than China.

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