Had to lol at the suggestion of launch pads for TELs inside the silo field for so many reasons..
China ICBM/SLBM, nuclear arms thread
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Those structures look exactly like I would expect a very large directed energy installation to look like, complete with a retractable roof building in the middle, energy supply structures, batteries, maintenance, etc. Granted no country has built one of these yet, so nobody knows what they look like.
"SIPRI estimates that China had more ICBM launchers (i.e. land-based launchers) than either Russia or the USA as of January 2026 and could potentially have at least as many ICBMs as either country by the turn of the decade. However, despite this extensive build-up of launchers and ICBMs, China’s stockpile of nuclear warheads is expected to remain much smaller than the stockpiles of Russia or the USA." china has got 867 intercontinental launchers according to SIPRI.
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Take it with a bucket of salt because SIPRI says the usa have got 400 ICBM launchers when there are 450 of them. 400 silos are filled with minuteman , while 50 are kept for emergency and can be loaded if needed. Nevertheless, it should be inferred with a high degree of accuracy that china has largely caught up with the USA and Russia when it comes to the intercontinental range launchers.
Sounds somewhat relevant to the idea of building up roads and railroads (infrastructures in general) over sparsely populated areas before cities and factories grow toward them. Launchers are infrastructures, so buildup the infrastructures first before warheads are ready.
There is another rather simple explanation why this base is not part of PLARF due to the fact that it is not part of orbat within PLARF.
I'm not sure if anyone has posted this image before. It's a photo of officers and test creator. 1980-1990s
