PLA strike strategies in westpac HIC

antiterror13

Brigadier
Below is the CCTV7 mini-documentary with the 1000 cruise missile factory.
Remember this is for the domestic Chinese audience.

youtube.com/watch?v=RoObgUTsZ0M

Interesting video, it seems the factory only produce rocket engine and it does say 1000 per day. Very modern factory I'd say

Engine car manufacturer is normal to produce 1000 engine per day

But I doubt that China has capacity to supply solid propellant for 1000 cruise missile per day (currently)
 

PiSigma

"the engineer"
Interesting video, it seems the factory only produce rocket engine and it does say 1000 per day. Very modern factory I'd say

Engine car manufacturer is normal to produce 1000 engine per day

But I doubt that China has capacity to supply solid propellant for 1000 cruise missile per day (currently)
I think the biggest bottleneck for any missile is probably the electronics and the engines. In any manufacturing process, all bottlenecks are identified and the entire capability is based on the bottleneck production rate.

In this case, saying 1000 engines a day basically means 1000 missiles a day. Electronic manufacturing in china is a no brainer for capacity. Fuel is not an issue, kerosene is jet fuel, what the military uses is a drop in a bucket to civil usage. The grade is different but only minor changes needed in the refinery to produce.

All other parts should have more than excess capacity and can be converged from civil manufacturing. Engine is in the only part not easily convertible. This is why 1000 engines a day = 1000 missiles a day from this factory. Or whatever downstream factory attached to this one
 

aqh

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Top general in WESTPAC says something interesting here :
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If the US concedes that without Okinawa they can't win the war then how do they plan on winning?
It's only 650 km from the Chinese coast. There is like a 0% the US can hold it against the combined arms of Chinese ships, stealth jets, drones, ASHM + Ballistic missiles , ground based OTH radars, satellites concentration etc. Even if the US masses forces here, due to ground based equipment the Chinese will have a massive advantage.

Is this the US basically admitting they can't win a kinetic war?
 

drowingfish

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Top general in WESTPAC says something interesting here :
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If the US concedes that without Okinawa they can't win the war then how do they plan on winning?
It's only 650 km from the Chinese coast. There is like a 0% the US can hold it against the combined arms of Chinese ships, stealth jets, drones, ASHM + Ballistic missiles , ground based OTH radars, satellites concentration etc. Even if the US masses forces here, due to ground based equipment the Chinese will have a massive advantage.

Is this the US basically admitting they can't win a kinetic war?
the admiral was quite admirable XD. some of these so called "scholars" are like journalists, who in turn are like teenage girls who just latches on to the next shiny thing they see. oh look drones dominated in Ukraine, so lets apply that to Taiwan and turn it into drone hellscape...you are going to need thousands of very large drones, very unlikely that can be sustained on an island so close to enemy rocket fire. it can be sustained, however, by a state with a huge landmass and industrial capacity.
 

Pendemic

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Top general in WESTPAC says something interesting here :
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If the US concedes that without Okinawa they can't win the war then how do they plan on winning?
It's only 650 km from the Chinese coast. There is like a 0% the US can hold it against the combined arms of Chinese ships, stealth jets, drones, ASHM + Ballistic missiles , ground based OTH radars, satellites concentration etc. Even if the US masses forces here, due to ground based equipment the Chinese will have a massive advantage.

Is this the US basically admitting they can't win a kinetic war?
Here is the full interview of Adm. Sam Paparo, the US Indopac forces chief. It was a Brookings Institutions event. Starting at 50:00, he talks about US’ limited air and sea superiority in a potential conflict with China. But later, in answering a question of Singapore’s ambassador to US, he implied that America can no doubt defend Taiwan, having an edge in submarine forces.


 

davidau

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Interesting video, it seems the factory only produce rocket engine and it does say 1000 per day. Very modern factory I'd say

Engine car manufacturer is normal to produce 1000 engine per day

But I doubt that China has capacity to supply solid propellant for 1000 cruise missile per day (currently)
On what facts you DOUBT China capacity to supply solid propellent for 1,000 cruise missile per day (currently)?
 
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