Posted on 07/27/2021 3:59:09 PM PDT by Mariner
And so? How are you going to get anything from the sclerotic DOD. acquisition process and the even more sclerotic Department of Energy that must provide the nuclear warheads?
Remember, this is not your grandfather’s MIC. It is the Bush Cheney RINO DeepState MIC that just does inside the beltway consulting work. We will bury the Chinese in powerpoint.
We have the Clintons to thank for this. Loral was cleared to give China the missile tech necessary to do this.
I was a student of a EE instructor who had a Pershing II nose cone in his office. He helped develop it and helped destroy them so he kept a nose cone as a souvenir.
Fat kid - N.Korea's Kim Jung-Un? But yeah, China is threatening every nation these days.
They only have to load a few of them.
So, am I to understand that scientists own the spy satellites rather than the CIA, or NRO?
Is a missile like that fielded?
Answer: No.
I’m sure some of our stuff registers on the Richter scale.
Yeah, a bored college student originally found them. I read that a couple weeks ago.
Any war with China will result with the country being broken up into 20 regional nations, many with nuclear weapons just as had happened in 1990 with the Soviet Union. There are leaders in every regional province talking with the CIA and White House to ensure their rise to power post-China. Maybe even the Uger’s will get their homeland back as a new nation. Taiwan will become the leadership model these nations will follow.
Scientists discover??
WTH is the military doing?
Are these the same “scientists” we ‘trust’ about everything Covid?
Sorry! That is incorrect...
Group masturbation, balkanization, & drugs is not the strategy with which the U.S. handled the almost identical situation in Asia during the 1930's...
Unfortunately, America does not even remotely possess the population psychology, manufacturing infrastructure, and natural resources that it had in 1941...
All of which made defeating the Asian tyrant possible...
Seems you believe the worst possible state for US capabilities.
You want it. Hell, you need it.
It’s emotional candy for you.
Just like a 12 year old girl.
What part of that statement is not true?
So you are implying that the Americans are a united, freedom-loving, and patriotic population willing to sacrifice their lives to defeat China?
So you are implying that the America has:
Clearly you need a better brand of LSD... /s
Further information:
Whether or not the silos end up having missiles in them will be discovered later. They are being built to house the land version of the road mobile DF-41. Currently unclassified data indicates they have 26 of that type of road mobile missile. The range is around 7200-9600 miles, each has 10 MIRVed warheads, yielding a dialed 20-150kT for each missile or 1 one megaton warhead.
Fully MIRVed, they account for 260 nuclear warheads. Lift weight of each missile is about 5600 lbs. With the addition of 110 new silos and fully MIRVed DF-41s, it will give China 1,360 warheads; that is not counting any nuclear missiles aboard their 3-4 boomers or air launched from its H-20, H-6 or older bombers. (START limits the US and Russia to 1,550 warheads each). It is easy to conclude that with those additions, China has reached or exceeded parity with the US and Russia on that number of warheads.
Where the missiles are located puts them too far away for THAADs (terminal stage) to hit - not designed to hit ICBMS. However, with the deployment of SM-3 Block 2 (RIM-161D) missiles aboard Aegis destroyers, there is a good chance of hitting those Chinese missiles, the only caveats are there has to be at least 2,720 RIM-161Ds available, assuming 2 are launched against each DF-41 and the ships have to be in the right positions. I think that the destroyers have 96 cells each with 4 missiles. But, there is usually a mix so they are not all RIM-161Ds.
In any case, there needs to be 680 cells with RIM-161D. Bad news is there has to be at least 7 Aegis Pacific Fleet destroyers of the 16 at the correct intercept location. In reality, with the fate of mainland US at stake, they would shoot 3-4 and every incoming and hopefully the other destroyers are in the right locations to shoot also.
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