Silos. Whether or not there will be missiles in them is another question.
“Whether or not there will be missiles in them is another question.”
Prudent planning dictates the assumption there will be.
They only have to load a few of them.
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.