China IRBM/SRBM (and non-ICBM/SLBM) thread

[Wrought]

Is there any benefit of selling surplus DF-21Ds to Venezuela or other allies to push back on Typhoon deployments in the Philippines?

Lmao no. Without ISR or sundry support networks, those launchers are useless paperweights. They are significant for Manila in a political—not military—sense because they signal alignment with the US. Otherwise it's trivial to destroy them. The Philippines itself has no military muscle to speak of; it's all American. Likewise, any sale of a few Chinese missiles would only be significant if it was bundled alongside basing and so forth.

Also it's Typhon, not Typhoon.

 

[pipaster]

Lmao no. Without ISR or sundry support networks, those launchers are useless paperweights. They are significant for Manila in a political—not military—sense because they signal alignment with the US. Otherwise it's trivial to destroy them. The Philippines itself has no military muscle to speak of; it's all American. Likewise, any sale of a few Chinese missiles would only be significant if it was bundled alongside basing and so forth.

Also it's Typhon, not Typhoon.

Just simply providing coordinates from Google maps could put many of Florida based military facilities at some risk. Again this would be for deterrence, both against US invasion of a sovereign country, and for China to play a Cuban missile crisis 2.

It looks like that the US is starting to impose a blockade (already on sanctioned oil tankers). So this talk is moot.

Typhon, thanks for the correction. Learned about some ancient Greek history today.

 

[Kalec]

It appears to a massive salvo of SRBM shooting for next week, someone got old stockpile to burn?



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[magmunta]

It appears to a massive salvo of SRBM shooting for next week, someone got old stockpile to burn?

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Maybe, preparations for strikes on Taiwan? Hard to see any other reason behind short SRBM salvos

 

[plawolf]

Maybe, preparations for strikes on Taiwan? Hard to see any other reason behind short SRBM salvos

Testing, training and evaluations not obvious enough reasons?

 

[Neurosmith]

This isn't exactly a new development per se, but the YKJ-1000 is said to have entered mass production, per the company that developed it.

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Any idea who the customer is?

 

[Blitzo]

This isn't exactly a new development per se, but the YKJ-1000 is said to have entered mass production, per the company that developed it.

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Any idea who the customer is?

I would take the news with a bit of salt, given it is being reported by SCMP so we cannot rule out the accuracy of their interpretation.

The significance of the product itself should also be treated with caution; it doesn't come across as something the PLA itself has committed to yet as of our knowledge.

I wouldn't say this is vaporware, but there is a crop of new recent PRC defense industry players who boast for the sake of PR.

 

[BasilicaLew]

This isn't exactly a new development per se, but the YKJ-1000 is said to have entered mass production, per the company that developed it.

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Any idea who the customer is?

Perhaps exporting weapons to countries China doesn't officially export weapons to.