China Ballistic Missiles and Nuclear Arms Thread

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So seems like that mobile platform is carrying all sorts of EW equipment and isn't supposed to be the target. Maybe a towed actual target or something off the side. Either way, even if platform is struck during tests without meaning to (due to inaccuracy or EW), it only requires a few tests to get the desired data from.

They've tested these ASBM on moving targets at sea which are much smaller than the target platform here and 2 out of 2 shots hit on the first 2 attempts at moving targets at sea. Two missiles launched at different times, thousands of km apart, hit a smaller moving retired ship at basically the same time. EW testing would really only require a few shots to verify against EW. Only useful aspect is this platform can be upgraded and changed with different EW equipment to test against.
 
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Anti ship ballistic missiles are China "real" strategic defense initiative. In the sense that like SDI have could make soviet icbm useless (their most valuable strategic asset) they can make America most valuable strategic asset (the fleet) useless. They are "real" "star wars" in the sense they are REAL and not a BLUFF like SDI
 
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This simulated carrier is 300m+ long and has to travel at 60km/h+

Rail tracks are the only practical way of moving it
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I wonder if they could do instead a target projected onto the ground by laser from one or many drones flying above. Or perhaps they can use the laser arrangement used when projecting a huge image across an entire skyscraper. Alternatively, have a bunch of small drones on the ground move in a formation with the outline representing a carrier. The way they did it seems... cumbersome, with low reusability and a lot of cleanup. But what do I know?
 
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manqiangrexue said:
I wonder if they could do instead a target projected onto the ground by laser from one or many drones flying above. Or perhaps they can use the laser arrangement used when projecting a huge image across an entire skyscraper. Alternatively, have a bunch of small drones on the ground move in a formation with the outline representing a carrier. The way they did it seems... cumbersome, with low reusability and a lot of cleanup. But what do I know?
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It's got to simulate a real outline with the electronics and jamming
 
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Good analysis on the mobile target.
Basically the same as Temstar posted, but also points out that the mobile target platform has EW, as seen during Zhuhai, so the PLARF simulates not only the evasive countermeasures, but also electronic ones.
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Xi say in this video that there's 100km of track for the carrier target but I got my 37km figure from one of the sources that reported this news. I'm trying to find it and so far I found:

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Satellite imagery from this month shows the carrier target some 12 miles south of the main storage site at the facility, while the railway appears to extend beyond this point by roughly the same distance again, suggesting a considerable construction effort.
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24 miles = 38.6km, so close to the figure I saw. I wonder where the 100km figure came from.

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If someone got time it would be good to measure it out.
 
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