Reason for China building WMDs

renmin

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China builds long ranged nuclear wepons like the Dong feng 5, JL-2 or DongFeng 31. there has been an increase in these ever since China built their own atomic bomb. I would like to know the reason for doing this. my oppinion is, China wants to scare other countries who want to pick on them, i would like to learn some other opinins.
 
MIGleader

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in the 70s, the goal of china's icbms were to be able to hit moscow, cause the realtions between em wernt so good. that was the fueling source for all of chinas nukes. moscow had 10000+ that could hit china at anytime. so naturally, china needed its own.

the u.s was never really seen as a nuclear target. the countries were still friends in the 80s. and china never, and still doesnt, have nukes that can hit washington.
 
renmin

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MIGleader said:
in the 70s, the goal of china's icbms were to be able to hit moscow, cause the realtions between em wernt so good. that was the fueling source for all of chinas nukes. moscow had 10000+ that could hit china at anytime. so naturally, china needed its own.

the u.s was never really seen as a nuclear target. the countries were still friends in the 80s. and china never, and still doesnt, have nukes that can hit washington.
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if the JL-2 is diveloped along with the type 94, it could give China nuclear striking capability anywhere in the US
 
bd popeye

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if the JL-2 is diveloped along with the type 94, it could give China nuclear striking capability anywhere in the US
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Really? Just how will the PLAN keep the USN from tracking the Type 94? And how many is the PLAN going to build? And how would the PLAN with it's limited logistical capablities suppourt a fleet( maybe 6) of Type 94 world wide? Just curious. Thank you!

renmin said:
China builds long ranged nuclear wepons like the Dong feng 5, JL-2 or DongFeng 31. there has been an increase in these ever since China built their own atomic bomb. I would like to know the reason for doing this. my oppinion is, China wants to scare other countries who want to pick on them, i would like to learn some other opinins.
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Are there any reliable sources that we can rely on to give an acurate account of how many of these missiles the PRC posesses?

The reason I ask is because I have read everything from 20 to 100. So just how many does the PRC have? Thank you.
 
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renmin

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bd popeye said:
Really? Just how will the PLAN keep the USN from tracking the Type 94? And how many is the PLAN going to build? And how would the PLAN with it's limited logistical capablities suppourt a fleet( maybe 6) of Type 94 world wide? Just curious. Thank you!
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Sorry, i said could not would! besides china could fire the JL-2 from a certain distance. chinese ICBMs might be more difficult to shoot down in the future since a new system is being developed that can change the the direction of ICBMs in flight, since wepons used to shoot down missles today only fly to where the prediction of the location of the ICBM and when close have a guiding system to destroy the weapon, the new system will prevent the ICBM from geting shot down for the destination can be changed, it requires some sort of satilite that can change the target of the warhead.
 
renmin

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bd popeye said:
Really? Just how will the PLAN keep the USN from tracking the Type 94? And how many is the PLAN going to build? And how would the PLAN with it's limited logistical capablities suppourt a fleet( maybe 6) of Type 94 world wide? Just curious. Thank you!



Are there any reliable sources that we can rely on to give an acurate account of how many of these missiles the PRC posesses?

The reason I ask is because I have read everything from 20 to 100. So just how many does the PRC have? Thank you.
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No one can actually know how many nuclear wepons China posesse, the PRC keeps that in high secrecy, what i do know is that China has many variations of nuclear weapons exp:DF-5,DF-11,DF-15,Df-31-DF-21 etc. and the JL-2 is still in development.

EternalVigil said:
You are talking about the russian supposed new icbm that supposed to defeat ABM.
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Not really, this system has just been developed BY CHINA, and it is only a posibility it will be used on China's nukes, sorry, i never heard about ABM
 
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tphuang

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JL-2 is based on DF-31. The latest Chinese ICBM is DF-41. JL-2 can't hit Washington from the Chinese coast, but it can hit the west coast.
 
swimmerXC

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EternalVigil, please do not post anymore oneliners... you already have 2... :nono:
 
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