(Un)veiled threats: The "quiet neutralization" of China´s nuclear deterrent.
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you can use a nuke to defeat MIRV too by blowing up the entire sky! (why even bother to aim when you can blow everything up?) in which case we are all likely to die from the planet wide fallout. but who say nuke can't be used as ABM system when you have no alternative again uncle sam?
also, you seem to miss the point that the system in question doesn't even exist in prototype... it is questionable if it would work or end up like the "star wars" program.
Violet Oboe
Junior Member
Interestingly Russia intends to ´MIRV up´their Topol-M as the ´new´RS-24 missile armed with probably 3 (may be 4) multiples instead of introducing a single heavier MARV warhead.
Obviously russian experts remain confident that the US missile shield can be overcome with ´capable´MIRV's at least until 2020.
Obviously russian experts remain confident that the US missile shield can be overcome with ´capable´MIRV's at least until 2020.
the Topol-M is a beast! unfortunately it is hard to fit it in an SBN
how many failures they clock now? :coffee:
antiterror13
Brigadier
I don't think China will allow this to happen. China is very rich now, more than capable to produce more than 100 DF-31A/B per year, if need to
Red___Sword
Junior Member
Man I just love it when read this thread from 2006 till today, knowing how the world "is not prepared for this crap"
I mean, just a little bit 4 years ago, people THINK LIKE THAT?
I mean, just a little bit 4 years ago, people THINK LIKE THAT?
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They may have the money, but not the infrastructure or human resources for that. At least not without a lot of time and money. It would be very expensive
plawolf
Lieutenant General
China has been building and launching it's Long March serious of space rockets and is making more and more launches, and with it's continued brisk SRBM and possibly IRBM production, it has probably the most up-to-date and readily available human resources and industrial base of any country in the world to start mass producing ICBMs.
Obviously SRBMs and satellite carriers are not ICBMs, but the skills needed to make the former could easily be transferred into the mass production of the latter. It will take a bit of time and a lot of effort, but it will be much quicker and easier than having to set up all the infrastructure and train up the people from scratch.
Even then it will not come close to 100 DF31s per year, but who needs 100 DF31s to be produced each year? Last I checked, we only have one earth to blow up, and even 50 DF31s will put a big enough dint in this earth for us all to be royaly screwed.
Obviously SRBMs and satellite carriers are not ICBMs, but the skills needed to make the former could easily be transferred into the mass production of the latter. It will take a bit of time and a lot of effort, but it will be much quicker and easier than having to set up all the infrastructure and train up the people from scratch.
Even then it will not come close to 100 DF31s per year, but who needs 100 DF31s to be produced each year? Last I checked, we only have one earth to blow up, and even 50 DF31s will put a big enough dint in this earth for us all to be royaly screwed.
antiterror13
Brigadier
I think you heavily underestimate how big the earth is. 100 DF31 would be around 100 MT, it is nothing ...The total energy released by Japan earthquake is equivalent to the explosion of 6.7trillion tons of TNT, about a thousand times the combined power of all the world’s nuclear weapons ... and it seems the Earths still going without any significant damage
Ah come on, I don't think plawolf meant that to be taken literally... >_>