http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017- 01-24/china-deploys-icbm

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2. How could China effectively combat a US military blockade on the its Spratly island claims considering the geographic distance from China?

How much risk would it pose to the US to issue a blockade?

>>32764648
>zerohedge

>>32764678
Given the advantage the US has in both submarine warfare and aerial warfare, it would be extremely difficult.

Sure, they could spam ballistic missiles at every air force base in the region and hope that the US is willing to gamble that they aren't nuclear, but even then there's a fuckload of carrier battle groups they have to deal with, and it isn't like strategic bombing is going to be a one way thing.

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>>32764648
An ICBM can hit nearly anywhere on the planet, regardless of it's launch point. That's the entire purpose of the system.
>taking zerohedge seriously
next you'll wonder about the military applications of China's secret antigravity tech.

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>>32764648
Heilongjiang is simply the basing location of most of China's ICBMs.

China also has a brigade in the Far Southwest. In fact, multiple brigades have been spotted around China.

>The DF-41 ICBMs were deployed to the city of Daqinq located in the Heilongjiang province which borders Russia. In addition, the cutting-edge missiles were spotted in the city of Xinyang in the central Chinese province of Henan, as well as in the northwestern Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region.

Anyway, it seems that there are at least 2 DF-41 brigades confirmed now.

Each brigade has 12 TELs with one missile each, and typically one reload for each TEL. Making 24 missiles per Brigade, or 48 in total.

Each DF-41 has at least 10 MIRVs. So, China might have 480 nuclear warheads, which is way more than the previous western estimates of China having some 260 to 300 warheads.

Time to reconsider all estimates.

>>32765471
>>32765558
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Sputnik International-13 hours ago
China reportedly deploys ICBMs near Russia's border
International-RT-16 hours ago
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Highly Cited-TASS-19 hours ago
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literally zerohedge just recyphers other news sites that are interesting in world politics and economics categories. dunno where this anti ZH shit is coming from. Are you denying that the chinks are redeploying their strategic weapons and that all the above news agencies have incorrect reports?

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>>32764678
Philippines and Vietnam have already declared their de-facto neutrality. Duterte, at least, wont let the US use its territory as bases.

That leaves Vietnam, who is thawing to China now, also wouldnt want itself to become a target of Chinese strikes by hosting US warships:
http://thediplomat.com/2017/01/the-resurgence-of-china-vietnam-ties/

This would mean that it is the US who will have longer and more vulnerable supply lines in a SCS clash.

While it seems incredible, China's SCS bases could quickly be turned into super-carriers in terms of combat power and defenses, with CIWS and SAM already installed in their fortresses (unknown structures), as well as offering space for air-regiments. So, they arent as easy to take out, even if they are immobile.

Each Chinese artificial island will thus be able to bind at least an USN carrier group, which will enable Chinese mainland based assets to conduct offensives elsewhere.

All in all, a blockade isnt worth the price, since it would play in China's hands when the US is diverting so many forces in taking out these fortresses while Chinese mainland based strike assets are bombarding them while they do it.

>>32764648
.50 centers are making money tonight.

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>>32767018
Furthermore, with SAM and anti-ship missiles confirmed on these fortresses, the US would have to fight their way into an overlapping fields of fire and penetrate compact defenses - or have to conduct long range strikes first, which always are less efficient due to logistics and limited payloads involved.

>>32765558
>An ICBM can hit nearly anywhere on the planet, regardless of it's launch point. That's the entire purpose of the system.

You are aware that a missile has a max range, right?

>>32767109
A ballistic missile does. An ICBM's range is planetary due to the suborbitabl nature of it's flight.
ZH, however, uses ballistic missile and ICBM interchangeably, I guess to fool retards.

>>32767148
>An ICBM's range is planetary due to the suborbitabl nature of it's flight

How can you be this fucking dense?

>>32767202
ICBM stands for inter continental ballistic missile right?

>>32767074
Are you really doubting America's logistic capability or the shear amount of bombs they have stockpiled in case of a war in Asia?

>>32767257
Apparently, he is.