Posted on 09/30/2019 8:33:25 PM PDT by artichokegrower
Not necessarily something...
Our 440 Minuteman III missles can reach everwhere except the southern part of India, the southeastern bottom of Africa, Australia and Antarctica.
All of China, all of Russia, and all of everywhere else is in range.
Of course that is just the land-based part of the triad.
Thermonuclear warfare with China and Russia is covered under MAD doctrine.
They know it and we know it.
It is the little crazy actors like North Korea and Iran that are the bigger problem, even though they cannot “wipe out” the US.
They are more likely to make an irrational mistake with nuclear firepower...
IMHO...
I thought it was Hollywood because I saw his supposedly district office by Hollywood Boulevard between Western and Vine.
[The Dongfeng-41, is a 7,600 mph intercontinental ballistic missile that is said to have the furthest range of any nuclear missile and could reach the US in 30 minutes.]
This ICBM thing isn’t really news. They’ve had that capability for a while, now. SLBM’s launched from US nuclear subs can reach China’s major cities within single-digit minutes.
China must have a HUGE desire to become the world’s largest self lit glass parking lot!
DF-31AG in the parade at the time of this comment.
DF-41 in the parade at the time of this comment. ...just went by.
No, at some point the transition will not come about, that is magical thinking at best, arrogance at worst. Democracy is the exception in world history, most of which has had humankind in top down sorts of arrangements with decrees being handed down from on high. If the government there obtains AI of sufficient sophistication, then they will have servants that will never question orders. That is a gamechanger for keeping authoritarians in power past the point of disgust for their enablers.
All ICBBMs can strike their target in thirty minutes. And all are doomsday weapons.
And the United States can knock most out of the sky. Missile - 7600 mph. Laser - 186,000 miles a second.
“Dongfeng”
Why do many Chinese names sound like sex toys? Just askin.
Yes, and Loral.
Run silent.
Run deep.
That dude has guts.
Teflon-lined titanium guts.
Loral, Clintons, China
https://capitalresearch.org/article/flashback-bill-clinton-gave-china-missile-technology/
https://www.newsmax.com/Pre-2008/Communist-ChineseLoral/2001/04/23/id/661573/
https://www.independentsentinel.com/lest-we-forget-hillarys-china-gate-scandal/
Thank you.
It would certainly be the end for China and even more so.
Breaking wind from the East..
Actually, the Chinese stole that number from Iran.
Wasn’t it great buying those cheap toys from the ChiComs the last 50 years. I always knew where the dough was going.
China is not going to kill their best customer, especially with their best and brightest in our universities. That missile is more likely intended for show.
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