Posted on 10/10/2021 4:24:51 AM PDT by RomanSoldier19
CHINA is preparing to unleash its nuclear submarines which hide 12 nuclear missiles in their distinctive "humpback".
Beijing has reportedly been pushing through upgrades for the Type 094 "Jin" class boats amid the threat of a potential military clash with the US.
Fears of war are rising as China makes increasingly bold pushes towards the separatist island of Taiwan, with President Xi Jingping pledging "reunification".
US military chiefs have always promised to defend the island enclave, but a potential military confrontation with China is feared to risk spiraling into a theoretical World War 3.
China appear to making the ready for the threat of such a large scale conflict - with focus being placed on its nuclear missile-carrying submarines that prowl the Pacific.
With 12 nuclear missiles aboard each of the "Jins", just one of the vessels has enough firepower to kill millions and wipe out cities.
The submarines are reportedly capable of carrying China's JL-3 "Big Wave" missiles which have a range of 7,500 miles, more than enough to reach the continental US.
And each submarine is believed to already have unlimited range thanks to its nuclear powered propulsion, meaning they can in theory reach the shores of the both US coasts.
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Two words depressed trajectory.
Not only is it much faster than a ballistic trajectory the response window for exo and especially endo atmospheric interceptors is drastically reduced. With MARV warheads it’s effectively impossible to intercept a mach 12 MARV that is pulling 100+ G turns in the 30 seconds or so it’s above the radar horizon inbound.
The USA tested the MK500 evador warheads package in the trident right before the cold war ended it was viewed as such a capable first strike weapon it was never fielded since its sole purpose was first strike against hardened targets with a CEP measured in tens of meters which puts even a 5000 psi silo inside the fireball where even concrete is vaporized by the 100+ million Celsius thermonuclear fireball.
https://scienceandglobalsecurity.org/archive/sgs03gronlund.pdf
Given China’s world-wide known crappy craftsmanship and their cheap knock-off’s that fail almost instantly, what’s the over/under on these things blowing themselves up before they ever get a chance to launch a missile at us?
And yet this video that people claim is the Chinese launching a missile shows the missile going up into a ballistic trajectory and not the flatter trajectory that your scenario would require.
Ground observers won’t even see the tip over point for a depressed trajectory it’s at 500,000+ feet up well above the atmosphere.
Figure 2 shows a DP vs ballistic over a 1000nm mile path the scale should be obvious. For longer DP lengths the tip over point is still higher. A DP is still a Newtonian physics governed trajectory there is no lift generated from the atmosphere it is a trajectory that has enough excess speed relative to gravitational vector to arc upwards. Put another way a DP is a sub orbital trajectory with it’s V vector sub parallel to the earth’s surface.
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