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Yaogan triplets / gaofen / jilins+ other commercial, PRC has put up 100s of new satellites last couple years with more every week, for near persistent ISR in re
by maxglute 2y ago
Yaogan triplets / gaofen / jilins+ other commercial, PRC has put up 100s of new satellites last couple years with more every week, for near persistent ISR in region, including SAR. Space sensing network in region is densen now, not spotty like 10 years ago. PRC not doubling down on smart munitions without building up required kill chain. Not sure ocean is big for modern processing methods anymore. Sure there's chance for ASAT wars but if fallback is drone ISR, PRC has numeric advantage there as well.
If host countries are staging ground for attacks on PRC of course they're going to get hit, they become legitimate military targets then, hence reluctance to host. Drawing US / compelling them to fight in 1IC where PRC force balance strongest is beneficial, ultimate PRC geostrategic goal is to displace US security architecture in region by making hosting untenable, can only demonstrate that by taking out US hardware based there, plus extra dose of pain for host countries for participating to deter others from hedging with US security once TW Damocles off the table. Big reason region reluctant to host US hardware is because they don't want to be missile sinks in TW scenario. PRC net security posture worse if region thinks hosting US forces after TW cost free, so every reason to make examples out of those who currently do.
Dont know exact cruise missile model, just they have manufacturing infra in place to build stupid amounts of them. Clips of doc showed proper turbo jet components, i.e. they're not building shit tier shaheeds using moped engines. Both of which are non ballistic / has maneuverability to hit east of mountains.