🇨🇳 According to Chinese media CCTV, there is an automated cruise missile factory in China that can produce over 1000 missiles daily, in 3 shifts.‼️
China’s large military-industrial capacity is likely to continue wartime efforts much longer than its adversaries.
📝: These 1000 cruise missile “components” are not complete missiles, but this does not really indicate where the bottleneck is. There may be other factories only producing 500X components, or multiple factories producing 5000X components.
Personally, I find this more believable than not, because it’s close to the “smassh to win” button of the 1st island chain, i.e., anything within 1500 km. The PRC is good at value engineering, these missiles don’t need to be high reliability rounds. This is not the United States that has to spend billions on logistics just to bring guns to the movie theater, so low defeat design is needed. I wouldn’t be surprised if these are low 6-digit, cheap, or fewer if mass-produced, maybe 5-digit compared to inputs/components for electric vehicles, and there is no reason not to start hammering them instead of letting the machines idle and devalue them unproductively.
If in a few weeks of production days basically trivially saturate all missile defense of the 1st island chain, another week can shut down airports, ports, continuously degrade infrastructure, then why wouldn’t the PRC do it? It makes so much sense. Unlike planes and ships, intelligence/OSINT cannot count from satellites, the 100,000 missiles can go straight from the assembly plant to storage to disrupt the build-up. Load them into a cheap launcher that can be mounted on any light/medium vehicle for dispersal.
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