According to The Japanese news agency Kyodo News, Hans M. Kristensen, a nuclear weapons expert at the Federation of AmericanScientists, said in an interview after analyzing satellite photos that The Chinese Communist Party is likely to build a military exercise site in the desert region of Inner Mongolia, and after 2016 it will build 16 ICBM launch facilities in three phases, with up to 11 of them already under construction in the second half of 2020.
Christensen revealed that the Chinese Communist Party already has 18 to 20 ICBM launch facilities, and once the new ones are completed and opened, their number will almost double, with four of them set to be completed within a year and the rest within a few years.
According to Christensen, the Chinese Communist Party understands that “you can’t put your eggs in the same basket”, so each of the launch facilities are basically spaced more than 2.2 kilometers apart to prevent them from being destroyed in the event of an enemy nuclear attack, and a 350-meter-long tunnel has been dug nearby. In order to prevent mobile launchers and missiles from being discovered by the enemy from the air.
He also analyzed that, compared to previous missiles that were mostly used to using liquid fuel, the construction of the new launch facility is more suitable for launching solid-fuel missiles to speed up the launch, and the new facility is also smaller than the ICBM missile facilities such as the Dongfeng-5, which may be envisioned to correspond to solid-fuel missiles including the new multi-warhead Dongfeng-41.
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