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🇨🇳 China has an automated cruise missile factory that can produce over 1000 missiles a day working in 3 shifts according to CCTV Chinese media.

China's large military industrial capacity is likely to sustain a war effort for much longer than its adversaries.

📝: It's 1000 cruise missile "components" not completed missiles, but that doesn't really say where the choke point is, there could be other factories limited to churning 500 X components, or there could be multiple factories making 5000 X components.

My personal assessment is it's more credible than not, because this is close to the smash to win button for 1st island chain, i.e. anything within 1500km. PRC is good at value engineering, these missiles don't have to be high reliability ordnances. This isn't US who has to spend billions in logistics just to hoof weapons into theatre, so need to engineer for low dud rates. I wouldn't be surprised if these are like low 6 digit cheap or less when produced at scale involved, maybe even 5 digit vs inputs/components compared to EVs, and there's no reason not to start hammering them out instead of letting machines sit idle and depreciate unproductively.

If a few weeks days of production basically trivially saturates any missile defense in 1st island chain, another week can lock down airfields, ports, continuously degrade infra, then why would PRC not? It makes so much sense. Unlike planes and ships, intelligence/OSINT can't count from satellite, 100,000s missiles can go straight from assembling plant to storage to obfuscate build up. Load it into a cheap launcher system that can be slapped onto any light/medium vehicle for dispersal.

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—> Ukrainian drones targeted the local thermal power plant.

According to locals, the first one was heard at about 02:10, the second one five minutes later. There is no official information about casualties or deaths yet.

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