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11 February 2025, 23:13 | Finance and Banking
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The Chinese government hid the arsenal of ballistic missiles underground, which can be reached to the opposite side of the planet. A tunnel was built underground, the main purpose of which is to protect warheads from an external blow. The tunnels stretch for thousands of kilometers, so the object is called the " In the electronic media account Clash Report, a video appeared on the social network X, probably shot in secret tunnels.

Almost two -minute video, which was published on the network, is voiced in Chinese and contains the logo of the Chinese Weibo microblogging service. You can see how the camera shows underground tunnels - these are high long rooms with columns, through which transport, loaded, for example, by an intercontinental ballistic missile (MBR) can freely pass. Starting frames also appear: when the rocket is installed in the mine and the launch unit is opened in front of it.

There are tunnels of a different type - they are lower and darker, with inscriptions in Chinese. Military trucks move along underground roads, people in military uniform stand under the walls. For a moment, a hall filled with tables with computers appears. In the last seconds show how dozens of missiles fly into the air and rush in an unknown direction.

For today it was not possible to establish the origin of the video - which institution made a record and published on the network.

Underground Great Chinese Wall - a building, 5 thousand. km, about which in 2011 the publication of The Washington Post told. Journalists said that intercontinental ballistic missiles are stored on the tunnel network. Rockets move along the tunnels to special super -duty storage facilities. The China hopes that they will remain in the case of an external nuclear blow: this is the best option than standing in launching mines. The publication published a 400-page report-the result of a three-year study of Georgetown University. Scientists calculated that 3 thousand may fit in underground tunnels. MBR. This number raised questions from the US Department of Defense, since it is an order of magnitude larger than the number of warheads that the Pentagon knows about.

We remind you that the focus in October 2023 wrote about the Pentagon report on the number of nuclear warheads that China has. Meanwhile, in February 2025, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky announced the reasons why Ukrainians can restore a nuclear arsenal.

Based on materials: washingtonpost.com



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