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China Adds Rocket Sleds in Inner Mongolia to Test Hypersonic Weapons

The Epoch Times
The Epoch Times
According to internal Chinese government documents recently obtained by The Epoch Times, the Chinese regime is planning to build more rocket sleds—used to test missiles, artillery, and aerospace equipment—at a military base in Inner Mongolia. Called Base 051, the site is operated by China’s largest state-run defense company, China Ordnance Industries Group Corp. (Norinco). It has been testing weapons since 1965. Few details are known about the secretive base. The documents reveal the type of weapons that are being tested at Base 051, as well as the Chinese regime’s development plans for the base until the year 2025—which include a “rocket sled center” that will have the capability to test out hypersonic weapons. The projects will have a total budget of 23 trillion yuan (about $3.39 trillion). Rick Fisher, a senior fellow at Virginia-based think tank International Assessment and Strategy Center and an Epoch Times contributor, said: “That NORINCO is investing in hypersonic-speed rocket sleds could indicate that it is now developing hypersonic weapons for new, much faster artillery rockets or even larger short-range ballistic missiles (SRBMs) than it recently has developed. Such hypersonic weapons would be much more difficult to counter than current artillery and SRBMs and thus would be desired by the People’s Liberation Army.”
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