The answer to that question is not very difficult to find out even without training of intelligence specialist. The problem of China is the lack of aircraft carriers and that's why China must build the artificial islands for making the support bases for the long-range bombers and refueling aircraft. Artificial islands are technically easier to produce than aircraft carriers. And those islands offer cheaper and also an effective way to operate the new cruise missiles of China. The idea is that the truck-mounted system needs on to drive out from cargo planes, and they are ready to operate.
Those bases are necessary for the fighter escorts for bombers and refueling aircraft because without that support those things could be quite easy targets for the jet fighters. Even if China would place their new cruise missiles to those islands that system needs support, even if they would be high-mobile truck-mounted systems. Those highly mobile systems can drive in the cargo plane, and send to the South China Sea for treating the U.S task force and especially it's aircraft carriers, what have the key element in the global operations in the U.S task force.
Those very high-speed systems are really deadly. They can be equipped with a conventional or nuclear warhead. And in the future, that kind of systems would allow getting hypersonic speed are suitable for making the secured areas in the South China Sea. When they are taken to the operational area the biggest threat will be that somebody steals that kind of weapon. That means that there must be the evacuation plan for the cases that the base will be under attack of the enemy and the launching of those missiles is impossible. Also, there is a possibility that somebody will be rebellious, and because of that kind of threats those missiles must be driven in the cargo planes immediately when they are under the threat, and those big aircraft need long runways.
Those systems need support and spare parts, and this means that the cargo-planes must have runways, where they can be operated. China can have two strategies to operate those weapons. Another is that cruise missiles would stay in the central bases until the political and military situation needs that those weapons must take to the operational area. And another is that those systems would be placed to the artificial islands.
Those islands have one benefit for an aircraft carrier, and that is that they would stay in certain places. And if the cruise missiles would put in there, the system must be protected by protective units, because there is a risk that somebody will shoot them against own targets. But the main reason for making those islands is that they offer a stable place to set the cruise missiles. When the missiles have been shot, the base can be destroyed, and there is no influence for the flight of those missiles.
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