{
  "id": "china-icbm-silo-fields",
  "name": "Chinese ICBM silo fields",
  "aliases": [
    "Yumen silo field",
    "Hami silo field",
    "Hanggin Banner silo field"
  ],
  "domain": "nuclear",
  "country": "CHN",
  "category": "Missile silo fields",
  "status": "in-development",
  "fielded": null,
  "operators": [
    "CHN"
  ],
  "summary": "About 320 new solid-fuel ICBM silos in three fields plus about 30 new DF-5 silos.",
  "specs": [
    {
      "k": "launchers",
      "v": 320,
      "src": [
        "fas-nn-chn-2026"
      ],
      "conf": "medium",
      "note": "Yumen 120, Hami 110, Yulin (Hanggin Banner) 90; plus about 30 new DF-5 silos"
    },
    {
      "k": "bases",
      "v": "Yumen (Gansu), Hami (Xinjiang), Yulin/Hanggin Banner (Inner Mongolia)",
      "src": [
        "fas-nn-chn-2026"
      ],
      "conf": "medium"
    },
    {
      "k": "program",
      "v": "Pentagon says over 100 silos likely loaded (not confirmed in commercial imagery)",
      "src": [
        "fas-nn-chn-2026"
      ],
      "conf": "medium"
    }
  ],
  "payloads": [],
  "variants": [],
  "art": "nuclear",
  "image": null,
  "verified": null,
  "changelog": [
    {
      "date": "2026-11-08",
      "change": "Entry created from Chinese nuclear weapons, 2026 (FAS Nuclear Notebook)"
    }
  ],
  "url": "https://www.defensepedia.com/systems/china-icbm-silo-fields.html",
  "sources": {
    "fas-nn-chn-2026": {
      "title": "Chinese nuclear weapons, 2026",
      "publisher": "Federation of American Scientists Nuclear Notebook, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists",
      "url": "https://thebulletin.org/premium/2026-07/chinese-nuclear-weapons-2026/",
      "published": "2026-07-01",
      "tier": 2,
      "checked": "2026-11-08"
    }
  }
}