Overview

• The CCTV animation shows a land-launched missile deploying 90 cylindrical submunitions that disperse conductive carbon filaments to short-circuit transformers and substations.
• The simulated strike spans at least 10,000 square meters and claims to cause a complete power outage without kinetic damage to infrastructure.
• China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation is credited with developing the weapon, though the People’s Liberation Army has not officially confirmed its operational status.
• Analysts warn that Taiwan’s centralized grid could be highly susceptible to coordinated graphite bomb strikes in a future cross-strait confrontation.
• Observers compare the design to US BLU-114/B graphite munitions used in Iraq and Serbia, which disabled up to 85 percent of targeted grid capacity.