This is John Bachelor, conversation with my colleague Rick Fisher of the International Assessment and Strategy Center

as to why we know what the ICBM was that the Chinese recently launched, where they launched it from from and how they launched it.

Rick explains it has to do with a hobbyist who just happened to be in the neighborhood when he

saw this strange looking vehicle called a tell carrying the ICBM.

Rick explains here not exactly security but in any event

the Chinese wanted to know that us to know that they were throwing for the first time in 44 years

an ICBM that's capable of reaching the United States.

They were throwing it up and crashing in parts of it one side of the Philippines and the other.

Is Rick to explain this amateur hobbyist taking a snapshot and we have it.

More of this later.

In an event that happened many times before China shut down its military internet web pages in 2021,

an automobile hobbyist traveling on a road would see one of these new tells and

take a picture outside his car window and just post it on one of these automobile web pages.

And that is apparently what happened on the 26th.

And we got to see the full tell we could identify it as a DF 31 A. G and the

foliage around the privately posted image was pretty close to that of the images

released officially by the Chinese. So we can pretty much conclude that the DF 31 AG was taken on a special trip from its

mainland base put on a ferry taken to Hainan Island, specifically for this political military

demonstration.