- severe damage to the masonry
- a crane failure that opens/closes the sluice gates
- several turbines (power generator) have failed (possibly three!?)
- extreme siltation (dirt) at the bottom of the dam, which additionally clogs and damages the turbines
The muck comes from the flooding and is currently settling on the dam.
So the dam is supposedly standing, but has been overflowing for weeks, which is why the water level is no longer rising. I don't know how many hundreds of villages there are flooded, but if a metropolis with 32 million people 600 km away from the dam is also flooded, then it is possibly very serious.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Chastise
Its a very different type of operation to bombardment with modern cruise missiles.. I wonder if there has ever been a variant of missile designed specifically with the right warheads and guidance systems to take out a dam base.
Duh, of course they have been designed. Almost certainly built, by multiple countries, and probably have war plans set for them for JIC scenarios. Relatively easy things to both design and build. Simply a combination of weapons that already exist and have been used extensively for decades. Taiwan and Japan would almost certainly have them, both have the resources, tech base, and experts to develop and construct them. They also have nothing to lose by using them in the case of Chinese invasion/attack. India could as well but considering their conventional arms, probably not needed or wanted as it could escalate into a nuclear exchange since it would be the only real response to such a mass casualty event.