Nah they want the cake and eat it too, American weapons and Chinese trade.
PLA Strategy in a Taiwan Contingency
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Lmao. Ryukyuan people are now only 10-15% of the total population of those islands, rest being Japanese Yamato people. Good luck with freeing them from Japanese occupation.
Ever heard of the term “tongue-in-cheek”?
Ryukyu Kingdom can do whatever it wants except letting foreign forces in.
American soy beans and Chinese trade and weapons. There, fixed it for you.
I realized no one is talking about torpedo launched from a submarine or warship. There is very little defense against it. Why not use torpedo to sink ships instead of hypersonic missiles in event of Taiwan war?
I think China needs to focus more on underwater warfare.
Patriot missile, SM6 or whatever cannot hit torpedo or go underwater.
I think China needs to focus more on underwater warfare.
Patriot missile, SM6 or whatever cannot hit torpedo or go underwater.
Past fic the US and Japan will have a distinct advantage in terms of submarines. Of all aspects of the Chinese navy the submarines are the weakest by far. It's diesel subs are some of the best in the world, but the nuclear ones are low in number and basically one generation behind US/Russian subs, which are crucial to contest anything past fic due to much better speed/endurance compared to diesel.
IMO, PLAN and PLAAF aren't weak in anti-submarine warfare. Well prepared but not battle proven. The SCS is China's nuclear bastion and it's A2/AD including "underwater great wall". Tools used for example are underwater drones, SSKs, 054s, 052s and O55s all listening for subs.
Keep in mind there were reports the USS Kitty Hawk and Ronald Reagan had a Song class pop up ahead of them. Not a single AB or Tico (or that US sub below) detected them. Are these two stories a myth? I'm waiting for someone to debunk them.
And, the Chinese weapon of choice should they detect a hostile sub? The Yu-8 wake homing ASROC torpedo.
Really though. Two-thirds of those islands look like these or worse:
Not exactly locations with high strategic depth. I would take an artificial island, really. At least you don't have to deal with the barren landscape. You could load them with SAMs and ASCMs and that would be a problem. But not a game changer. This is something China has been preparing for proactively. They also do nothing to protect Japan itself from PLARF and PLAAF who will cause minor problems to Japan if they actually commit to the madness of fighting China.
If you manage your SEAD well, you could ruin any missile battery using things like these:
With more investment in space launching infrastructure, it's conceivable that China could achieve 24/7 SAR satellite coverage across the FIC, could this be coupled with AI sorting through thousands of ships to home in on exact GPS location for all potential targets if war breaks out?
Stationary hardpoints can be confirmed using visual satellites where applicable and mobile targets can be identified using a database of ships.
I'd imagine this style of satellite based guidence with 24/7 , all weather ISR capabilities would make a almost indisruptable kill chain, unless there are some limitations to ISR satellites that I'm not aware of.
Stationary hardpoints can be confirmed using visual satellites where applicable and mobile targets can be identified using a database of ships.
I'd imagine this style of satellite based guidence with 24/7 , all weather ISR capabilities would make a almost indisruptable kill chain, unless there are some limitations to ISR satellites that I'm not aware of.
SAR satellites cannot give video feed. The principle of SAR is repeated radar scattering measurements as the detector moves relative to the target to get a scattering measurement from different angles and reconstruct an image. If the target moves quickly relative to the satellite during a satellite flyby, the SAR image is smeared, you don't get a video. If the target moves slowly relative to the satellite, you get a stationary image. With sufficient satellite density you can get high revisit rates with SAR and have quasi-video of rapid frames, but it is just repeat frames, not true video, and is dependent on high revisit rates.
Optical satellites can produce real time video, but are somewhat weather limited.
It's also hard to keep SAR satellites lofted specifically over the FIC, as SAR satellites must be in LEO to have sufficient signal return strength. Satellites in LEO move very quickly all over the globe, but swath size is also a limitation.