lol if MSS badass like that . taiwan done for long ago
PLA Strategy in a Taiwan Contingency
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IMO issue is not if China has the ability to capture Maduro like the US did, but lack of action, timidness, and political will when it comes to these types of operations. Simple truth is that the world respects and adheres to hard power, not diplomacy, negotiation, "win-win" politics, etc. Say what you will about Trump, US, Russia but they don't fear political backlash or perception on the world stage when it comes to geopolitical interests.
While I agree Taiwan is on a way higher league in the power spectrum than South American countries, a demonstration of lethal capabilities would easily solve China's annoyances in the SCS and intimidate those who challenge China's interests.
While I agree Taiwan is on a way higher league in the power spectrum than South American countries, a demonstration of lethal capabilities would easily solve China's annoyances in the SCS and intimidate those who challenge China's interests.
I mean, we know for a fact that infiltrators or compromised insiders have gotten close to the highest echelons of power in the DPP.
Some soldiers and NCOs were not spies, but victims of loan sharking.
Loan sharks knew they were soldiers and forced them to record videos of themselves "joining the Communist Party," then reported them when they couldn't repay the loans.
That is both sad and hilarious. Makes sense given we know how ROCA is paid peanuts. What's stopping the ROCA, which is aligned with the KMT, from betraying the DPP though?
EDIT: We also have this incident.
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plawolf
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A fix mount on a ship? Like a Lord-Clive class monitor?
That would be a very narrow use case. If it's ship-mounted then a Shilao-class BB/BC would be the most flexible platform. 400mm is 16 inch and slapping three 16" guns in a turret is certainly doable.
This was the point that Shilao was trying to make with his scenario as well. He was saying thanks to Trump-class if we're doing this BB thing again then China has the technology ready to go to to make a much more convincing modern day BB than Trump-class, which he considers an insult to the "battleship" name.
At this point it’s far more likely they will just park one on each container ship and just spam a hundred such guns for the price of one BB and ask Trump if he wants to see the funniest magic trick ever where they can make a Trump Class go briefly airborne.
I think you're overfocusing on the monitor hullform for fire support missions for amphibious assault operations. The ship is just a platform to use the gun.
At a minimum, the munitions have to have GPS for long-range guidance and could weight 900 kg.
If the munitions have a 1200km range, they can hit everything including military bases
A big issue is weight. The French version was 137 tonnes and had to travel via railway on land.
Being mounted on a ship would be useful.
Roughly speaking, it costs $2 Million to add an anti-ship seeker onto a munition.
No reason they couldn't do it, but I think a 400mm projectile is too slow and vulnerable to SAMs.
And I think the point of a supergun is to keep munitions costs low. GPS guidance should be around $25K and would account for most, if not all, of the munitions.
If they paid off the body guards so that they purposefully get on a Z-20 instead of a Blackhawk due to “misidentification under low light conditions”, then yes. But what’s the point? There are other DPP politicians who’d love the promotion. You have to not only decapitate the hydra but cauterize the wounds as well so heads don’t grow back.
Counterpoint: it would be funny as hell. Venezuela is not Maduro's one man show either. We are already seeing friction between loyalists and opposition unfolding.
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That's way more than most ascms altogether, and those who do cost more do so for reasons other than their main seeker.