All the J-7/6/5 should have been retired by now.
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All the J-7/6/5 should have been retired by now.
You're contradicting yourself here.
If China can bomb Japan/Philippines/etc into the stone ages, it means all the military bases have been destroyed and they are presumably under air-sea blockade.
Therefore, how can the US use the territory of Japan/Philippines/etc to hit China??
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Doesn't mean you can't use them, for something. Adhoc cruise missiles could work
lcloo
Major
True, and the funny part is that some of those bombs were from old stockpile made during or after Vietnam war. In 1970 to 1990 US was still very strong in manufacturing, thus the large inventory of bombs that they had during the Gulf wars.
After the Gulf wars, much of the inventory of both new and old bombs were depleted.
It is different story in 2025 in regard to poor states of supply chain and manufacturing of weapons en masse in US. China's ban of rare earth for making magnets specially made for precision guided weapons should be permanent.
If the US loses Korea, Japan and SEA then it loses economic influence over those regions, effectively decoupling itself from the majority of the world economy. It would be a disaster for the US, as it gives China a free hand to control the world economy and steer its future. Such a US loss would be a clear show of who's who in the world, and prompt a wave of countries to mass ditch the US and move into China's orbit.
I recall that there is an airbase where J-6s have been converted into preprogramed 1-way attack drones/decoys for Taiwan.
But that is not the same as using J-6s to intercept incoming missiles/drones
I think it's more accurate to say that the US losing [Korea, Japan and ASEAN] would accelerate the shift from the US to China, but that shift is happening anyway.
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China's GDP is at $40 Trillion.
If you assume a modest growth rate of 4%, then China will add $20 Trillion in the next 10 years.
That $20 Trillion is equivalent to a combined [Korea, Japan and ASEAN].
The only means China has to hit US mainland is ICBM as of now. Launching ICBM towards the US mainland can easily being judged as nuclear attack. So China wouldn't do that unless a nuclear war is what China wants
There is no point to destroy every single building in the city，no military in the world would do that. Only those sites has strategic importance wil be targeted，such as semiconductor fabs，power plant，network center，water facility，hospitals etc
And as long as these base infrastructure being disabled，the whole city will be paralyzed and most if not all economic activities will be stopped
You have no idea how fragile modern city has become. Those scenes you see on movie，like the whole city is taken by zombie but somehow the internet still works for weeks，is totally fake.
FriedRiceNSpice
Captain
Would still need thousands of missiles. And that is only for a single city, China has 100+ cities with a population of over one million. With such a smaller industrial base, attempting to conduct strategic bombing via ballistic missiles is suicidal for the US. 1) China would produce much more missiles 2) a much greater of Chinese industrial targets would need to be hit than American industrial targets to achieve the same level of impact on industrial production.