Why does it take 45 minutes? Why dont they just send the information on Forumosa or something, with just one click?
You can have a lot of Jets and Missles but ultimately to take and hold land you need boots on the ground supported by heavy weapons like tanks, armored personnel carriers and lighter fighting vehicles. Part of Chinas plan to take over Taiwan would likely involve a large airborne invasion in which case enough Tanks and APCs with infantry would crush them, they likely wouldnât be able to parachute a full battle tank, but maybe smaller APCs or armored fighting vehicles. They also would need to resupply them which is unlikely to happen by completely by air.
This isnât WW2 where you can hide an invasion fleet with fake radio traffic technology has changed we have Satellite, Radar, advanced Sonars people who HD Cameras everywhere. To amass enough equipment and ships needed to conduct a cross channel invasion of Taiwan would take enormous amounts of men, ships vehicles and equipment. D-Day had 5000 ships this would require probably 10,000 ships as world populations have increased. Also it would take weeks to months to buildup and everyone and their grandma would know China was going to invade weeks before they invaded. US Navy and Japanese, Korean Navy, Australian Navy would be waiting. Crossing 150miles of open water with an invasion fleet = Sitting ducks. One could sink a single troop carrier and wipe out 5,000 soldiers at a time. China would likely have to send a mass airborne invasion to take over Taipei, Taichung and Kaoshiung at the same time. The amount of transport aircraft needed to drop 4-6 airborne divisions 200-300,000 soldiers is something China doesnât have. Then without huge resupplies and heavy tanks and armored vehicles those airborne infantry wonât last long against well supplied Tanks, APCs, Infantry and attack helicopters. China would have to win air superiority firstâŚbut once they began the air war everyone would know whatâs coming. It would be a logistical nightmare to pull off that kind of invasion today.
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Thatâs the time it takes an F22 to fly from Okinawa Japan to Taipei Taiwan. To shoot down a Chinese fighter thatâs approaching Taiwan, the F22 might not even need to fire any missile, since Taiwan has A LOT of SAM. Thatâs the alibi.
Prior to this Trump administration, a lot of political pundits were under the impression that in order to help Taiwan fend off Chinese attack, it is necessary for POTUS to wait for US Congress to declare war on China. Thatâs a totally false narrative originally invented by Chinese psychological war department.
Taiwan has almost 2 million military personnel. Discounting all the Tanks, Fighters, Helicopters and the fact that its home territory for resupplyâŚHow is China going to secretly send 2-3 million PLA soldiers to Taiwan without the world knowing weeks in advance? How many ships, aircraft would that take and how many multiples to resupply them with ammo, food, medicine? Since Chinese military uses different rounds of ammo than NATO 5.56
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A large fleet of small manuverable boats and possibly submersibles would be more effective than adding on more costly easy to sink ships , arm them with light missiles .
Then another fleet of medium sized drones.
Layer the defence so they have to go through multiple barriers. Always keep some in reserve and divide the command and control to stop decapitation.
Anti ship missiles and anti air missiles.
100s of camouflaged and well hidden tanks that can be moved at will.
1000s of maneuverable mines.
Taiwan needs to think asymmetric warfare.
Nobody is getting on this island.
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Just strategising here. Taiwan already has ample conventional weapons but on their own it would set them up to lose. We donât want to fight yesterdayâs battles.
This. Nuff said.
Maybe itâll be an inevitable economic war???
You guys are talking like it is 1944. China is not going to âinvadeâ Taiwan. They donât have to. All they need is control of the presidencyâŚwhich is looking more and more likely with whatâs his face down in K-town. Their other option is a naval blockade. They could cripple Taiwan in just a few weeks, a couple months at the longest.
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All it takes to bring thsi island to its knees is to cut off the Internet cablesâŚand we´re out in a matter of days, not weeks.
Misiles we got. patriots. Could always have more but they got em. Batteries and mobiles platforms.
Chinese still value to psychological value of rolling into town with tanks, hence, we get tanks.
Two words: Swedish subs. Silent hunter killers. Sink that cardboard aircraft carrier showboat.
Three letters: EMP. That shouldn´t be hard. The Chinese cut off our Internet, we EMP them back into the Stone Age. They would do the same for us with nukes if they could aim them.
Yes that is why I always fond it strange people think Taiwan doesnât have very powerful options at its disposal if it wanted to go down that route in an all out attack. EMP are just one of the options.
People are always thinking about the last conventional warsâŚNot modern tech .
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A naval blockade would be very risky for China too.
It results in a massive set of unknowns and they hate that !
Enforcing a naval blockade is not easy .
And it will screw their own economy as most shipping to southern China shuts down
Thereâs a high risk a navy blockade would fail actually.
Cuba missile crisis anybodyâŚ
It all depends on the USA. a blockade would not be allowed âŚat the moment.
Exactly if the US allows China to blockade it effectively gives China leeway to take over entire South China sea and Taiwan as well.
The blockade enforcement would be very difficult for China and very risky . If they fail âŚTheir leadership will fall.
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This is their primary approach right now.
I hope Taiwanese people wake up to the fact that the KMT has been blatantly coopted with funding from China.
I donât mind them trying this approach as it is more peaceful but Taiwanese should vote against it at the polls.
Most people know whatâs going on soâŚTaiwanese need to make a choice.
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Taiwan is already doing this.
I see military bases with missiles all overâŚ
Also Taiwan also uses a LOT of âspeed boatsâ that carries 2 ship killing missiles. They move very fast and the aim is fire off some missiles and go away. Taiwan has lots of boats like this, probably a significant part of their navy is this. Theyâre not very large at all, just a little larger than a fishing boat. Meaning itâs very hard to detect on radar.
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