Posted on 10/23/2022 5:44:51 PM PDT by RomanSoldier19
correct, and they launch their own satellites.
From a War Zone article five years old.
I am not up on counter-battery fire from ships, but if one can reliably hit a target at 40 - 60 miles out, then amphibious warfare becomes much more difficult.
A read about a war game where China used about 1,000 ships (military, transport and cargo) to invade Taiwan.
Taiwan doesn't have enough missiles to defend from such an attack, but guided artillery would certainly make a mess of an invasion fleet before they could unload.
Taiwan has only a few amphibious-practicable beaches of limited extent, lots of howitzers, and plenty of rugged terrain in which to emplace them on reverse slopes.
If landing ships want to come within 5-10km of a beach there is no need of precision guided anything. Battery or battalion salvos will take out any target.
Personally I think the best weapon the US can give Taiwan are HIMARS equipped with ATACMS missiles. These road-mobile vehicles could haunt Taiwans mountain roads and still cover much of the Chinese coast, including most likely harbors, many airfields, SAM sites, etc.
Semiconductors are produced in factories that are “clean rooms” where dust particles in the air must be fewer than
3,520 particles at 0.5µm or smaller per cubic meter of air.
This is incompatible with missile warhead explosions.
The semiconductor fabs in Taiwan would not survive the first minutes of an attack.
https://airinnovations.com/blog/semiconductor-clean-room-requirements/
I don't think China would do that. Those factories are the door prize.
The real prizes aren’t the plants but the people and IP. Its the minds and knowledge.
Or, if you will, the society that has the people able to set up these factories. China has serious cultural-social problems in implementing cutting edge tech even when it has it.
TSMC is already setting up shadow factories abroad. If worst comes to worst, there will be certain high priority flights across the Pacific.
And China OWNS American's Commander and Chief.
Game, set, match
No harm in that.👍
“The US OWNS the Pacific.”
You tell them, Big Boy! Let’s get the ACTION started, time for World War Three!!! Who needs a defense against Chinese Hypersonics when we are AMERICA and we own the Pacific!!!
“155mm howitzer ammo is completely useless in a naval war.”
Apparently they’re also useless in a land war, since their Titanium barrels crack after a few hundred rounds.
“...will be decided in hours, not months.”
The reason we’re about out of weapons is because our Drag Queen Generals thought the same about a war in Europe too.
A few thousand rounds, in the case of the M777.
And the barrels are easily replaced, they are a consumable.
As they are on all modern artillery, including that of the Russians.
Taiwan is a special case in re beach landings. Engage on that, don’t run off emitting smokescreens.
“As they are on all modern artillery, including that of the Russians.”
It’s the Ukrainians bitching about having to send them to Poland for refurb, and they also have Russian tubes.
Anyway, anyone familiar with Vietnam is not surprised that our weapons work great during pristine field tests, but not so much in the real world.
>>TSMC is already setting up shadow factories abroad. If worst comes to worst, there will be certain high priority flights across the Pacific
The flights would be filled with Chinese returning to China.
There is a lot of hostility towards Chinese scientists and engineers, some of it expressed here on a daily basis.
If open conflict begins with China, that hostility will increase, making it impossible for Chinese scientists and engineers to work in the US. We will drive them back to China.
Unlike in the past Japan has a very legitimate reason to be *very* afraid. And,for that matter,so does South Korea.
“just breakout a screwdriver...”
as long as it is a JIS screwdriver, otherwise you’ll strip the screw head.
............In Japan, I use to go to work (active duty Navy) on my 175 Honda Motorcycle. I would pass business after business and ALL the employees including the bosses and owners, would be out in the parking lot doing PT (Physical Training aka as EXERCISE).
Then I would get to my workplace (all GI’s) and we would all be sitting around half asleep, eating a fast food breakfast, reading the newspaper, drinking coffee, etc; etc. So, YES, particularly compared to Americans, and generally speaking, the Japanese are very serious people.
But then, sleepy headed, unserious American GI’s are one and the same young men who defeated the Japanese 24 years before I arrived in Japan.
To deter China...
Uh huh...
LOL...
I’ll say it again and leave...
You don’t know WTF you are talking about.
“You don’t know WTF you are talking about.”
I’m talking about the fact that I’m reading many reports about Chinese hypersonics being able to sink our carriers, yet NOTHING about our navy developing any defenses against them.
The Neocons seem oblivious to what our enemies and potential enemies are doing, which is TOTALLY STUPID if they’re serious about starting WW3 to take over the world (which they certainly appear to be, when looking at Ukraine and Taiwan policy).
The least the Neocons could have done was take our potential enemies seriously, considering that they would have to fight them at some point...which is always the case when one plans to take over the world.
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