Wow, sink all Chinese ships in SCS within 72 hours!?
Pretty tough talk.
Contrary to most what most people think that involved US carriers versus Chinese Antiship ballistic missiles, if conflict breaks out, US most likely would deploy B1B bomber against Chinese surface ships.
How to neutralize and defend against B1B is much more pertinent. The bomber has a huge payload, long range and fast.
IN/OUT hitman role.
B1B has reduced RCS, but is by no stretch of the imagination could it be considered stealthy. That means the Chinese will see those coming from a long way off, and can easily send fighters to give time a suitable welcome long before they can threaten a PLAN main fleet.
Besides, as of now, the US does not have AShMs to unduly worry China.
The biggest threat to the PLAN from the USN would be its SSN fleet. But even that advantage is massively blunted in the SCS. Shallow waters in many areas create natural choke points, limiting subs’ freedom of movement and make them easy to spot from the air.
China’s SCS islands also present unsinkable carriers from which China’s large and rapidly growing MPA sub hunters and drone fleets could operate from.
USN subs might pose a genuine threat to the PLAN in the SCS, but that threat is both ways, and subs need to get close to launch a successful torpedoe attack. That makes it a near suicide mission for them to try.
This sort of nonsense is sadly typical of western politicians who seem to think they live in a Tom Clancy wet dream and have little understanding of the actual real world capabilities and limitations of the US military against near-peer opponents like China.
