The Three Gorges Dam as a target is Taiwanese talking. Ironic since there was talk in this forum before that China shouldn't target Taiwanese civilians if war breaks out. Taiwanese would sink China's hospital ships too recalling a conversation in this forum back when China built those ships. Funny how Taiwanese have no problem violating international rules but if China did that it would be bad. Go ahead and try to destroy the Three Gorges Dam and that opens the door to "legally" killing Taiwanese civilians. Are they going to cry foul when that happens?
Realistically Taiwan will have a hard time destroying the Three Gorges Dam without a nuke. All they have is their missiles that can reach it and if you haven't notice in the past the Taiwanese have gone through some embarrassing episodes when showing off their missiles. How many missiles do they have? Not enough. Remember the US dropped more bombs on Vietnam than all the bombs dropped during WWII. Did the US win in Vietnam? And think about about all the expensive precision guided missile that has to be attached to that one bomb to get to the Three Gorges Damn. They would be only mosquito bites. Let them waste their time concentrating all their weapons on trying to destroy the dam.
Yes. The Three Gorges Dam is alot tougher to hit and destroy than many armchair generals like to assume. First, the Chinese government is serious about protecting that dam. The dam is very restricted for civilians to visit. It's as well protected as nuclear power plants
Second, for Taiwan to attack the Three Gorges Dam, it's militarily unfeasible. Taiwan's military is too limited in capability to pull that off. Not that it's impossible, but it'll cost them alot in terms of effort, the danger of retaliation, and the end result. Even if Taiwanese missiles made it through to their target, the Three Gorges damn has been engineered to withstand crashes from ships and airliners. So conventional cruise missile strikes are not likely gonna do too much damage. Taiwan doesn't have the stockpile to sustain bombardment to the point of the dam failing, and also attack other military targets. Plus the PLA will never allow anyone to attack the Three Gorges Dam with impunity.
Besides, for the DPP-controlled Taiwan to order a strike on the Three Gorges Dam is a blatant attempt at genocide of mainland Chinese citizens. It'll escalate any cross-strait conflict into a full-blown total war. The DPP is signing it's own death warrant for ordering such an attack.
I was watching a YouTube video of a computer game scenario of an attack on Taiwanese military runways by H-6 bombers. Really, would that be the only thing China would do in the outbreak of a war? And of course Taiwan successfully beat back China. When the Key Aviation forum was still around, they had all these us vs. them countries at war scenarios. And when it came to China, countries like Norway had everything at their disposal even weapons they didn't develop. But of course they put shackles on China on what it could use and do. I think they think they can apply that in real life.
Yeah I've seen plenty of 'what if stories' and wargame simulations on YouTube. All of them assumed the best case scenarios for the 'good guys' and handicapped the Chinese. Many times these scenarios conflict with each other.
Such as:
1) The PLA will only fight for politics. That means doing reckless military tactics or political stunts just to save the CCP's face.
2) The PLA are cowards. Their troops are one-child 'little emperors' who haven't seen war in generations. Hence they have pathetic morale, and cannot steady themselves in the face of battle.
3) The PLA's equipment is over-hyped, falling apart, or vastly inferior. So the damage to the good guys is limited at best.
4) When the good guys take hits from the PLA, they always do very well. Such as pilots successfully ejecting from burning jets. Sailors successfully evacuating a sinking ship. Or surrounded soldiers managing to fend off waves of PLA hordes.
5) When the PLA takes hits. It's always the worse case scenario. Ships sunk with all hands lost. Pilots going down with the planes. Or thousands of soldiers dying from human wave charges. Nevermind that PLA soldiers are supposed to be cowards.
6) When the good guys faces setbacks. Its 'tactical' defeat. But it'll rally the good guys to come back and fight harder. Because they have 'hope' that they are fighting for democracy and freedom.
7) When the PLA faces setbacks. It weakens the 'authoritarian grip' of the CCP. It destroys the Chinese morale. The Chinese people will rise up against the evil CCP. Because they love freedom.
When these idiots simulate wargame scenarios like this, they are setting themselves up for failure. That is why they've failed in wars like Korea, and Vietnam. That is why they have no answer to the BRI. That is why they criminally sucked at saving lives from Covid-19. That is why they are in this desperate situation from the Russia-Ukraine War. If the Mainland China-Taiwan conflict were to happen. It will blow up in their faces yet again.
