Here's a good entertaining video about the scenario simulation goes on in the SCS. It's pretty good and keep in mind that this video was done last year with the available information on PLAAF and PLAN weapons systems. So take it with a grain of salt and enjoy. I thinks it's a good education video for starters and long time China military watchers to get a good grip of the cost of war or conflict can be.
I had seen that a while back and thought it was a poor and unrealistic pantomime run to obvious western biases and preconceptions as a ego save.
It was pretty clear the channel made a lot of ‘tweaks’ to DCS to massively boost US AMRAAMs and nerf Chinese PL12s (best core Fox3 in the game) and PL15s to the point that PL12s were essentially useless and the AMRAAM had the same practical range as the PL15.
Strategically it also made zero sense for China to send in conventional bombers first and only use its AShBMs as a pointless final throw of the dice.
In a realistic scenario, AShBMs would have gone first and obliterated the carrier fleet with only a handful of planes having had time to launch and its over.
Even if the US carrier launched all its fighters, they would have most likely only have a comparable kill-loss rate against PL12s and been slaughtered by the PL15.
However, because that channel’s core fanbase would have been western military fanboys, no way could they release that and not see its subscribers rage-quit en mass. So they have to ‘fix’ it to fit American expectations of superior western forces being outnumbered and caught off guard and even then managing to kill many times more enemies before finally heroically falling.
