PLA air operations in westpac region

james smith esq

james smith esq

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drowingfish said:
this is exactly it, people overlook the planning and coordination piece of this. an operation in which dozens of aircrafts of different types are dispatched will require a lot of background work. the fact that the PLAAF can do this on a regular basis means they are really good at it. This will give them an overwhelming advantage when it comes time to do the real thing since ROCAF does not have the luxury of practicing large scale maneuvers like that. the other piece of this is logistics. the PLAAF has sustained pretty intense incursion campaigns against both Taiwan and Japan for some time, you can do that without good logistics. All of this will make a huge difference in actual combat, more so than what model of airplane they are flying.
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I agree; however, they’ll need to scale-up to about 4-5 times before these exercises indicate actual operational readiness.
 
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drowingfish

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james smith esq said:
I agree; however, they’ll need to scale-up to about 4-5 times before these exercises indicate actual operational readiness.
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maybe they have maybe they haven't, there are annual exercises that would be about that size happening elsewhere. but to sustain this level of operation is an indication that they are pretty well-rehearsed and running closer to being like clockwork. Juxtapose that with ROCAF who decided to "respond selectively" because they could not keep up, and you see a huge capability gap here. And this is all happening in isolation, with no disruption from missiles and EW. I can only imagine that with those elements included it would only favor the PLA even more.
 
escobar

escobar

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james smith esq said:
I agree; however, they’ll need to scale-up to about 4-5 times before these exercises indicate actual operational readiness.
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We only "know" what's happening in the south-west of TW. TW's MoD has been hiding the data of what's happening in the north and north-east. Also, the flight path from MoD are total BS. Seem H-6's air routes are so close to the YuShan the tallest mountain in TW.
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AndrewS

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james smith esq said:
They still need to beef it up by two more times!
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The carriers would typically only have a CAP which is far smaller than 34x J-16

Based on 3 hours on station, my guess the 3 carriers usually only have 6+6+3 fighter jets on station

So that is enough aircraft for a credible antiship strike.
 
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