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Slightly out of topic but there's miniature Type-055 and Liaoning that could launch missiles and planes
Chinese and Russian ships transiting the Tsugaru Strait?
In the center is type 055, so probably the last exercises with Russia are moving to a different location.
Someone deemed its more important to report it to Twitter first before the Joint Staff Office.
plawolf
Lieutenant General
Not the same time, I expect AShBMs to hit first, with air launched conventional AShMs to confirm the kill.
As impressive as that PLA strike package is, it’s not really enough to reliably punch through modern fleet air defences and destroy the fleet.
You don’t want your conventional missiles to arrive at the same time as your AShBMs because modern aegis warships are not going to be troubled by the numbers of incoming missiles and so will still be able to effectively engage your conventional missile strike.
Modern fleets have almost no effective defence against AShBMs, so it will really be down to the accuracy of your missiles on how many hits you score. But I would expect AShBMs to go after the carrier and Tico cruises at a minimum, and probably go after all the Burkes as well, which will massively degrade fleet air defences such that a conventional AShM strike will be overkill for what is left.
plawolf
Lieutenant General
You don’t need full FBW refit to concern old jets. They just strip out the ejection seat and put a device in its place to manipulate the existing flight controls. It’s what the do when they convert retired jets and tanks to target drones.
You are obviously only to have significant limitations on the flight envelope and operational capabilities of the jet, but for a suicidal decoy, you don’t really need much more than that.
But I think China is way past the point of needing such primitive decoys. They can use precision strikes, UCAVs and EW to incapacitate Taiwan’s air defences effectively enough without needing such suicide drones. Those converted J6s and J7s would probably be better used as target drones.
