US has a defense treaty with Japan
PLA Strategy in a Taiwan Contingency
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Cant you stuff an anti ship Tomahawk into a Mk.41
Think of Shahed as a cruise missile.
An improved Shahed can be deadly. Longer range, higher explosion, more stealthier, faster..
Since Shahed is cheap, I would rather launch 20 of these over a single cruise missile. The rate of getting through a defense layer is greater than just a single missile
An improved Shahed can be deadly. Longer range, higher explosion, more stealthier, faster..
Since Shahed is cheap, I would rather launch 20 of these over a single cruise missile. The rate of getting through a defense layer is greater than just a single missile
Guam is ~3000 kilometers away from the Chinese coastline.
How to mine the waters around Guam and keep those waters mined and access-denied for US warships and resupply ships effectively during wartime is a big question.
Underwater gliders
The US can choose whether to provide support or not, after all the Iranians directly attacked US forces in retaliation after the assassination of General Soleimani and the US response was rather muted.
Which goes back to the point I've been saying, if it has to come to a fight China absolutely needs to decisively defeat the US especially if they go nuclear, for the US are ones who would rather burn down the world than lose their global power and control (and are already doing so).
But the defense can concentrate their systems around critical infrastructure, I'd imagine they wouldn't care a whole lot about a UAV hitting a runway compared to a fuel depot for example. Makes laser/gun based shorads a very effective defense. The main reason that it's having some level of success in Ukraine right now is that there are too many target and not all of them are military, so defense can't really pick their battles freely.
This will be the reverse in a westpac conflict where there's no munitions to waste on non-military targets, but each strike package size should be much larger in general allowing concentration of air defense to be a viable tactic.
Cheap piston-based cruise missiles aren’t the only munitions China has in her arsenal. PLA can send hundreds of the piston missiles plus glide-bombs, jet-powered cruise missiles and hypersonic missiles at a target at the same time.
The defender can concentrates its defenses, so can the attackers with the attacks.