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How good of an estimate is this in regards to China's ability to surge manpower and materiel into the AO during
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PLA Strategy in a Taiwan Contingency
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How good of an estimate is this in regards to China's ability to surge manpower and materiel into the AO during
There is no need? It's gonna be a blockade
Gonna need a lot of munitions and fuel for strikes on C4ISR, depot, electricity, and water treatment infrastructure as well as SEAD/DEAD. I couldn't find any cargo train statistics, especially average and peak daily rates.
We already know that China's MLRS are solid fuel and ready to fire anytime. But sustaining fires after the first salvo is going to require lots of logistical support.
If the US were stupid enough to do that, China will just launch more Sat and roll the US back to the Westcoast.
China ship are more modern than the US and can build 3 USN in one years, China is more powerful than NATO. You living in boomer delusion.
The high-speed rail system is for passenger traffic only, no cargos.
Looks like the PLA will need to procure more anti-runway rockets, missiles and bombs + anti-harbor torpedoes then...
The issue for the US is that the closer you get to China the more fires the PLA can generate. All this means is more US casualties as they are willingly putting themselves in the 1IC.
That's the problem. There is no information online about cargo transport when the rail system is being stressed like this. The only relevant factoid I found was this:
~22K cargo trains per day for the entire country. No clue as to whether the volume decreases or not during golden week.
I don't think transport inside China is an area PLA has to worry about.
That might not be enough, since they've trialed landing f35 on motorways and refueling, its not unreasonable for US/Japan to begin setting up adhoc roadside airports to disperse combat aircraft once its looking like war is inevitable.