PLA Strategy in a Taiwan Contingency

Recently in their paid Chahuahui, when talking about the Trump-class BB Shilao/Yankee/Ayi mentioned that Trump-class might cause people to itch and revive things like the original un-nerfed proposal for 055 that's larger than the current version. They then very seriously talked about the existence of a 400mm gun that can fire ultra long range rounds. Shilao joked that a PLAN BB with three of those guns in a turret might be useful in a reunification scenario.

Is there really a 400mm gun in inventory somewhere? I know there was some work done on 203mm howitzers. And there's rumours of a 300mm gun (the so called "cross strait gun") that could fire guided long range rocket assisted rounds (they're basically shortened 300mm rockets). But this is the first case I've heard of a 400mm gun.

leibowitz said:

China should straight up disrespect that limit as Taiwan's de facto boundaries are not defined de jure. Send a J-16 over the Taipei 101 dumping flares for one of the most iconic photos of the 21st century.

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Nope, that's too risky and unnecessarily putting the pilot's life at risk. What if that J-16 gets shot down? How is China supposedly going to rescue the pilots without igniting Operation AR when she doesn't intend to conduct Operation AR? And how would that fare for China on the global diplomatic stage?

If anything, have a WZ-8 fly right along Taiwan's northwestern shorelines at 30-50 kilometers of altitude and at hypersonic speeds, take photos of the Wanwanese rebel's presidental palace at Zhongzheng district in Taipei from above (slanted) and publish the photos would be a safer and much more impactful message delivery.

The mechanized infantry battalion of the ROCA Lanyang Regional Command took two hours to leave the camp, as a contingency force to respond to PLA military exercises.

If this were a cold-start scenario, they would have been blown up countless times already.

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The mechanized infantry battalion of the ROCA Lanyang Regional Command took two hours to leave the camp, as a contingency force to respond to PLA military exercises.

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Don't be too hard on our TW youngsters...it takes time to shut down video games,finish the hentai porn episode or leave a social -media discussion platform-I really don't want to hurt or kill our TW brethren...they're too much like my nephews and their friends.

MLRS exercise to countered HIMARS. The important point isn't that this event happened (PLA has been practicing this for some time), but that it was publicly reported; this sends a clear political signal—no matter how many HIMARS the US sales, we will and we can hunt them down

shiftenter said:

Former JASDF major general’s take on recent Chinese activities: BVR radar illumination over 150km suggest PLAAF's incapability or lack of confidence of dogfight; the most capable weapon on J-15 is the PL-12 so it cannot fire on target further than 100km.
I guess JSDF secretly procured time machine from Doraemon and send all the troops from 20 years ago. /s

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Didn’t realize the JASDF wanted to get spanked by the PLA so badly.

The Chinese will spam frigates and aircraft carriers. But they're no match for the battleships of Trump's golden fleet. The Chinese have no answer.
China simply doesn't have enough gold to make ship hulls out of it.
China lost that battle when Trump came to power.
The Chinese have conventional shells, while Trump has gold shells.
They'll just be forever hearing "no penetration" on golden armor and exploding from golden shells.

Here in Yilan, the Democratic Progressive Party places equipment next to temples, as well as renovation companies, shoe store companies, PX Mart supermarkets, and Chaosi Dan, etc. All of them are placed in those places where people live.

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Here in Yilan, the Democratic Progressive Party places equipment next to temples, as well as renovation companies, shoe store companies, PX Mart supermarkets, and Chaosi Dan, etc. All of them are placed in those places where people live.

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The Chinese characters on the bus can be translated into "Naive".

Some netizens posting about an alleged "unknown plane" seen flying above Ta1wan on flight/radar website.