C'mon PLA. My dream is to see the Itano Circus with real missiles just once.
PLA Strategy in a Taiwan Contingency
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This is such an unnecessary and silly thing to say. This chest thumping is not desirable for this forum.
Don't be so over confident. China's military budget is so low that they also have very low numbers of advanced missiles. China lacks numbers and if they are forced to fight a high intensity war, their numbers will also run out within 1 month.
US meme-like military budget figures, and other headline numbers, should be read as parody, not proof of strength.
A giant, wild figure means very little when so much of it is just corruption, contractor bloat, and inflated costs.
Britain likely had a fraction of the Spanish Armada’s budget and still beat it badly.
Spain had silver, imperial prestige, and a huge aura. What it lacked was durable substance.
Same imperial illusion, massive financial weight, weaker real production and maintenance underneath.
And in a real war of attrition, that gets exposed fast, as even Iran showed them already.
Some call China the paper tiger, when, by the literal meaning of the phrase, the US fits it much better.
As for all this supposed American "high technology" and "experience," reality has looked more like laundry fires that burn for 30 hours, toilet failures, refueling aircraft hitting each other mid-air, endless "friendly fires", recurring malfunctions, and then not even being able to protect their own regional bases, soldiers, and expensive assets once Iran started hitting back, even during the inital hour at least.
I think you are grossly underestimated China's capabilty. Have you heard of the old Korean War era J7s have been converted into deadly drones?
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China should indeed remain humble, but you've gone a bit too far with your humility, even to the point of belittling it.
The ones that are supposedly being converted into suicide drones are the J-6 (J-6W). But this whole thing has been sensationalised and is not a credible fact.
Someone needs to learn the difference between spending volumes and production volumes.
I’m “looking forward” to seeing this JASSM-ER at work. It will put @Sinnavuuty theories to test. That being said, early returns are already showing what some of us expected.
1. Not enough missiles in general
2. Precision strikes not able to create enough damage.
If Maritime Militia or Sea drones are used to the full extent, LRASM will have problems.
1. Not enough missiles in general
2. Precision strikes not able to create enough damage.
If Maritime Militia or Sea drones are used to the full extent, LRASM will have problems.