Taiwan Military News, Reports, Data, etc.
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When considering information from different sources, I find that the truth bears itself out with its own timing, which is why I observe first before coming to any conclusions.
They can have. But who cares about the few missiles? Mainland has thousands.
I believe the way to deal with Taiwan is attritional total war that prevents them from fighting back by any means. Any mainland casualties can give them hope unless they're as ineffective as Saddam Hussein.
I believe a 052D boost phase interception test should be conducted to demonstrate resolve in the face of this new threat.
I think if determined China can build a bomber similar to the B-52, or China can build a special version of the Y-20, turning it into a giant bomb truck. After destroying Taiwan's air defense and radar systems, the rest is to hand over to the bombers. Hundreds of Y-20s could drop countless MOABs, or use a carpet-bombing strategy.
Part of attritional war would be not getting hit though, to maximize own morale and minimize theirs. Getting hit at all, especially civilians, means that they have some way of fighting back and thus morale. A 052D demonstration of missile interception removes their hope.
As for what to do when their air defense is down, that doesn't require any new plane.
plawolf
Lieutenant General
First strike is a term usually reserved for a nuclear attack.
But a conventional cruise missiles still under development makes very little difference to the overall tactical or strategic picture.
Leaving aside its current work in progress and not operationally deployed status, the PLA would have been working on countering expected US cruise missile swarms. In fact, countering cruise missiles from Taiwan will be much easier since a lot, if not most of those cruise missiles can be taken out on the ground before they are launched. And the few that do manage to get airborne will be immediately picked up by Chinese radars, AWACS and other sensor networks. That will be the case even if Taiwan launched them eastward to try to do circular routing.
They would honestly be better off copying the mainland and developing very long range MLRS instead.
The Taiwanese know that, but...
The distance between Taipei and China's Three Gorges Dam is 1,200 kilometers.
YunFeng range: 1500 Km.
The probability that YunFeng can destroy the Three Gorges Dam is almost zero, but China cannot ignore this threat.
For Taiwan's long-range MLRS (if they have it in the future), China needs systems similar to iron domes and continues to upgrade the LD-2000
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