He may have been flying other types as well as M2K.
Taiwan Military News, Reports, Data, etc.
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Taiwan after today:
While it's hard to deny that Israel has higher GBAD density than Taiwan and mainland is a lot closer to Taiwan than Iran is to Israel, there are people who still try to argue PLARF is weaker than IRGC Aerospace Forces.
In fact there are people who argue PLARF is weaker than Houthi's missile force and run it as such in their wargames.
In fact there are people who argue PLARF is weaker than Houthi's missile force and run it as such in their wargames.
Those "people" must be worse than regarded for clinging to such hopium.
SinoSoldier
Colonel
China might need to invest in layered missile defenses for its cities and key military sites should Taiwan obtain ballistic missiles.
Those already exist, and the reference opfor is likely less specifically Taiwan than just the general greater proliferation of ballistic missile capability in the region.
It's not a particularly exotic capability and it's not like the PLA (even during the cold war) were not cognizant of the need for SRBM/IRBM defenses with view from the Soviets.
If it was Taiwan in particular, arguably rapid offensive shoot-the-archer doctrine might actually be viable in this case, given the system of systems mismatch and geographical proximity here.
SinoSoldier
Colonel
Agreed that the shoot-the-archer strategy may be the best defense against them. But it would be much harder to target and rapidly neutralize them if they're road mobile or under hardened bunkers vis-a-vis aircraft that require substantial logistical infrastructure. This dramatically shortens the window to optimally minimize the BM threat following the opening stages of a hypothetical Taiwan conflict. And that is not entertaining the possibility of Taiwanese BMs being scattered and hidden beforehand (e.g. as a natural response in a period of heightened tensions).
Once that window passes, you're left with costly and ineffective "Scud hunting" strategies that were of mixed results during the Gulf War. Of course, Taiwan's limited geography offers a slightly different playing field in this scenario.
It took Iran decades to reach their current level of missile technology and stockpile.
SinoSoldier
Colonel
There is no reason to believe that Taiwan, a relatively sophisticated society that already operates the ATACMS, requires decades.