The complete elimination of China's bluewater navy that isn't hiding in port. Conventional weapons and attack subs would do most of the heavy lifting.
Aircraft Carriers and hypersonic missiles
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Not only is precise maneuvering difficult at low altitude hypersonic speeds, but the warhead size of a long range hypersonic vehicle is relatively small. While the claim is 1100 pounds, I've read that the farther the missile has to power itself, the smaller the warhead.
How much explosive is needed when the kinetic impact of a mach 5+ missile is factored in?
I’m not a expert but consider that a missile might not explode on contact but a millisecond afterwards when it has penetrated the ship or target.
Let's just hope a war doesn't happen.
The same we are doing on any other front like Ukraine, Afghan, etc. I think if we are ok with losing Afghan after 20 years, 1 aircraft carrier is pocket change in comparison, no? You can still beat them back with conventional weapon.
I sleep well knowing that our subs carry enough firepower to stop anybody at anytime.
I'm sure if all of a sudden JSDF decided to throw a coup and drive US out of Okinawa, US would probably decide to take the whole Okinawa for itself by reviving the old Ryukyu nation asap as well. Russia couldn't afford to lose Sevastopol or they would lose Black Sea access.
I know some families prior to 90s left Taiwan or send their sons away from Taiwan, to avoid military draft and the possibility of a war. In the 80s, my family actually had considered moving from Hong Kong to Taiwan because my parents liked the place, (Taiwan's culture is very similar to Fujian China, where my parents were from, the languages are so similar they probably could pick it up in 3 months), but in the end, scraped the plan because the risk of war was too high.
I don't think I ran into any family leaving Taiwan recently because of a potential war, recently being after 2000.
I don't think I ran into any family leaving Taiwan recently because of a potential war, recently being after 2000.
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A bizarre and extremely unlikely hypothetical, but if the JDF staged a coup one of the last things they might want would be a US exit from Okinawa or Japan. It's far more likely they'd land in the Kurils and take them back from a severally understaffed Russian garrison. In any case, the US would not take sovereign Japanese territory, they'd just redeploy to friendlier allies or territories.
No one was attacking Sevastopol and there was no threat to Russian sovereignty there....
No one was attacking Sevastopol and there was no threat to Russian sovereignty there....
That’s enough… It‘s simply too hard to read post after post of uninformed speculation on military capabilities and tactics. I can not comment on this threat, or counters to it, but the threat is not new, and it is well understood. Now that we’ve devolved into inane political allegory speculating about war with Japan, it’s time to close this thread.
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