Certainly it would be in China's best interest to do a Hong Kong type resolution to this instead of some hasty brute force mess and have the world frown on them and turn them into North Korea.
You do know you yanks are the North Koreans to the rest of the world who don't wonder aimlessly after you like sheep right?
How many countries have you invaded since WW2, for the fear of the 'domino effect,' which was non-existent in the first place; which communist country(s) invaded you guys to even generate such a threat?
And now, all these bogus claims about WMD's, when honestly, it's always been about your bloody personal interests from the start.
USA, while it's provided some exceptional technology to the rest of the world, needs to have its global police dog badges stripped away; it's consistently abused this power throughout this century, and continues to destroy nations and functioning societies.
Of course...the classic response. Everybody who is not Chinese or Pakistani is obviously an Indian,
They are too big of a target. It would be easier to simply overwhelm them with thousands of fast targets (manned and unmanned). Although you could stick them in the middle of the flotilla as a sacrificial target. More likely you'd keep the LST's for a second wave.
Right right right... Just as how I'm a Pakistani or Chinese when I make a point in an Indian thread, or an ol' Rusky or pro-Assad Syrian national when I comment on a yankee one?
Why don't you begin by not being a hypocrite?
But Did you look at my post? I never said anything about using V-22 and F-18 to go against your mighty J-20, which wasn't even a production plane yet. I said you can use V-22 and F-18 to refuel a F-22.
Let alone Marine Corps Air Station and Naval Air Station can operate Air Force refueller as well
The rest of your post are too face palm to reply
Oh well. Whatever you say
Just that I spend 15 years living in Hong Kong and I did not see it your way, but, well.
You're going to put actuators to control flow of oil to the boom of another fighter? You know how expensive it is to modify the print of an existing part? That's why planes don't go through major changes after CDR, which after production in this case, is well past CDR.
In addition, you're going to limit the small combat radius of fighters simply to allocate fuel to other fighters? Where is the logic in that?
This is stupid.
Air refueling is a combat tactic on its own and one that the PLA have no experience with, as we remind you of that. You are under the misconception that there are a few tankers constantly on stations. YOU ARE WRONG. Unlike you, the USAF is not that stupid. The scheduling for air tankers are highly coordinated to maximize the numbers of fighters one tanker can service in the shortest time on station. Those orbits are unknown and would be outside of ground based radars on mainland China, which would be either destroyed or degraded on day one from high altitude B-2s and low altitude B-1s.
China's underground bases ? Access would be either denied or restricted from the same B-1s and B-2s.
The J-20s ? As I posted in the past that the US have effectively defeated 'stealth', if you want to bring in the J-20, the USN's F-35s will shoot them out of the sky long before each J-20 pilot can begin to search for the tankers.
The US have always have the mentality of fighting from a numerically inferior position and with our real world combat experience, your PLA WILL lose.
Lol Gambit, you sound like a Chinese right now. I guess I'll just close this with:
Hail America, hail your carriers, hail your stealth aircrafts, hail your AD electronics, hail your HGV's from Boeing or wherever they're from etc.
In other words, let's just bow down to ya yanks before you nut heads blow the rest of the world who haven't already been bombed to smithereens.
Can we close the thread now, it's turning into a flame war-unnecessary.
