jhungary
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Yes pacific Ocean has enough space to hold USN PACIFIC BATTLE GROUPS
Well, it really depends on fleet command quality. It's the same question as whether or not tanks is obsolete because we see how they are vulnerable to ATGM. Problem is, if you ram a tank in column like a sunday drive, then anything can get you. It's not the matter of what you use, but how you use it.
The problem here is, unless US try to get straight in between Taiwan and China, if they do that, they will suffer very serious consequence, on the other hand, would they need to? Because in a case of China v Taiwan, what you are going to see is China have to make the first move, I mean as in China is "attacking" so if US navy or anyone is involved, what they need to do is to wait for it.
That said, I would have to say unless China attack US asset in Japan or South Korea (It would be pretty dumb to attack Guam and Hawaii unless you want to bring NATO in) the chances of US getting involved in this are very slim, they would most likely just going to transfer ships and aircraft to the Taiwanese and get that done with.
You say that now, but I was doing a war game between China and Taiwan a few months ago with my current think tank (not PDF think thank, I work for a security think tank in Australia) and it was the small stuff that going to get you. Because after the big stuff like F-22, F-35 and J-20 more or less "Cancel" each other out, who have more capable 4th gen fighter will win.
In my game scenario, I control China, and literally got smack in the face by USAF F-15E/EX, F-16, Super hornet, F-15J and F-2 and Taiwanese F-16V after my J-20 and F-22/F-35 taken out each other. The sheer number of Legacy platform these 3 countries have between them cannot be ignored. And everything, even as small as Philippine FA-50, would have find a way to be useful in war.
That's the same with the Navy.
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