Absolutely. National interest triumphs over all other obligations. However, China didn't have a national interest in Korea. The communists already controlled everything down to the 38th parallel. You fought for nothing more than Mao's wish to buddy up with Stalin.
Our national interest in North Korea is beyond monetary term.
your pilots sucked. the US airforce shot down your jets like chicken.
Go learn about the Korean War, kid. LOL Here is the portion of the aerial warfare.
Aerial warfare
Further information:
MiG Alley,
USAF Units and Aircraft of the Korean War and
Korean People's Air Force
For the initial months of the war, the
P-80 Shooting Star,
F9F Panther, and other jets under the UN flag dominated North Korea's prop-driven air force of Soviet
Yakovlev Yak-9 and
Lavochkin La-9s. The balance would shift with the arrival of the
swept-wing Soviet
MiG-15.
[270][271]
The Chinese intervention in late October 1950 bolstered the
Korean People's Air Force (KPAF) of North Korea with the MiG-15, one of the world's most advanced jet fighters.
[270] The fast, heavily armed MiG outflew first-generation UN jets such as the F-80 (
United States Air Force) and
Gloster Meteors (
Royal Australian Air Force) posing a real threat to
B-29 Superfortress bombers even under fighter escort. Fearful of confronting the United States directly, the Soviet Union denied involvement of their personnel in anything other than an advisory role, but air combat quickly resulted in Soviet pilots dropping their code signals and speaking over the wireless in Russian. This known direct Soviet participation was a
casus belli that the UN Command deliberately overlooked, lest the war for the Korean peninsula expand to include the Soviet Union, and potentially escalate into atomic warfare.
[270]
A
B-29 Superfortress bomber unloading its bombs.
The USAF countered the MiG-15 by sending over three squadrons of its most capable fighter, the
F-86 Sabre. These arrived in December 1950.
[272][273] The MiG was designed as a bomber interceptor. It had a very high
service ceiling—50,000 feet (15,000 m) and carried very heavy weaponry: one 37 mm cannon and two 23 mm cannons. They were fast enough to dive past the fighter escort of
P-80 Shooting Starsand
F9F Panthers and could reach and destroy the U.S. heavy bombers. B-29 losses could not be avoided, and the Air Force was forced to switch from a daylight bombing campaign to the necessarily less accurate nighttime bombing of targets. The MiGs were countered by the F-86 Sabres. They had a ceiling of 42,000 feet (13,000 m) and were armed with six .50 caliber (12.7 mm) machine guns, which were range adjusted by radar
gunsights. If coming in at higher altitude the advantage of engaging or not went to the MiG. Once in a level flight
dogfight, both swept-wing designs attained comparable maximum speeds of around 660 mph (1,100 km/h). The MiG climbed faster, but the Sabre turned and dived better.
[274]
In summer and autumn 1951, the outnumbered Sabres of the USAF's
4th Fighter Interceptor Wing—only 44 at one point—continued seeking battle in
MiG Alley, where the
Yalu River marks the Chinese border, against Chinese and North Korean air forces capable of deploying some 500 aircraft. Following Colonel
Harrison Thyng's communication with the Pentagon, the
51st Fighter-Interceptor Wing finally reinforced the beleaguered 4th Wing in December 1951; for the next year-and-a-half stretch of the war, aerial warfare continued.
[275] On the ground the battle lines had stabilized by early 1951 and a static front developed, which changed little till the armistice was signed in 1953.
[276]
A US Navy
Sikorsky HO4S flying near the
USS Sicily
UN forces held
air superiority in the Korean theater from the outset, but this was challenged by the arrival of the Soviet MiGs. It was regained in 1951 and was maintained for the duration of the conflict. This was decisive for the UN: first, for attacking into the peninsular north, and second, for resisting the Chinese intervention.
[264] North Korea and China also had jet-powered air forces. Their limited training and experience made it strategically untenable to lose them against the better-trained UN air forces. Thus, the
United States and the
Soviet Union fed matériel to the war, battling by proxy and finding themselves virtually matched, technologically, when the USAF deployed the F-86F against the MiG-15 late in 1952.
Unlike the Vietnam War, in which the Soviet Union only officially sent "advisers," in the Korean aerial war Soviet forces participated via the 64th Airborne Corps. 1,106 enemy airplanes were officially downed by the Soviet pilots, 52 of whom got ace status. The Soviet system of confirming air kills erred on the conservative side that is the pilot's words had to be corroborated and enemy aircraft falling into the sea were not counted, the number might exceed 1,106.
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citation needed]
After the war, and to the present day, the USAF reports an F-86 Sabre
kill ratio in excess of 10:1, with 792 MiG-15s and 108 other aircraft shot down by Sabres, and 78 Sabres lost to enemy fire.
[278][279] The Soviet Air Force reported some 1,100 air-to-air victories and 335 MiG combat losses, while China's
People's Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF) reported 231 combat losses, mostly MiG-15s, and 168 other aircraft lost. The KPAF reported no data, but the UN Command estimates some 200 KPAF aircraft lost in the war's first stage, and 70 additional aircraft after the Chinese intervention. The USAF disputes Soviet and Chinese claims of 650 and 211 downed F-86s, respectively. However, one unconfirmed source[
citation needed] claims that the U.S. Air Force has more recently cited 230 losses out of 674 F-86s deployed to Korea.
[274]
The Korean War was the first war in which
jet aircraft played the central role in air combat. Once-formidable fighters such as the
P-51 Mustang,
F4U Corsair, and
Hawker Sea Fury[280]—all
piston-engined, propeller-driven, and designed during World War II—relinquished their air-superiority roles to a new generation of faster,
jet-powered fighters arriving in the theater.
The Korean War marked a major milestone not only for fixed-wing aircraft, but also for
rotorcraft, featuring the first large-scale deployment of
helicopters for
medical evacuation (medevac).
[281] In 1944–1945, during the Second World War, the
YR-4 helicopter saw limited ambulance duty, but in Korea, where rough terrain trumped the
jeep as a speedy medevac vehicle,
[282] helicopters like the
Sikorsky H-19 helped reduce fatal casualties to a dramatic degree when combined with complementary medical innovations such as
Mobile Army Surgical Hospitals.
[283] The limitations of jet aircraft for
close air support highlighted the helicopter's potential in the role, leading to development of the
AH-1 Cobraand other helicopter gunships used in the Vietnam War (1965–75).
[281]
Notice we are weak relatively to the world power in those era. We don't produce any jet nor we have much experience consider we were in a civil war. Yet despite all odd, we manage to push back US's led UN back when we intervene. Land war: biggest winner: China, Sea: US, Air: Draw.
can you tell me how many chinese would have places in such shelters and how long could they survive on the surface after nuclear blasts?
Against a country of Vietnam, I am confident we will last longer. The Cuchi tunnel is nothing compare to the thousand of miles underground network we built. LOL
