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The US can't deter an attack on Taiwan, Taiwan might be “liberated” in the not too distant future

Since the fall of Qing Dynasty, China has never been truly unified despite tens of millions of Chinese youth fought and died for this dream generation after generation during the past century.

 
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China’s capability to invade Taiwan may not be as obvious as it seems. As China builds up its overall length and breadth of its capabilities, considering its extensive diversity of landscapes, it will probably build up an enormous helicopter fleet. So if and/or when an invasion is threatened, it will probably be in the form of thousands of helicopters, quietly repositioned from all over China to staging bases near Taiwan, and then crossing the straits in under an hour, right on the heels of massive Rocket forces and air forces bombardments of anything and everything that could be a possible threat. It may look like something like this US marine corp Air Assault, but protected with an equally large number of Attack helicopters and CAS aircraft providing cover to the LZs.
I guess my intuition was right again. The US also thinks China will use a massive helicopter fleet to do a massive air assault against Taiwan.



Probably the following video times 50-100; if China tries to match the US it would need 1200 attack and scout helicopters and 1200 transport helicopters, which at the current rate could be by the mid 2030s.

So, IMHO, realistically China would probably have enough full spectrum capability for a full scale invasion of Taiwan with enough capability to deal with any other party by the mid 2030s. The next decade or so will be very interesting.
 
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