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Obsolete? By whose standards? Yours? So even if the Iraqi military's command and control structures are not as technologically sophisticated as ours, does it mean it does not work? Are you opining from experience?No i clearly know what i am talking about as i read about it before, i just want to know what you are talking about beyond the bombings of obsolete Iraqi command and control systems.
As far as the Iraqi air defense radar goes...The main goal is efficiency reduction. The degree of that reduction depends on the methods employed.
- Denial
This is where those radar stations are destroyed.
- Prevention
This is where the fear of destruction discourage transmissions. No transmit, no air defense possible.
- Disruption
This is where the control centers, and there are many of them, have their communications to each other destroyed or degraded. The inability for a networked air defense system to communicate with each other allows the attackers to exploit inevitable radar coverage gaps and bypass the entire air defense system altogether.
In Desert Storm, there were combinations of the above three in different areas of Iraq. US Army Apaches destroyed some, not all, Iraqi air defense radars at crucial border points, creating coverage gaps for the incoming greater air forces. But roughly at the same time, F-117s already penetrated Iraqi air space despite air defense radar coverage.
For radars, it will be variations of what were proven with Desert Storm. For satellites, China does not have as much satellites as the US and therefore does not receive the same amount of space based intelligence. The effectiveness of what is received is debatable, of course.How would the USA disable the Chinese sattelite and radar system,...
In a total war, short of nuclear exchanges, many of those submarine bases would be targeted and attacked by US air power. Same for air bases. During the bombing campaign in Yugoslavia, B-2s from Whiteman AFB flew non-stop from CONUS to Europe and back. Not a single loss.What logistical means could USA win a war against a country with 70+ submarines and thousands of airplanes and thousands of military bases?
And you believe wrong. The reason why Desert Storm was such a success was because the US fought many '4th generation' wars in intense and highly realistic exercises. What you and others repeatedly failed to understand is that in the dependency of long distance awareness via radar detection, in war games, we in the EW business consider a radar 'hit' is just as good as bullet. The only thing left are the actual bullets and missiles themselves and in that we leave to other people experts in those fields. It is precisely because of the repeated argument -- the US have never fought -- that so many 'analysts' ended up with so many eggs on their faces when Desert Storm ended with US troops were more in danger of fratricide than from the Iraqi military.USA have never fought against jets in 4th generation in any war scenario i believe,...
If there is a total war between US and China, short of a nuclear exchange, elements of the PLA will suffer the same results as elements of the Iraqi military.