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The airbases on the Vietnam mainland are much harder to destroy, PLA need to go through multiple layers of anti-aircraft defenses before reaching the target. And mainland airbases are much larger, so you need a lot of more bombs and missiles to disable them. Also you have more heavy equipments, resources and manpower to quickly repair the runway. And I don't think the Chinese will station any jetfighters on those tiny islands, it will be suicide. I just think they build those runways to show that they own the place and will stay permanently. PLA generals sometime think and doing stuffs more for showing/saving face than rational/logicalif war breaks out, any runway is a target, regardless be located either on mainland or island. consider, our fighter jets Su27/30 need about 15 min to reach Spratlys. and that´s sometimes in crisis it is too long, too late. unless we have long runways and hangars on islands for our jets.
the army shall put heavy anti aircraft defence on islands once runways are constructed.
we used to order the aircraft in spain. do you know how many aircraft we have ordered in your country and what capacity the bird has?
I don´t think the chinese spend billions of dollar creating artificial islands, runways and other civil and military facilities just for fun. no. their aim is obviously: controlling the SC Sea by their military outposts. they will station aircraft and missiles on the islands. 100 per cent. I want to be an optimist, but I think we must calculate with the worst case scenario.
ok, didn´t know that Spain stops producing the aircraft. the airforce seems sastified by the aircraft, that makes sense ordering them more at Indonesia if demand is there. maybe the VPN may have placed one or two aircraft to check out the quality.
ok, didn´t know that Spain stops producing the aircraft. the airforce seems sastified by the aircraft, that makes sense ordering them more at Indonesia if demand is there. maybe the VPN may have placed one or two aircraft to check out the quality.
do you know if you have such C-295 variant?
I don´t think the chinese spend billions of dollar creating artificial islands, runways and other civil and military facilities just for fun. no. their aim is obviously: controlling the SC Sea by their military outposts. they will station aircraft and missiles on the islands. 100 per cent. I want to be an optimist, but I think we must calculate with the worst case scenario.
right now we have 48 outposts in the Spratlys, but no runway long enough to host our fighter jets. again, the jets need 15 min to get there if a crisis ever occurs. why isn´t it possible for us to create a comprehensive defence network with our 48 outposts, to protect the islands and jets? the runway can be used by the jets in case of an emergency landing. technical reason for example. also, our fighter jets can extend the operation radius if they start from spratlys. we can react quicker if the jets are there. two are enough as quick reaction force.
