[lentulusgracchus]

The PLAN has a lot more bodies than the JMSDF. A Chinese invasion of Japan would use up a lot of them on both sides.

A straight fight between the two navies would probably be a walkover for the Japanese. They probably wouldn't even bother to ask us for help, except to make sure the phone lines still worked, lol.

[EdisonOne]

Re: A straight fight between the two navies would probably be a walkover for the Japanese.

Hmmmm... that might hold true a decade or two ago. The reality of the matter however is this: If the central ojective of the PLA-N is focused on the US Pacific Fleet, which it is, and which the PLA-N is not shy about letting Keating’s in on it; then, if your Pentium IV computes as should, it should give you a pretty good picture of what the PLA-N is all about. Meaning if the Japanese Self Defense Force’s strategy is to out number the ChiCom’s frigate for frigate and destroyer for destroyers by 50 boats, then the strategy of the ChiCom’s is to out number Japan’s submarine force by twice the number with cutting edge and deadly antiship missiles and super “Shkvatl-ype-Torpedoes”.

[magslinger]

I am a little less assured of JMSDF winning against PLAN. There are so freaking many Chinese. I am not saying (and did not say) the Chinese necessarily would win, just that it would be a very target rich environment for the JNs and a lot of good men would die.

That Chinese carrier OTOH would begin a new career as fish habitat right off.