Posted on 01/27/2021 4:26:52 AM PST by caww
Armed and ready to go, Taiwan air force jets screamed into the sky on Tuesday in a drill to simulate a war scenario, showing its fleet’s battle readiness after dozens of Chinese warplanes flew into the island’s air defence zone over the weekend.
Taiwan, claimed by China as its territory, has been on edge since the large-scale incursion by Chinese fighters and nuclear-capable bombers into the southwestern part of its air defence identification zone on Saturday and Sunday, which coincided with a U.S. carrier group entering the South China Sea.
The base in the southern city of Tainan, home to F-CK-1 Ching-kuo Indigenous Defence Fighters (IDF), frequently scrambles jets to intercept China’s air force.
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10% for the Big Guy and he’ll hand
over Taiwan to the CCP.
This might be good optics for domestic politics, but Taiwan should focus its energies (and defense budget!) on SAMs, anti-ship missiles, mines and other asymmetric tools to counter a much more powerful adversary.
Taiwan can defend itself! But only if it focuses on defenses that actually make sense. A big Air Force of F-16s doesn’t really make any sense - it’s just more targets for Chinese missiles.
The trouble with nations playing brinksmanship games is that the actual play pieces, the pilots in the planes, may not take them as games. When China repeatedly tells its troops they must be ready to die at any moment, those troops may take...really must take, those comments as real. Add into the mix that not everyone is intelligent, stable, thoughtful and calm. So, take that one in a hundred guy who looks great in a uniform, but underneath is a seething mass of crazy, throw in testosterone and...BAM!...you have a shooting incident.
A reporter was interviewing a street gang leader. They were discussing how the territories work. The interviewer asked, “What happens if one of your guys goes into the other territory and fires off a few rounds?” The gang leader said, “We in a world of $hit then!”
Uhm...yeah.
Xi Jin-Ping - “China is one country, and Taiwan is a part of it.”
Cai Ying-Wen - “China is one country and the Mainland is a part of it.”
If China wants Taiwan so bad, destroying it is not much of a solution.
Throughout history, the PRC has shown that it will readily-sacrifice 30 million people for strategic position.
To the PRC, Taiwan is a fence that prevents them from open access to the Pacific Ocean. That fence is impeding their goal of becoming a global superpower.
That fence must be removed at all costs.
The fence that is Japan and the Southeast Asian countries will be next.
Indeed. Kind of like a EP-3 flying over international waters being damaged by a collision with a Chinese fighter plane whose pilot had more stupidity than skill.
In the first hour of any war, Taiwan’s entire air force would be obliterated by Chinese missile strikes. If any got off the ground, they’d be easy targets for PLA SAMs.
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SAMS are a defensive weapon. I believe you are referring to SCUD type offensive weapons.
Having spent more than two decades there, I will say that Communists don't care at all what they have to destroy to get their way. They are Darwinist atheists who believe (it is a faith, not science) that the universe began with the chaotic state of the "Big Bang," and then good (an inhabitable earth) came from it . . . eventually.
Marxists/Leninists/Maoists apply Darwin to ideology. They use chaos to advance their "good" cause. If sufficient chaos does not spontaneously present itself, their patience ends, and they create the chaos they need for change.
Destroy an island? Kill millions? It is simply the "Big Bang" they need to advance all that "good" Marxist/Maoist socialism. They have the slave labor needed to rebuild Taiwan in their own image. Slave labor is what they used to build their showcase cities.
All of this, as you know, was illustrated in the chaos, the "Big Bang" episodes in American cities this past summer. The same mentality exists in the communist BLM and Antifa.
Nope. All of Taiwan is within range of Chinese SAMs. Any airborne aircraft could be targeted. And if one dodged Chinese SAMs, ballistic missiles or cruise missiles would take out the runway it took off from anyway. I don’t understand why Taiwan would even bother with a manned Air Force. Drones of course are another story.
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