Posted on 08/06/2022 1:07:58 PM PDT by libh8er
>>Taiwan has one advantage: they have a will to live keep their independence.<<
Don’t be so sure about that. I’ve worked with many Taiwanese over the years. If you ask them about independence from China, they’ll dip their heads and tell you that don’t speak about this.
Talk to someone from Hong Kong and they’ll have this glare of disdain for China.
Chinese have longer range BVR missiles and can shoot the Taiwanese down before they are seen.
Just send them to blow up the three gorges and you win
Could they be only counting the ‘V’ version? As for the other F16s it looks like it is close to 150. Also says they have 60 Mirage Jets.
https://irp.fas.org/world/taiwan/af-intro.htm
Also heavy rains at the start of the monsoon season...while Three Gorges dam is well below critical height...dams below and above 3 gorges are at capacity...heavy flooding all over.
The Chinese have positioned thousands of surface-to-surface missiles across the straight from Taiwan.
I’m thinking the commies don’t really want an all-out war that would likely destroy the coveted manufacturing, particularly chip technology.
That said, the Chi-coms want to intimidate Taiwan into giving in to their demands, but make no mistake, the mainland is dead serious regarding the absorption of Taiwan.
Oh sure
Making existential threats is a sure way to make China too afraid of Taiwan to put an end to the danger, for good
Harpoons are big bamn missles. I can’t believe a lawn dart can carry one.
Part of the difference in attitude is whether the Taiwanese are former mainland KMT immigrants or whether they are pre-Japanese rule immigrants.
I think a lot of the business relationships with PRC are developed by ex-KMT who have family and cultural ties with areas in the PRC.
The US should never have let Chiang Kai-shek and his followers into Taiwan. Taiwan would already be independent by now had not the KMT perpetuated the fiction for decades that they were the one government of all of China.
They carried 2,000 pounders from Israel to Iraq.
Freedom’s Enforcer
Yes, a lot of people have discussed the possibility.
But consider: if any country - e.g.Taiwan, Japan, the US - made a conventional attack on China that did the same damage as one or more nuclear weapons, simply because of where it hit - then China would treat that as a nuclear attack.
They wouldn't slap their sides, and say 'good one! We are honor-bound not to reply with nukes, because you used only conventional missiles to kill a million people'
No. They would strike back, and launch 150 kt tactical nukes until they had inflicted damage roughly equivalent to the damage they'd received.
They don't have anything like the Russia or US nuclear stockpiles, but there’s not much out of range of the Chinese nuclear arm. Their Jin-launched missiles can strike Hawaii and Alaska. Their land-based stuff can hit pretty much anything made by man, except for the little flag at Tranquility Base.
So please Freepers, carefully consider what China would actually do if the US did blow up the Three Gorges Dam.
The Chinese would put several holes in San Francisco, or nuclear-snipe every CBG they could find and they would retain the moral high ground - because (in this awful scenario) the US would have struck first.
maybe some of that manufacturing will end up back in the U.S..
Great minds think alike.
Officially they're the F-16 Falcon but everyone just called them F-16s.
("Viper" was an unofficial name from the late 1970s in reference to the television series 'Battlestar Galactica').
Not sure where you’ve been, but Lockheed designates the 2016 update as the “F-16V”.
How does destroying the 3 Gorges Dam wipe out 40% of China’s population, when 80% of their population is too far away to be effected? Look at the map, who you claim is like saying the destruction of Hover Dam would wipe out 30% of the population of the US. Also, your other numbers are way off.
Will it cause problems, some of which could be catastrophic? Yes, but your claims are way off kilter.
They make no logical sense.
Outside of the Lockheed marketing department, I never knew anyone who referred to them as Vipers anymore.
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