A straits of T. battel would be over economically in about 40 minutes.
USN/British attack submarines would use the expensive ammo on the high tech flagships and escape at depth and at 35kts flank faster than the surface screeners can turn. The under reporting of how good the free islands surface to surface missles are picking out chinese combatants is under reported. China is just giving away electronic warfare infomation every time they go to sea in force. With the top 5% of the chines’ navy taken out the rest runs for the protection of home port as the T air force runs a 36 hour war on every boat in the strait while the chinese air force is gamed around with flights of US Navy recon drones and EF-18s. The battlefield information system of the good guys in that part of the world is epic good.
Lots of poor hardware has gone against the USN over the past 50 years, beyond ROI mistakes, Floating Mines, or Watch Mistakes, name a significant hit?
You post like ChatGPT.