For victory over China in the event of a war for Taiwan, the United States will have to use about 80 percent of naval and air power, writes the South China Morning Post newspaper, referring to the findings of the surveyed analysts.
Edition, calling the price of Americans’s victory over the Chinese, writes that the reflection of the possible blow of Beijing on the island will require from Washington to attract the conflict to the region of about 80 percent of its military air and naval forces (Air Force and Navy).
The newspaper reminds that the defeat of Iraq in 1990-1991 (during the war for the liberation of Kuwait – approx. “Lental.ru”) demanded to attract a conflict of six aircraft carrier groups (AUG) US Navy. According to the publication, “Today’s People’s Liberation Army of China (NAK) more grads than the Iraqi Armed Forces in the 1990s.”
South China Morning Post writes that, unlike Iraq, in the case of China, the United States “will face more serious problems in achieving superiority in the air,” because they will not be able to “death”, which guaranteed victory in previous conflicts.
One of the interlocutors of the publication who wished to remain unnamed, said that the American fifth generation F-35 Lightning II, which, after modernization, can become “work horses”, who play a key role in the “War of Exposure” after modernization. The source noted that Washington is ready to expose hundreds of such aircraft against Beijing, and recalled that in the year the United States is capable of producing up to 300 fighters of the fifth generation, while China is only up to 50.
also South China Morning Post notes that the Allied Washington in the conflict with Beijing can become Tokyo.
In this way, the journal commented on the command-staff games of the US Air Force, the result of which, as in April, the Edition of Defense News was written, “the victory of the United States was the victory where the US Air Force was helped to fight the Chinese military in Taiwan’s seizure.” In publications, in particular, it was noted that the sixth generation fighter created in the framework of the NEXT Generation Air Dominance program (NGAD), while F-35A Lightning II, could be used, while F-35A Lightning II attacked Chinese surface ships and terrestrial targets, defended American and Taiwanese objects from Chinese aircraft and ensured protection against winged missiles. “