Kyle Mizokami, Yahoo News/The National Interest: We 'Fought' a War in the South China Sea. The Results are Disturbing.
America and China battle it out in a simulation. We have the results.
We 'Fought' a War in the South China Sea. The Results are Disturbing.
Moving at more than 40 knots, Fort Worth and Freedom begin closing the gap.Qinzhou and Changde both turn to face Fort Worth. Apparently they want to fight. I’ll oblige them. Both LCSs are under orders to engage the enemy as soon as they come close enough to fire their Griffin surface-to-surface missiles. Between the two of them, they have 30 Griffins. At four miles, Fort Worth opens up on Qinzhou with her 57-millimeter gun.Qinzhou immediately returns fire with her 76-millimeter gun, lightly damaging Fort Worth. Unfortunately, Fort Worth’s Rolling Airframe missile launcher is destroyed early on, meaning she is out of active anti-missile defenses.
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WNU Editor: Battles are usually determined by how much fire-power can you bring to the table. My sense is that the above article (written a few years ago) is correct. The U.S will outgunned in a battle for the South China Sea .... at least in the beginning.
5 comments:
Battles are turned by tactics, strategy,and experience ,firepower is not always the deciding factor.
I have reduced my use of National Interest. Too many speculative articles fluffed up for ad revenues on those fattened up pages.
I read and have something even more disturbing.
National Interest does not know the difference between a battle and a war.
I'd agree. China is encircled. It's not just Japan and the US that would fight China. Almost immediately the rest of NATO would join by treaty. On top south Korea, India etc would pounce on China. The USs strength is also that they have far far superior logistics. Even in 1991 the US military started using narrow AI for logistics (check project D.A.R.T. which was a huge success during desert storm). ..on top, China is very much playing the pretend game. We saw that with their faked gdp lately. Instead of 11 trillion, they barely produce 9 trillion. There's less than half of the UD but they need 4 times more people to do it. Having said that, it'd be very very bloody and the closer the US would have to fight at china's shores the worse it'll get. .not just because of denial of area systems (the famous aircraft carrier killers etc) but because supplying over such distances puts the US at huge disad vantage. But ultimately China will fail because so many countries take issue (to say the least) with their actions and aggressions over the last couple of decades.
The Chinese will attack eastern Russia. They outnumber the Russkis 10 to 1.
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