Russia**: In the air war in the Taiwan Strait, the United States cannot defeat China, and China has two major advantages. On December 1, Russia's "Military Review" published a new article entitled "China Will Defeat the United States in the Air Battle over Taiwan", after reading the entire article, the Russian media believes that if a war breaks out in the Taiwan Strait in the future and the United States intervenes by force, China must first defeat the United States before it can gain air supremacy over the Taiwan Strait, while Russia believes that China has two major advantages.
According to the author of the article, he learned from various sources that at present the United States has a total of 2,125 fighters, including various modifications: 765, all modifications: 283;All modifications of the F-16: 578 units;F-22A: 165 units;F-35A: 334 units.
For any country, 2,125 warplanes is a very terrifying number, and the comprehensive performance of these 2,000 warplanes also proves that the United States can become the most powerful military force in the world. This is only a part of the strength of the US military, and if it is combined with the so-called invincible US Navy, it will be even more terrifying.
But in any case, in the past two decades, China's air force has become comparable to that of the United States, and the Pentagon considers the Chinese air force to be the biggest competitor to the US Air Force. If China wants to defeat the United States in an air battle in the Taiwan Strait, it must have enough fighters in the face of more than 2,000 American fighters.
The article also counts the number of major Chinese fighters at present, including: J-10, J-11, J-15, J-16, Su-35, Su-30 MKK, and China's fifth-generation fighter J-20, a total of 1554 units.
But you have to know that if the United States really participates in the Taiwan war, how many fighters can it send to the Taiwan Strait?After all, the mainland of the United States is far away from the Taiwan Strait, and the straight-line distance from Taiwan to Taiwan is 1,249,245.5 kilometers. Even with the addition of US fighters in the military bases of Japan and South Korea near the Taiwan Strait, there are definitely fewer aircraft capable of conducting air battles against China in the Taiwan Strait than China.
Not only in terms of numerical superiority, but more importantly, China's fighter jets are not worse than the United States in terms of performance, and once a war starts, China can produce more fighters than the United States in a short period of time, and this is where China is strong. And the maintenance cost of Chinese fighters is also far more than that of the United States!
China's strategic goals are completely different from those of the United States, which wants to become a world hegemon and therefore requires a lot of military spending. However, China has no desire to seek hegemony, and China's military and defense capabilities are mainly used to defend China's domestic and foreign economic security. Therefore, if China and the United States go to war, it is very likely to happen in China's coastal waters. One of the places where war could break out is the Taiwan Strait.
But whether in the South China Sea, the East China Sea, or the Taiwan Strait, China has its own home advantage, which means that in the event of a war, China can easily concentrate its regional power and strike harder blows at the United States and its allies.
It turns out that the U.S. forces must be deployed remotely and rely on regional partners' bases and refueling permits to bring troops to areas of conflict with China without hindrance. In addition, the biggest reason why China was able to defeat the United States is China's logistics system, the industrial system determines the strategic sustainability of a country, and the logistics system represents a country's ability to obtain the maximum supply in the shortest possible time. On both points, the United States is inferior to China, and therefore, the United States cannot support China in fighting a war of attrition.
Any war between the United States and China will be a full-scale war, of course, this is not only the Air Force or Navy This factor can be decided, the victory or defeat of this war is not just the number of equipment, but also other factors, such as information control, guidance, industrial production, logistics support, etc., in addition, there is an important factor, that is, unity.
Therefore, for the Taiwan Strait, China has the determination to win, but the United States does not have the courage and courage, because Taiwan is only a means used by the United States to weaken China, and without Taiwan, there are also Japan, the Philippines, and so on, all of which are victims of China. Therefore, we must clearly recognize China's bottom line on the Taiwan issue, not the bottom line of the United States!
As we said before, the industrial system and logistics system of the United States are inferior to those of China. From this point of view, the only thing that the United States can compete with China is the information control system and guidance, but in this regard, both countries have an absolute advantage.
In the eyes of many people, the United States relies on China's military bases and powerful aircraft carrier groups to cause huge trouble to China, but China has not only a navy, but also medium-range ballistic missiles and supersonic missiles.
Therefore, judging from the current situation, it is unlikely that there will be a war in China, and the Taiwan Strait issue is unlikely to occur. However, in the long run, the war between China and the United States will remain under control for a long time.
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