- colbyrules8
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Posted by: Duardo
Not really. Your mom is over quite enough to make my fears mute.
Posted by: colbyrules8
Posted by: Duardo
Being alone. You're a mod, you should be used to that.
Posted by: ANinjaGuardian
Posted by: MilitaryTheorist
Posted by: colbyrules8
ANinjaGuardian- it would take a few weeks, at most, for us to have Naval and Air superiority.
Too lazy to respond. Guardian, you gotz this.
Yeah it would take a lot longer. Their missile defenses are a lot more robust than most westerners think and their air force is a lot more robust than they were in the 60s and 70s.
Their Air Force has a lot to prove though but air superiority would still be a challenge. The PRC has the 2nd largest Air Force but they have a lot to prove, they have never been in a war which required air power so they don't have any combat experience to draw aerial tactics from so pilot training could be a factor for the PRC.
Most of the good Chinese pilots who flew against the Japanese in World War 2 were with the Nationalists so most of them fled to Taiwan. Which was why Taiwan's Air Force kicked the PRC's air force during a series of aerial skirmishes between them in the 1950s. It also helped that the Taiwanese fighters were equipped with American air to air missiles.
There's also the issue of maintenance, their Air Force looks intimidating, but the Chinese haven't really proved that they could keep their entire aerial fleet well maintained. Most likely they try to keep their fleet maintained like any other serious Air Force.
As for China's Navy, well their Navy is basically a missile defense system. However if this hypothetical conflict takes place in a few decades than Naval superiority could be a problem, by then the Chinese may have built up a significantly more powerful Navy. I doubt a nation could hold out for ten years in a conventional war with the US. While you could say,"Well, they don't have to fight conventionally", you are now using a cop-out because who would be making this hypothetical navy right in front of the US?
Also, I think people fail to realize how powerful the US could be if we went back to a manufacturing stage like we did in WWII (where people had rations and almost every factory and worker was either making weapons, ammo, and vehicles or other supplies for the troops). While you could say ," China has many more workers and factories" . That is true, but they don't have the know-how to produce supplies up to the US standards and by the time they get all of this up and running the US would more than likely have air superiority, rendering these factories useless.