China would need thousands of different crafts and hundreds of thousands of troops at staging areas, an invasion force of that size would be noticeable months in advance. It took coalitions months to prepare for desert storm, launching an amphibious invasion on Taiwan would be the most difficult...
wasn't a diss, it was a reality check, Russia has a lot of projects but can't afford any of them in large numbers, examples are Armata and Su-57
Russian defense industry is also pretty crippled right now due to lack of exports, so it will only get worse.
if it was a truck bomb you would see a massive crater in the road section and not just intact roads collapsed. its impossible to say the scale of damage under the bridge without proper photos, rather than relying on couple 1 min videos that show glimpses of it. But clearly the structural element...
couple weeks ago Russians discovered unmanned boat on Crimean coast, most likely the same vessel or possibly a bigger one was used as a suicide vehicle
Crimean bridge has security scanners that scan every commercial truck that passes through and the logistics of pulling that off, unmanned vessel...
According to Oryx, Russians have been visually confirmed to have lost nearly 100 tanks in the last week alone, those 30 tanks are enough for just 2 to 3 days at such rate of losses.
Here is a quote by General David Berger
“What we have to do now is transition to a lighter footprint, more expeditionary, more in support of a littoral environment,”
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/us-marine-corps-deactivating-all-tank-battalions-thanks-china-165894
Weight is literally...
And that orientation is supposed to turn Marines into a more mobile and flexible force, which is why they have removed a heavy near 70 ton tank from service, weight was the main issue.
Marines are expecting to conduct island hopping operations in SCS, you think supporting a 70 ton tank in such...
Lol the drones are literally launched from a civilian dump truck, with the launch platform looking like it was constructed in someone's garage, what kind of quality would they expect?
You think USN is gonna be blocking shipment of iphones? they are gonna be blocking your energy imports, vast majority of your energy imports come through the few choke points within SCS
This video explains it pretty well
China has direct copies of Soviet carrier based Su-33s, just because they were built somewhat recently doesn't somehow make them any better than the Soviet version, those fighters cannot provide any form of protection against USN air power, also China is just developing its 5th gen aircraft for...
US Naval Power is not even just in its ships, which the entire world can't even match, its in the air power, we are talking about more than a thousand latest 4th gen and 5th gen combat aircraft between both Marines and Navy.
China is pumping out ships like no other, but they are lagging way...
Whose position is justified? The whole reason NATO continues to expand is due to Russia, just few weeks ago Russia began threatening Sweden and Finland and now those countries are seriously considering joining NATO, if Russia was a peaceful neighbor NATO would serve no purpose, it is entirely on...
