All the smart kids want Taiwan to wage an asymmetric battle with lots of cheap air and sea drones to defeat a Chinese invasion. What if China nullifies the drones long enough to get a bridgehead?
China--like a lot of other countries are, including America--is working on microwave weapons to knock out drones on a large scale:
China has revealed new details about a high power microwave weapon it says can disable drone swarms at distances beyond those claimed by comparable US systems.
The truck mounted system, known as the Hurricane 3000, is designed to destroy or shut down drones by frying onboard electronics with focused microwave energy.
That would take a lot of the panties out of the flinging, no?
What if China mounted a lot of those on lots of modularized auxiliary cruisers --in addition to other versions shielding the invasion fleet--to disable all those magical drones during the invasion of Taiwan?
People note that adaptation in the drone war in the Winter War of 2022 takes place in weeks. But if China strikes while it has an edge, that might be enough time for China to entrench on Taiwan and persuade America to accept a ceasefire rather than risk war with a nuclear-armed China sitting on the defensive close to its shores; or risk our economy in a long war of blockade and loss of trade.
That ceasefire would allow China to prepare the final conquest in a subsequent war, as I argued in Military Review.
NOTE: TDR Winter War of 2022 coverage continues here.
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