China's first-wave amphibious tanks heading for Taiwan will survive with variant support vessels and other robotic assets in a networked drone defense during the dangerous run to the beaches.
China can't protect individual amphibious tanks with point-defense systems, so it will put a figurative cope cage over the entire wave:
The contemporary discourse on drone-driven warfare rarely suggests the end of maneuver, but it highlights an increasingly perilous gap between tactical movement and force survivability in a hypertransparent environment. Against this backdrop, the Chinese People’s Liberation Army’s sustained commitment to amphibious armor invites examination of how a high-end force intends to bridge that gap in the contested littoral space. The recent discovery of a mine-clearing variant built on China’s new amphibious armored vehicle chassis, successor to the Type-05 series, shows that Beijing is not pivoting away from the littoral zone in the face of drone proliferation. Instead, China’s defense industrial base continues to develop specialized variants that transform the platforms and the army and marine corps brigades that field them into a self-contained breaching ecosystem. This continuous hardware evolution signals a permanent pillar of China’s force design.
Will the PLA match Hobart's funnies designed for D-Day in the variety of variants to fight their way ashore through a Hellscape of fires and drones?
If so, there will be more grains of sand deposited on the beach and hovering offshore to create the PLA beachhead on Taiwan. With all that implies.
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