Increasing the number of Shenyang J-16 fighters based on the (STC) as the group could help stop an aerial breakthrough. One of the concerns of the PLA forces is to keep an aerial breakthrough from happening if hostilities in Taiwan break out, based on recent aerial drills.
China Bolsters STC with Shenyang J-16 Fighters
A Twitter post by Chinese military aviation expert Andreas Rupprecht had shown a J-16 touchdown at Suixi air base in Guangdong, headquarters to the 6th Air Brigade, reported EurAsian Times.
The Southern Theatre Command is part of the PLAAF powering up in the southern direction to boost the ETCs Taiwan Special Military Operation (SMO). It shows that Beijing is ready to assault Taipei by force if its attempt to unite is false, as Taipei wants to secede. PLA commanders are sure the US Military will break through a blockage placed by it in the northern South China Sea, noted China Times.
It was reported the PLAN is improving sub-killing skills using Y-8Q aircraft for night submarine detection drills. PLAN will kill all US Navy subs in the Basi Channel and the Luzon Strait in a rising section of the SCS.
Adding the Shenyang J-16 Heavy Flanker said Rupprecht the Suixi and 6th Air Brigade, which uses Russian Su-35 and Su-30MKK as trainers. The base has had the WZ-Z UAV and bombers that have shifted.
He added that the Su-30s and maybe the Su-35s would be stationed somewhere, suggesting that two J-16s groups would make eight or ten in each group or dadui to stop an aerial breakthrough.
Beijing To Prevent US Aerial Breakthrough, Taiwanese Forces
If there is a Taiwan contingency, J-20, H-6K, J-10, and J-16s from the PLAAF and PLAN will precede to engage all US, allies, and Taiwanese forces in the sea and air assaults. These will be initiated by joint isolation and command, ocean attack, land attack, and air supremacy activities. The August exercises performed all the above motions and thus are anticipated to pan out more or less the same way.
Bombarding Taiwan with such a deluge of vessels from its civilian paramilitary force and heritage jets transformed drones like the J-6, J-7, and J-8 is yet another significant change.
Taiwan is compelled to use up its anti-ship and air defense missiles. China has identified possible landing zones in particular instances when an amphibious operation is necessary. These will be conducted by civilian roll-on, roll-over (RoRo) ships and car carriers transporting hundreds of tanks, armored personnel carriers, infantry fighting vehicles, and military trucks.
The Chinese military has loaded ZBD-04 or VN17 IFVs, PLZ-05 self-propelled guns (SPG), tactical vehicles, and the ZTD-05 amphibious armored vehicles from Ro-Ro vessels as part of an official arrangement well described by state-run media. The use of landing platform docks and landing helicopter docks called amphibious assault ships have their group of ground vehicles and attack helicopters.
Whereas China doesn't face a significant threat from the small and meager Taiwanese military, it only faces three problems: the first is a military intervention by the United States that could impede Chinese military actions.
Even though China's current level of preparedness can prevent and potentially take on such a possible outcome. It will still be a significant pressure point. The J-16 Flankers might have two daduis of it in the Southern Theatre Command to restrain US aerial breakthrough, per Military Today.
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