In the middle of this year, a more professional American news website published an article, using photos taken by American civil satellites to refer to it:
The People's Liberation Army built a "missile position" in a hilly area facing the Taiwan Strait in Fujian, and discussed the use of this missile position and gave several possibilities.
Some say it is an air defense missile position used to defend the Taiwan Army's short-range ballistic missile , and some say it is used as a preset position for long-range rocket launchers and PLA short-range ballistic missiles.
However, it happened to catch up with the Taiwan military's first "short-range ballistic missile test launch without high limit", so this kind of analysis should be reasonable.
Although the power balance between the two sides of the Taiwan Strait is disproportionate today, if compared horizontally around the world, the technical level of the armed force on Taiwan Island can also be among the best.
In the past three decades, after Jiang Ching-kuo led the political reform, the quality of the Taiwan military personnel has been getting worse every year, but it still barely maintains a relatively large-scale tactical air force.
The current Taiwan Air Force has a total of nearly 700 aircraft, including about 150 F-16A/B/V. The Taiwan Army's F-16V is a downgraded version of the same model of the US Army.
has been downgraded on the avionics system, and does not have a built-in electronic warfare system of the same type of aircraft of the US military. If there is a need for this aspect during combat, it requires an external electronic warfare pod, and its technical and tactical performance is between the F-16C and F-16V used by the US military.
In addition, there are about 60 Phantom 2000s, about 130 IDFs (Jingguo No.), about 300 American-made F-5E Tiger fighters, and some other auxiliary support aircraft.
From the perspective of systematic construction at the tactical air force level, the system of the air force is relatively complete, with a large fleet size, exceeding one-third of the PLA. Several types of fighter aircraft equipped with
have the ability to compete for air supremacy and carry out near-ground support strikes on the front line. Of course, they lack large-scale support platforms such as tankers and early warning aircraft .
But considering that the preset combat airspace of the Taiwan military is completely within the air situation of the Taiwan military, this is not a big problem, so during wartime, the air power of the Taiwan authorities is a major threat that the People's Liberation Army mainly considers.
Taiwan Army's F-16, Phantom-2000 and F-5E both have the ability to carry a variety of air-to-surface missiles , which can attack the PLA's landing craft and light and heavy armored targets. It is the only weapon platform that the Taiwan Army can support the frontline during the landing battle and the deep advancement to Taiwan Island after logging in.
But it is not easy to paralyze the Taiwan Air Force. On the one hand, is their relatively large scale. On the other hand, the construction of the Taiwan Air Force also fully considers the possible tit-for-tat of the People's Liberation Army.
is distributed on Taiwan Island, which has an area of only 30,000 square kilometers. There are more than a dozen air force bases and a large number of air defense missile systems. Taiwan Island is almost one of the most dense areas outside the entire East Asia region except the Korean Peninsula.
In terms of air force infrastructure construction, the bases of the Taiwan Air Force are mainly distributed on the east and west sides of Taiwan Island, and the terrain of Taiwan Island is relatively undulating.
plains are distributed on the east and west sides of Taiwan Island. The central mountain range lies in the middle to separate the two sides of Taiwan Island. The military base facing the mainland side to the west of Taiwan Island is not very strong, but there are several very strong military airports on the east side of Taiwan Island, which is difficult to be paralyzed by ordinary long-range strikes. A representative example of
is Jiashan Air Force Base in the eastern part of Taiwan Island.
Although the PLA currently has a sufficient number of medium and short-range ballistic missiles and has established a relatively comprehensive and comprehensive "regional denial" combat system.
But the enemy is not a fool either. Taiwan Army has also carried out targeted construction of the People's Liberation Army's combat system for many years. Relying on these long-distance strikes alone cannot guarantee the complete paralysis of the Taiwan Army's important strategic facilities for a long time.
This will talk about some important projects of the Taiwan military in the last century. In the late 1970s, with the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and the United States, the United States withdrew its troops in Taiwan, and cross-strait relations suddenly came to a subtle new stage.
Although there are not many trends in the mainland, Chiang Ching-kuo did not let go. Instead, he began to lead political reforms in the late 1970s while promoting a number of long-term military construction projects. " Jiashan Plan " is one of them.
The idea of this plan is very simple, which is to hollow out the eastern side of Taiwan's central mountain range into an underground military base, and will build the hangar of Taiwan's advanced combat aircraft in a cave to avoid the PLA's medium- and short-range strategic strikes to preserve combat strength. When
was finally implemented, they built a 3,000-meter-length runway at Hualien Air Force Airport in Taiwan. The entire aviation operation area of Airport is connected to dozens of cave hangars of large and small.
early design allowed more than 250 fighter jets to be stationed. In addition to the hangar of , the fuel bank, ammunition bank, , hospitals, combat command facilities, and personnel residential areas are all set up in caves. Several air defense missile positions have been established around . The US-made "Patriot" and the "Sky Bow" series of air defense missiles are deployed by the Taiwan military.
The base was launched from the establishment of project in 1979 and officially started construction in 1984. It was announced to be initially completed in 1992. After , it underwent multiple rounds of expansion. By 1996, it had spent more than NT$40 billion .
was expanded several times in the subsequent millennial era, and the Taiwan military moved the entire military combat command system into the Jiashan base.
Nowadays, Jiashan Base is one of the few " Cold War ruins" that are still operating in the world. is a very strong military barrier from the perspective of the Cold War. It is one of the most solid air bases in the entire East Asia region. It is probably the only one of the more solid air bases than Jiashan Base. The Cheyenne Mountain Base where North American Air Defense Command is located!
Until today, the outside world knows very little about the Jiashan base. In addition to a rough understanding of the scale of its entire base facilities, only knows that the Taiwan military has at least 5 squadrons and nearly 100 fighter jets stationed here.
But in fact, according to the multiple expansion scales of the Taiwan authorities afterwards, it can operate up to more than 70% of the combat aircraft that can accommodate more than 70% of the Taiwan military.
We do not have a good remote strike method for such an extremely strong military facility with a main body located underground, because all the main facilities at the base except the runway are under the cover of the mountain.
The deep granite layer of the mountain can defend against all the attacks of conventional weapons . and even the current mainstream equivalent strategic nuclear weapons are helpless. To destroy such a solid base from a long distance, I am afraid that super thermal nuclear weapons with a capacity of 100 million tons were needed in the Cold War period.
The damage that conventional weapons can cause to this base is simply blowing out some pits on the runway, but this level of damage is easy to repair.
2005. In 2008, a certain unit of the People's Liberation Army Air Force, which was , Guangzhou Military Region , conducted drills and researches with similar backgrounds.
The background is assuming that a PLA base was hit by a strategic enemy attack during wartime, and more than 8 anti-runway bombs hit the airport runway and left more than ten larger craters. These craters were evenly distributed on the entire runway to block the takeoff and landing of the aircraft.
If you are an amateur, you will definitely think this is a successful "paralyze strike". But in fact, the Air Force Engineers stationed at the base repaired all dozens of bullet craters in just two hours, and the airport quickly resumed operations.
This is not a very profound operation. During the Cold War, the US and Soviet militaries had more exaggerated achievements in similar subjects.
actually quickly repairs the damaged airport runway to restore its operation. It is the main responsibility of modern air force engineers and repairs the runway is also technically easy, by preparing enough prefabricated building materials in advance, as well as a modular civil engineering operation process.
The armies of many countries have performed well in this regard, Therefore, "counter-runway" is the lowest-efficiency way to attack air force bases. The more efficient one is to attack hangars, towers and other ground facilities. Attacking the airport runway can only delay very briefly and affect the operation of the airport.
, and several solid air force bases on the east coast of the Taiwan Army, represented by Jiashan and Hualien bases, , buried the main facilities such as the hangar, fuel bank, and ammunition bank deep underground as planned in the Jiashan plan.
This leads to the fact that if the People's Liberation Army adopts a contactless strike method, will need to project a huge amount of ammunition to barely paralyze the operation of these bases. This approach itself will definitely not be worth the cost, because ballistic missile is an expensive war consumable!
Technically speaking, the advantage of ballistic missiles is that they are quick response and have a longer attack distance than aircraft. and face extremely tightly defended opponents. If the Air Force's tactical aircraft loses a high rate of loss in contact combat, then the ballistic missile's efficiency is relatively high.
But on the other hand, in most cases, the combat effectiveness ratio of ballistic missiles is not as good as that of aircraft. Because as long as the aircraft is not shot down, the strike effect of an ordinary tactical fighter jet on airdrop bombs is no less than that of a larger medium-range ballistic missile , and the economic cost of performing tasks is only one-twentieth of the latter.
is much lower than using ballistic missiles to paralyze the enemy's important strategic goal, using aircraft when war allows, or using rocket launcher at a closer distance.
The People's Liberation Army's medium and short-range ballistic missile equipment is relatively large, , but it does not mean that it can be used as firecrackers for fun. Wars also have to be calculated. Launching more than a dozen Dongfeng-15 at a time will cause 2-3 hours of paralysis of the enemy's airport. This is worthwhile at a critical moment in a battle, but it does not mean that this can be done in normal wars.
On the other hand, Taiwan Island is still very close to the mainland. Taiwan Strait 200 kilometers is within the attack range of some active long-range rocket launchers in the People's Liberation Army. In the offensive against Taiwan, rocket launchers with a large range of 300 kilometers equipped in the Eastern Theater Command may play a greater role than ballistic missiles.
But in fact, long-range rocket launchers do this kind of thing cannot be said to be easy. because long-range rocket launchers do not mean that the cost is very low. If the strike accuracy is required, then in essence, they still have to use a large number of advanced guidance technology on tactical missiles . It is not that the name is rocket , which is definitely much cheaper than missile .
If you must pursue the important strategic goal of paralyzing the enemy by relying solely on long-distance firepower delivery without investing in the ground forces.
is the most suitable for performing this kind of mission, capable and combat efficiency is not low, it must be the Air Force aircraft, rather than missiles and rockets. After all, if missiles and rockets alone can blow up people from afar, why don’t the Americans do these things?
The various exaggerated perceptions of the People's Liberation Army's "regional denial" system in recent years are essentially the "missile universal theory" that is expressed in another form.
is developing slowly in the application of medium and short-range ballistic missiles. It is not that they have no technology, but that they are not necessary.
Because the US military has a huge number of tactical and strategic air force, the firepower that more than 100 strategic bombers can be delivered requires thousands of missiles to offset.
. The People's Liberation Army is keen on medium- and short-range ballistic missiles and even some "long-range rocket launchers". It is essentially an alternative to the air force's strength for many years and there is no alternative to high-performance strategic bombers.
Dongfeng-15, which was served in the People's Liberation Army in the 1990s, was the most advanced short-range ballistic missile in the world at that time, but there was no regional denial system in that era.The system of
has truly shown its effect, and it has only been effective after the technical level and equipment scale of the tactical air force and naval surface fleet have been improved in recent years.
To this day, if the Second Artillery of the People's Liberation Army only uses conventional ammunition, may not even be able to continue to paralyze 's US military base in Japan and the Taiwan Air Force Base on Taiwan Island.
Because the amount of ammunition required to paralyze these bases is an "astronomical number", which is thousands or tens of thousands of missiles. A medium and short-range ballistic missile requires dozens of supporting combat personnel. Equipping so many missiles is not just a money, but also a matter of people.
So in recent years, according to the actions of some military exercises by the People's Liberation Army in the Taiwan Strait, we have to look at those sturdy cave airports that can accommodate most of the active fighter jets of the Taiwan Army.
PLA may prefer to temporarily suppress firepower and send landing troops to seize the island and occupy it.
For example, whether it was the Taiwan Strait strategic military exercise last year or early August this year, the People's Liberation Army's landing ship appeared outside Hualien, including the 075 amphibious assault ship, which has also appeared outside Hualien near Jiashan base many times.
This is something that the Taiwan authorities and the US military paid great attention last year. Compared with the Rocket Force, the performance of the Air Force and the Navy may be more important in a war.
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