World After Taiwan’s Fall - drone shooting (General)

by dan, Wednesday, December 25, 2024, 13:10 (50 days ago) @ dulan drift

Very interesting, well laid out. Lists the actual stakes. On a tangent from Easton's chapter, he writes:

A PLA drone flies over the Penghu Islands near Taiwan’s main island and is shot down by a ROC Air
Force F-16. Beijing declares a “selective, temporary maritime and air exclusion zone” around Taiwan and floods the Taiwan Strait with thousands of fishing vessels, some of which turn out to be unmanned, and remotely piloted aircraft. Clashes begin and quickly.

I think it will be something very much like that, though can you even shoot down a drone with an F-16? They're small & they zip around.

Interesting to note that the Taiwan TV show Zero Day speculates on similar scenarios:

A Chinese war plane goes missing near Taiwan. China sends swarms of military boats and planes for a blockade as Taiwan goes on a war footing. Panic ensues on the streets of Taipei....

The drama focuses on several scenarios Taiwan might face in the days leading up to a Chinese attack, including a global financial collapse, the activation of Chinese sleeper agents and panicked residents trying to flee the nation.

“Without freedom, Taiwan is not Taiwan,” a fictional Taiwanese president says in a televised speech in the show’s trailer, urging unity after declaring war on China.

The live broadcast then gets abruptly cut off, replaced by a feed of a Chinese state television anchor calling for Taiwanese to surrender and to report “hidden pro-independence activists” to Chinese soldiers after their landing in Taiwan.


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