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darkjedi:
I read a lot too about military when I have much time and sometimes catalog the inventory and order of battle of various military in the world.
Since last week I've been reading about South Korea-Japan military balance in particular.
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You know, this one battle group of the JMSDF is enough to knock out the whole South Korean navy, and Japan has 4 battle groups like this.
So I look for solutions to defeat them, and I come up with this one:
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The problem is that Japan has a lot of F-15J/DJ's like this one also:
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They have almost 200 of those.
So I come to counter them with this:
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170 F-16C/D Blocks 32/52, 100 F-4E. Good enough, I guess. (as long as they get adequate radar help from the E-767 and not be caught off-guard by Japan's long-ranged F-15's, that is)
The problem is that the F-16 cannot loiter around for long in the East Sea. For example:
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The Dokdo islets (the English-corrupted name is 'Liancourt Rocks') is the most likely site of an aerial battle between the ROK military and the Japanese SDF because of the islets' ambiguous nationality; Japan claims it's theirs, we claim it's ours.
If the KF-16 launches from Jungwon, they have only 5 minutes to perform air superiority duties above the Dokdo islets. If they launch from Gangneung, they have 20 minutes. We don't have an airbase in Ulleung-do. Our F-15K can loiter for 70-80 minutes if they launch from the same locations but we only have 60 F-15's as compared to Japan's 200 F-15's. Q_Q
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For now, patrolling Dokdo islets with KF-16 like that is a wishful thinking.
Then again protecting them with just our F-15K's and 2 battle groups against the JSDF is also a bad idea.
So we have to bring in aerial refuelers like this again so the whole of our air force can participate:
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Right now, the ROKAF has none of those.
Adding insult to injury is JASDF's own possession of AEW and AWACS like these ones:
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Their surveillance equipment will lift up the fog of war from the whole Korean peninsula to pick up whatever movement from ROK's part.
Well my armchair studies go on and on ~_~
vuzedome:
And here's my railgun!!
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darkjedi:
Railgun, where?!
Rebs:
@ darkjedi: was that an attempt at the record for longest post?
Edit: even with spoilers it's stil long, cant believe he has longer post. I won't be reading those :P
Borror0:
--- Quote from: Rebs on October 17, 2009, 02:58:43 PM ---@ darkjedi: was that an attempt at the record for longest post?
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Nope. He wrote longer posts before.
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