Air defense missile knowledge can be very esoteric.

So here's a thread detailing the capabilities of PLA's major air defense systems.🧵

**This database isn't the normally advertised numbers, the data we've compiled take into account of intercept geometries and their roles. HQ-9B

🔹Effective range: ~300km
🔹Flight Ceiling: ~30km
🔹Average speed: Mach 4.5+
🔹Mission profile: Long range air defense against aircraft, with some capabilities against short and medium range ballistic missiles in their terminal flight.

Compared to the HQ-9C listed below⬇️; The HQ-9B has a more sustained power flight path, but slower speed, making them very good against maneuvering targets like aircraft.

With the introduction of the diesel-electric hybrid tank by China; The ZTZ-100, we now can have sci-fi systems like:
♦️Electromagnetic armor (EFA)
♦️Electrothermal Chemical Gun (ETC gun)

Detailed thread on the future of land/armored warfare developed by China.
🧵 The Type-100 family is made up of serval platforms, including the ZTZ-100 tank and the ZBD-100 fire support vehicle and they are only the start.

There will also be a 50 ton class heavy main battle tank with 125mm electrothermal chemical(ETC) gun with electromagnetic armor (EFA)

A thread detailing the speed, range and trajectory of China's anti-ship hypersonic missiles.

Our potential enemies have no way of intercepting these missiles, so it's only fair to let them know, how their billion dollar ship will be destroyed.
🧵 YJ-17 Ship launched hypersonic glide vehicle. (HGV launched from vertical launch systems)

Range: over 1000km.
Warhead: 300kg
Cruise speed: Mach 5-8.
Terminal speed: Mach 8+

Launch trajectory; Boosted to 50km altitude, glide in the upper atmosphere, then dive down at Mach 8+.

How China's 4th gen tank exemplifies the differences in force design between China and the US?🧵1/8

The US military has global projection needs, their weapons are not specialized to do certain tasks in certain regions against certain enemies. It's a case of jack of all trade.

Meanwhile, China's ZTZ-201 light MBT is specifically designed to fight in Taiwan and the Himalayas. Taiwan's useful terrain is very flat, dotted with cities and towns that are less than 2km apart.

Hence engagement even for armored/mechanized forces will be that 2km dash over farmlands then into cities.

Comprehensive minute-by-minute illustrative thread, on how the Chinese aircraft carrier Fujian conducts cyclical attack operation.
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The optimal air wing composition:
⏺️24x J-35(green & red), divided into 2 attack waves of 12 each.
⏺️24x J-15T (blue & purple), divided into 2 attack waves of 12 each.
⏺️4x J-15D electronic warfare fighter (orange).
⏺️4x J-600 AEW&C (light blue).
⏺️~10 helicopters (black) for anti-submarine, search and rescue missions. Cyclical operations are the most common attack mode of aircraft carriers, they divide the carrier airwing into attack waves and launch them with intervals in between.

This allows sustained operation for a long periods of time.

A comprehensive thread about Chinese aircraft carrier operations.

How do we compare to the US aircraft carrier operations?

For the PLA navy, there are 2 main types of carrier attacks:
🔹Full-deck strike (Full deck sortie).
🔹Cyclical operation.
1/11🧵 Full-deck strike is when we launch all fighters in a single strike package.

Cyclical operation is when we divide the fighters into attack waves, and launch them sequentially.

Full-deck strike is used when you want overwhelming firepower delivered in the initial phase of combat.

The most important characteristics to 6th generation fighter is stealth.

6th gen stealth means, All-Aspect Stealth (stealthy from all directions) and Broadband (multi-spectrum) stealth.

What is it, how does it work?
1/8🧵 5th gen stealth is achieved by aligning control surfaces to as fewer directions as possible, this edge alignment ensures radar signals are reflected back towards specific directions.

This is a simplified explanation without going into specular reflections or creeping waves etc.

India will most likely procure the Su-57 to meet the challenges of Pakistan's J-35A supplied by China.

How does the 2 fighter compare?

An objective comparison between the J-35a and Su-57.
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🔹Stealth

From edge alignment to detail treatment, the J-35A is leagues ahead of Su-57, which has many protrusions and inconsistent surface treatment that are detrimental to radar stealth.

It's June 4th, the anti-China shills are out of the woodwork for the "Tiananmen square massacre".

A thread of 1st hand video describing the incident:

1️⃣the photographer who took the famous Tank Man photo, he stated the protesters were the one who started killing soldiers:
1/7 2️⃣The PLA were RESPONDING TO a violent insurrection, where the so called protesters were armed with heavy weaponry.

They were NOT unarmed as western propaganda portrayed them.

Here the insurrectionists were firing a heavy machine gun.

This is how China's PLA is changing to meet the challenge in the age of drone warfare.🧵1/6

This is the new 35mm revolver cannon SHORAD system (Short Range Air Defense), with the new HQ-13 short range missile.

They will be mass deployed with our medium and light combined arms brigades. Previously, as in around the early years of the Ukraine war. Our go to SHORAD system force design down to the company level, revolved around the Type-625 system. (pictured below)

But as we observed the Ukraine war, we've realized this is not enough.

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Since Indian GDP is in the spotlight, let's quickly expose the fraudulent Indian economy.

🔴India's economy is built on unproductive consumption; You might say, consumption is great.

True, BUT. Advanced consumption driven economies of EU for example, are backed by a productive industrial sector.

The US is a special economy, since their biggest export is the US dollar. Which is probably the most effortless and lucrative export. India on the other has none of those aforementioned advantages.

So their consumption is mostly driven by investment led consumption, such as the real estate sector and by the growing population that needs basic necessity to survive.

Hence unproductive consumption.

Thread🧵

My assessment on how India may change the way they conduct war after this defeat by Pakistan.

And what Pakistan must do to prepare.

🔴India will decrease or outright refuse to use air assets in the future against Pakistan, due to being out matched.
Here's why: The superiority of Pakistan in the air is not just about pilots or fighters or missiles.

Pakistan has a superiority of systems including AWACS and electronic warfare.

As long as Pakistan continues to improve and build on this strength, India is unlikely to catch up.

Trump wants to have a twin-engine version of the F-35, dubbing it the F-55.

So similar to the Chinese J-35.

From this we can delve into an interesting rabbit hole, comparing the efficiency of Chinese armament industry vs their US counterparts.
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The F-35 should've been a twin engine setup from the start. They were forced to use a single engine, because of the useless F-35B STOVL (short takeoff vertical landing) variant for the marines.

In most scenarios, the US marines do not need to fight for their own air superiority

My detailed analysis of the Pakistan-India conflict.

What did Pakistan do well and which areas does Pakistan needs to improve upon.

Then a weapon list for Pakistan to increase their existing qualitative edge over India, deterring future aggressions.
1/🧵 First, general assessment.

In this engagement Pakistan's air force were the main deciding factor for their victory.

Pakistan Air Force, PAF has proven that they can deploy half the number of fighters in the air, and still gain air superiority over India.

A thread on why the F-47 might not be considered as true 6th generation fighter due to its canards.

And why canards are fine for 5th gen stealth fighters but not 6th gen fighters.
1/9🧵 The most important qualifiers to be a 6th gen fighter, are All-aspect stealth and muti-band stealth.

All-Aspect Stealth; Means the aircraft is stealth from all angles, 6th gen fighters removes the vertical tail to achieve this.

Such as the J-36

People don't understand "market economy". Yes, It's a fraud, but this fraudulent system runs the world.

Here's how China has enabled the cheat code of capitalism.

I'll use this American style suburbia in Shanghai as an example.
1/10🧵 Restricting housing density to low, will drive up home prices, stabilizing the real estate sector. This is the easy way to generate GDP.

Like it or not, the real estate sector is a sizable portion of the economy in every country.

The rationale for war with China over Taiwan, by the US Army War College:

The Americans believe China will be the one to initiate the war with the US over Taiwan, by attacking US forces.

Comprehensive thread diving into the mind games played between China and the US
1/10🧵 What does this particular rationale presented by the US Army War College tell us?

Our conclusion is that the US is afraid to initiate the war over Taiwan with China, because they lack good rationales for a such costly conflict.

To the US, war should be a profitable business.

The US air force on China's 6th gen fighter:

"We have some choices to make as we observe what China has produced".

China has surpassed the US on 6th gen fighter development. They're reacting to the Chinese development.

Thread on this watershed moment for air superiority
1/9🧵 It's the first time the US is playing catch up in air superiority, since World War 2.

The entire Western war doctrine revolves around gaining air superiority, losing that means losing everything.

For China, winning that means winning everything.
That's what at stake.

The Trump-Zelensky fight was the unintended consequence of a setup from both sides.

Zelensky wanted to act tough on camera, and Trump got cold feet and wanted to back out of the deal presented by Rubio.

Ultimate fault lies with Rubio and his State Department.
Here's why🧵:
1/8 The details of this mineral for protection deal would've been drafted by the State Department, and sold as a profitable business transaction by Rubio to Trump.

The US have promised to ethnically cleanse Gaza of the Palestinian population.

This is for the ultimate goal of the creation of Greater Israel, where Arabs live as 2nd class citizens under the Zionist apartheid.

The Arab world must wake up, here's what they must do.
🧵1/16 First thing first, get rid of all the weapons systems of Western origin.

All of it, even the European ones has backdoors that prevents their usage against Israel.

Might is Right, you don't have any bargaining power unless you have the fire power to back it up.

Air superiority over Taiwan is crucial for the PLA.

With it, we can obliterate any troop concentrations and land where ever we want, or we could impose crippling blockades.

Without it, nothing can happen.
🧵Thread on why Taiwan has no chance in maintaining air superiority
1/10 First of all lets lay out the ground work.

This thread won't take into account of the fact that the PLA air force is about to be 2 generations ahead of the Taiwanese air force.

Nor the fact that the PLA can launch saturation attacks against their airports, disabling them.