March 31, 2021 Topic: F-35 China Region: Americas Blog Brand
F-35: The Only Way to Win a War Against China
Why? An F-35 jet can function as a multi-domain sensor connecting not only to other F-35 jets but also to surface ships, land-based weapons, and other vital air assets such as the F-22 jet. And that is something Beijing cannot match.
by Kris Osborn
Carrier-launched airstrikes from the East China Sea, destroyer-fired cruise missiles from the Taiwan straits, high altitude stealth bombing missions flown from Guam, one-thousand-mile land missiles fired from Japan and, perhaps most of all, a massive, multi-domain amphibious assault supported by stealthy fifth-generation aircraft, would all likely be called upon in the event of a major military confrontation between the United States and China.
The sheer size, vast geographical expanse and limitless ocean areas of the Pacific present a circumstance wherein the only actual path to military victory against China would require a coordinated multi-domain approach. One interesting element of this which seems to offer itself as a thread of continuity between otherwise disparate methods of attack could be the integrated use of Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps F-35s.
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/f-35-only-way-win-war-against-china-181594
