{"id":119820,"date":"2024-09-03T19:00:12","date_gmt":"2024-09-03T09:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/how-many-combat-aircraft-us-lose-war-taiwan\/"},"modified":"2024-09-03T19:00:12","modified_gmt":"2024-09-03T09:00:12","slug":"how-many-combat-aircraft-could-the-us-lose-in-a-war-over-taiwan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=119820","title":{"rendered":"How Many Combat Aircraft Could The US Lose In A War Over Taiwan?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The United States and China now find themselves locked in Great Power Competition (even as former powers like Russia dominate many of the headlines in Ukraine). The US continues to pivot to the Pacific and is preparing to be ready in case of war with China<\/a>. This does not mean war is inevitable, but it does mean the US’s thinking is ever more to counter an increasingly assertive China in the region. If China were to invade Taiwan and if the US were to intervene directly with the war restricted to the Taiwan theater, how many US Air Force<\/a> and Navy aircraft would the United States be expected to lose? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In most CSIS scenarios, the US loses hundreds of aircraft but defeats the Chinese invasion of Taiwan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,8575,412,1686,1328,708],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-chinese-air-force","category-military","category-taiwan","category-united-states-air-force","category-us-navy"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t