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Any country that competently adopts Ukrainian drone technology cannot effectively be invaded currently. And that's for a continental invasion. Taiwan? All surf

Any country that competently adopts Ukrainian drone technology cannot effectively be invaded currently. And that's for a continental invasion. Taiwan? All surface ships are sitting ducks. Troop transport ships would get absolutely decimated, and then the landing troops would get swarmed by drones all over again, and then they have to maintain logistics to the small minority that land (good luck with that). And that's without naval drones. With naval drones? I have no idea how China gets anything across the strait. And all the above is true for a competently organized Chinese invasion. Which it won't be.

YetAnotherNick 1mo ago
That's why I said it will be slow. I think it will be decades long political control, not a military invasion. China have more credible threat of bombing economically relevant building like TSMC, or capturing leaders and protestors like they already are doing in Hong Kong.
wasfgwp 1mo ago
> adopts Ukrainian drone technology cannot effectively be invaded currently The tactical situation in Taiwan is very different though. I think it would come down more to what’s happening in the air since the stalemate in Ukraine is in large because the Russian airforce is almost completely neutralized and can only be used to launch cruise missiles from a safe distance. I doubt China would invade unless they feel they can somehow achieve at least temporary air superiority and achieve their other objectives during that period. Air defenses are probably much more important than drones overall.