| ▲ | mrguyorama 9 hours ago | |
China doesn't seem to think so. China believes they need to fight those F35s in the air. Why would the opening salvo be ICBMs? | ||
| ▲ | don_esteban 6 hours ago | parent [-] | |
To deny the US the use of any nearby airfields (Okinawa, several others in Japan an Philippines). This will limit US airpower to carriers, which are few and sinkable. Of course, China wants to be able to fight those F35s in the air - to mitigate the damage they can do to them (while the F35s still have airfield/carriers to land on) - also in order to make it easier to sink those carriers. Still, you can bet that all US nearby airfields would be peppered very early in the conflict. | ||