The People’s Liberation Army (PLA) published a study last month that claimed China’s military could impose and sustain a blockade on an island using only drones.
Meanwhile, America’s most recent military intervention plan over the island of Taiwan, known as “Hellscape,” depends entirely on drones.
A peer-reviewed paper published on June 5 in the Chinese academic journal Command Control & Simulation stated that “Area blockade and control stands as a typical application scenario for drone swarms in military operations,” according to the project team headed by Chen Huijie, an engineer with the PLA’s 92116 unit.
Due to military sensitivity, Chen’s team stated that results of the “mission-level simulation verification conducted for aerial unmanned clusters in conjunction with an actual combat mission” have not often been made public.
The combat mission described in the paper aimed to establish a blockade and take control of an island similar in shape to Taiwan but narrower. Under the scenario, hostile warships and submarines prowled the surrounding waters, and the island was fortified with many air defence missile launchers.
Given the presence of widely dispersed, highly concealed and time-sensitive mobile threats on the island and its adjacent waters, employing traditional manned forces for reconnaissance and assault poses a challenge of low cost-effectiveness,” the researchers wrote.
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