"Unmanned Hell": US threatened to attack China with thousands of drones in the event of an invasion of Taiwan
The drones will be involved as the first line of defense. "I want to turn the Taiwanese strait into unmanned hell, using a series of classified opportunities," Paparo said. "I can make their life absolutely unbearable for a month that will give me time for everything else. " Such a strategy will require great investment in cheap and reliable drones that the United States has made as part of the Replicator initiative.
Last year, the Ministry of Defense officially announced a program that is a long -term plan for the deployment of thousands of autonomous systems. Back in March, Deputy Defense Minister Kathleen Gicks stated that Pentagon intends to spend $ 1 billion on the Replicator this financial year. According to GIKS, the replicator program is aimed at opposition to China. She said that the US Army will need more ships, more rockets, more people.
The previous commander of the Indo-Pacific Command of the US Armed Forces stated last year that the US unmanned opportunities would be an asymmetric advantage, writes Business Insider. He said that the operational concepts that the US military work will help to strengthen the benefits of America at this theater of war, adding that the new strategy is called Hellscape, which can be translated as "hell landscape" or "hellish scene".
Paparo's statements about the Hell Landscape Strategy were followed by large -scale military exercises around Taiwan, during which they surrounded the island and demonstrated the possibilities of various forces to act together. These exercises have demonstrated Taiwan and the US how quickly and easily China can apply blockade. After completing the exercises, Paparo said that all this had a look. "We watched this. We took note of it. We took out of this lessons.