Air Defense Options for Taiwan: An Assessment of Relative Costs and Operational Benefits

doi:10.7249/RR1051

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DOI	10.7249/RR1051
报告编号	RR-1051-OSD
	Air Defense Options for Taiwan: An Assessment of Relative Costs and Operational Benefits
	Michael J. Lostumbo; David R. Frelinger; James Williams; Barry Wilson
	2016
出版年	2016
页数	84
语种	英语
国家	美国
出版者	RAND Corporation
领域	资源环境
英文摘要	Taiwan faces one of the most difficult air defense problems in the world. Because of that, it cannot easily look to how other nations have invested in air defenses to guide its force structure decisions. What makes Taiwan's air defense problem so difficult is the combination of its proximity to China and the massive investments that the People's Republic of China has made in a range of systems that threaten Taiwan's aircraft. China's fighter aircraft capabilities have surpassed those of Taiwan in the air. Furthermore, China now has the capability to destroy all of Taiwan's aircraft at their bases. Thus, Taiwan needs to rethink how it can accomplish its air defense goals. Fighter aircraft are not the only element of Taiwan's air defense; surface-to-air missiles are the other major element. This report analyzes how Taiwan might approach air defense, by downsizing and shifting its fighter aircraft force to focus on coercive scenarios, increasing its investment in surface-to-air missiles, and dedicating its surface-based air defense to becoming an enduring warfighting capability able to contribute throughout the duration of a sustained and effective defense of Taiwan. It describes the essential air defense problem posed by the People's Liberation Army, characterizes the current capabilities and level of funding that Taiwan invests in air defense, and then develops several alternative investment strategies. The authors then test those investment strategies in three vignettes that span the range of conflict, from quite limited coercive uses of force to a full invasion.
英文关键词	Taiwan Air Defense Military Force Planning
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来源平台	Rand Corporation
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文献类型	科技报告
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.173/C666/handle/2XK7JSWQ/4301
专题	资源环境科学
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Michael J. Lostumbo,David R. Frelinger,James Williams,et al. Air Defense Options for Taiwan: An Assessment of Relative Costs and Operational Benefits:RAND Corporation,2016.