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Comment Re:indiana is nice (Score 1) 13

Indiana is a great place to be FROM...

Seriously though, it is hot in the summer, cold in the winter, and wet most of the year. Land is inexpensive, and there are several major universities in the general area from which to recruit talent. Plenty of blue collar workers and white collar engineers/managers. Lateral movement across midwestern states in search of better jobs is common. Easy highway and railway transport access for shipping materials and finished goods. Tornadoes are a significant issue, but there are no other major environmental issues to worry about.

It is a good area to build.

Comment Re:"Silicon Shield" prevents operational redundanc (Score 1) 99

weeks? fighting? WTF are you on?

The Taiwan artillery and missile batteries are not designed for combat. They are a Mutually Assured Destruction retaliation system.

Attack=>trigger failsafe=>retaliation strikes. Millions dead. Cities reduced to rubble. One and done.

There is no fighting. Taiwan is too out matched to fight. They posture and bluff "defending their territory" with a coast guard patrol and a few jets, but they really only have one move: a massively destructive retaliatory strike.

Comment Re:"Silicon Shield" prevents operational redundanc (Score 1) 99

China cannot "take" Taiwan.

Taiwan has the type of artillery emplacements that Switzerland used to have: big guns in bunkers built into the bedrock. Switzerland abandoned them because modern missiles can penetrate deep enough to destroy them. In taiwan, they still rely on them. Any strike capable of destroying them would leave little of Taiwan left to capture.

The artillery (and missile) batteries are capable of shooting up to ~200 miles across a ~100 mile straight. That means anything up to 100 miles inland is a target. There are several major ports and cities in that range. All of which would be leveled in a retaliatory strike if China invaded -unless China launched a massive pre-emptive strike and simply destroyed Taiwan.

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