Breaking Taiwan blockade via airlift would require 860 sorties per day, wargame indicates

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Source: US Air Force

A US-led airlift to break a Chinese blockade of Taiwan would require an unprecedented 860 daily cargo flights yet still fail to prevent economic collapse, according to new wargame findings.

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