RUSSIA is helping China to invade Taiwan using terrifying airborne assaults by supplying tanks and weapons technology, bombshell classified documents reveal.
Moscow is supplying training and tanks than can parachute into battle deep behiund enemy lines.
A Russian 37 BMD-4M light amphibious assault vehicle with a 100 mm gun and 30 mm automatic cannon[/caption]
BTR-MDM Rakushka airborne armored personnel carrier[/caption]
A 11 Sprut-SDM1 light amphibious anti-tank self-propelled guns[/caption]
Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with Chinese President Xi Jinping in China[/caption]
A report by the RUSI think warned the troops and armoured vehicles could swoop onto Taiwanese golf courses close ports and airports as they are less defended than military targets.
President Xi Jinping is said to have directed his People’s Liberation Army (PLA) to prepare to invade the island by 2027 – with fears it will go in with “full force” using three major military strategies.
Secret documents obtained by the Black Moon hacktivist group reveal that Russia agreed back in 2023 to supply the PLA with a long list of weapons and military equipment to facilitate airborne infiltration of special forces.
The report, quoted by Rusi, the world’s oldest defence and security think tank, shows that Russia also promised to train Chinese military operators to use the specialised equipment.
According to the think tank, the cache of 800 pages of contracts and collateral materials is genuine – and many details from within the documents have been independently verified.
The agreements provide for the sale by Russia to China of:
- 37 BMD-4M, light amphibious assault vehicles with a 100 mm gun and 30 mm automatic cannon
- 11 Sprut-SDM1 light amphibious anti-tank self-propelled guns with a 125 mm cannon
- 11 BTR-MDM ‘Rakushka’ airborne armoured personnel carriers.
- Several Rubin command and observation vehicles and KSHM-E command vehicles
All the armoured vehicles will be equipped with Chinese communication and command and control suites, Rusi reports.
The weapons include 37 BMD-4Ms, amphibious light tanks armed with a 100mm cannon on its turret, 11 Sprut-SDM1 tracked artillery guns and 11 amphibious BTR Rakushka armoured personnel carrier.
The airborne assault will be dropped from massive military aircraft on firm ground in Taiwan, helping Beijing’s paratroopers to launch a lightning-fast assault.
The Russian military will also be required to train a battalion of Chinese paratroopers in employing the equipment
They will be taught on training equipment and simulators, possibly inside Russia.
And once the training is complete, a collective training of the PLA’s airborne battalion will be done in Chinese battlefields, the leaked documents report.
There, the Russians will train a Chinese battalion for landing, fire control and manoeuvring as part of an airborne unit to invade Taiwan.
Moscow will also help set up a technological weapons maintenance centre inside China that will help Beijing’s army to produce weapons of the future.
Experts fear that with such airborne fighting capabilities, China’s ability to attack and invade Taiwan will increase significantly.
A report from Rusi reads: “The capacity to airdrop armour vehicles on firm ground near Taiwan’s ports and airfields would allow air assault troops to significantly increase their combat power and threaten seizure of these facilities to clear a path for the landing of follow-on forces.”
It comes after China deployed two hulking H-6 bombers capable of carrying nuclear weapons on a strategic island in the South China Sea.
Beijing has ramped up military pressure on Taiwan and held multiple large-scale exercises around the island, often described as preparations for a blockade or invasion.
Earlier this year, US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth said that Communist Beijing was “rehearsing for the real deal” and described the looming threat as a “wake-up call” for the world.
Tensions between China and neighbouring Taiwan have soared in recent years as the threat of war looms[/caption]
Speaking at the annual Singapore defence forum Shangri-la Dialogue, Hegeseth said China was preparing to use military force to upend the balance of power.
The Pentagon boss also accused Beijing of carrying out cyber attacks, harassing its neighbours, and “illegally seizing and militarising lands” in the South China Sea.
Hegseth said: “[Beijing is] credibly preparing to potentially use military force to alter the balance of power in the Indo-Pacific.
“The threat China poses is real and it could be imminent.”
China claims almost the entire disputed waterway in the South China Sea – through which more than 60 per cent of global maritime trade passes.
This is despite an international ruling that Beijing’s assertion has no merit.
China’s Nanchang Q-5 ‘Fantans’ fighter jets[/caption]
Two Chinese H-6 bombers on an South China Sea island[/caption]
China’s aircraft carrier Liaoning takes part in a military drill[/caption]
As Hegseth spoke in Singapore, China’s military announced that its navy and air force were carrying out routine “combat readiness patrols” around the Scarborough Shoal.
It is a chain of reefs and rocks that Beijing disputes with the Philippines.
Meanwhile, aerial photos showed two hulking H-6 bombers on an airfield on Woody Island in the South China Sea, taken on May 19.
The long-range aircraft date back to the 1950s and were modelled on Soviet-era warplanes.
But they’ve been souped up to unleash modern weapons, including hypersonic and nuclear missiles.
They are considered China’s most advanced bombers, and this is the first time they’ve been spotted on the outpost in five years.
The photos also show two Y-20 transport aircraft and a KJ-500 early warning plane around Woody Island on the same day.
The KJ-500 is thought vital to China’s expansion of its air and sea campaign, as it tackles increasingly complex operations.
Three ways China could seize Taiwan in ‘unstoppable’ attack
By Sayan Bose, Foreign News Reporter
WITH an overwhelming military force, advanced warfare techniques and a fragmenting West, Xi Jinping will likely feel more confident than ever to seize Taiwan, experts warn.
And if China does decide to attack, it’s feared it will go in with “full force” using three major military strategies that would wreak havoc on the island.
Military experts have long believed China is planning to use sea blockades to cut off the island – forcing them to surrender when military supplies dwindle.
Currently, China has a whopping 2.1 million active soldiers and a further, 1.17 million reserve personnel in its army.
It is a stark contrast to Taiwan’s forces, which just has a little over 160,000 soldiers.
Others believe Beijing will pour its forces onto Taiwan’s “red beaches” and attack on land.
Experts told The Sun that China would likely combine blitzing aerial strikes to disable Taiwan’s defences with naval forces encircling the island.
Defence experts say it’s the “perfect moment” for Xi’s long-standing ambition to reunify Taiwan with the Chinese mainland – and it could launch an attack as soon as 2027.
The unpredictability of US foreign policy under Donald Trump has created fears that Chinese President Xi would use the opportunity to invade Taiwan.
Experts say the dictator is happy with a fragmenting West and the US saying it’s not interested in being the kind of security ally it was.
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