Originally Posted by Gnadenburg
Welcome back Snot.
Airpower, mines & chogies in speed boats could close the Malacca Straits.
Airpower would do the bulk of the work to reopen them.
As always, you are quite the visionary, and of course I noticed, Mr. Burger, that you did me the courtesy of including such terms as "bulk," "mines," and "speed boats."
Feasible though your scenario may be, at least
you got the gist of it.
Might be a pretty limited scenario, though. Maybe PAF or Magoo could hazard a guess at the size of the choges' stockpile of -9s/-7s/-120s?
Rearmament of any Eagle or Falcon-armed airpower involved in an engagement in the straits or elsewhere in SEA will be subject to the whims of the US who, as everyone knows, make decisions based on self-interests. Unless, of course, the French step in and offer Exocet and modified matra for fast choge cash...