Probably not too many. But I wonder, are there more Chinese factories or Tomahawk missiles? I'm not totally sure. China is a very large country.

I'm sure the manufacture of tomahawks is pretty much on stand-by for the order to increase production. Civic pride and what not. Totally has nothing to do with the stock price.

How many subcomponents do they have on hand, especially cpus? I bet not many.

So the opening move would be to invade a non-hostile country to ensure you have all of the chips! Then once that is secure, you can then target the country you actually want to have hostilities with. I can see no flaws with this plan. Execute!

So, apparently the best opening salvo is to take out USA comms satellites and that essentially cripples American offensive capabilities. Modern tomahawks are heavily reliant on comms networks to hit long-range ground targets.

Plus, any destroyer launching these at targets deep in Chinese territory will be within range of Chinese missiles. And, as we saw in Syria, Russian air defense systems are pretty effective against Tomahawks, and we should expect Chinese systems to be at least as effective.

>So, apparently the best opening salvo is to take out USA comms satellites and that essentially cripples American offensive capabilities. Modern tomahawks are heavily reliant on comms networks to hit long-range ground targets.

No they aren't. They were designed with the assumption that GPS wouldn't be available and instead will rely on terrain tracking.

>Plus, any destroyer launching these at targets deep in Chinese territory will be within range of Chinese missiles. And, as we saw in Syria, Russian air defense systems are pretty effective against Tomahawks, and we should expect Chinese systems to be at least as effective.

What are you talking about? We had satellite imagery with holes in the ground that disproved the Russian claims that they shot down most of it.

Nothing you said is factual.

I can't decide if some of these scaremongering stories are from the military industrial complex to convince more funding into new things, or just anti-propaganda to give pause to rushing into new conflicts.

It's neither. The US is in an incredibly bad position right now because of three decades of under investment. After closing too many public yards after the cold war now the USN is barely able to keep up with regular maintenance during peace time of it's vessel's, let alone during a war. The average age of most American vessels is greater than that of their sailors. All while they're asked to face down the PLAN which now outnumbers them and is newer.