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Originally Posted by Deathblow
China vs Japan?
These two countries still hate in other right? Japan has absolutely loathed military conflict ever since the second WW (afaik) so if would take one of the sides acting against their current stance to motivate the conflict (China being stupidly aggressive or Japan reversing its maritime policies over the last 50 years)...
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Actually, they have been getting incrementally more assertive (see recent thing with Koreans). Aggressiveness is a long way away if it happens at all, but it is moving in that general direction, and it is enough to raise a few feathers on the Chinese and Koreans.
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The FFG as one of the older Japanese ASW destroyers? Again it would take some streching, but if we ever got desperate for scenarios...
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You can use the P-3s and SH-60s as is. I suggest you use the FFG as a
Hatakaze class destroyer (actually, that's considered an Antiair Escort Vessel). Same Mk13 launcher for SAMs and Harpoon. Both use Gas Turbine propulsion. You don't have an ASROC, but you do have better helos facilities, and it is not like ASROC's that good anyway... For extra realism/challenge, try and restrain yourself from using your TA. For an easier one, either assume they just had an extra TACTASS and just added it onto your boat, or rationalize that you are compensating for the fact the Hatakaze had a bow rather than hull sonar, which is supposed to be slightly more sensitive. All up to you.
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Russia vs China?
That would probably be like US versus Canada. Why on earth.....?
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Not so much a stretch. Russia might be selling equipment to China, but the two nations aren't really all that trustful of each other. Remember the Sino-Soviet border conflict of '69? It is not even clear what they are fighting for other than over a dispute of a few meters of broken islands (Zhenbao Island, for instance, is a 0.7km^2 area of pretty much nothing). Just have a border conflict that blew out of hand, and you get a war.