I’m not sure about other more “basic” things like artillery shells, small arms ammunition, etc. but you can pretty much assume that without China (specifically Taiwan and their semiconductors), they wouldn’t have any modern weapons that rely on computer guidance systems, weapons control systems, and other things of that nature.
I’d assume this is the reason the current administration has been investing so heavily in bringing TSMC to the states (and failing), because they know they can’t keep up their occupation of Taiwan forever and it would be devastating for them to lose what’s essentially their only supply of semiconductors.
I’m not sure about other more “basic” things like artillery shells, small arms ammunition, etc. but you can pretty much assume that without China (specifically Taiwan and their semiconductors), they wouldn’t have any modern weapons that rely on computer guidance systems, weapons control systems, and other things of that nature.
I stumbled upon this neat video showing the internals of Javelin missile’s guidance system a while ago, and who could have guessed, basically every chip inside that thing is stamped with “Made in Taiwan”, even the ones made by “Texas” Instruments.
I’d assume this is the reason the current administration has been investing so heavily in bringing TSMC to the states (and failing), because they know they can’t keep up their occupation of Taiwan forever and it would be devastating for them to lose what’s essentially their only supply of semiconductors.