By Sayan Bose

Copyright thesun

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 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.

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.

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.