After the outbreak of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, the United States is still frequently testing various types of nuclear missiles, including many test launches of the Minuteman 3 intercontinental ballistic missile. According to media reports, the United States has once again launched a Minuteman-3 ICBM at Vandenberg Air Force Base and hit a target at the Kwajalein range in the Pacific Ocean.
As one of the countries with the largest number of nuclear weapons in the world, the United States is still constantly showing off its nuclear strike strength, and the United States has also sent B-52H strategic bombers, B-1B strategic bombers and B-2A stealth bombers to carry out a series of operations for a period of time, and these strategic bombers are also responsible for important nuclear strike missions. The United States has deployed B-52H strategic bombers at Andersen Air Force Base in Guam, the second island chain, and these bombers have set their sights directly on China.
The Japanese Ministry of Defense's Joint Staff Supervision Department recently released a message showing that the People's Liberation Army's drones once again carried out long-range military operations in the open sea. The drone monitored by the Japanese side this time is a TB-001 Chada integrated drone, and this type of drone has now completed the crossing of the Miyako Strait and has approached the airspace near Amami Oshima. From the point of view of the trajectory, the range of the sea alone has reached more than 2,000 kilometers, which on the one hand shows that the PLA UAV has the remote control capability, on the other hand, it also shows that the long-endurance combat capability of this type of UAV is very strong. According to the information obtained by the War Research Institute, the TB-001 integrated reconnaissance and combat UAV can not only complete a large number of missile projection tasks, but also complete many reconnaissance tasks, and the PLA UAV is very likely to be performing some kind of reconnaissance mission when it hits more than 2,000 kilometers in one go.
The PLA's anti-submarine operations have always relied on Y-8Q anti-submarine patrol aircraft, and now the War Research Institute believes that the anti-submarine task can also be completed by UAVs. Because the PLA's UAVs have the ability to mount a large number of electronic pods, and the long-endurance and long-duration characteristics of these UAVs are very good, which are in line with the characteristics required by anti-submarine patrol aircraft, so the use of UAVs can also be considered when performing long-range anti-submarine missions and monitoring tasks on surface ships. Of course, the dispatch of UAVs has another characteristic, that is, it can complete a large number of surveillance tasks for surface ships at a very low cost, and at the same time, it can make up for the lack of range and time in the air of the Y-8Q anti-submarine patrol aircraft.
At the critical moment when the United States is flexing its muscles and wielding a nuclear stick, China is now showing its drone strength, running more than 2,000 kilometers and circling in the sky to the west, while the Japanese Air Self-Defense Force has also played the role of standing guard for the United States. It is understood that the Japanese Air Self-Defense Force has announced on the 4th that it has sent F-15 fighters to intercept the PLA's TB-001 integrated UAV, and the frequent aerial interception of our UAVs by the Self-Defense Forces' frequent fighters is actually an out-and-out war of attrition for Japan. These F-15 fighter jets, which were purchased in the '80s, are now in a state of exhaustion, and a large amount of airframe life is spent on monitoring drones, and it is clear that such an operation will completely bring down the Japanese Air Self-Defense Force. Text/Iris