On June 23, with the Philippines announcing three major commitments to China, China won a resounding victory in the current round of conflict at Second Thomas Shoal.
【Sino-Philippine Conflict】
The ancestor said well, these small countries in the Philippines are afraid of power but not virtue, 055 drove to the edge of the 12 nautical miles of Palawan Island in the Philippines, and the Philippines was honest at once, and took the initiative to explain to China that this conflict was an accident.
The United States is not dead
In addition to the PLA warships, another core factor that caused the Philippines to slip and kneel at the speed of light was that the United States, which was originally going to support the Philippines, ran away with a group of its younger brothers.
【U.S. Navy】
When the current round of conflict broke out, the United States brought in several allies to conduct joint military exercises in the South China Sea, but the Chinese navy dispersed them in less than 48 hours.
Seeing that the Chinese Navy really had plans to make a move, the Americans clicked the cards in their hands, which were full of stinky fish and rotten shrimp, and they could not confront the Chinese Navy led by 4 055 ships, so they simply withdrew directly from the South China Sea in one go, leaving the Philippines to deal with it alone.
It stands to reason that this time the Americans have sold the Philippines somewhat disgracefully, and they should not continue to make trouble in the South China Sea in the short term.
【Philippine Military】
However, the degree of shamelessness of the Americans is still beyond our imagination, and they have just pitted the Philippines, and they have begun to draw cakes for the Philippines again, the commander of the US military declared
The Littoral Combat Regiment is a product of the U.S. Marine Corps' transition from offense to defense in the context of great power wars.
The U.S. Marine Corps currently plans to form three Littoral Combat Regiments with a total size of about 6,000 troops, and Adm. Eric, the commander-in-chief of the U.S. Marine Corps, said the Littoral Combat Group is capable of protecting Japan and the Philippines from China's "invasion."
【Littoral Combat Group】
Asked how the Littoral Combat Group could stop China, Eric said they had the ability to sink Chinese naval warships from land.
Although the Philippines has not yet made any reaction to the pie drawn by the United States, considering the pro-American purity of Marcos Jr., it is very likely that the Philippines will straighten its waist again in the future.
The Philippines has a certain military superstition about the United States, and the so-called littoral combat group may really be regarded by the Philippines as an important force to counter China.
【Littoral Combat Group】
It also reminds the mainland that territorial disputes in the South China Sea, including Ren'ai Jiao, should be resolved as soon as possible, freeing up its hands to confront the United States, and that the naval ships now deployed in the South China Sea will not leave for the time being until the Philippines makes its next move.
The multiple rounds of conflicts between China and the Philippines have confirmed that the Philippines is a typical example of eating hard rather than soft, and only by driving 055 in the face of the Philippines can the Philippines understand China's demands.
The transformation of the US military has not been successful
Also, what exactly is the Littoral Combat Regiment blown into the sky by Eric?
To put it simply, this is a small-scale unit with sea control and air defense as its main tasks, emphasizing the flexibility of deployment, and targeting the PLA navy and air force and amphibious landing operations.
【Marines】
The US military's vision for the Littoral Combat Regiment is that the two Littoral Combat Regiments will be deployed in Hawaii and Okinawa respectively, and the planned third Littoral Combat Group will be deployed on Guam.
In the event of a war between China and the United States in the Asia-Pacific region, the three littoral combat groups will be dispersed and deployed to large and small deserted islands in the waters around China, and the PLA's naval and air operations will be suppressed by anti-ship missiles and anti-aircraft missiles.
The U.S. military believes that after the Littoral Combat Group is dispersed, China will not be able to put it in one pot. In turn, these small units can also strike at the PLA's naval and air forces, delaying the PLA's offensive as much as possible before the main US forces arrive.
【Littoral Combat Group】
The US Marine Corps did not realize a problem: a littoral combat regiment is only 2,000 people, and in order to ensure that its combat capability is scattered across four or five islands, the PLA can simply use long-range missiles to break through each of them, and there is no need to conduct landing operations to solve the problem.
Moreover, according to the current thinking of the United States, these troops are basically in a state of interruption of logistics in wartime, and cannot be replenished in time. The most important task of the officers and men of the Littoral Combat Regiment may not be to attack the PLA warships and warplanes, but how to survive on an uninhabited desert island.
In addition, the combat capability of the Littoral Combat Group, its main combat equipment is the NSM anti-ship missile, which has the advantage of being small in size and can be directly carried by a JLTV high-speed vehicle, while the disadvantage is that the missile only has the ability to fly at high subsonic speed, and the penetration capability is worrying.
[NSM Missile]
Moreover, the NSM missile is only 200 kilometers, and the YJ-21 carried on the 055 destroyer has a range of up to 400 kilometers, which is completely capable of attacking the NSM missile outside the range of it.
Although the strike accuracy of the NSM missile is indeed very good, no matter how good the accuracy is, it is useless to penetrate the PLA's anti-missile air defense system.
To put it bluntly, NSM missiles are not an effective threat to PLA warships, so what is the point of the existence of the Littoral Combat Group?
【Littoral Combat Group】
Judging from the capabilities displayed by the Littoral Combat Group at present, it is the same as the Littoral Combat Ships that the US Navy has spent a lot of money on to develop before, and it is a pity to abandon them.
The actual combat value cannot be said to be absent, but it is obviously insufficient, the United States is currently busy with transformation in the context of the war of great powers, but it is always on the wrong path of development, this is not a problem, but it is a little funny to brag about it.
[NSM Missile]
Don't look at Eric's advocacy of the Littoral Combat Group now, at most, in a few months, there may be no mention of this kind of force in the US military, and the Littoral Combat Group will not be able to solve the core problem of the United States losing its military superiority over China in the Asia-Pacific region.
Sources:
[1] The U.S. Marine Corps has been fully transformed to focus on "high-end" operations. Baijiahao [Citation date: 2023-11-21]
[2] Li Jinghai. Performance analysis and development trend of anti-aircraft missile warhead[J]. Ground Air Defense Weapons, 2005 (001): 25-28.