At present, NATO member states are also very keen to carry out various force projection operations in the Indo-Pacific region, judging from the information obtained by the war research, there are now four NATO member states are sending troops to the Indo-Pacific region for deployment, including the Italian Navy's aircraft carrier Cavour, which has the ability to carry F-35B vertical short take-off and landing fighters. The USS Cavour has arrived in Singapore, and in the future, it will also enter the South China Sea to carry out operations. Because the displacement tonnage of the USS Cavour is very limited, the PLA does not have to worry about the threat posed by the deployment of the USS Cavour, the PLA can use the Type 055 10,000-ton missile destroyer to respond to the USS Cavour, in addition to the deployment of Italy, France, Germany, and Spain are also sending fighter jets to Japan for operations, and will carry out joint military exercises and training with the Japanese Air Self-Defense Force.
In addition to the selection of European joint research and development fighters in the air force equipment, only France is unique in the development of fighters, other countries are buying aircraft, Germany, France, Spain deployed fighters in addition to including the French Air Force Rafale fighters, including a huge number of European fighters, the so-called European fighter is the EF -2000 Typhoon fighter, this type of fighter is not the first time to arrive in Japan for deployment, Therefore, the Self-Defense Forces are very familiar with this type of fighter.
In the past period of time, most of the foreign fighters that the PLA has fought in the surrounding airspace are American-made fighters, including F-15 fighters produced in the United States, because the Japanese Air Self-Defense Force is equipped with a large number of this type of fighters, in addition, the US military also has this type of fighter deployed at the Kadena base, of course, in recent years, our PLA has been constantly engaged in close confrontation with the US military's fifth-generation aircraft, and the PLA is unfamiliar with the Typhoon fighter, but Pakistan has given the answer before, Because the Pakistan Air Force has used the J-10CE fighter jet purchased from China to conduct an aerial confrontation with the Qatar Air Force's Typhoon fighter jet, and judging from the results, the J-10CE fighter set a 0-9 air combat record at that time.
According to the results of Pakistan's air combat confrontation with the cartel, the Typhoon fighter has very limited combat capabilities outside the visual range, which is also due to the AESA active scanning array radar and Thunderbolt air-to-air missiles equipped with the J-10CE fighter.
The J-10CE fighter can be exported to overseas countries, which also completely shows that the J-10CE fighter is not the most powerful model in the PLA combat sequence, and the PLA also has a large number of J-16 and J-20 stealth fighters, and wants to fight against the Typhoon fighters deployed by NATO countries to Japan are also fully capable of this. Text/Iris