According to the information reported by the media, in the Rim of the Pacific military exercise, the United States will use a decommissioned 40,000-ton amphibious assault ship as a target to carry out anti-ship missile strike tests, and this 40,000-ton amphibious assault ship is actually simulating the PLA's Type 075 amphibious assault ship. According to the plan, a number of NATO countries will use fighter jets to deploy in Japan. Spain, Germany, and France have announced that they will deploy fighter jets to Japan in early July and conduct joint exercises with Japan's Air Self-Defense Force. In terms of the number of fighters deployed, the three NATO member states will fly more than 42 fighter sorties, including Typhoon fighters and French-made Rafale fighters, and in order to cooperate with the operation and carry a large number of support parts, there will also be A400M tactical transport aircraft and Airbus A330MRTT air tankers to cooperate with the operation.
In the summer of 2024, small moves by the United States and its allies in the military sphere are very frequent. In the past, most NATO organizations have focused on confronting Russia, but now the constant focus on China has actually exposed NATO's true intentions. Of course, in the face of the continuous deployment of NATO member states and the United States' RIMPAC military exercises, the PLA is not worried at all, and now a large number of military operations of the PLA have begun to deter and knock on Japan. According to information released by the Integrated Staff Supervision Department of the Ministry of General Defense, the People's Liberation Army (PLA) has sent three groups of ships to penetrate the waters around Japan on July 1.
The three groups of ships sent by the People's Liberation Army include the Type 055 10,000-ton missile destroyer Lhasa ship formation, which completed the interspersed Miyako Strait and entered the Sea of Okhotsk to carry out operations, so that the Lhasa ship may go to North America or complete the voyage around Japan, while the 052D missile destroyer Kaifeng and the 054A missile frigate Yantai completed the crossing of the Tsugaru Strait and entered the western Pacific far sea, and the ship had previously been interspersed many times in the Osumi Strait, in addition, A Type 815A electronic reconnaissance ship of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) also completed the crossing of the Miyako Strait into the far seas of the western Pacific. From the point of view of mission, this Type 815A electronic reconnaissance ship is very likely to take on the task of tracking the US Navy USS Roosevelt nuclear-powered aircraft carrier.
Although the PLA has increased the frequency of long-range military operations in the far sea in recent years, the continuous operation of the three groups of warship formations this time is actually not simple, and the War Research Institute believes that this is a clear warning to the United States and Japan, because the four straits crossed by the PLA are very special, and the territorial waters of these four straits have been shortened to three nautical miles for the United States to carry out the delivery of nuclear weapons, and the PLA is crossing these straits of the territorial waters of three nautical miles at the same time, which is obviously a warning to the United States and Japan.
Compared with some NATO member states, the strength of the warships in the hands of the PLA is much stronger, and in particular, the PLA warships have a stronger late-mover advantage; it is not difficult to see that a large number of the PLA's warships have been produced and manufactured in this century, and the strong late-mover advantage is actually a headache for the United States and its opponents. In recent years, the PLA's advanced surface warships have continued to carry out long-range military operations in the far seas, which has also put the Japanese Self-Defense Forces in a state of exhaustion, because whenever PLA warships appear, the Japanese side needs to send anti-submarine patrol aircraft and surface ships to respond. Text/Iris