According to a piece of information released by the Japanese Ministry of Defense's Unified Staff Supervision Department on 1 July, the Japanese side recently detected that the PLA's Type 055 10,000-ton missile destroyer Lhasa had completed the passage of the Tsugaru Strait and entered the Sea of Okhotsk. The geographical location of the Tsugaru Strait is relatively special, this is an important strategic artery connecting the Sea of Japan and the Sea of Okhotsk, and with the PLA's Type 055 10,000-ton missile destroyer Lhasa and an integrated supply ship entering the Sea of Okhotsk, this also means that the PLA will carry out the next long-range military operation in the North Pacific waters. Of course, there is speculation that the PLA's Type 055 10,000-ton missile destroyer can also take this opportunity to go to North America to point fingers at and deter the United States.
RIMPAC is an annual routine military exercise led by the United States, in which 40 surface ships and more than 150 aircraft from 29 countries will participate. At present, the United States is constantly clamoring for to intervene in the form of force after a cross-strait conflict breaks out. At present, the anti-ship strikes practiced by the United States include destroying the PLA's Type 075 amphibious assault ships and aircraft carriers, and a large number of surface ships of the PLA have entered the Pacific waters one after another, which is obviously a response to the United States.
The People's Liberation Army has increased the long-range action of naval ships in the far sea, judging from the information previously disclosed by the media, the 052D missile destroyer Yinchuan has entered the South Pacific to carry out operations, although the outside world claims that the missile destroyer has appeared near the United States, but in fact the Yinchuan ship did not go to the west coast of the United States to carry out operations, and now the 055 type 10,000-ton missile destroyer has entered the Sea of Okhotsk and carries a comprehensive supply ship, the war research believes that this has actually paved the way for the PLA to point to North America.
Some time ago, the PLA's Y-20 strategic transport aircraft were also constantly going to Russia to carry out operations, including appearing at the Russian airport only one sea away from Alaska, the United States, and there is speculation that this is likely to be the PLA is preparing for the joint combat patrol of our H-6K bombers and Russian Tu-95MS strategic bombers in the future. Recently, a large number of surface ships of the Pacific Fleet of the Russian Navy have also been conducting quite intensive operations, so will there be joint actions between the Lhasa and the Russian surface ships? In fact, Chinese ships going to North America to conduct combat patrols are fully capable of meeting the so-called freedom of navigation rights mentioned by the United States, but China has always been very conservative in such actions.
The Type 055 10,000-ton missile destroyer has opened a gap with the Arleigh Burke-class missile destroyer in terms of performance, and while a large number of US ships in the South China Sea and the East China Sea are eyeing and constantly provoking, the RIMPAC military exercise regards China as the number one opponent, and the Type 055 10,000-ton missile destroyer can also go to North America to carry out an operation, so as to show strength to the United States. Text/Iris