Recently, our military will continue to carry out day and night and live-fire exercises in many waters of the South China Sea, and this news has aroused great concern in foreign media, and analysts pointed out that the plausible large-scale comprehensive exercise activities of the PLA are an important response to US Secretary of State Blinken's visit to relevant countries in the South China Sea.
According to reports, the relevant departments recently released the latest navigation warning information, indicating that the Chinese navy will carry out live-fire confrontation training and exercise activities in many waters in the South China Sea. These exercise areas are located in the southern waters of Sanya, the waters of the Beibu Gulf, the coast of Guangdong and the eastern part of Hainan Island, and so on, and the coverage is indeed rare.
However, just one day before the People's Liberation Army (PLA) conducted large-scale live-fire training at sea, an RC-135W electronic reconnaissance plane that took off from the Naha base in Okinawa Prefecture, Japan, headed west through the Bashi Strait, through the coastal areas of Guangdong and Hainan in China, and flew into an airspace about 80 kilometers away from the Paracel Islands, and then the plane entered the central waters of the South China Sea.
The analysis pointed out that the flight route of the US military plane coincides with the area where the PLA conducts maritime exercises, and it is possible that it is carrying out "stepping on the spot" operation for monitoring and collecting electromagnetic intelligence of the PLA. Analysts pointed out that the RC-135W electronic reconnaissance aircraft is capable of detecting, identifying and locating signals throughout the electromagnetic spectrum. The aircraft is equipped with a large number of advanced intelligence gathering equipment and claims to be able to "monitor the electronic activities of all combat platforms of the People's Liberation Army."
Analysts pointed out that the most noteworthy thing is that the US Air Force's RC-135W "Rivet" electronic reconnaissance aircraft currently performs more than 90% of the tasks are tactical-level reconnaissance missions, and often directly support the sea fleet to carry out combat missions. That is to say, the US military's dispatch of this plane to the PLA exercise area to conduct a "stepping point" flight will also be part of its "actual combat training.", which can be said to be a bad person.
It is worth noting that just as the US reconnaissance plane was conducting close reconnaissance in the relevant waters of the South China Sea, the Chinese Air Force aircraft also crossed the so-called southwest airspace of Taiwan into the Bashi Strait on the same day and conducted police training flights in the waters east of Guangdong. It is even possible that the planes of the two sides will meet in the air. Some analysts pointed out that this intensive hard-hitting "air confrontation" indicates that in the future, China and the United States are likely to launch a fierce "air-to-air electronic confrontation" around the exercise in the South China Sea.
It is worth noting that as the United States stepped up its military deployment in the South China Sea, China will face unprecedented strategic pressure in the south China Sea. In addition, the United States has also secretly instigated countries such as the Philippines and Vietnam to engage in actions in the South China Sea. In this regard, we must maintain a high degree of vigilance and guard against all kinds of conspiracies of the United States.