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According to a release released by the Southern Theater, the US ship "Benford" forcibly invaded China's Xisha waters without permission on the 20th, and the PLA's naval and air forces reacted quickly, gave a warning, and drove away.
(The Benford used to travel through the Taiwan Strait)
The M.B. Burke-class destroyer "Benford" is a "habitual offender", and the ship has also crossed the Taiwan Strait before, full of provocation. However, this time, the "Benford" was "prepared", because the US military has mobilized a large number of aircraft carrier forces to the Western Pacific, and in the South China Sea, it is constantly shuttling out. The US media has recently maliciously hyped up the deployment of troops by the US military to the western Pacific at a time of "Sino-US tensions". It mainly includes 4 aircraft carriers and quasi-aircraft carriers, and 3 are also equipped with the latest Loma V aircraft, namely F-35B and F-35C stealth carrier aircraft. Specifically, the aircraft carriers Carl Vinson and Lincoln each have 10 F-35Cs, while the quasi-aircraft carrier "America" has multiple F-35B carrier aircraft with short take-offs and landings.
(F-35C on deck of the USS Carl Vinson)
It can be seen that this time, the United States has actually "poured out its nest" and mobilized a large number of combat forces to scare China. You know, although the United States has 10 heavy nuclear aircraft carriers (Nimitz class) in service, it is generally not all outgoing, it is part of the factory maintenance, some are in the state of training, and the remaining part is on duty. The United States deployed two aircraft carrier battle groups to the Asia-Pacific region at a time, and also mobilized two quasi-aircraft carrier formations to cooperate, which shows that the United States is really full of malice and really wants to show its muscles to China.
(Dynamic information of US warship groups released by "South China Sea Strategic SituationAlign")
Moreover, from the hype of the US media, it can be seen that the United States has taken out the fifth-generation aircraft that can be on the ship this time, of which the F-35B stealth fighter is dedicated to the Marine Corps, and the F-35C is the official carrier-based stealth fifth-generation aircraft, and these two fifth-generation aircraft are the most advanced carrier-based aircraft in the world. According to the US media, this time there are a total of "more than two dozen" F-35 fighters operating in the Western Pacific, which is obviously a "strong signal" to China.
(The fifth generation of the "American" aircraft)
The United States may also take into account that China also has a fifth-generation aircraft, because China's J-20 fifth-generation aircraft has just recently ushered in the anniversary of the 11th anniversary of the first flight, and the J-20 has begun to be formed, and a certain ace unit of the Air Force, formerly a heroic unit, shot down and injured as many as 88 enemy aircraft during the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, and the unit has now taken over the J-20 fifth-generation aircraft. Recently, the J-20 has carried out practical training and trained a number of different subjects, even including ground strike capabilities and electronic countermeasures capabilities. It can be seen that the combat effectiveness of the J-20 has gradually matured.
(J-20 "Veyron")
Of course, if you really want to compare hard power, the J-20 is still superior to the F-35, after all, the F-35 is a model that pursues cost performance, and its comprehensive performance is not as good as the F-22. It is only the United States that first equipped the aircraft carrier with stealth fighters such as the F-35, which also shows that the era of stealth of carrier-based aircraft has arrived. This reminds us that the development of stealth carrier-based aircraft is already a very necessary task.