This year's Zhuhai air show really brought us a lot of surprises, from the information on display, the mainland has made great progress in missiles, radar, unmanned systems and fighter technology, China's strong military industrial strength, naturally also seen by the United States, Japan, India and other countries. In addition to the weapons on display at the air show, a number of more advanced weapons systems being developed in China are often discussed. For example: Pterodactyl-3, H-20 and JH-XX.
Recently, India's EurAsia Times published an article saying that under the impetus of intercontinental long-range weapons, China's strategic direction has changed from defensive offensive to offensive defense. Among them, the focus is on the pterosaur-3, Hong-20, and the mysterious JH-XX. Indian media believe that the concept of Wing Loong-3 and the upcoming H-20 will make China more confident, and the US Defense Intelligence Agency has also confirmed the existence of the J-H-20.
Indian media said that China currently has a variety of offensive platforms, J-20, J-11, J-16, J-10 and J-15 fighters, as well as China's advanced warships, such as Type 055 and Type 52C/D, which can enable China to respond strongly after being provoked by the United States. In addition, China could even be the first to use ballistic missiles, wiping out U.S. and Australian naval assets in the first and second island chains.
The DF-16 short-range ballistic missile (SRBM) has a range of up to 1,000 kilometers, which will cover all targets in the first island chain; The DF-21D, which has a range of 1500-2000 kilometers, is known as the "aircraft carrier killer", which can hit the second island chain and any approaching US Navy fleet.
The DF-26 medium-range ballistic missile, with a range of up to 3,500 kilometers, can fully hit Guam, the most critical naval base of the United States in the western Pacific.
In addition, China's powerful naval aircraft carrier fleet can build a new line of defense after the area is denied. The H-6K/N series of strategic bombers has long-range bombing capabilities and can be used to attack incoming enemy ships between the second and third island chains.
Indian media believe that although China has many advanced weapons and equipment, from a strategic point of view, China's current strategic direction is still based on strategic defense, but this will be reversed with the use of China's Wing Loong-3, CH-7 UAV, H-20 and JH-XX, which build China's layered defense against various air, sea and missile platforms. And each equipment has a different range, covering all the gaps needed, and the Chinese equipment is not just to maintain a stalemate with the opponent, but has excellent means to repel or even defeat the opponent's attack.
Indian media said that once China's equipment is put into use, then with the help of these platforms, China can launch a collective strategic offensive at any time to prevent the invasion of the United States and its allies, after the H-20 is put into use, Australia's Middle Tyndall Air Base is within its attack range, and no longer needs to go through air refueling like the H-6 bomber, because this base will later become an important overseas military base of the United States. The United States recently planned to deploy nearly six nuclear-capable B-52 bombers at the Central Tyndall Air Base to target China.
For this reason, the Indian media believes that the 2022 Zhuhai air show, as well as China's investment in more advanced weapons and equipment in the future, is more like a strong signal from China to the outside world, if China is willing, China can launch a war against you at any time.
In addition, this article in the Indian media also focused on the JH-XX, judging from the previously leaked photos, the JH-XX scale model has a tilted tail stabilizer, two protruding turbofan engines and a fairly large internal weapons bay, but whether the JH-XX really exists, many experts still express doubts, German expert Andreas Rupprecht even believes that the Chinese JH-XX is more mysterious than the snowman or the Loch Ness monster. The U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) first mentioned the project in a 2019 report titled "China's Military Power – A Modernizing Force to Fight and Win."
Judging from foreign media reports, foreign media generally believe that China's mysterious JH-XX can enable the PLA to conduct offensive and defensive air operations far from China's territory, further strengthen China's anti-access and area denial capabilities, and operate outside the first island chain extending south from the Kuril Islands to Japan and the Philippines. It can attack strategic targets in Japan, and possibly even Guam, as well as strategic targets in India and the South China Sea.
The author believes that with the current Chinese military strength, China can indeed be called the world's military power, but it has not reached the military power, China's military industry research and development time is too late, there is still a way to go from the United States, China's current research and development of various weapons is in the outbreak period, but there are still some technologies to be tackled. And for the views of the Indian media article, the author can agree with part of it, after all, people are also very objective, it can be seen that it is also more concerned about the development of China's military industry, but in terms of existing offensive means, in addition to those expressed by the Indian media, China's J-20, hypersonic missiles, can not be ignored.
And for those weapons and equipment systems that have not yet been put into service, the author still holds a cautious attitude, everything must be subject to official news, all the information in the outside world at present, is based on the continent and the world on the basis of existing weapons and equipment, objective analysis, has certain reference value, and the final result may bring us surprises.
Finally, as the old saying goes, China is strong now, China will only get stronger in the future, and any stumbling block that hinders China's rise will eventually be kicked away.