Recently, the largest Far East strategic air base in the United States, Kadena Air Base in Okinawa, Japan, held a "show muscles" activity, and the content was also very direct: all 36 fighters of various types in the base were pulled to the runway for the "elephant walk" display. The original intention was to show strong strength to deter opponents, of course, the target is us, but some netizens said to the squad leader with "disdain" after watching it: How many F-22s are these? Who are the Americans trying to scare! If you really fight, none of these planes will be able to escape!
36 fighters at the Kadena base of the US military "show muscles", can you find out how many F22s specifically?
As can be seen from the picture, the US military displayed a total of 23 F-15C/D, 8 F-22s, 1 KC-135 tanker, 1 RC-135 reconnaissance aircraft, 1 E-3D strategic transport aircraft and two Black Hawk helicopters displayed at the Kadena base, a total of 36 helicopters. It should be pointed out that these 36 fighters are far from the entire combat strength of the Kadena base (the base is equipped with about 100 fighters all year round), specifically, about one-half of the fighters, about one-tenth of the helicopters, about one-tenth of the reconnaissance tankers, and about one-fourth of the AWACS aircraft. But even these fighters on the runway have surpassed the air forces of most countries, and large AWACS aircraft, tankers, reconnaissance aircraft and a large number of heavy fighter combinations are the infrastructure of the air forces of major countries at present.
The strategic location of the Kadena site is extremely important
The main reason why Kadena has become the largest strategic air base in the Far East of the US military is its location, which can be regarded as the core of the entire East Asian region: 650 kilometers from the Chinese mainland coast, the flight time of fighters is not even more than half an hour, 770 kilometers from Shanghai, the economic center of China, 600 kilometers from Taipei City, Taiwan Province, and 1,900 kilometers from China's Paracel Islands. From the above data, it can also be seen that the Kadena base is a key link in the US military's containment of China's island chain, so the US Air Force has deployed almost all the main combat equipment that can be used here, and even the B-2 stealth bomber, which is considered a "heavy weapon of the country" in the United States, does not come to the Kadena base temporarily from time to time to practice, but can the current Kadena really curb China's rise?
China's DF-26 missile launch, if it carries a sub-mother warhead, can basically paralyze Kadena air base with one shot
The answer is of course no, as mentioned earlier, the Kadena base is only 600 kilometers from the coast of China, that is to say, our army's arsenal, not counting fighters, only missiles, more than 600 kilometers can attack the Kadena base, more than this range can basically be turned into medium-range missiles, even in our army's battle sequence is not too much, but this is not too much, but relatively speaking, in fact, there are thousands. And such missiles are generally equipped with tonnage warheads, one can destroy the reinforced hangar or runway of a large air base, really in wartime if the Americans really dare to intervene, then the base must be the first target of the PLA, not to mention, 10-20 medium-range missiles can completely destroy the operational capability of the base, and then Air Force bombers and fighters are dispatching precision strikes, it can be said that the base's fighters are basically inescapable. No matter how fast your plane flies, it is not as fast as our missiles, right?
Chinese J-20 elephants walk, Americans want to scare people, I'm afraid it's not so easy
To be honest, 20 years ago, the US military's "show muscles" was still a little useful, at that time China did not have J-20, no J-16, no J-10C and no air police-500, Yingyou-20, H-6K and other new main fighters, but as the saying goes, 30 years in Hedong, 30 years in Hexi, the Americans still want to use this method to scare people, it is somewhat funny.