According to the news hyped by the Associated Press some time ago, the PLA escort fleet in the Gulf of Aden refused to escort Israeli civilian ships in the waters around the Red Sea, and the PLA ships that refused to escort Israeli ships were the PLA 052D missile destroyer Urumqi, according to the Associated Press, after the Israeli ship made an escort request to the 052D missile destroyer Urumqi, it was rejected by the Chinese side, but judging from the current location of the 052D missile destroyer, the PLA's 052D missile destroyer Urumqi is operating in the waters near the US Eisenhower nuclear-powered aircraft carrier。
On December 26, China's official media also refuted the rumor, the People's Liberation Army did not refuse the escort request of Israeli civilian ships in the waters near the Red Sea, of course, the United States is now quite passive in the Red Sea, the United States Arleigh Burke-class missile destroyers do continue to create actual combat results in the Red Sea, but when the US Navy warships continue to create actual combat results, the United States is facing extremely high interception costs, the United States is currently intercepting UAV targets in the Red Sea, and in the process of intercepting a large number of UAV targets, the United States uses Standard II anti-aircraft missilesThe cost of the Standard II anti-aircraft missile has reached more than $2 million, while the cost of intercepting drones is only about $2,000, so it is obvious that this is a rather unequal operation, and the United States also hopes that more countries can participate in the process of passively intercepting a large number of drones.
The current U.S. operations in the Red Sea are quite passive, with a large number of allies refusing to participate in such escort operations, and the U.S. actions in the Red Sea are also constantly being targeted by the Houthis, according to media reports, the Yemeni Houthis have launched as many as four drones in a row to target the U.S. Navy's Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyers.
Britain and France as NATO allies of the United States, Britain and France Although Australia has been catering to a large number of military operations of the United States in the past period, and even Australia will send surface ships to intrude into the South China Sea for operations, but in the current Red Sea actual combat process, Australia does not cooperate with the United States, Australia is also worried about the need for a lot of costs in the process of such operations, and Australia is even more worried that once there is a mistake in the air defense operation, then the Australian frigate will also be attacked。
Some time ago, Australia also cooperated with the United States, Japan conducted a joint military exercise in Hokkaido, Japan, and the purpose of this joint military exercise is very clear, that is, to compete with Russia, although Russia has a large number of nuclear weapons in its hands, and has a large number of ICBMs, in 2023 Russia has carried out 7 ICBM test launches, but it is obvious that Australia is not worried about these ICBMs, because Russia will not use these strategic weapons easily, Australia is more worried about drones from the Houthis。 Text/Iris