Samuel Paparo, commander of the US Navy's Pacific Fleet, is on the verge of becoming commander of the US Indo-Pacific Command, as US President Joe Biden has submitted his nomination to the US Senate. When Samuel Paparo participated in the Senate hearings of the US Congress, he openly threatened China, declaring that the US military deployment in the Asia-Pacific region should be used to establish deterrence against China, and at the same time, the United States will further achieve deterrence against China by actively attracting allies. In fact, it is not only Samuel Paparo, commander of the US Navy's Pacific Fleet, who has taken an aggressive stance against China, but also NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, who has frequently played up the so-called Chinese military threat during his recent visit to the United States.
Nowadays, most of the equipment updates of the U.S. military and the deployment of military forces are aimed at China, and both the U.S. government and the U.S. military have seen China as the biggest challenge for the United States, especially when China rises. The United States is worried that China will take the place of the United States, so it has adopted a strategy of encirclement and containment against China, including using military deployment to demonstrate at China's doorstep. In fact, the United States has not only taken an aggressive stance toward China in the Asia-Pacific region, but also in the Middle East.
Starting in November 2023, the U.S. Navy has a combat deployment of the CVN69 USS Eisenhower aircraft carrier in the Middle East, and now the U.S. Navy is fighting the Houthis in Yemen through the aircraft carrier strike group formation, during which in addition to bombing Yemen, it also uses missile destroyers to escort Israel in the Red Sea, so there is a "close encounter" between the Aegis missile destroyer and the anti-ship missiles of the Yemeni Houthis. According to information released by the U.S. Navy, the U.S. Navy DDG101 Graveley shot down an anti-ship missile launched by the Yemeni Houthis on January 30, judging from the data released by the U.S. Navy, it was fired 5 seconds before the anti-ship missile hit the U.S. warship, and the U.S. Navy countered the incoming anti-ship missile through a 6-tube 20-mm Phalanx close defense system.
In fact, before the U.S. Navy blasted the incoming cruise missiles through the Phalanx, the U.S. Navy had repeatedly shot down the anti-ship missiles of the Yemeni Houthis through the Standard 6 anti-aircraft missiles, and even shot down the anti-ship ballistic missiles launched by the Yemeni Houthis. F-Super Hornet fighter jets intercepted anti-ship missiles fired by Yemen's Houthi rebels. Judging from the fact that the main target of the US Navy is the PLA, the US Navy's interception operations in the Red Sea have already shown the rhythm of the PLA.
According to Western media reports, the PLA recently has a 052D missile destroyer in the Gulf of Aden on a mission, and foreign media have also intensively hyped the PLA 052D missile destroyer approaching the US Navy CVN69 USS Eisenhower. In fact, the hype of the foreign media is in line with the exaggerated atmosphere of the so-called "Chinese military threat" in the West, and the PLA 052D missile destroyer is carrying out anti-piracy escort operations in relevant waters, which is fundamentally different from the US Navy. Judging from the actions of the US Navy, the US Navy has repeatedly exaggerated the results of counterattacking anti-ship missiles in an attempt to psychologically weaken the PLA, because the PLA has a variety of anti-ship missile equipment, and the US Navy is trying to lead the PLA into a misunderstanding.
The US Navy DDG101 Graveley Aegis missile destroyer intercepted a subsonic anti-ship missile, so there is a reaction time of 5 seconds at a distance of 1500 meters, and the US Navy fires when there are only 5 seconds left, if it encounters the PLA anti-ship missile, the US Navy has no chance, 1500 meters is 0.73 seconds for an anti-ship missile with a speed of Mach 6, so the US Navy's Phalanx close defense system has not reacted, and the PLA anti-ship missile has already hit the soul, so the US Navy intercepts subsonic anti-ship missiles with a Phalanx It is not able to scare the PLA 052D missile destroyers nearby.