On the evening of 21 July, nine PLA fighter planes burst into 42 miles north of Taiwan Island, and the "Patriot" and "Tiangong" air defense missile units in the northern part of the Taiwan military were alarmed and directly entered a state of combat readiness.
Lieutenant General of the Taiwan Air Force said that the PLA has long seen the flaws in the deployment of the Taiwan Army, and as long as the PLA wants to, it will be able to launch a decapitation operation against Taipei's "Presidential Palace" in three minutes, thus ending the fighting.
Nine fighters of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) rushed forward, and the police bells of the Taiwan military were loud
According to U.S. media reports, the U.S. House of Representatives voted to pass the "2024 National Security Supplementary Appropriations Act", which clearly stated that it would provide $1.9 billion for Taiwan to purchase U.S. weapons and equipment, training and education services.
The US side has expressed its "rock-solid" support for Taiwan, which shows that the US side is doing everything possible to support the strategy of "resisting reunification by force" on the island.
Lai Qingde
"520" is coming soon, and Lai Qingde is about to succeed Tsai Ing-wen as the de facto leader of the island, but the island believes that Lai Qingde's assumption of power will be a major test for cross-strait relations, and may even cause cross-strait relations to continue to regress, because after all, he is a "hardcore Taiwan independence."
Therefore, under such circumstances, it is very necessary for the PLA to continue to conduct joint naval and air military exercises and strengthen its combat readiness against Taiwan to deter Taiwan independence forces.
The People's Liberation Army patrols Taiwan
According to information from Taiwan's defense department, the People's Liberation Army (PLA) dispatched 21 fighters of various types to the Taiwan Strait on 20 July, 14 of which crossed the so-called "center line of the strait," and even some fighters turned east to the island of Taiwan in the south of Penghu, which was only more than 40 nautical miles away from Keelung and Kaohsiung from north to south.
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Taichung General: Mainland fighters can be decapitated in 180 seconds at the earliest
Zhang Yanting, former deputy commander of the Air Force and general of Taichung, said that PLA fighters are getting closer and closer to the island by attacking from the north and south. The whole strategy of the PLA is to make the island slowly accept the military activities of mainland fighters, unmanned aerial vehicles, and warships around Taiwan in their hearts.
The People's Liberation Army patrols Taiwan
On the night of the 21st, the PLA's naval and air forces patrolling Taiwan were even larger, with ships and fighter formations dispatched at the same time, and 20 fighter planes went out to sea for cruise, of which 9 fighter formations directly crossed the long-defunct "middle line of the strait" and approached Keelung 42 miles north of Taiwan Island.
The Taiwan military said that PLA fighters had already flown into the island's "air defense identification zone" and had dispatched fighters to "drive them away." The air defense missile unit in the northern part of the island was alarmed, and the troops were fully combat-ready.
Zhang Yanting made it clear in a political program that the PLA fighters are now attacking from the north and the south, and they are getting closer and closer to the island, and the fighter planes are flying closer to the northern part of Taiwan Island than the Keelung area, only 30 nautical miles, which means that the people on the island can see the PLA fighters with telescopes.
At present, it can be said that the PLA is extremely familiar with the vicinity of the island, and after maintaining regular patrols, in the event of a war, PLA fighters will be able to fly to Taipei in three minutes to carry out a "decapitation" operation to end military reunification.
Zhang Yanting also said that the PLA has discovered the defects in the Taiwan army's defenses, and the response speed of the Taiwan military in Taipei is far less than that of the PLA, and Taipei's air defense system can only passively defend against the PLA fighters.
The fighter unit of the Taiwan military is not stationed in Taipei, and the closest to Taipei is the Mirage 2000 fighter unit in Hualien, which takes six minutes to take off at the earliest, and there is no time to react at all in wartime.
It is very necessary for the People's Liberation Army to patrol Taiwan for combat readiness
At present, the main purpose of conducting high-intensity actual combat exercises on the entire island is twofold: First, it is necessary to conduct actual combat exercises on the island in order to temper the PLA's multi-arms coordinated combat capability and prevent any unexpected incidents that will occur in the Taiwan Strait area in the future, so that the PLA can truly be "prepared for any danger."
After all, because of the Taiwan authorities' "death" in the past few years, the PLA has taken concrete actions to significantly reduce the depth of the island's strategic space and closely follow the island's activities, so as to ensure that the PLA can quickly seize sea and air supremacy on the island in wartime, not give the island enough time to react, and speed up the entire process of reunification.
Second, it is to use high-intensity patrols and drills to enable the island's armed forces to "collapse without a fight" and consume the strength of the island's armed forces. For example, in the past few years, the PLA Navy and Air Force have patrolled the Taiwan Strait with high intensity every day, causing the Taiwan Air Force and Air Defense Forces to be "exhausted."
Relying on its numerical superiority, our air force has taken turns to carry out military training missions in the Taiwan Strait, and even units equipped with old aircraft such as the Su-27SK have made appearances near the Taiwan Strait from time to time.
The Taiwan Air Force is even more miserable; every time a Continental Army plane comes, it has to quickly dispatch fighter planes to monitor and carry out the so-called "driving away" mission, but the scale of the Taiwan Air Force is much smaller than that of the PLA, and these pilots and fighters make high-intensity sorties every day, which not only causes the remaining life of the Taiwan military fighters to be rapidly consumed, but also makes the Taiwan military pilots sleepy and lacking horses, so in recent years the Taiwan military has frequently had fighter plane accidents.
At present, some pilots have chosen to pay money in advance and retire from the army to transfer to airlines for development while they are at the right age; to add insult to injury, the 66 F-16Vs purchased by the Taiwan military will be delivered immediately, and there is a shortage of 150 more pilots in the Taiwan military.
In addition, the PLA's high-intensity patrols of Taiwan are actually an effective "deterrent behavior" for the "Taiwan independence" diehard forces on the island, so that they do not dare to underestimate the strength of the PLA and act rashly.
All in all, the mainland's "military maneuvers" against Taiwan in recent years have been very effective, which can ensure that the PLA can deal with any unexpected incidents in the future and ensure the mainland's absolute dominance in relations with Taiwan.
Some of the content sources in the article: 1. US media: The number of fighter pilots in Taiwan is seriously insufficient China Youth Network