The Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force is also known as the anti-submarine detachment of the U.S. Navy's Seventh Fleet because of Japan's very strong anti-submarine warfare capabilities. According to a lot of information obtained by the War Research Institute, in addition to the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force is equipped with the American-made P-3C anti-submarine patrol aircraft, there are also Japan's domestic P-1 anti-submarine patrol aircraft, and these are two fixed-wing anti-submarine patrol aircraft, in the Maritime Self-Defense Force's equipment sequence, there are SH-60K anti-submarine helicopters, anti-submarine helicopters can take off on the tail flight deck of destroyers and frigates, from the perspective of comprehensive combat capabilities, the SH-60K anti-submarine helicopter is stronger than the PLA's Z-9 anti-submarine helicopter, which is also determined by the size of the helicopter, and more airborne equipment coordination can be completed on the SH-60K helicopterto achieve a more robust anti-submarine warfare capability.
According to a news disclosed by the media, the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force has recently used SH-60K anti-submarine helicopters to simulate the search for PLA submarines. As the PLA warships go out to the sea more and more frequently to carry out various military operations, in fact, Japan can only report the movement trajectory of a large number of PLA warships, but cannot inform the trajectory of PLA submarines, because these submarines cannot be photographed and verified and identified. The high-intensity operation in the Sea of Japan has also focused on the search for PLA submarines in the Sea of Japan, but during the Japanese exercise to search for PLA submarines, two SH-60K helicopters crashed one after another.
If only one helicopter had an accident during the exercise, then it can be understood that it was a mechanical failure of the helicopter or an operational error of the crew members, and the successive crashes of two anti-submarine helicopters were definitely not accidental. Judging from the time of the crash of the two helicopters, the interval between the two helicopters is not even more than an hour, if the two planes collide in the air, then the crash time of the two will be at the same time, and the war research institute believes that the only thing that can explain the crash is that the two planes rushed into the sea one after another or the two planes had serious mechanical failures in a row.
The main object of Japan's night flight training this time was to simulate the interception of a submarine of an imaginary enemy, and this imaginary enemy was also locked on the People's Liberation Army. In recent years, after the crash, Japan has tried to blame the PLA for the crash, and of course Taiwan is no exception; when the F-5 fighter jets on the front island crashed continuously, the Taiwan military pointed out that it was the intensive actions of the PLA that caused the crash of the Taiwan military plane, but in fact this way of shirking responsibility is also very absurd. The two anti-submarine planes of the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force have crashed one after another, and the War Research Institute believes that the United States today should feel that it has a big head; on the one hand, this is an American-made fighter, and on the other hand, after the crash of Japan, Japan's anti-submarine search and combat capability is very likely to be weakened.
The United States is constantly supporting Japan and making Japan the vanguard of anti-China urgency, and in the face of the successive crashes of Japan's two helicopters, the War Research Institute also believes that the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force will probably restrain its actions a little in the future, and may even completely ground the helicopters involved. Text/Iris