Recently, the US deployment of intermediate-range missiles in the Philippines has aroused widespread concern, and many people are worried that the US intermediate-range missiles will pose a threat to our security.
In the name of the exercise, the launch system deployed by the U.S. Army to the Philippines is called "Typhon", which is said to be a new equipment that the U.S. Army has just received in 2022, but in essence, it is based on the U.S. Navy's MK-41 vertical launch system, which has been changed from a ship-based to a vehicle-mounted. In other words, the vertical hair system on the Burke-class destroyer was modified to a truck, so that the army also has the ability to launch missiles.
As we all know, because of the tactical reasons of the US military, the US Army has the lowest position in the US army, and in several major operations in the Middle East, the army is actually only the "eyes" of the Air Force. Therefore, before the delivery of the "Typhon" system to the US Army, the US Army did not have long-range strike capabilities at all. This defect of the US Army was not fatal when the United States had absolute air supremacy, but the problem was that the hypothetical enemy of the United States was China, and the US military could not obtain absolute air supremacy in front of the People's Liberation Army at all, so the Army began to seek its own long-range strike capability.
But the problem is that this weapon system, developed from the MK-41, can only fire two types of ammunition, one is the Standard-6 anti-aircraft missile, and the other is the Tomahawk cruise missile. And the United States deploys the Philippines this time, and the biggest threat to us is the "Tomahawk" cruise missile.
I believe that everyone is no stranger to the "Tomahawk" missile, which appears in almost all US Hollywood war films, and this missile made its first flight in 1976 and has shone in several US operations in the Middle East, and is also an important part of the long-range strike capability of the United States today, and Japan formally signed an agreement with the United States in January this year to purchase 400 "Tomahawk" cruise missiles from the United States.
However, at a time when hypersonic missiles in various countries are springing up like mushrooms after a rain, the speed of the "Tomahawk" cruise missile is somewhat "outdated". In fact, at a time when China is seeking to improve its defense against hypersonic missiles, the speed of the Tomahawk has obviously not kept pace with the development of China's anti-missile system.
In Iran's attack on Israel, the United States and Israel have built an amazing air defense network, with the US aircraft carrier strike group on the periphery, in coordination with Burke-class destroyers, forming an external air defense network composed of Aegis and F-15 fighters, while the US "Patriot" air defense missile system deployed in the Middle East has cooperated with Israel's "Iron Dome," "David Sling," "Arrow-2," and "Arrow-3" to form an internal "iron wall" Allegedly, of the hundreds of missiles launched by Iran, only a few hypersonic missiles really fell on Israel.
China's air defense network is only stronger, not weaker, than the one built by the United States and Israel.
The most important thing is that in the case of the global deployment of the United States, the US military's hypersonic missiles are far away, and the stock of "Tomahawk" missiles in the hands of the Philippines and Japan is not high, and there is even no way to saturate the fire channel of the PLA air defense system, in other words, even if the United States launches all the "Tomahawks" deployed by Japan and the Philippines in a short period of time, there is no way to break through the PLA's air defense network and form an effective threat to China's coastal areas.
Therefore, in the face of the strength of the PLA, the "Tomahawks" of the US military in Japan and the Philippines are worth paying attention to, but not worth panicking about. The political significance of the United States' "intermediate-range missiles" in these two places is far greater than its military significance, and it can be regarded as a complete confirmation of the Philippines and Japan's identity as "agents" of the United States in the Asia-Pacific region.
The United States is so "slicing sausages", we don't have to give any good faces, the sanctions that should be sanctioned, the islands that should be filled, the H-6N hangs the YJ-21, and if you have nothing to do, you can go to the Pacific Ocean to take a good look, what is the real "hypersonic missile"!