As soon as US Secretary of State Antony Blinken's visit to China ended, news of a provocation by US military aircraft came from the South China Sea.
This incident was exposed by CCTV on April 27, when two J-11 series fighters belonging to the Navy of the Southern Theater of the People's Liberation Army suddenly encountered four American F/A-18 Hornet carrier-based aircraft over a certain area of the South China Sea. Subsequently, the pictures exposed by CCTV showed that the two PLA J-11 series fighters had a sudden aerial scuffle with four US fighters, and the confrontation was particularly fierce at that time.
Even, these four US fighters who ran to China's doorstep to provoke once turned on the fire control radar lock on to the PLA military planes during the struggle, which is an extraordinary move. This is because the fire control radar locking is the last step before the live ammunition is fired, that is to say, it is possible that the four fighters that the United States came to provoke at that time were even ready to open fire on the two PLA Jian-11s, and the scene at that time was particularly thrilling.
At the same time, judging from the models of these four US military aircraft, all four are all F/A-18 "Hornet" carrier-based fighters. In other words, in addition to these four US military planes, it is likely that there is also a US aircraft carrier strike group cruising around, which may be the confidence of the US pilots at that time to turn on the fire control radar on the PLA fighters. Because for the Americans, their aircraft carrier strike group is extremely powerful, and any country should be afraid of three points, so they believe that the PLA military planes will inevitably be "intimidated" under this kind of deterrence, so they will give up following and intercepting these four F/A-18s, and then they can do whatever they want in China's coastal waters.
In the face of our heroic PLA officers and men, the US military's provocation not only did not frighten us, but was also met with a strong response from the PLA in accordance with the law. It may even be ready to sacrifice and drive the outside out anyway.
In the news exposed by CCTV, it was also confirmed that the pilots of the J-11 series fighters of our naval aviation at that time, despite the locking provocation of the enemy's fire control radar, finally heroically drove away the foreign planes, and this heroic and fearless spirit deserves our high praise.
More importantly, according to the personal statement of one of the J-11 pilots on the mission, we seem to be able to restore why the US military aircraft at that time chose to compromise in front of the PLA when they had a numerical advantage.
This pilot of our army said that during the fierce confrontation at that time, the pilots of our fighters had radio contact with the pilots of the US planes and shouted, and it was in the course of these continuous exchanges that our side showed our firm attitude of defending our homeland without fear of sacrifice, thus making the foreign planes suddenly realize that they were not facing a simple "role" but PLA officers and men who were not afraid of sacrifice, and even if their military planes had an advantage in numbers, once a real fight broke out, it would not necessarily be a loss at that time.
Moreover, more importantly, the position of the provocation of the US military aircraft is in the relevant waters of the South China Sea, and this direction is completely within the absolute strike range of the naval and air forces of our PLA and the missile forces. Even if the United States sends one or two aircraft carrier battle groups in, once a war really starts, the US military will inevitably suffer. Don't forget that in 2016, two 100,000-ton nuclear-powered supercarriers of the United States, with a luxurious fleet of dozens of U.S. Navy warships, drove into the South China Sea to stir up trouble. In the end, after a series of response measures by the People's Liberation Army (PLA) and the announcement of the launch of the anti-ship ballistic missile live-fire exercise, the US Navy's luxury fleet, which consists of two US nuclear-powered aircraft carriers, finally chose to "admit intimidation" and withdrew from the South China Sea.
After a series of comparisons, the Americans suddenly discovered that if their navy ran rampant in the world and went to war with the PLA in the South China Sea, the final outcome would only be to die in the sea under the PLA's various firepower. Since this is the case, then the United States can only "go for the best policy".
Therefore, the fierce confrontation between Chinese and US military planes in the South China Sea is the same, although the US military planes once turned on the fire control radar, they still did not have the confidence to open fire. On the surface, it seems that only two PLA J-11 fighters are facing four US military planes, but in fact, who is sure that the PLA 055 and other advanced strike ships have approached the US aircraft carrier battle group from another direction?
If these four US military planes dare to open fire, then no one dares to say whether the US aircraft carrier strike group in the rear will be baptized by the overwhelming missiles of the PLA in an instant.