After the outbreak of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, France, a member of NATO, quickly played an inglorious role, and France had previously clamored to send French soldiers directly to Crane to fight in order to support Ukraine, but this also means that NATO will directly break out into a head-on conflict with Russia. Although Macron has shouted many times, there is no evidence that French soldiers have appeared on the battlefield, but France is continuously providing weapons and equipment to Ukraine, including precision-guided weapons that can be mounted under the wing of Su-27 fighters. The U.S.-Philippine Shoulder to Shoulder (SHOULDER-to-Shoulder) exercise is a routine annual exercise that is significantly larger in scale and involves tens of thousands of U.S. and Filipino troops, unlike previous Shoulder to Shoulder military exercises. France traveled thousands of miles from Europe to the South China Sea in order to carry out a joint provocation with the United States, and in such a provocation, the PLA warship had already reached a distance of nearly 2 nautical miles.
In the past, in the course of joint military exercises between the US military and the Philippines, the PLA usually sent surface ships, including the 054A missile frigate, to conduct close surveillance, but the surface ship sent by the PLA this time is a Type 815A electronic reconnaissance ship, which has already arrived close to the 2 nautical miles of the US, France, and the Philippines military exercises. In addition to completing the approach reconnaissance operations of the trilateral military exercise, the Type 815A electronic reconnaissance ship can also collect a large number of signals related to weapons and equipment and radar, and this signal will be used in electronic warfare in the future. At present, the PLA already has a variety of electronic warfare aircraft, and for these electronic warfare aircraft, it is particularly important to obtain more electronic warfare signals, because this determines whether electronic warfare can effectively interfere with the opponent in the future.
France's constant disruption of the current Russia-Ukraine conflict is accompanied by a desire to stir up trouble in the South China Sea, which seems to be France's self-confidence in the field of defense, but in fact France is even worried about the security of the Olympic Games. In today's Russia-Ukraine conflict, France is even worried that Russia will launch direct strikes against targets in France, so France is also trying to borrow multiple air defense systems from Greece during the Olympics to ensure the safety of French airspace. It is understood that France will borrow the Sidewinder short-range surface-to-air air defense system from the Greek Air Force this time, and this air defense system can complete the interception of a variety of targets, including drones.
The Sidewinder air defense system is actually a batch of weapons and equipment exported by France to Greece, it is understood that these weapons and equipment were put into use by the Greek Air Force in 2003, although France has communicated with Greece at the diplomatic level, but Greece has not made any response, and the Greek side needs to do the borrowing of this air defense system, which will not affect Greece's own air defense capability.
France continues to provide weapons and equipment to Ukraine, and at the critical moment of the South China Sea turmoil, even its own air defense system needs to be borrowed from neighboring countries, which also shows that France still has very big troubles in the field of defense. Text/Iris