In the course of Iran's ballistic missile strikes against Israel, the United States used many Standard Type 3 anti-aircraft missiles to conduct air defense interception operations. U.S. Secretary of the Navy Deduro made it clear at a hearing of the U.S. House of Representatives Armed Services Committee on May 1 that as China's military strength in the Indo-Pacific region increases, the United States needs to deploy more Standard Type 3 anti-aircraft missiles in the Indo-Pacific region to protect its allies from danger. In addition to being able to be deployed on U.S. Burke-class warships, the Standard Type 3 anti-aircraft missile can also be carried on surface ships of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force and the South Korean Navy, because both Japanese and South Korean surface ships have the same U.S. MK-41 vertical launch unit. On 26 April, South Korea also decided to purchase more Standard 3 anti-aircraft missiles from the United States for air defense combat missions.
Although the Standard 3 anti-aircraft missile conducted a series of live firing, it was only in April that it successfully intercepted a ballistic missile fired by Iran at Israel. Japan's Kyodo News Agency pointed out that after the outbreak of cross-strait conflicts, the People's Liberation Army will have extremely strong regional denial and anti-access combat capabilities, so at present, China has also deployed a large number of medium-range missiles with a range that can cover the entire territory of Japan, and these medium-range missiles will focus on many US military bases in Japan, in addition, countries on the Northeast Asian Peninsula have recently conducted a large number of missile test launches, including some hypersonic missiles, so Japan also hopes to rely on the US standard Type 3 air defense missiles to complete a large number of air defense combat missions, so as to protect the security of US military bases in Japan and Japan。
In the process of intercepting Iranian missiles, the Standard Type 3 anti-ship missiles only intercepted some Iranian ballistic missiles, and did not really intercept hypersonic missiles. According to the many information obtained by the War Research Institute, the PLA already has a variety of hypersonic missiles in the current combat sequence, including the air-launched hypersonic missiles that the H-6 bomber can carry. Judging from the information released by the media, a picture released by China on May 1 also shows the H-6 bomber projecting a hypersonic missile in the air, and this hypersonic missile is also a model displayed at the Zhuhai Air Show some time ago.
Today, China's hypersonic missile warfare research believes that there are two tasks, one is to strike at a large number of land-based bases, and the other is to complete the task of striking large surface ships. While having YJ-12 anti-ship missiles, if you can have more hypersonic missiles, you can actually make the anti-ship strike more likely to win. The American Standard Type 3 anti-aircraft missile, although it has real combat results, has never been tested to be able to intercept hypersonic missiles. The entry threshold for hypersonic missiles is to reach a flight speed of Mach 5, but many hypersonic weapons in China's hands can reach a staggering Mach 8 flight speed.
Although there is a big gap between the H-6 bomber and the US strategic bomber in terms of bomb load, the H-6 bomber currently has a numerical advantage. There are more than 200 H-6 bombers in the combat sequence of the PLA, and in wartime, the continuous sorties of these H-6 bombers can quickly carry out saturation strikes on the target. Text/Iris