May 9 is the anniversary of Russia's victory in the Great Patriotic War, and Russia will also hold a thunderous military parade on this day, but in addition to the military parade on Red Square in Moscow, the capital of Russia, according to media reports, Russia will also hold military parades in Vladivostok and Vladivostok in the Far East on May 9. Of course, Russia's Victory Day in 2024 is also different from previous years, because Russia has now begun to display a large number of NATO weapons and equipment in the capital Moscow, which are the trophies of the current Russia-Ukraine conflict. Judging from the video footage and photos released by the Russian media in recent times, these NATO weapons have attracted a large number of Russian people to watch the scene.
Russia is going to hold a military parade in Vladivostok in the Far East, but the scale of this parade is not large, because Russia's air power will not participate in the parade in the Far East, this time Russia only has a large number of ground equipment in the Far East, especially anti-ship missiles and anti-aircraft weapons, of course, T-34 tanks will also appear in the parade in Vladivostok in the first place. What is the purpose of Russia's military parades in Vladivostok and Vladivostok on the anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War? Is it aimed at Japan? At present, Japan, as an ally of the United States in the Indo-Pacific region, is constantly cooperating with a large number of US military operations. In such military operations, Russia's living space is also squeezed, and after the Russian military dispatches fighter planes to the Sea of Japan and the Sea of Okhotsk, the Japanese side will urgently take off a large number of fighter jets to monitor and track. Recently, the F-35 stealth fighter of the Japanese Air Self-Defense Force is also suspected of having an aerial confrontation with the Russian army's P-38 anti-submarine patrol aircraft and 220 electronic warfare aircraft.
With the anniversary of Russia's victory in the Great Patriotic War approaching, Russia plans a military parade in Vladivostok to deter Japan, an ally of the United States in the Indo-Pacific region, and Russia has not abandoned a large number of military operations on American doorstep. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, a few days ago, Russia has sent an air formation composed of Tu-95MS strategic bombers and Su-30SM fighters to the airspace around Alaska to carry out combat patrol operations.
In the past, the United States would dispatch F-22 stealth fighters to intercept Russian military planes approaching the doorstep of the United States. However, judging from the pictures released by the Russian side this time, it was not the F-22 that accompanied the Tu-95MS strategic bomber, but the F-16 fighter from the 18th Intruder Squadron of the United States. In the past, these F-16 fighters were mainly responsible for the mission of the imaginary enemy, but now that the United States has let the F-16 fighters responsible for the imaginary enemy complete the interception in the air, I am afraid that the United States also realizes that there is no need to use fifth-generation aircraft to deal with these old Tu-95MS strategic bombers.
Although Russia has distracted a lot of energy on the battlefield in Ukraine, it is now unrelenting in the process of deterring the United States. The constant dispatch of strategic bombers to deter the United States and NATO members has also become Russia's best response to Western countries. The United States has previously issued a prediction that PLA fighters are very likely to appear in the North American Air Defense Identification Zone in 2024, and judging from the current range of the H-6N bomber, it is also fully capable of this. For the PLA, if it can send bombers to North America for combat patrols, it will be far more deterrent than these bombers appearing in the Western Pacific. Text/Iris