Recently, the United States is conducting so-called "shoulder-to-shoulder" military exercises with the Philippines in the South China Sea. The US military not only dispatched a total of more than 10,000 US troops, but also deployed the so-called "Typhon" missile system, and according to relevant news recently, the US military actually took advantage of the opportunity of this exercise to brazenly dispatch the B-52 strategic bomber, which can carry nuclear weapons, and brazenly rushed into the South China Sea!
Although the B-52 bomber is an old aircraft that has been in service for more than 60 years, it has been improved many times, and there are still more than 70 aircraft in active service, which is equivalent to about 40% of the total strength of the US Strategic Air Force, which shows the important strategic value of the B-52 to the US Air Force. At present, its latest model, the B-52J, has been installed with the British Rolls-Royce F130 turbofan engine and a new active phased array radar, which is very advanced. This type of bomber is the backbone of the US air-based nuclear forces, and it can be equipped with AGM-86 cruise missiles for strategic cruise, and this missile can be equipped with a W80-1 small nuclear warhead with a nuclear yield of 200,000 tons as a warhead, and the range can reach more than 1,500-2,000 kilometers, and the threat is not small! In addition, the B-52 can also carry 16 "Harpoon" anti-ship missiles, or 6 AGM-142A air-to-ground missiles, and other conventional weapons, and play an important role in conventional warfare!
And this kind of bomber that can carry nuclear weapons in the current service of the US military actually forcibly intruded into the South China Sea on the occasion of May Day! According to recent public information from relevant quarters, the US military brazenly dispatched two B-52 bombers into the waters of the South China Sea not long ago. At such a point in time, the US military dispatched nuclear bombers into the South China Sea, obviously to give us "medicine" through such a show of force! In addition, this move by the US military is undoubtedly also demonstrating its "support" for the Philippines and provoking the Philippines to continue to carry out armed provocations in the South China Sea!
In the face of the US military's frenzied provocation, our incomparably powerful, heroic, fearless, and invincible People's Liberation Army (PLA) has already made a strong move! Just as the US B-52 bombers entered the skies over the South China Sea through the Sulu Sea in the southern Philippines, our PLA immediately dispatched two twin-engine heavy fighter J-11 fighters to closely monitor the US bombers!
As a result, what makes people feel very ridiculous is that the US bombers seem to be menacing, but after realizing that our fighters have been dispatched, they did not dare to continue to penetrate deep into the South China Sea, but turned around and flew in the direction of the Philippines in the north! Obviously, in the face of our army's strong countermeasures, the US military did not dare to make a mistake at all, and in the end it could only go away in a hurry, and our army once again won a brilliant victory!
The reason is also very simple, that is, although the US bombers are very strong, this kind of bomber is a kind of big and slow air target for fighters. Therefore, the US bombers have no chance of winning against the fighters without gaining air supremacy. Modern warfare is "discovery and destruction," and in a situation where our fighters have already discovered the movements of US bombers, if the US bombers had already been shot down in wartime, there would be no chance at all. It can be seen that the victory and defeat of this small-scale air confrontation between China and the United States have actually been decided, and this is the biggest reason why the US bombers took the initiative to leave.
The reason why our military was able to discover the movements of US bombers in such a short period of time is inseparable from the fact that our military has already established a perfect reconnaissance and detection system in the South China Sea. As a matter of fact, while the US bombers were fleeing in a hurry, they also encountered a Wuzhen-7 strategic unmanned reconnaissance plane of our army! This undoubtedly shows that our army's powerful unmanned reconnaissance plane has been deployed in the South China Sea on a regular basis. In addition, our military also dispatched a Y-8 electronic reconnaissance plane with advanced performance to follow and monitor. This undoubtedly shows that our military has long deployed a large number of aerial reconnaissance forces in the South China Sea, which is sufficient to grasp the movements of the US military.
In addition, after years of hard work, our side has long deployed high-power shore-based radars on Nanhai Zhudao, and these radars can also become our military's "clairvoyant eyes and ears" in the South China Sea. In addition, it will cooperate with the reconnaissance planes, early warning planes, and fighter planes deployed by our army on the airfields on the islands and reefs in the South China Sea. It is no exaggeration to say that in the South China Sea, our army has long laid a "net of heaven and earth" with its powerful naval and air forces, and if the US military dares to come, it is actually "throwing itself into the net"!
Under such circumstances, any small moves of the United States in the South China Sea are all in our view, and the success of our military in forcing back the US bombers this time is just a "small test"; under the powerful anti-access/area denial system that our military has established, if the US military really dares to "step on the red line" in the first island chain and even part of the second island chain, its failure has already been doomed.