In the joint military exercise code-named "Shoulder to Shoulder" conducted by the United States and the Philippines, the United States also conducted landing and anti-landing exercises. According to the normal plan, in addition to the participation of a dock landing ship in the United States, the American amphibious assault ship LHD-4 Boxer will also cooperate with the military exercise, and use a large number of F-35B vertical short take-off and landing fighters, but due to the mechanical failure of the LHD-4 amphibious assault ship, the ship was absent from the joint military exercise with the Philippines. Judging from the information disclosed by the media so far, a large number of PLA landing ships will go south and carry a large number of landing combat forces to conduct military exercises. In the combat sequence of the PLA, in addition to the Type 075 amphibious assault ships, there are also a large number of Type 071 dock dock landing ships.
According to the information disclosed by the Ministry of National Defense, the Navy's Qi Jiguang and Jinggangshan ships will go to Cambodia and East Timor for visits, and the Jinggangshan ships will carry a large number of amphibious landing combat forces, although the information disclosed by the media only shows the actions of the Jinggangshan Type 071 dock landing ship, but foreign media pointed out that in the course of the joint military exercise codenamed "Golden Dragon" between China and Cambodia, the PLA will also use the Qilianshan Type 071 dock landing ship. Before that, two Type 056 frigates with a displacement tonnage of 1,000 tons were parked at the Ream Naval Base in Cambodia, and if the two 071 dock landing ships with a displacement tonnage of 20,000 tons were also parked at the Ream base, then how would the United States feel? In recent years, China has also been strengthening cooperation with Southeast Asian countries, and it is understood that the landing ship of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) is far more than just a joint military exercise.
The Navy's Qi Jiguang ship is a very special surface ship, according to the news obtained by the War Research Institute, this is a naval training ship on the mainland, this kind of ship is equipped with a large number of teaching equipment can complete the teaching tasks of more than 400 naval cadets, and the Navy Qi Jiguang ship carried five foreign military students from the Dalian Naval Academy in the process of going to sea, which also means that these foreign military students will complete the training task together with the PLA. The US military continued to carry out provocative actions in the South China Sea while two PLA landing ships carried a large number of landing combat forces southward. According to media reports, the US Navy's DDG97 Halsey, an Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer, intruded into the territorial waters of the mainland's Xisha on May 10.
A large number of actions in the South China Sea have always been called "freedom of navigation", and the United States has refused to recognize the so-called 12-nautical-mile territorial sea range, so now the US Navy's DDG97 Halsey, Arleigh Burke-class missile destroyer, after a high-profile crossing of the Taiwan Strait, once again made a forced intrusion into the mainland's Xisha territorial waters, and on the same day, the PLA sent a large number of surface ships, including 054A missile frigates, to monitor, but judging from the photos released by the United States, The United States also deliberately avoided the PLA warships that appeared in the picture.
As the forward ship of the USS Roosevelt nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, the USS Halsey missile destroyer has now become a warship with a bad track record, and the ship's constant operations in sensitive waters are extremely likely to lead to military miscalculations. Although the PLA has been driving away US warships in the South China Sea, the War Research Institute also believes that a large number of surface ships are conducting joint military exercises with other countries and taking the initiative to go out of the Western Pacific is a clearer response of the PLA. Text/Iris