The Kadena base in Okinawa, the first island chain, is the largest U.S. military base in the Far East, and in addition to the large number of U.S. warplanes deployed in this base, Canada and Australia are also very keen to deploy anti-submarine patrol aircraft in a large number of Indo-Pacific operations. According to the information obtained by the War Research Institute, a Japanese photographer recently photographed the landing of the CP-140 Aurora anti-submarine patrol plane at the Kadena base. As a strategic-class reconnaissance plane of the US military, the RC-135U combat-dispatched electronic reconnaissance plane can also complete a large number of communications monitoring, and the war research institute believes that judging from the sensitive sense of smell of the United States, the dispatch of the RC-135U combat-dispatched electronic reconnaissance plane may also be related to the high-intensity operations carried out by the PLA in the past few days.
Under such circumstances, if the US military plane wants to enter the South China Sea to carry out a series of approaching reconnaissance operations, it must first complete the crossing of the Bass Strait, which is also the fixed route of the US military plane, and according to a recent report disclosed by the Taiwan media, an undisclosed US military fighter plane has approached the airspace near Orchid Island on Taiwan Island, and when the US military plane arrived this time, not a single Taiwan military plane came forward to intercept the US military plane, and under normal circumstances, Taiwan connived at the US military plane to carry out various actions in the airspace around Taiwan Island. Taiwan media pointed out that at that time, PLA fighters shouted at the US military plane in the air, and the content of the shout was roughly "US plane, I am the Chinese Air Force, and you have approached me to show your intentions." Judging from the timing of the shouting, it occurred on May 8, and the War Research Institute believes that the US military plane that the PLA touched at that time may be the US military's RC-135U combat dispatch electronic reconnaissance plane.
The RC-135U combat dispatch electronic reconnaissance aircraft is a large reconnaissance aircraft developed based on the Boeing 707, and when there are some special missions, the crew can even reach more than 20 people. Although many of the missions of the RC-135U combat-dispatched electronic reconnaissance plane will not constitute an invasion of the mainland's airspace, in fact, the United States also has some scruples, and it is understood that the RC-135U combat-dispatched electronic reconnaissance plane will even use radio fake codes to disguise itself as a civilian aircraft to carry out miscalculation operations when carrying out missions.
According to the information disclosed by Taiwan's defense department, in the 24-hour period from 6 a.m. on May 8 to 6 a.m. on May 9, the People's Liberation Army (PLA) sent 23 sorties of fighters to approach Taiwan Island, of which as many as 8 fighters crossed the so-called center line of the strait and entered the airspace southwest and northeast of Taiwan Island. If you want to drive a US military plane away, you are fully capable of doing so.
In recent years, Chinese and US fighters have staged many confrontations in the air, and when Chinese and US fighters engaged in air exchanges, the video footage released by the US military also showed the high-profile interception of the US military aircraft by the J-16 heavy fighter, but the repeated interceptions did not seem to make the United States remember for a long time, and today's US fighters are still constantly approaching some sensitive airspace on the mainland, and are testing around Taiwan Island to miscalculate. Text/Iris