Regarding the air contest between China and the United States around China, we have described in the past that the F-35 encountered the J-20, and the Chinese flight always occupied the initiative. However, this absolutely does not mean that China can gain an advantage in the contest with the US military, especially when the performance of the fighter jets dispatched by China is at the same technical level as the US military, and the US military suddenly provokes it. Recently, CCTV released a video that once again confirmed the cruelty of the air contest between China and the United States: two Chinese J-11BSH fighters were provoked by four US F/A-18EF fighters, and were suddenly locked by the latter's fire control radar, and the Chinese pilots were even nervous about being ready to sacrifice. Of course, the Chinese fighter finally succeeded in getting rid of passivity and counter-killing the US plane, and after a fierce air battle, the Chinese side gained the initiative with superb air combat skills, allowing the US military to feel the pressure and return smoothly.
According to the CCTV documentary "Sea and Air Hunters Flying to War", the four F/a-18EFs of the US military took advantage of the numerical advantage of 4:2 to use fire control to lock on and provoke our army. Generally speaking, in peacetime, either side launches a fire control radar lock on the other side is considered a war provocation, and although it can gain the right to open fire on the enemy first, it is likely to cause serious disaster. Therefore, the Chinese pilot said: "I didn't think I would survive at that time, and I was ready to sacrifice", such tragic words. However, it is one thing for Chinese pilots to have a spirit of sacrifice, and it definitely does not mean that they will not resist. Subsequently, the Chinese taught the US pilots a lesson, and the competition between two J-11BS and four F/A-18EF in the air gave the foreign pilots a lead in what is superb flying skills, and the other party did not take advantage at all, so they had to flee in disgrace.
This matter has been hyped up very much on the Internet, and some people have raised the need for reflection on the Chinese naval aviation, is this really the case?
First of all, we need to realize that the Chinese HNA pilots were not at fault in this confrontation. The answer is not at all. Because it is very inappropriate to take the lead in provocations with fire control radars in peacetime, and once a war is triggered, the US military will have to bear all the consequences. The J-11BSH is a land-based two-seat heavy fighter that belongs to the same generation as the FA-18EF. Neither side has been replaced with active phased array radars, and the performance of air-to-air missiles is similar. However, we must realize that the J-11BSH is a land-based fighter, which is one level higher than the carrier-based fighter in terms of maneuverability, and the J-11 can make a maximum overload of 9G, while the F/A-18EF only does an overload of 7G, which is the price paid for the use of folding wings. In addition, the J-11BSH has a larger combat radius, and if it were not for the sudden provocation of the US aircraft, we would not have suffered a loss. The fact that the Chinese pilots were in a 2:4 situation and finally made the US military unable to take advantage of it also fully proved this.
If China and the United States are in a state of war, the US military's F/A-18EF will not be dealing with the J-11BSH at all, but whether the platform of the US aircraft carrier will be sent to the bottom of the sea by Chinese anti-ship ballistic missiles to feed fish. Therefore, the US military took advantage of tactics this time, mainly because it adopted the tactics of unpreparedness and provocation in peacetime, and there is no such opportunity at all in wartime.
If you have to ask the Chinese to reflect on something? Well, the number of fighter jets we have dispatched in the South China Sea this time is indeed a little less. Why does China Hainan Airlines install J-11BSH? It is nothing more than that this aircraft has two flights and a larger combat radius, which is more suitable for performing missions in the vast waters of the South China Sea. To make up for China's lack of fighter jets in the South China Sea, there are actually three ways: first, China will increase the number of aircraft carriers deployed in the South China Sea on a regular basis, so that the number of carrier-based fighters will exceed that of the US military; The second is to directly deploy land-based fighters on several islands and reefs in the South China Sea, so that they can crush the US military; Third, we will deploy the J-20 on a large scale in the direction of the South China Sea, so that we can surpass the performance of the US military's carrier-based aircraft, including the F-35, in the performance of fighters.
Generally speaking, don't just say that you need to reflect on the fact that the Chinese pilots encountered a dangerous situation in an air contest between China and the United States, and ask the US fighter planes really dare to open fire? It can be said definitively, unless they want to die. Of course, in peacetime, China still has a long way to go in building its equipment system if it wants to shape its absolute air supremacy in the South China Sea, but the time must be on China's side. Now that US aircraft carriers have more and more window periods in the South China Sea, they have long since become arrogant.