The Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force and the Air Self-Defense Force also have a considerable amount of American-made equipment in the armament sequence, and in the process of equipping anti-submarine patrol aircraft, the Japanese side uses American P-3C anti-submarine patrol aircraft. At present, Japan still has a large number of P-3C anti-submarine patrol aircraft in service, but now the number of P-3C anti-submarine patrol aircraft is getting smaller and smaller, because the United States has begun to phase out these P-3C anti-submarine patrol aircraft, and instead let the P-8A anti-submarine patrol aircraft perform various tasks. Japan did not seek the purchase of the P-8A anti-submarine patrol aircraft from the United States, because Japan believes that its domestically produced P-1 anti-submarine patrol aircraft is sufficient to replace the P-3C anti-submarine patrol aircraft in terms of mission performance, and as far as Japan's P-1 anti-submarine patrol aircraft is concerned, its professional anti-submarine performance is stronger than that of the American P-8A anti-submarine patrol aircraft. In a number of anti-submarine competitions led by allies in the Indo-Pacific region led by the United States, Japan has also won many laurels. According to a recent piece of information made public by the Japanese side, Japan once again won the first place in the US anti-submarine competition.
The main reason why the P-1 anti-submarine patrol aircraft can continue to win the first place is because the American P-8A anti-submarine patrol aircraft is more multi-purpose in terms of mission types, because the P-8A also has to complete a large number of anti-ship combat missions and various intelligence search tasks, while the P-1 anti-submarine patrol aircraft cannot compete with the P-8A in the field of multi-mission. Of course, the other U.S. allies participating in the competition are equipped with P-3C anti-submarine patrol aircraft, which are currently being used extensively by the South Korean Navy. According to a recent data provided by the ADS-B broadcast automatic surveillance system, a P-1 anti-submarine patrol plane belonging to the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force has now also made a high-profile trip to the airspace around Taiwan Island to launch a high-intensity approach reconnaissance operation against the mainland.
In recent years, the P-8A anti-submarine patrol aircraft of the US military have been carrying out such high-intensity operations, and the sudden appearance of the P-1 anti-submarine patrol aircraft of the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force is still very rare, but the war research institute believes that the threat brought by the Japanese P-1 anti-submarine patrol aircraft is probably higher than that of the P-8A anti-submarine patrol aircraft, because in terms of professional anti-submarine search capabilities, the P-1 anti-submarine patrol aircraft is obviously superior. Japan and the United States have continuously dispatched a large number of anti-submarine patrol planes to China's doorstep, especially in the waters around Taiwan Island, with a very clear purpose, which is actually to complete a large number of intelligence search tasks related to the movements of PLA submarines and surface ships.
Some time earlier, the People's Liberation Army had issued a warning to an Australian carrier-based anti-submarine patrol aircraft to drive away. In the process of driving away, the PLA used J-10 fighters, and foreign media believe that the desperate drive of J-10 fighters is actually to protect the submarines below from detection, so as to prevent the opponent from improving its own anti-submarine database. In the course of future actual combat, whoever has a more complete anti-submarine database will be able to discover the opponent's submarine first, so the importance of the anti-submarine database is very necessary for modern anti-submarine warfare. A large number of US military planes and the military planes of US allies are constantly flying under the banner of freedom of flight to reach the mainland's doorstep, and the waters around the Bass Strait have long become a necessary corridor for underwater submarines, so the United States is also vigorously using these anti-submarine patrol planes to strengthen and improve its anti-submarine database.
As a defeated country in World War II, Japan seems to have forgotten its identity as a defeated country, and is constantly catering to the Indo-Pacific strategy of the United States, and launched a deterrent and sword attack on China. In fact, as Japan continues to strengthen various operations on China's doorstep, the accident rate of the Japan Air Self-Defense Force and the Maritime Self-Defense Force is also increasing. Some time earlier, it was reported that two anti-submarine helicopters had collided during a night formation flight, and the Japanese side also believed that this was caused by the intensive actions of PLA ships in the waters around Japan. If Japan's lack of professional training time led to the accident, why did Japan send fighter planes to China's doorstep? Text/Iris