According to CCTV News on June 26, the US military P-8A anti-submarine patrol aircraft recently circled over the South China Sea of the mainland and continued to drop unknown items downward.
The recent situation in the South China Sea can be described as calm on the surface, but it is really turbulent. After the Ren'ai Jiao conflict, the US side did not relent, but simply did not pretend, making it clear that it wanted the Philippines to gain benefits for the United States through confrontation and attack. Grant, a former U.S. diplomat, even made something more provocative in public.
He said that the United States must show China an attitude, that is, if China wants to fight, then fight! It's not the blood of the Americans that is shed anyway. In Grant's view, any conflict in the South China Sea could put the Philippines at the forefront, and the United States could reap the benefits of it.
And at the same time that the US side continued to arch the fire, the US military's P-8 anti-submarine aircraft suddenly appeared in the South China Sea. You must know that this P-8 anti-submarine aircraft is not an ordinary reconnaissance plane, the interior is filled with all kinds of reconnaissance and anti-submarine equipment, and at the same time, it can also carry a variety of offensive weapons to strike at ship targets.
P-8A anti-submarine patrol aircraft equipped with the US Navy
According to the public information on the US "War Zone" website, the cost of a P-8 anti-submarine aircraft is about 175 million US dollars, which can carry 129 A-type sonar buoys.
It can be seen from the manufacturer's information on the probe that this is produced by a company specializing in "anti-submarine warfare" products in the United States, which has provided more than 200,000 sonar buoys for the navies of the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada.
From the label of the detection equipment, it can be found that this detector is not equipped with a satellite antenna, but a simple sonar generator, in addition to emitting sound wave detection, it can also release interference signals. If the P-8 anti-submarine aircraft throws all the probes it carries into the sea, these buoys can form a detection network, and through the coordination of active sonar and passive detection sonar, it can monitor the movement of mainland submarines and synchronize all location information to nearby US military bases in real time.
However, the U.S. military may never have imagined that instead of getting valuable information, it will also send us these equipment. According to the dismantling, we can completely figure out how it works, first, we can better defend against this, and second, we can pretend not to see it, but in fact "modify" it, once it comes to wartime, we can use these detectors to send wrong information to the US military to confuse the other party.
In fact, this is not the first time that the United States has dropped probes into mainland waters, not to mention that the mainland coast guard has intercepted many of them, and in recent years, there are not a few fishermen who have fished them up, so that the famous joke has been derived - "sonar has no copper, and it is useless to fish it out."
However, many people believe that the original intention of the US military to throw sonar buoys in the South China Sea is likely to be for show. Because some time ago, the Philippines suffered a big blow in the conflict, but the United States, as the big brother, did not "cover" itself, and the aircraft carrier not far away also left the relevant sea area without looking back shortly after the conflict, for fear of being involved in this incident.
Seeing the good big brother treating himself like this, the Philippines naturally held back the fire, so in order to "appease" the Philippines, the US military must find a way to "avenge" the little brother, but at the same time, it is also worried about the PLA, for fear of touching the red line, so it is the best choice to send a P-8A anti-submarine patrol plane to make a show.
Of course, regardless of the purpose of the US military this time, it is obvious that its actions have already exposed the ambition of the United States to fear chaos in the world, and also reflect the grim security situation facing the waters around the mainland. However, with the improvement of the strength of our army, I believe that all lawless elements who try to infringe on the sovereignty of the mainland will suffer a heavy price!