Recently, the United States media reported on China's military progress.
The H-6 has been upgraded again, and this upgrade has made United States unable to sleep directly.
The upgrade of the H-6K is mainly reflected in the high-tech plug-in, and the name of the entire plug-in is the YJ-21 hypersonic anti-ship missile.
Some time ago, the United States spent countless hours and finally came up with their own hypersonic missiles in cooperation with Japan. Of course, what the United States have come up with is only an experimental weapon. A breakthrough from 0 to 1 was achieved. But in the case of high-tech development, it is a step behind, step by step.
China, on its part, showed the United States one of the advanced ways to play hypersonic missiles: air launch.
According to United States media reports, the H-6K after China's transformation can carry four YJ-21 hypersonic missiles, these missiles fly at a speed of up to Mach 6, and the terminal speed can soar to Mach 10, if the fuel is enough for an hour to fly around the earth, of course, this is impossible, after all, fuel is limited, but even then it is no problem to fly him 1500 kilometers.
The significance of this transformation lies in the fact that the original YJ-21 hypersonic anti-ship missile can only cover the surroundings of China and within the range of the first island chain, but now this missile is on the H-6K, and the combat radius of the H-6K is 3500 kilometers, which means that the missile can be launched at a distance of about 3000 kilometers from the Chinese mainland, and the strike distance is as high as 4500 kilometers, and the entire second island chain is covered under China's hypersonic missile strike.
It's not like the U.S. military in the first island chain no longer has a safe place, and it's useless for you to run to the second island chain.
One thing to say, the H-6, as China's veteran bomber, is simply too storytelling. The predecessor of this bomber was the Tu-16 bomber introduced by the mainland in the 50s of the 20th century. Who would have thought that now it's 2024, and this seventy-year-old bomber can still burst out of its own combat effectiveness, from the very beginning it can only drop free-fall iron bombs, to later it can carry cruise missiles, anti-ship missiles, and now directly carry hypersonic missiles, if I were to use an adjective to describe this bomber, it would be only one sentence, often used and new.
The main reason why United States are so sensitive to this matter is that they are now using the second island chain as a temporary security zone.
To give you an example, when the mainland coast guard arrested the Philippine special forces for violating the sovereignty of the mainland on the spot, the mainland navy was dispatched on a large scale and was ready to turn the conflict into a hot war. In this case, where did the aircraft carrier group of the United States Navy go? Went to Singapore. Singapore is located in the second island chain, and China has the ability to strike the second island chain, but the mainland's medium-range ballistic missiles are only enough to cover one part of Guam.
Even if Guam's command center is knocked out, the United States still has Wake Island as a backup command center. In this case, as long as the naval fleet can be preserved, the United States can maintain a relative strategic balance with China.
But now that China has installed hypersonic missiles on strategic bombers, the United States have a headache, because it is not only medium-range missiles that can hit the second island chain. More importantly, strategic bombers have great flexibility on the battlefield, not to mention Guam, the entire second island chain, Wake Island, Singapore Port, these are within the range of China's missile strikes, how to retreat? Retreat to the third island chain? Straight back to Hawaii, right? Now the United States Pacific Command can't sleep well.
Of course, in the final analysis, this matter is reported by the United States themselves, and China has not yet admitted it, who knows whether it is a weapon of the United States advocating the China threat theory.
Taking 10,000 steps back, even if this incident is true, it does not mean that China is about to use this combination to open the eyes of United States people to United States Wake Island. After all, the contest between China and United States is still a show of muscles in the final analysis, and no one plans to really do it for the time being.
But no matter how in today's era, military development is still of great significance, after all, we all know that the United States will certainly not be willing to lose their position as world hegemon, and every day they fantasize that they can defeat China, and no matter how much their industry declines and how their military strength regresses, it is impossible to stop researching those weapons that can destroy China. So, oh, we can't stop our research.
For a hegemonic country like United States, whose thinking is still stuck in the twenties and thirties of the 20 th century, the necessary force is indispensable if it wants these people to be honest and obedient.