[Military Sub-Plane] Author: leon
In addition to India's sense of presence in our southwestern border area two days ago, the US warship also dispatched warships to "interfere" with the joint maritime exercise between China and Russia a few days ago.
However, compared with the Navy, the recent U.S. Army is very low-key, the U.S. Army seems to have now entered a "big move" stage, on the 16th of this month, there is news that the U.S. Army is testing the U.S. Army's new ERCA long-range self-propelled artillery system, as a new self-propelled gun to serve in the U.S. Army, ERCA long-range self-propelled gun range reached 70 kilometers.
▲ The American ERCA long-range self-propelled gun system is being tested
In contrast, the range of the M109 self-propelled howitzer in active service of the US military is not more than 40 kilometers overall, and the ERCA long-range self-propelled artillery has improved the US Army's ground-to-ground fire support capability to some extent, but in terms of the improvement of the ground-to-ground long-range fire support capability, the US military has also upgraded its active "Haimas" upgraded, and the US military's improvement of the "Haimas" rocket artillery is mainly in its strike accuracy.
Of course, for such rockets with a range of 500 kilometers, the US military has now given the US Army the ability to use the "Haimas" rocket artillery to "accurately support" its own front-line troops through simulated training. It is not difficult to see that the US military is now focusing on building its own fire support capabilities, and now it is beginning to pay attention to the combat effectiveness of weapons and equipment such as rocket launchers for ranged attacks.
▲ With a range of 500 kilometers, the improved "Haimas" rocket with certain anti-ship capabilities may be the main force of the US Army's range-based long-range fire support in the future
However, as a traditional subject of the Army, the US Army is now also focusing on strengthening its fire support capabilities, of course, since the fire support capabilities are available, how can the land-to-land long-range precision strike capabilities be lacking? The U.S. military may have noticed this long ago, and after withdrawing from the INF Treaty, the U.S. military "moved" the Tomahawk cruise missile system for ships at sea to land, and the system's range of 1500 kilometers gave the U.S. Army an extraordinary precision strike capability.
Presumably, everyone may also see that the US military's line of developing the army in recent years seems to have shown a "coinciding" situation with the development status of our army, you know, the medium and short-range support system of long-range rocket artillery + self-propelled artillery is our army's strong combat skill, whether through internal training or military deterrence against countries outside the region, china's army's support system is already one of the "caretaker" type skills that our army relies on.
▲ Rocket artillery with both power and precision is a strong equipment for our Army, and this kind of rocket artillery with a customized guidance capability is now part of our land combat system that can be shouldered with heavy responsibilities
Of course, in terms of the "point-and-hole" strike of precise firepower, whether it is our Dongfeng-15 and DF-16 series of short- and medium-range "Dongfeng Express", or the Longjian-10 cruise missile with the ability to "break through the window", even the Longsword-100 cruise missile with higher comprehensive strike accuracy can show that our country's army's land-to-land precision attack capability is very comprehensive. At this point, we have now established a very complete strike system.
Therefore, at this point, the US military, which does not yet have full combat strength, seems to have shown a situation of "touching us across the river" in this field, that is to say, for the US military, the air support system that the US military has been "relying on" now seems to be somewhat unsuitable for the current international situation.
The Long Sword-10 series cruise missiles have been in service in China for a long time and have formed a relatively reliable combat effectiveness, which is a very important part of our army's precision kill strike system
The reason why the US military does this, we seem to be able to get a glimpse of the results of our military development in the past few years, after all, in these two years, if we have a system advantage in the air, in addition to our slight inferiority in strategic strike capabilities, in the field of tactical attack, whether it is the F-22 or other types of fighters that the US Air Force is proud of, we have corresponding fighter models that can be compared with them.
Even in some fields, because we still have the advantage of being a latecomer, some of our air equipment may have certain advantages compared with the US military's self-use equipment, such as our J-16D electronic fighter, in terms of volume and combat capability, the J-16D heavy fighter born out of the Soviet "Flanker" series is probably stronger than the US Air Force's EA-18G, and the J-16D inherits the excellent mobility of the Soviet fighter, and the comprehensive combat strength may be stronger.
▲ As a heavy fighter, the J-16D electronic fighter is more suitable for performing fierce confrontation combat tasks in the air
To sum up, perhaps it is precisely because of the great development of our air force in the past few years that the "absolute superiority in the air" pursued by the US military may no longer exist, so the US military may consider enhancing the combat strength of its army and ensuring the strength of its overall strength.