On June 22, local time, a strong earthquake occurred in southern Afghanistan, killing more than 1,000 people, injuring nearly 2,000 people, and causing a humanitarian disaster for tens of thousands of people. As a friendly neighbor of Afghanistan, the Chinese people have always been concerned about the situation in the disaster areas.
At the request of the Afghan interim government, the Chinese government immediately launched rescue work in Afghanistan and provided emergency humanitarian assistance of 50 million yuan to the disaster area. A few days later, the Chinese Air Force dispatched two Y-20 "Kunpeng" strategic transport aircraft to Kabul Airport in Afghanistan to provide the first batch of relief materials to the disaster area, including 120 tents, 320 folding beds, and more than 6,000 blankets.
Of course, this is only a small part of China's aid supplies to Afghanistan. In the next three days, six Chinese planes will arrive in Afghanistan to provide more aid supplies to Afghanistan. China will do its best to provide earthquake relief to the Afghan government. and post-war recovery assistance.
After the first batch of aid supplies arrived at Kabul Airport , Chinese Ambassador to Afghanistan Wang Yu and Minister of Disaster Management of the Afghan Interim Government Gus attended the handover ceremony of the supplies. Gus said that this batch of supplies is what Afghanistan needs most at present. "We sincerely thank our Chinese friends for providing emergency assistance to Afghanistan immediately after the disaster. China's actions are a reflection of the thousands of years of friendship between the two peoples."
Compared with the aid to Afghanistan incident itself, from a military perspective, the strategic airlift of our military's Y-20 is particularly worthy of careful analysis and study. Although Yun-20 has flown overseas more than once in recent years, especially this year, it delivered an air defense missile system to Serbia and provided material assistance to Tonga across the northern and southern hemispheres, making " Kunpeng " shine in the limelight, but when it comes to Afghanistan, which has just ended the war, is the first time for the Y-20 and even the entire Chinese army. This also means that a brand new country has been added to the ever-increasing flight trajectory of the Y-20.
It can be seen from the news footage publicly reported by CCTV that the People's Liberation Army is fully prepared to carry out this not-so-difficult but significant material transportation work and is on full combat alert throughout the process. First, fully armed armed police soldiers were dispatched to follow the Y-20 to perform transportation work to ensure nothing went wrong. Immediately afterwards, the decoy bomb hatch was opened and the decoy bombs were always filled to prevent any accidents.
Many people may ask, transporting supplies to the disaster area is not going to war, so there is no need to be so nervous, but in fact, behind the seemingly simple aid flight to Afghanistan, there are actually quite a lot of risks hidden.
First of all, we know that it is less than a year since the Taliban government took control of the country. Although on the surface, the Taliban interim government has basically achieved control over the entire territory of Afghanistan, after 20 years of war, especially the scourge of the US military, there are still people in Afghanistan. There are many armed organizations, and the United States can still exert influence on local armed forces through its global intelligence network. Different from the usual terrorist organizations that are only equipped with AK-47 rifles and RPG rocket launchers , these armed organizations spread across the mountainous areas of Afghanistan have uncountable American-made "Stinger" and Russian-made "Needle" individual air defense missiles.
In order to prevent unexpected situations from posing a threat to the flight safety of our military aircraft, it is particularly important for the two Y-20s to be loaded with red heat-induced interference bombs.
In fact, it is not news that the Yun-20 carries the jamming bomb to perform transportation tasks. During the operation to transport anti-aircraft missiles to Serbia a few months ago, the Yun-20 transport aircraft was fully prepared for the jamming bomb. The difference is that during the flight to Serbia, the Y-20 was equipped with red, yellow and green interference bombs at the same time, but in this mission, only red interference bombs were mounted. The reason why
has such obvious differences is not determined by the distance of flight, but by different choices made according to different external environments. The scientific name of the red jamming bomb is "infrared decoy jamming bomb". It mainly deals with the man-portable air defense missile using an infrared seeker. This is undoubtedly fully consistent with the current security environment in Afghanistan.
As for the yellow interference bombs, they belong to the " chaff interference bombs " and are mainly used to deal with conventional missiles with radar guidance functions; while the green interference bombs are a mixture of red and yellow interference bombs, mainly used for emergencies Self-defense in situations. The China-Serbia route is thousands of kilometers apart, with tens of thousands of kilometers round trip. The situation in the countries along the route is complex, especially since it also passes through NATO countries. We must be cautious and fully equipped with all jamming bombs. In contrast, as China's neighboring country, carrying infrared jamming bombs is enough to deal with threats after a comprehensive assessment of the local security situation.
