The United States has the largest nuclear arsenal in the world and adopts a vague policy on nuclear policy. It does not promise not to use nuclear weapons first, but also claims that it has no intention to launch a nuclear war. Many of its actions are also puzzling. On July 1, On the first day of July, an RC-135S of the U.S. Air Force appeared in the South China Sea. This was a bit puzzling. It was a nuclear reconnaissance aircraft of the U.S. Army. It suddenly arrived in the South China Sea with unclear intentions. Maybe it was just to make a presence in the South China Sea. , there is no need for nuclear testing in the South China Sea.
RC-135S took off from Japan and flew to the South China Sea
The activities of the US military today make people feel: Will a nuclear war happen? Some actions were abnormal, and the RC-135S ran to the South China Sea for no reason. At the same time, the US military was still trying to increase the number of nuclear reconnaissance aircraft. It can be said that there were changes in the US military. One of the important situations was that the US military was expanding the number of nuclear reconnaissance aircraft. It turns out that the US military has only one reconnaissance aircraft left that specializes in monitoring nuclear explosions, that is, a WC-135W reconnaissance aircraft. It is already in an unusable state. According to the USās own reports, the aircraftās ādamage rateā between 2015 and 2016 " is 40%, causing it to be unable to fly for a long time. During an air sampling mission in Europe in February this year, the WC-135W was forced to make an emergency landing at RAF Mildenhall after suffering a hydraulic failure.
A U.S. military reconnaissance aircraft specially used to detect nuclear radiation
The U.S. military has always wanted to update its nuclear reconnaissance aircraft, but money became a problem. It was not until 2018 that it officially announced a WC-135R modification project, in its fiscal year 2019 budget The application requested $208 million. If you talk about this project, many people may say: Going backwards? It turns out that it is not a new aircraft purchase, but a special modification of an old aircraft, and a major modification work is carried out based on the retired WC-135 platform.
The United States does not purchase new Boeings as nuclear reconnaissance aircraft in order to save costs, and instead relies on upgrading old aircraft to maintain its fleet. In July, the first modified WC-135R was delivered to the military. Before delivery, it was in Texas Flight testing was conducted in Greenville, Sri Lanka, and a total of three aircraft will be delivered.
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WC-135 is a special aircraft used by the U.S. Air Force for nuclear test monitoring and airborne radioactive sampling. Using the C-135 platform, it is mainly equipped with a set of sampling and collection equipment to detect radioactive samples in real time. The collection system consists of an external flow-through device that collects particles on the filter paper for later analysis. The podded particulate sampler/radiation monitoring and analysis system (RMAS) detects radiation exposure and more. Today's upgraded WC-135 will continue to use the same nuclear reconnaissance system, but the platform will be renovated and upgraded, mainly by replacing it with a new CFM-56 turbofan engine. The avionics hardware will also be updated to make it equivalent to the existing RC -135S and RC-135W same standard.
can only refurbish old models
The nuclear reconnaissance aircraft is operated by the 45th Reconnaissance Wing, based at Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska, and is controlled by the U.S. Air Force Technical Applications Center. Nowadays, when the backup aircraft are not enough, they use old aircraft to make up for it. It means spending a small amount of money to do big things. However, this move is different from the pursuit. It makes people wonder why the US military is so interested in nuclear reconnaissance aircraft. What signal does it send? This behavior of the United States is definitely not a normal phenomenon. After the Cold War , the United States reduced its nuclear reconnaissance fleet on a large scale. In the end, there was only one aircraft left. Now the United States wants to modify a total of three aircraft, and there is a possibility of re-expanding the fleet. mean. The question now is, is there such a large workload? At present, there are very few situations in the world that require nuclear reconnaissance. In the past few years, one US military nuclear reconnaissance aircraft has been able to solve the problem, so why should there be three?
The facilities in the airport may seem simple, but they are irreplaceable.
If you analyze it, the United States is now very interested in fighting nuclear wars. Today, the United States is instigating wars everywhere. It definitely has no intention of world peace. It still wants to Renewing the Cold War, we also want to replicate the successful experience of that year. Then it is impossible for the United States to remain content and want to provoke a nuclear arms race again.At present, a lot of money has been invested in the field of nuclear armaments, upgrading nuclear weapons, developing new nuclear warheads , etc. So under this background, it seems that the United States really needs to expand its nuclear reconnaissance fleet.
Perhaps this signal deserves vigilance. The intentions of the United States are definitely not simple. The United States seems to have become a major hidden danger to world security. We must be prepared for danger in times of peace and be careful to deal with the sinister intentions of the United States.
