After a series of US visits to Taiwan, the PLA not only held a rare island-round military exercise, but also made military activities to inspect Taiwan a normalized. This move clearly tells the Taiwan authorities that as long as Taiwan does not return to the motherland for a day, the PLA will not stop patrolling its territory.
However, considering that this is a military activity after all, it is easy to cause misjudgment. Therefore, when conducting a regular patrol of Taiwan, the People's Liberation Army must not only send manned fighter jets to cruise, but also dispatch drones to show their presence. This combination of manned and drones will maintain high-intensity suppression of the Taiwan military, so that it dare not act rashly.
Not long ago, the Taiwan military claimed that four types of PLA drones have been detected in Taiwan's airspace in recent days. Among them, the KVD001 drone that has appeared in the northern airspace of Taiwan has appeared for the first time. This drone adopts on-board ejection takeoff method, with a maximum speed of 140 kilometers per hour, a maximum combat radius of 200 kilometers, and a range of 10 hours. It can be used to perform battlefield reconnaissance, target lighting guidance and other tasks.
KVD001 drone appeared for the first time near Taiwan, not only to play a surveillance role, but also to show the PLA's long-range command capabilities. Public information shows that the first appearance of the KVD001 drone was at the 2019 Tianjin Direct Expo, and was statically displayed together with Zhi-20, Wuzhi-10, and Wuzhi-19.
According to the official introduction at the time, the drone can provide communication relay for the army aviation troops and improve the PLA's long-range command capabilities.
Now, the KVD001 UAV cooperates with the Army Aviation Force to patrol Taiwan, which is to serve as a guide for helicopters and provide relay guidance tasks. Therefore, the Taiwan Army did not see the helicopters of our Army Aviation Force, which means that the People's Liberation Army has discovered the Taiwan Army outside the defense zone through the drone. The long-range command and combat capability of
is exactly what Taiwan Army lacks. It should be noted that in cooperating with ground operations, the Taiwan military was unable to complete any established tasks, and even a ridiculous accident occurred in which the Taiwan military tank hit the telephone pole and caused road congestion. In response, netizens on the island mocked that it must have been the random placement of telephone poles that harmed the Taiwan army.
This absurd phenomenon makes people believe that once a conflict occurs in the Taiwan Strait, facing the PLA's air-ground cooperation operation, will the Taiwan military fall into a dilemma of "overwhelmed". Don’t forget that in early September, when the People’s Liberation Army drone took close photos of a Taiwan military post, it was shot by live ammunition from the Taiwan military. Although the Taiwanese soldiers fired a signal flare, it showed their panic.
For the Taiwan Army, the People's Liberation Army has many attack methods to choose from, using drones for tracking, guiding manned helicopters to launch missiles , and bombing ground soldiers, is one of them. Moreover, the deployment of the Taiwan military's aviation force is under the control of the People's Liberation Army. As long as the People's Liberation Army is willing, it can make the Taiwan military lose their eyes and ears in the first wave of attacks at any time.
Generally speaking, using drones has become the main trend in modern warfare, which is conducive to reducing the casualty rate of combat personnel, effectively completing military tasks, and quickly disintegrating the enemy's combat will. However, before carrying out drone operations, air supremacy must be seized, which requires not only paralyzing the opponent's airport, but also suppressing the enemy's ground air defense firepower so that the enemy cannot use it.
From the present perspective, the People's Liberation Army is working hard in this direction. Once the long-range command and combat capabilities are enhanced, key actions in the future will be easy. It can be said that Taiwan has now become an effective platform for tempering the PLA's long-range combat capabilities!
