As 2022 approaches the end of the year, South China Sea strategic situational awareness statistics show that from January to November this year, the United States dispatched a total of 589 military aircraft to conduct close reconnaissance in the South China Sea and around my country. The U.S. military mainly uses RC-135 series reconnaissance aircraft, E-8C air-ground surveillance aircraft, P-8A, P-3C anti-submarine patrol aircraft, EP-3E electronic reconnaissance aircraft, RQ-4B, MQ-4C unmanned reconnaissance aircraft and other aircraft to perform various reconnaissance missions in our country. Of course, although the statistical information for December has not yet been obtained, if we refer to the number of 47 sorties in the same period last year, there will be less than 650 sorties in the whole of 2022. Compared with the approximately 1,200 close-range spy flights in 2011, this number is almost halved. Does this mean that the US military will begin to correct its evil ways in 2022, thus reducing the intensity of its provocations against us?
On December 28, 2022, the US military sent RC-135S to conduct reconnaissance in the East my country Sea.
In fact, the US military has been conducting close spy flights to my country's surrounding areas and the South China Sea. It's just that when our national strength and military strength were not strong in the past, the US military was not very interested in us, so the number was not large. In recent years, as our country's national strength and military strength have grown rapidly, our military exchanges have also expanded to the world. Therefore, the United States believes that this is a challenge to its world leadership, so it has gradually increased its intelligence collection on us. The method of sending military aircraft and warships to conduct close-range reconnaissance around our country is also a powerful supplement to the U.S. military satellite reconnaissance methods. This is because military aircraft and warships have the characteristics of flexible and timely deployment, and the continuity of reconnaissance in the target area is much better than that of satellites . Therefore, this kind of espionage behavior approaching the target country has become one of the important sources for the US military to obtain intelligence.
And various reconnaissance aircraft are more convenient than warships, so various branches of the US military use a large number of various types of reconnaissance aircraft to conduct such high-frequency reconnaissance activities against us. Most of these models take off from US military bases around our country, such as Misawa Base in Japan, Yokota Base in Japan, Kadena Base in Okinawa, Osan Base in South Korea, Anderson Base in Guam, Clark Base in the Philippines, etc. Several bases in Japan and the US military base in Guam are the main sources of US military reconnaissance aircraft. Taking off from Okinawa, Japan, they can go to the East China Sea and Taiwan Strait, or enter the South China Sea through the Taiwan Strait to conduct reconnaissance; the long-endurance UAV takes off from the Anderson base in Guam and can carry out reconnaissance in the direction of the East China Sea and South China Sea in my country. The reconnaissance aircraft at South Korea's Osan base also pose a greater threat to us, because aircraft flying from here can monitor , Russia's Far East, and China's Yellow Sea and Bohai Sea areas nearby.
Among the various reconnaissance aircraft used by the US military to collect various intelligence on our country, the ones with the highest dispatch frequency are probably the RC-135 series and P-8A. The communication reconnaissance system of the RC-135 series reconnaissance aircraft can detect audio, telegram and other communication signals from 600 to 800 kilometers away at an altitude of 10,000 meters. If the RC-135 operates at a position 100 kilometers away from the baseline of my country's territorial waters, its reconnaissance capability can reach a depth of more than 500 kilometers, which is enough to have a panoramic view of important coastal targets. As the new generation of maritime patrol aircraft of the US military, the P-8A not only performs a wide range of tasks, but also has outstanding performance advantages by virtue of the various airborne detection equipment installed. It can not only conduct reconnaissance on our submarines, but also has the ability to conduct optical and radar imaging of inland targets and islands, as well as collect various electromagnetic signals. Of course, submarine offensive operations can also be launched when necessary. In the past two years, the U.S. military has also expanded the mission areas and reconnaissance scope of the P-8A and connected it with the MQ-4C "Mermaid Poseidon" high-altitude unmanned aerial vehicle reconnaissance aircraft through a data link, allowing the P-8A to obtain intelligence data far away from its own reconnaissance scope.
Of course, in addition to these two main reconnaissance aircraft, the US military also dispatches electronic combat aircraft, early warning aircraft , electronic reconnaissance aircraft, drones and other types of aircraft. They each have their own strengths. The US military can aggregate and analyze the intelligence data it has obtained, so as to have a clearer grasp of our military trends.Among them, the electronic reconnaissance aircraft and EP-3 "Aries" in the US military's RC-135 series are mainly used to collect communication and radar signals. They rely on the intelligence collected from a large number of flights around our country, which can increase their deciphering probability and speed. They can also master the distribution and performance of our radar network to provide strong support for launching electromagnetic suppression operations against us during combat. Although the U.S. military's early warning aircraft always stayed behind to command operations during combat, they can now get as close to us as possible and use other aircraft types to trigger our warning network. This allows us to analyze key information such as the reaction speed, arrival direction of the fighter jets, and training intensity displayed by our fighter in response to special air conditions. This can also be used as a powerful reference for the U.S. military in formulating offensive tactics.
U.S. military reconnaissance aircraft have reduced their reconnaissance efforts against our country due to aid to Ukraine.
Although the number of reconnaissance aircraft dispatched by the U.S. military to my country's surrounding areas and the South China Sea this year has decreased significantly compared with last year, we can also see that the number and number of its main reconnaissance aircraft has not decreased. In particular, the P-8A appeared in our surroundings as many as 15 times in just over half a month from November 20 to December 7 this year. The main reason for the misconception that the U.S. military has "returned its evil ways" is that the conflict between Russia and Ukraine caused the U.S. military to shift a large number of reconnaissance forces to the surrounding areas of Ukraine. NATO Although various countries did not directly participate in the war, they managed to pull the almost crippled Ukrainian army back from the brink of collapse by providing weapons and massive real-time intelligence. It can be seen that rich, accurate, and real-time intelligence information plays a decisive role in the direction of modern warfare.
Therefore, we must not only drive away and interfere with the US military's close reconnaissance operations in the new year of 2023, but also carry out equivalent " anti-reconnaissance " based on our capabilities to contain their actions. After all, if goes away, I will go to again!
