The first-hand news about the air confrontation between the United States and the United States over the South China Sea was actually announced by the Americans first. The Americans claimed to the outside world that when their strategic reconnaissance aircraft was flying over the South China Sea, they encountered Chinese aviation fighter jets. Some U.S. Republican congressmen even claim that the United States should deal with China’s growing aggression!
Later, some Western media also responded to the Americans and clamored that we should take care of the frontline pilots! Regarding this typical thief shouting to catch a thief, our Southern Theater Command also released the video captured by our fighter jets the day after the Americans announced the relevant news!
It can be clearly seen in the video we published that the so-called unsafety and unprofessionalism claimed by the Americans are actually entirely their own doing. In the video, we can clearly see that the American RC-135v strategic reconnaissance aircraft suddenly changed its course after encountering the Chinese J-11 and squeezed directly to the left! It should be to force the Chinese fighter jets to change their course!
This approach of the Americans is actually quite dangerous. As an air superiority fighter, the J-11's maximum flight speed can reach Mach 2, and even the cruising speed can reach Mach 0.9, while the flying speed of the American reconnaissance aircraft can be reduced to 600km per hour. In this case, if our fighter jets want to accompany the American reconnaissance aircraft, they need to control their flight attitude and slow down the flight speed to maintain the accompanying status! To achieve this, it is extremely difficult to test the pilot's skill in operating a fighter jet, and it is almost a critical flight! In this flight state, the American reconnaissance plane suddenly changed its course, which would very likely cause a collision between the two planes (a similar situation had already occurred in 1999)!
Of course, the low-speed performance of today's J-11BSH is much better than that of the fighter jets of the past. This is an advancement in hardware technology. Solid hardware technology, coupled with the pilot's calm psychological quality and superb driving skills, can make it possible to face an American reconnaissance aircraft that suddenly changes course without panicking!
But in any case, this approach of the American reconnaissance plane actually posed a considerable threat, but the American pilots did not expect that the Chinese pilots were brave and skillful. They did not change their direction because the American reconnaissance plane suddenly changed its course and squeezed them. Instead, they tried their best to keep the fighter's course unchanged! In this case, the American reconnaissance plane will not get any bargains! Seeing that it had no way to force the Chinese fighter jets to change its route, the American reconnaissance plane did not hesitate too much and immediately changed its route again, quickly breaking away from the confrontation with the Chinese fighter jets and leaving the sensitive airspace!
The decisive resignation of the Americans is actually quite shrewd, because if a collision does occur, the Americans do not want to repeat the air crash in 1999. In that accident, the American EP-3E reconnaissance aircraft made an emergency landing at our Chinese airport. Although we returned the reconnaissance aircraft in the end, we have seen this reconnaissance aircraft inside and out. The Americans' technical losses are actually very huge!
Now it has been replaced by a more advanced RC-135V. If a similar incident happens again, the Americans do not want us to dismantle their reconnaissance aircraft again! So it is indeed very wise to give in immediately and leave. After all, if the confrontation continues, the J-11 may give the Americans an aerial scalpel and let them remember it for a lifetime. That would be too much of a loss!
