The navies of the four countries of the United States, Japan, India and Australia are conducting large-scale military exercises near the first island chain . At the same time, China's multi-type reconnaissance aircraft crossed the island chain and moved forward to the waters east of the Ryukyu Islands to carry out comprehensive monitoring and electronic intelligence collection tasks for the US, Japan, India and Australia fleets.
Recently, according to the Japanese Ministry of Defense, a BZK-005 reconnaissance drone, an Y-9 electronic reconnaissance aircraft and an Y-9 anti-submarine aircraft of the People's Liberation Army, a total of 3 Chinese military aircraft have recently entered the waters east of the Ryukyu Islands through the Miyako Strait over the Miyako Strait to carry out air reconnaissance missions.
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PLA route map published by the Ministry of Defense
Because just as the PLA reconnaissance plane entered the waters east of the Ryukyu Islands, the US Navy's USS Reagan aircraft carrier battle group also happened to conduct the "Malabar 2022" joint military exercise in the waters east of Osumi Strait with the USS Hinata helicopter destroyer of Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force .
. According to the route map published by the Ministry of Defense, the PLA reconnaissance fleet once flew to the eastern waters of Yongliangbu Island, and was only 300-400 kilometers away from the straight-line distance of the "Malabar 2022" exercise waters. At first glance, this distance seems a bit far? But for modernization, especially over-visual naval combat, simulated placeholding and coordinated attacks, as well as collecting enemy intelligence, can be easily accomplished at this distance.
Malabar exercise waters
Therefore, many overseas military observers believe that the purpose of the PLA dispatching reconnaissance aircraft this time is to collect exercise information between the Reagan combat group and the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force.
Judging from the scale of the "Malabar 2022" joint military exercise, the People's Liberation Army does have reason to collect relevant information about this exercise. Because although this exercise is led by the United States and Japan, it is actually a large-scale joint exercise covering the navies of the four countries of the United States, Japan, India and Australia. The total number of surface ships directly participated in the entire exercise reached 10, and there were also unknown number of submarines participating in it. The scale of the exercise can be not small at all.
Malabar joint exercise
In addition to its large scale, the strategic nature of the Malabar exercise is also worthy of attention. Because the Japanese Ministry of Defense has publicly stated that the purpose of the exercise is to protect the "free and open Indian- Pacific region".
Although the Ministry of Defense has not bluntly stated that it would protect the "free and open Indo-Pacific region" from "who". However, considering the increasingly tense situation in the Western Pacific at this stage, whether based on strategic considerations or tactical responses, the People's Liberation Army has reason to collect relevant information about this exercise.
And from a technical perspective, China is also fully capable of using the three reconnaissance aircraft launched in this previous period to conduct a comprehensive "onlook" of the entire Malabar exercise.
Because the reconnaissance aircraft sent by China this time are 1 BZK-005 reconnaissance drone, 1 Y-9 electronic reconnaissance aircraft and 1 Y-9 anti-submarine aircraft, except for the BZK-005 reconnaissance drone, the other two Y-9 have over-the-horizontal reconnaissance capabilities. Among them, the Y-9 electronic reconnaissance aircraft is likely to be the main force of the entire reconnaissance mission. The reason why Y-9 electronic reconnaissance aircraft
says this is because compared with traditional reconnaissance aircraft that can only perform within the visual range or limited over-visual reconnaissance, Y-9 electronic reconnaissance aircraft can achieve true over-visual reconnaissance.
This is because the reconnaissance system of electronic reconnaissance aircraft mainly relies on electronic signals. As long as the target is transmitting radio signals outward, the electronic reconnaissance aircraft will complete the reconnaissance mission hundreds of kilometers away from the target by collecting these signal data.
Therefore, although the PLA's reconnaissance fleet is still 400 kilometers away from the exercise area, this will not affect the Y-9 electronic reconnaissance aircraft collecting electronic intelligence from the exercise fleet. In other words, at these hundreds of kilometers distances, the confrontation between the two sides in the field of electromagnetic spectrum has actually begun.
After all, in order to ensure the command and communication within the fleet, the entire fleet will be filled with a large number of radio communication and electronic signal interactions. In the eyes of the Y-9 electronic reconnaissance aircraft, this is as conspicuous as a lighthouse in the dark. In addition, although the Y-9 anti-submarine aircraft in the reconnaissance fleet is not the main reconnaissance aircraft, it can also collect some information that can only be processed by anti-submarine aircraft .
Y-9 anti-submarine aircraft
Because according to the combat mode of the US Navy, the US military's aircraft carrier battle group often fights with attack nuclear submarine . The main ways of catching enemies in these submarines are periscope and satellite communication antennas in addition to sonar .
Among them, periscopes and communication antennas exposed to the water surface can be discovered by the anti-submarine aircraft's airborne radar, and anti-submarine aircraft can record these radar reflected signals to reduce the difficulty of searching enemy submarines in the future.
Of course, China's reconnaissance aircraft dispatched this time is not all about collecting intelligence from the exercise fleet. After all, there is a BZK-005 reconnaissance drone in the reconnaissance fleet. This type of reconnaissance aircraft can only reconnaissance targets within the range of sight, so it cannot be used to collect intelligence from the joint exercise.
BZK-005 UAV
But the People's Liberation Army cannot let a reconnaissance plane run for an air trip, so the most likely purpose of this UAV is to collect information about the US and Japanese troops on the Ryukyu Islands, especially to take panoramic photos of Kadena Air Force Base .
and Y-9 electronic reconnaissance aircraft and anti-submarine aircraft, the PLA's reconnaissance fleet can fully see the entire Ryukyu Islands.
It is worth mentioning that in addition to collecting intelligence for one's own troops, this normalized tactical reconnaissance is also a means to show its hard power. Because having reconnaissance aircraft means intelligence support and analysis agencies, front-line combat troops that need these intelligence, and a huge combat system that supports these institutions and troops.
At the same time, it is precisely because of such a system as a deterrent that the probability of military adventures between the United States and Japan in the Western Pacific and island chain will be reduced.
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