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The South China Sea Strategic Transparency Initiative (SCSPI), under the Beijing University (China), has just released a report related to US reconnaissance and reconnaissance activities in the waters around China.
3 specialized aircraft with more than 150 departures
Consequently, from the end of March to November 11, the US has dispatched 3 such aircraft. Specifically, on March 30, the US sent a marine reconnaissance aircraft with the number N9191 to the Kadena base in the city of Akinawa (Japan) to operate in the Indo-Pacific region (Indo-Pacific). The N9191 was developed from Bombadier’s Challenger 600 line of aircraft and can be seen as a simpler version developed from the P-8 Poseidon line of underwater fighter patrol aircraft.
From March 30 to November 11, this aircraft made 139 sorties to operate in the East China Sea, the Yellow Sea area, the Taiwan Strait and 17 sorties to the East Sea. During some operations in the South China Sea, due to the long flight but not being able to refuel in the air, the base in the Philippines had to land to refuel.
The US ISR N488CR aircraft has been operating in many waters near China |
On July 25, the United States sent N488CRs with intelligence, reconnaissance and reconnaissance (ISR) aircraft, which took off for Japan. On July 28, this plane landed at the Misawa base in Aomori prefecture (Japan) and then flew to the Kadena base. It is a next-generation multi-function ISR aircraft developed from the Challenger 600.
Then, starting on March 8, the N488CR started reconnaissance flights in the East Sea and the East China Sea (which flew over the Taiwan Strait) … On September 18, this ISR aircraft flew to the Black Sea , then operates in the region close to Russia. During the period in the Pacific, the N488CR had almost 20 sorties to those waters.
On the afternoon of August 18, a low-range reconnaissance aircraft with the US number N334CA landed at the airport in Manila (Philippines). Developed from the Beechcraft 350 “King Air”, the N334CA reconnaissance aircraft allows monitoring, signal acquisition and connection to a ground command center for reconnaissance missions. N334CA has conducted many recognition campaigns in the Philippines region.
Strong message
The deployment of the ISR aircraft was evaluated by international experts as a strong message from Washington to Beijing.
The N334CA reconnaissance aircraft landed in Japan before flying to the Philippines in August |
Reply Youth, Mr. Carl O. Schuster (former Director of the Operations Division of the Joint Intelligence Center – Pacific Command of the US Navy and teaches at the University of Hawaii on international relations and history) In modern warfare , the ability to quickly detect, identify and attack threats is crucial to winning or losing.
“With the ISR’s presence in the Pacific, the military can assist the navy by creating an integrated hub for near-instantaneous ground-to-ground, anti-ship and missile defense systems. This integration can unite the forces of many American and allied forces in the Indo-Pacific, including the South China Sea. Reconnaissance and air intelligence platforms play an important role in providing information at the surveillance level in real time, ”said former Colonel Schuster.
Similarly, Dr. Satoru Nagao (Hudson Research Institute, USA) said: “The ISR aircraft is an important means of command and control of military operations, because it can easily collect information from the enemy and the other. ally. The ISR is the perfect airborne tool to meet the needs of military operations on the ground.
In early August, US Army General James C. McConville revealed that the country was developing missile strike systems to respond to China in the Indo-Pacific, including the South China Sea.
According to Dr. Nagao, the Indo-Pacific (Indo-Pacific) region is mainly sea and islands, so the army is limited. Meanwhile, the US Army has recently played a larger role in the region in new ways.
In essence, the US Army and Marine Corps have long operated the same types of weapons and weapons as tanks, armored vehicles, artillery … In the Indo-Pacific, these means are difficult to promote. used and too heavy to deploy. Therefore, the deployment of ISR aircraft helps the US Army to play a better role at sea, to master reconnaissance and command from above.
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