According to South Korean media news, a US F-16 fighter plane crashed in Northeast Asia that morning, and the plane crashed directly into the Yellow Sea, while the US pilot who piloted the plane ejected and escaped.
The F-16 fighter (English: F-16 Fighter, translation: Fighting Falcon, also known as: international fighter), is a jet multirole fighter of the United States Air Force.
The F-16 fighter is a single-seat, single-engine, third-generation or third-and-a-half generation fighter of the United States, and is one of the most successful fighters in the world.
The F-16 fighter was born in the 70s, and mass production began in 1976, with a total of almost 4600 units. It is an extremely mature fighter.
The F-16 crashed into the sea in battle, but the pilot escaped, which means that the United States did not lose the pilot, but had to salvage the plane.
The Yellow Sea is China's coastal waters and is also adjacent to South Korea. The Yellow Sea is located at the choke point of China and is strategically important.
The sudden crash of an extremely mature US plane into the sea at this time makes it difficult for people to wonder whether the United States is deliberately sending a probe ship to conduct seabed hydrological exploration in the Yellow Sea under the banner of salvaging planes.
In order to counter the salvage behavior of the United States, China announced through the Maritime Safety Administration** that it would immediately conduct live-fire training in the northern Yellow Sea and prohibit entry.
The U.S. Air Force base in Gunsan City, where the U.S. plane crashed, is in the northern Yellow Sea, coinciding with China's planned live-fire Xi.
A few days ago, the United States forced the Philippines to send ships to ram coast guard ships at Scarborough Shoal and Second Thomas Shoal, which already annoyed China.
Now, with the sudden crash of the United States in the Yellow Sea, it is difficult not to wonder whether it was a deliberate provocation.
Whether the US military is making a fake show and actually causing a plane to crash into the sea, and then sending a hydrographic exploration ship to find out the bottom of the plane in the Yellow Sea, or whether it is a real plane crash, China will be beneficial in conducting a Xi in the northern part of the Yellow Sea.
First of all, if China conduct Xi s a live-fire exercise, it can reasonably and legally dispatch a large number of fighter planes and reconnaissance planes to conduct reconnaissance and find out the reality of the US plane salvage after the crash.
If the United States is engaged in nautical charting, then do not blame China for secretly countering it, and when the time comes, the United States can only consider itself unlucky if there is a ship collision or being hit by live ammunition.
Although it is inconvenient for China to salvage the main body of the F-16 plane, the use of fishing nets to fish out the wreckage of electronic equipment (such as airborne communication equipment, engine wreckage, etc.) can also help analyze the communication mechanism of the American fighter jet, and the Americans cannot find it.
The U.S. plane crash on December 11 and China announced the Xi of live-fire exercises in the Yellow Sea on December 11, and the two times highly overlapped, proving that China's naval operations in the Yellow Sea had been planned for a long time.
In the event of an emergency, the Navy can take immediate action, and the response capability of the Chinese Navy is world-class and combat-class.
The fact that the Americans went to build a military base near China's Yellow Sea was a purely strategic mistake and a bluff.
Because the entire Yellow Sea is covered by China's shore-based missiles, in the event of a war, China's first round of rocket artillery and missile attacks will be enough to raze the US military bases on the west coast of South Korea to the ground, and it is impossible for planes to fly.
This live-fire exercise Xi, whether it is countering the US surveying and mapping of the Yellow Sea or fishing for the wreckage of the US F-16, can make great contributions.