An article in the United States reminded that China's missile technology and equipment scale is far ahead of other countries in the world, especially a variety of hypersonic missiles have been installed in China's rocket force, which has brought a huge threat to the security of the United States' anti-missile system in the region.
Recently, the US military has repeatedly emphasized that the PLA's advanced ballistic missiles and cruise missiles pose a growing threat to the region, and they need to further strengthen their defenses.
However, there are many difficulties with the US missile defense program, a large number of defense equipment cannot be delivered on time, and some defenses cannot cope with the threat of Chinese missiles.
The U.S. military's worries also stem from the rapid development of China's missile technology.
According to intelligence documents revealed by the Pentagon, China tested the DF-27 hypersonic speed in the first half of this year, and the missile flew 2,100 kilometers in 12 minutes, flying at an altitude of more than 30,000 meters, which is equivalent to a sustained flight speed of 2,916 meters per second, and the average flight speed of the missile is equivalent to Mach 10.
This is the most powerful hypersonic in the world today**.
Chris Osborne, a military expert of the famous military ** "1945", believes that the Dongfeng-27 hypersonic missile developed by China is likely to have a range of 5,000-8,000 kilometers, and is a medium- and long-range ballistic missile carrying precision-guided, wave-gliding hypersonic warhead, capable of striking sea mobile targets and land hard targets thousands of kilometers away.
In addition, the construction of the US Air Force has also encountered difficulties, which has made the US military very worried.
An article in The National Interest** lists dismal statistics: at the height of the Cold War, the US Air Force had 4,468 fighters and 331 strategic bombers, when 8 out of 10 aircraft were capable of mission, and now the US Air Force has only 1,932 fighters and 140 bombers, an average of only 6 out of 10 fighters.
According to reports, in the event of a war with China, the size of the US Air Force will be less than 32% of that of the Cold War, and the combat capability and combat readiness of the US Air Force will also fall to an all-time low.
Therefore, the US military urgently needs to strengthen the defense of Chinese missiles in order to ensure the security of the ** region.
The decline in the strength of the US Air Force has reached such a severe level that they can no longer confidently organize their operations as they did during the "Desert Storm" period, let alone compare with such a strong adversary as China.
Although the United States claims to have a "super army," in fact it is nothing but a reality.
Even the Taliban, who have AK-47s in Afghanistan, will struggle to confront, let alone be completely defeated by Iranian-backed anti-American forces.
Even in the relatively stable Asia-Pacific region, the U.S. team has been humiliated by frequent accidents.
In December last year, a Osprey plane of the US military stationed in Japan crashed, killing all eight people on board.
A few days later, another U.S. military drone in Japan went missing.
Recently, another F-16 fighter jet of the US military stationed in South Korea crashed in the Yellow Sea, but fortunately the pilot was rescued.
In fact, whether it is the rotary-wing aircraft and drones of the US military stationed in Japan or the F-16 fighter jets of the US military stationed in South Korea, their actions in the East Asian region are a direct threat to China.
Crashes of US planes in the Asia-Pacific region have become commonplace, and all this not only shows that the United States is trying to contain China, but also proves the decline of the US Air Force.
In other words, the U.S. Air Force is now difficult to deal with even weak and small countries, let alone match the air forces of large countries.
Due to the scale of the crash that the United States has not even matched India in recent years, the strength of the US Air Force seems to have fallen to the bottom.
Since none of the U.S. Air Force can defeat the Chinese Air Force, how can the U.S. military bases in the Asia-Pacific region protect themselves?The answer, of course, is the anti-missile system that the United States is proud of.
However, the performance improvement and deployment speed of the US anti-missile system do not seem to be able to keep up with the improvement and deployment speed of China's missile technology.
In the U.S. Pentagon's Indo-Pacific strategic deployment, ** is very critical at the core of the second island chain.
Therefore, in the context of the new Cold War of the great powers, the answer to how to deal with the threat from Chinese missiles is, of course, to deploy more advanced anti-missile defense systems.
Recently, the "Defense News" report admitted: Now the US military's plan to deploy more anti-missile defense systems in the first place has been in trouble.
Due to insufficient budgets and delays in equipment development, the testing of a variety of missile defense systems that the US military originally planned to deploy in 2024 had to be postponed indefinitely.
Whether the Pentagon's $1.5 billion request to Congress will be approved will determine when the U.S. missile defense deployment and the testing and deployment of key island chain nodes can be completed.
This has already forced other military bases in the Asia-Pacific region to suffer.
Under the current Sino-US military game pattern, the US Air Force is no longer able to gain an advantage in the confrontation with the Chinese Air Force, and its missile defense system is also difficult to resist the attack of Chinese missiles.
Under such circumstances, how can the United States continue to engage in a major confrontation?Some believe that the recent active pursuit of dialogue between the United States and China in the field of security is actually a sign of stealth.
Clark believes that the defense system built by the US military in the first place cannot offset the trend of increasing the PLA's long-range ammunition delivery capabilities.
According to the article "Defend **", by 2030, the PLA will have an extremely powerful firepower projection capability, capable of delivering 3,000 tons of precision-guided munitions to ** 2,800 kilometers away every day.
This means that ** will face 545 tons of precision-guided munitions, which is equivalent to the PLA can completely destroy the ** value target in one day and raze it to the ground.
This desperate disparity in strength has made the US military realize that under the overwhelming firepower projection superiority of the PLA, it will be difficult for the US team to hold on to the first place in the western Pacific.
1. U.S. military bases on the second island chain.
Not to mention relying on ** bases to interfere in the situation in the Taiwan Strait.