On the 7th of this month, a rare scene occurred over the Taiwan Strait.
A high-altitude sounding balloon suddenly appeared near the center line of the strait, and then quickly floated across the "center line" and advanced towards Taiwan Island. Then he disappeared.
And our point of view is the fact that this balloon has achieved a crossing of Taiwan Island.
It's a good attempt, so it's necessary to normalize.
Sure enough, on December 17, two more high-altitude probe balloons broke through the so-called "middle line" and directly entered the airspace southeast of Taiwan Island.
According to the dynamic display of the sea and air space around the Taiwan Strait released by the Taiwan Defense Department on the 18th:
At 9:03 and 14:43 yesterday (17th), 2 flying balloons were detected, which crossed the center line of the strait, located about 110 km northwest of Keelung, and the height was about 2Below 70,000 feet, it continued eastward and disappeared at 9:36 and 16:35.
Taiwan media said that it is now the northeast monsoon season, which is conducive to intelligence collection for the Taiwan Strait.
Some so-called military experts in Taiwan also said"Watch it come in, watch it go out, if you don't make a positive move, it will form a breach after a long time. ”
There is also the island ** think,"It is too passive to only take close monitoring measures for the balloon on the opposite shore, and it should be taken down by drone to avoid a breach. ”
It can be said that judging from the above-mentioned so-called military experts and comments from Taiwan, none of them are reliable.
Because according to the description of the Taiwan defense department itself, the balloon was in 2Flying at an altitude of 70,000 feet, that is, flying at an altitude of 9,000 meters.
And the UAV with general performance simply does not have such a high flight altitude, and the practical ceiling of the PLA advanced high-altitude long-range UAV BZK-005 is only 8000 meters.
The Taiwan military does not have such planes at all, and it is ridiculous to expect to "take down" the balloon even if it cannot even see the shadow of the balloon.
You must know that in February this year, the US military sent the most advanced F-22 stealth fighter in service to shoot down China's "stray gas" ball.
In a word, the Taiwan military's existing capabilities are powerless against balloons flying at an altitude of 10,000 meters.
The balloon is definitely a good choice, because recently on a hidden front, it is clear that both China and the United States have strengthened their offensive and defensive efforts.
The fact that the military confrontation between China and the United States has entered actual combat in some areas, and it has even been "actual combat" on more than one occasion.
According to foreign media reports and some military bloggers, an unconfirmed piece of information was disclosed.
Not long ago, a Y-8EW electronic warfare plane of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) and an EP-3E electronic reconnaissance plane of the US military met in the skies over the South China Sea, and a very fierce electronic confrontation ensued.
It is said that because both sides have released high-power electronic signals, the strong electronic signals released have affected the Xiamen meteorological radar station along the coast of the Taiwan Strait and the radar on the island, and the signals have been completely jammed.
The truth is that the news is quite credible.
In the past, electronic warfare was a unique military killer move of the US military, and the People's Liberation Army suffered losses from electronic warfare in the early 90s of the last century.
In November 1994, radars in many places in northern China suddenly discovered that a large number of aircraft signals were flying from the sea. According to radar, up to 120 of them.
Later, when our air force went up, we found that there was not a single one.
A little later, on the southeastern coast, too, a large number of "enemy aircraft" signals were again displayed from the radar, numbering up to 700 aircraft.
However, due to the "experience" of the last time, our side sent only 2 fighters to reconnoitre.
The result was a cold sweat!
It turned out that although there were no hundreds of warplanes in the airspace as shown by the radar, dozens of US military planes were gathering here.
Finally, I figured out what happened.
Everything is the ghost of the US Navy's aircraft carrier "Kitty Hawk".
At that time, the US military released electronic warfare planes through the Kitty Hawk, first jamming our radar, causing illusions and miscalculations, and then launching actual combat exercises.
Fortunately, it was a drill, and if it was a real battle, we would suffer a big loss.
Fortunately, after the plane collision in the South China Sea in 2001, China took advantage of the rare opportunity to catch up. At present, China has established a comprehensive, comprehensive, and systematic electronic warfare combat system and platform.
It does not fall behind at all in electronic countermeasures with the US military.
Therefore, judging from the future operational evolution of China and the United States, if we cannot avoid a military conflict, then the most likely way is this kind of electronic warfare and information warfare.
If someone establishes an advantage in the process, then it is completely possible to force the other party to give up relatively and avoid direct personnel**. Because for China and the United States, both military and technological powers with long-range precision attack, the discovery of facts is destruction.
What we are looking forward to is that, in addition to the soft crossing of Taiwan Island by this kind of detection balloon, the hard crossing of Taiwan Island by fighter planes can be realized at an early date.