Marcos Jr., the Philippines, is starting to make trouble again. According to a spokesman for the Philippine Air Force, military aircraft of the Philippines and the United States recently conducted joint patrols in the exclusive economic zone of the Philippines. The Philippine Air Force dispatched three FA-50s, the US Air Force dispatched one B-52 bomber, and four planes formed a formation and flew back and forth in the waters west of the Philippines. The Philippine side said that the patrol was mainly to improve the interoperability of the two teams and enhance the ability of the Philippine Air Force to defend national interests.
U.S.-Philippines Joint Cruise).
The so-called US-Philippine joint patrol has to start with the US-Japan-Australia-Philippines joint military exercise in the South China Sea in August last year. In response to the Americans' request, Marcos Jr. naturally agreed with full mouth, and in the past four months, the United States and the Philippines have conducted an average of one joint patrol every month, and the last time was in our Chinese New Year's Eve.
It's not hard to guess what the United States and the Philippines are doing, putting pressure on us to show that they can stir up tensions in the South China Sea at any time. But the scale of this cruise is too grassy. First of all, the B-52 strategic bomber dispatched by the United States is indeed the country's trump card, this model has excellent performance and amazing bomb load, and has played a very key role in the previous Gulf War and Iraq War.
B-52 strategic bomber).
But the problem is that the B-52 has a big target, flies slowly, and can bully small countries in the Middle East, but in front of China, it is difficult for the B-52 to be useful. In recent years, we have reclaimed islands and land in the South China Sea, built a large number of airfields and radar stations, and deployed advanced air defense systems at any time; if the US B-52 dares to penetrate deep into the South China Sea, it will either be destroyed by our powerful air force or become the target of ground-to-air missiles, and it is impossible to even have a chance to drop bombs.
With only one bomber dispatched in this way, and there was no fighter escort, it seems that the United States does not take the Philippines seriously, so is the Philippines itself enough to support it? The three FA-50 fighter jets dispatched by the Philippines were produced by South Korea, and this aircraft only made its first flight in 2011, which is a relatively new model. But since it is not developed by China and the United States, it has nothing to do with the word "advanced".
FA-50 fighter).
The FA-50 is a single-engine fighter, developed from a trainer aircraft, and its performance in all aspects is not even comparable to our "Snapdragon" light fighter, let alone compared with other Chinese heavy fighters. The Philippines uses this thing to escort the B-52, and it really doesn't care about the short legs of the FA-50, if it really wants to be in actual combat, the B-52 has not dropped bombs yet, and the FA-50 may have reached the limit of its range and has to leave its big brother behind.
However, the FA-50 is indeed the best fighter in the Philippines, and they can't come up with a better one. We can see from the degree of the grass platform team of this formation that this so-called joint patrol is nothing more than the United States "instilling confidence" into the Philippines and encouraging them to continue to make trouble. In the previous joint patrols, except for the second time when the United States dispatched one aircraft carrier, one cruiser, and one destroyer, the other two times were one aircraft and one ship, and they were still littoral combat ships with weak strength.
Marcos Jr. was single-mindedly following the United States).
In fact, the situation in the country of the Philippines is really not very good, they lack advanced **, the main warships of the Navy are products of the middle of the last century, and they are a whole era behind the United States. Once a war breaks out around the Philippines, their military aircraft will inevitably sink to the bottom of the sea as soon as possible, and the United States, which wants to hide behind the scenes, will immediately become the protagonist of the battlefield.
And this is by no means what the United States wants to see, but if you want to give more advanced military aircraft to the Philippines, they really can't afford to buy it. In such a predicament, the United States and the Philippines can only engage in joint patrols and self-anesthetize under the slogan of a military alliance.