Today (August 28), the spokesperson of the Eastern Theater Command, Colonel Shi Yi, said that on August 27, the Eastern Theater of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army dispatched warships, fighter-bombers, fighters and other military forces to conduct joint operations in the East China Sea. Police patrols, and conduct training in subjects such as joint assaults on the sea.
The relevant actions are aimed at improving the integrated and joint operations capabilities of the theater forces. The theater will be organized normally according to the surrounding situation and the need to maintain national sovereignty and security.
Drills in three large areas to improve the actual combat capability of the troops
Recently, we can frequently see military exercises being held in multiple sea areas. Just this Monday, the Chinese maritime department issued a number of navigational warnings. The navigational warnings indicated that the Chinese navy would fire live ammunition in the three sea areas. What do these navigational warnings indicate? What is the difference between the content of the exercise and the past?
On August 23, the Maritime Safety Administration of the People's Republic of China issued multiple navigational warnings, which caused concern. The information showed that the People's Liberation Army will conduct live ammunition in various areas of the three seas and prohibit ships from entering.
Among them, the navigation warning issued by the Guangdong Maritime Safety Administration showed that there was a live fire drill in the waters near Nan'ao, Nanhai, on August 25. The Yantai Maritime Safety Administration issued a navigational warning stating that the Bohai Strait and the Changdao waters will conduct live fire training on August 25 and prohibit ships from entering the training area. The navigation warning issued by the Dandong Maritime Safety Administration showed that in the northern part of the Yellow Sea, Dalu Island, from 0:00 on August 24 to 24:00 on August 26, carried out live ammunition within the four-point line, and entry was prohibited.
Military factual bomb exercises to warn foreign military provocations
Within a day, the official website of the China Maritime Safety Administration announced navigation warnings in three sea areas, and the ban on navigation was all because of the need to conduct military actual missile exercises. Is this common? What kind of message is being conveyed?
It is rare to conduct live ammunition drills in three directions at the same time
Military expert Cao Weidong: Because our country’s coastline is very long and the maritime direction is also facing different threats, but three directions or three sea areas have to carry out this kind of live ammunition shooting or live ammunition training at the same time. This is rare. Usually refers to a certain area, such as the Bohai Sea or the South China Sea. But now three sea areas have been opened at once. This is different from the past.The live ammunition exercise is a warning against foreign military provocations
I think there are two reasons. First, in fact, the live ammunition inspection of this kind of weapons and equipment, and the simultaneous deployment of so many areas, I think it is conscious to send a signal to the outside world, targeting our country’s recent maritime direction, and related air directions, some foreign fighters or It was some military provocations by the ships that they kept approaching for reconnaissance and continued reconnaissance operations. Some of our responses are military actions, which are a warning to such foreign military provocations and such Taiwan independence forces.
In a certain area of the East China Sea, a multi-subject live ammunition training was carried out in a fleet of ships
In addition to the drills in the South China Sea, the Bohai Sea, and the East China Sea, the warship formation organized by the Eastern Theater Command also conducted high-intensity multi-course live ammunition training in a certain area of the East China Sea.
Recently, a destroyer detachment of the Eastern Theater Command organized a fleet of ships to carry out several days of high-intensity multi-subject live fire training in a certain area of the East China Sea. In the early morning, the naval fleet consisting of the Zhengzhou, Changzhou, Yiyang, and Binzhou ships successively unmoored and set sail, and rushed to a certain area of the East China Sea for actual combat training. As soon as the Zhengzhou ship arrived in the mission area, it was the first to spot the unknown sea target, and the battle alarm was sounded.
The threat to the sea has just been lifted, and the enemy in the air has come one after another. The ships of the formation quickly formed an air defense formation, the radar continued to track and lock the target, the weapon system responded quickly, weaving a multi-layer three-dimensional air defense network, and successfully intercepting the incoming target.
While the formation was urgently responding to air threats, the Binzhou ship observed that unknown underwater targets were approaching the formation, and the ships quickly launched anti-submarine formations and organized anti-submarine attacks.
On August 17, Colonel Shi Yi, the spokesperson of the Eastern Theater Command, said that the Eastern Theater of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army deployed warships, anti-submarine aircraft, fighter planes and other services to organize joint fire assaults and other actual forces in the surrounding sea and airspace in the southwest and southeast of Taiwan. Drills to test the integrated joint operations capabilities of the theater forces.
Expert opinion: the exercise is a warning to the Taiwan authorities and the US military provocation
The Eastern Theater District announced on August 17 that multiple military services in the Eastern Theater District were conducting exercises around Taiwan Island. Army Colonel Shi Yi said that recently, the United States and Taiwan have repeatedly provoked and sent serious wrong signals, severely infringed upon China’s sovereignty, and severely undermined the peace and stability of the Taiwan Strait. , Has become the biggest source of security risks across the Taiwan Strait.
This speech was very tough. What does this show?
Military expert Cao Weidong: We are engaged in these military activities, aiming at the military provocations of foreign ships and planes against our surrounding coastal areas!
In addition, our actions are to warn the Taiwan authorities or the separatist forces in Taiwan. It is very dangerous to step on the red line! Because we have never promised not to use military means! I am carrying out this kind of military exercise now as a warning to the provocative military actions of the United States against us! This is a warning to the separatist forces of the Taiwan authorities. If you go on like this, I will take action. What action? I will show you my drill.
The Chinese People's Liberation Army is capable of responding to provocative acts
There are both submarines, surface ships, air fighters, and corresponding missiles in the exercise. If your provocation is a ship, my submarines, ships, and planes can attack you. If this kind of provocation is done in other ways, I have the ability to deal with this kind of provocation. So I think the direction of this speech is very clear.
The increase or decrease of the number of exercises is related to the future development of the situation
If the Taiwan authorities can clearly recognize the current situation, be able to slow down or wake up on the road of splitting or progressive "Taiwan independence", I think such exercises may be reduced, and the locations of the exercises It may be further away from Taiwan Island. Because of this, it may reduce some of this pressure on it.
But if it continues to move forward on this road and lean towards the red line, I think this kind of exercise may become more frequent and its scale will become larger and larger.
The Rocket Force successfully test-fired two new missiles
Recently, not only the navy has carried out one after another drills, but the Rocket Force has also taken action. Last week, the Rocket Force successfully tested two new missiles.
In recent days, the Rocket Force responded quickly in the Northwest Desert and successfully launched two new missiles, accurately hitting targets with multiple protection positions hundreds of kilometers away.
In the Northwest Desert, the first brigade of conventional missiles of the Rocket Army, which was concealed on standby, received the launch command. The trumpeters quickly launched the operation, erected the missile and entered various parameters. The entire operation time was reduced by half compared to the previous one.
A few minutes later, the missile accurately hit the target, effectively destroying the key information node of the Blue Army's defense system.
The Rocket Force’s live ammunition launch actively explored new tactics such as the rapid response of conventional missile forces and attacking outline targets, successfully expanded the types of new warheads, and effectively improved conventional missiles’ multi-mode precision attack, destruction of paralyzed nodes, integrated anti-interference, and advancement. Ability to break the enemy.
The new quality warhead has the ability to counter interference
This test successfully expanded the types of new warheads for the Rocket Army. What is so special about this new warhead? What effect does it have on the development of the rocket army’s weapons and equipment?
Military expert Cao Weidong: Because the new quality mainly means that the target of its damage is the opponent's command post or communication agency. And we can imagine that in modern warfare, in this kind of military operations of informatization, the opponent's communication organization or its command organization must be very tightly protected.
In addition to hardware defense, it must have a lot of electronic countermeasures or interference. Under such circumstances, whether your missile can hit the target accurately or not is not a matter of distance.
After you pass, if you want to call someone's command post or communication agency, in the case of a large amount of electronic interference, you can identify which is the real target and which is the interference. So I think this new quality warhead must not only break through the interception of the enemy’s defenses by missiles and artillery, but also have some ability to counter new electronic interference, so that it can hit the target more accurately.
The new quality warhead reflects the development of the rocket army’s weaponry
It is only a new type of missile, and it is mainly improved on the warhead. In fact, it is erecting, including transportation, and manipulation may have some new progress. This whole reflects the development of weaponry and equipment of our country's rocket army.
If we mobilize these missile forces to the coastal direction, or our inland, they can still play their role as a component of the Chinese People's Liberation Army’s Great Wall of Steel, or as a component of our military warfare under the conditions of information technology.
