Recently, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida expressed to North Korea his unconditional willingness to hold summit talks. However, North Korea’s supreme leader Kim Jong-un refused any contact or negotiation with Japan. Kim Yo-jong, deputy minister of the Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea, pointed out in his speech that Japan The government simply does not have the courage to change history, seek regional peace and stability, and take the first step in new North Korea-Japan relations.
As North Korea said, Japan has not made any reflection on the lessons of history. The Japanese cabinet recently decided to lift the ban on the export of next-generation fighter jets jointly developed by Japan, the United Kingdom and Italy to third countries, and to revise the operating guidelines of the "Three Principles of Defense Equipment Transfer" This is an example. So after the olive branch extended by North Korea was ruthlessly knocked down, Japan felt a little "China shock".
According to Japanese media reports, the Integrated Staff and Supervision Department of the Ministry of Defense of Japan announced that a WZ-7 unmanned reconnaissance aircraft of the People's Liberation Army was spotted flying in the Sea of Japan on Tuesday morning. The Ministry of Defense also announced that the air force had subsequently launched fighter jets to respond. Subsequently, this A drone coming from the direction of China flew away in the northwest direction.
In the past two years, our country’s navy and air force have been conducting patrol operations to maintain the security of our country’s surrounding sea and airspace. Two characteristics have become more and more obvious. First, as the situation in the Taiwan Strait, South China Sea, and peninsula has continued to heat up, our navy and air force’s patrol and operations have become more and more obvious. The area of action is gradually expanding.
The Russian Satellite News Agency reported that during a recent training flight, the Chinese H-6K strategic bomber flew more than 1,000 kilometers beyond the Bashi Strait that separates Taiwan Island from the Philippines and entered the Philippine Sea. This is a strategic bomber of our military. There are not many activities in cruise operations that fly such a long distance. In addition, it has become a routine operation for our army's H-6K bomber cruise formation to cross the Miyako Strait and penetrate into the Western Pacific.
As early as December 2022, the northern theater organized six surface ships including the Liaoning aircraft carrier strike group, and at least one underwater nuclear attack submarine, crossing the Miyako Strait from the East China Sea and heading out of the Western Pacific to Okinotori Reef. The North Sea, and southward to conduct high-sea drills about 500 kilometers west of Guam, is the farthest location in the Western Pacific since the PLA aircraft carrier strike group was formed.
In the direction of the South China Sea, not to mention the actions of the People's Liberation Army, it is very common for our naval and air forces to patrol within the ten-dash line. Moreover, as the United States, Japan and Australia engage in joint patrols in the South China Sea, the surveillance, reconnaissance and counterattack of the Chinese navy and air force in the South China Sea are very common. The control measures will also be more comprehensive and more deterrent.
On the whole, including the operations of No Detective 7 in the Sea of Japan, the scope of our military's patrol activities has already exceeded the limits of the first island chain in recent years, especially the patrol activities in the Bashi Strait and the waters east of Taiwan. It is to completely bring all the disturbances in the Taiwan Strait under control and not give any chance to external forces.
In addition to the expansion of the scope of operations, another feature is that drones are increasingly used in cruise operations. For example, the protagonist Wujian-7 this time has a total length of 14.33 meters, a wingspan of 24.86 meters, and a cruising altitude of 14.33 meters. The range is 18,000 meters to 20,000 meters, the cruising speed is greater than 700 kilometers per hour, the combat radius is 2,000 to 2,500 kilometers, and the endurance time is up to 10 hours.
Different from professional investigation and combat units such as Pterodactyl and Reaper, this is a truly "high, big and superior" reconnaissance weapon. Its main task is to conduct long-term surveillance of theater-level targets and provide overall situational awareness.
In recent years, our military has been patrolling from the China-India border in the west, to the South China Sea in the south, to the Miyako Strait in the east, and now to the Sea of Japan in the north.
In a piece of information released by the US military in July 2019, it was first reported that a PLA Wuji-7 was spotted monitoring a US Navy cruiser passing through the Taiwan Strait. In January last year, a Wujian-7 was also reported to fly over Miyako Strait enters the Philippine Sea. These all reflect that Wujian-7 is gradually integrated into our military's reconnaissance system, forming powerful information countermeasures and situational awareness capabilities.
This time, the wz-7 was able to break through Japan's surveillance in the Tsushima Strait, enter the Sea of Japan area, and then calmly leave in the northwest direction of Russia. This may also indicate that in the face of the continuous strengthening of information sharing between the United States, Japan and South Korea, China, Russia and North Korea are also Reaching a certain tacit understanding of information to cope with the other party's constant prying eyes.
In addition to the Wuzhen-7, our army also has another more deadly and terrifying shadow weapon - his "younger brother" Wuzhen-8, which looks harmless to both humans and animals and has dual-purpose military and civilian uses. Differently, Wujian-8 is a high-altitude, high-speed stealth unmanned reconnaissance aircraft.
It is reported that the Wuzhen-8 is smaller in size than the Wuzhen-7, but its cruising speed is as high as Mach 3, and its ultimate speed reaches Mach 6, which is comparable to a hypersonic missile. The maximum flight altitude is 50,000 meters. If it is the Wuzhen-7, it is "China's In terms of "Global Hawk", Wujian-8 is a proper Chinese "Blackbird", but it is an unmanned version.
Currently, there are no similar types of drones in the United States, Russia and Europe. Wujian-8 can even be mounted on The Y-20 or H-6 can be launched and taken off under the belly of the machine, making them more flexible in actual combat. Moreover, both the No-Zhang 7 and the No-Zhang 8 have a special skill, which is to guide anti-ship ballistic missiles to attack large seas. Targets, they will provide reliable guidance for our military's ballistic missiles to accurately attack enemy fleets and even water bases.
At present, the United States continues to deepen its Asia-Pacific strategy, promotes and promotes the deep integration of its Asia-Pacific alliance mechanisms, and strengthens multi-dimensional cooperation. Its military actions will also become increasingly oriented toward actual combat.
Now South Korea and the Philippines have fully moved towards the United States. The US military continues to strengthen the deployment of military forces on the peninsula, and the south continues to reopen its bases in the Philippines. Facing the increasingly complex situation, our military is also constantly gathering strength and stepping up the installation of advanced weapons. And situational awareness weapons such as the undetected series of drones will appear more and more frequently on the front line of the game between great powers in the future.
