Nuclear threats in the skies over Taiwan were breached at dawn by a swarm of 37 Chinese military planes crossing the island’s Air Defense Identification Zone (Adiz). Some of the planes then continued on to the western Pacific, where they maneuvered ships in the American fleet. Taipei upset the F-16 fighters (quick start): a skirmish that began at 11 p.m. Italian time on Wednesday is becoming more frequent, although this time it is mainly the United States that is worrying about this new attack According to Taiwan’s Ministry of Defense, the latest versions of the nuclear-capable H-6 bombers have been spotted in the south-west corner of Adiz, alongside the usual J-11 and J-16 fighters. China regards Taiwan as an “inalienable” part of its territory, and it’s not the first time it’s swept the island’s skies by the veteran bomber dubbed with great generosity as the Chinese “B-52.”
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However, the H-6N is the latest variant of the Xian H-6 (NATO name Badger), which is derived from the Soviet Tupolev Tu-16 twin-jet bomber and has been in about 180 units under license for the People’s Army Air Force since 1959 was built the Chinese liberation. According to US intelligence, the latest versions of the eighty aircraft available have been modified to turn the heavy aircraft into a hypersonic missile launch platform that can even be armed with nuclear warheads. According to the Americans, it is the CH-AS-X-13, a missile derived from the DF-21D Ballistic anti-ship missile, which Beijing is promoting as the “aircraft carrier killer”.
In short: missiles that the American fleets in the China Sea, including the Taiwan Strait, are afraid of and are stepping up their activities to respond to these Chinese attacks. In recent days, one of the most serious incidents occurred when a ship from the Chinese fleet “aborted course” a ship from the US Navy.
In recent days, the Pentagon has expressed concern about the aggressive actions of Chinese forces in Asia. “We remain concerned about the increasingly risky and coercive activities of the People’s Liberation Army in the region, even over the past few days,” said Pentagon spokesman Pat Ryder, who is with US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin at the Shangri Dialogue, Singapore’s annual security forum. There was a risk of a collision between two Chinese and US naval units in the Taiwan Strait yesterday, days after a risky maneuver by a Chinese jet on top of an American reconnaissance plane in the sky.
The US, Taiwan and Japan will share real-time data collected by reconnaissance drones to strengthen coordination amid China’s increasing assertiveness in the region. The Financial Times reports, citing people familiar with the project. Towards the end of Trump’s presidency, the United States announced arms sales worth more than $5 billion to Taiwan, including four US$600 million flying drones, intended to boost the island’s capabilities and deter invasion. Chinese. The City newspaper also said Washington will allow these aircraft to be integrated into the system that will be used by the US military in the region and the Japan Self-Defense Force. The initiative would allow Washington and its partners to simultaneously monitor all intelligence gathered by unmanned aerial vehicles.