15 dec 50 miles NorthWest of the philippine subic bay rescue vessel for submarines of the pla navy with the hull number 510 (the project type 922-iiia, according to NATO classification "Dalan-iiia") intercept a radio-controlled unmanned underwater vehicle (bpa) type lbs-glider, launched from aboard hydrographic "Bowditch" (e. G. "Pathfinder") of the U.S. Navy. Specified american ship allows you to perform hydrophone scanning the waters, seabed mapping with high fidelity using towed acoustic type buoys and low frequency surtass lfa.
Four search hydroacoustic station (gus) located in the building are able to discover how all of the modern submarine at depths up to 450 meters and other underwater vehicles, systems, hydroacoustic monitoring, and even cables. The use of bpa is of greatest concern to the chinese military, since this technique allows to cut the submarine cables already connecting the island garrisons on artificial islands composed of the archipelagos of xisha and nansha, as well as those who in the future will connect the military unit on the mainland with the garrison on scarborough shoal (the latter still in draft). Some american experts have suggested that bpa, caught the chinese military, "Go for parts" for later copy, but the machine returned to owners five days after the event. The reason for such a fast return of the U.S.
Bpa, in fact, lies on the surface. Staff of the shenyang institute of automation academy of sciences (an) of China in 2003 has begun to develop similar devices that were submitted for testing in 2008. Since then, the production technology improved, and for chinese professionals of the ability of american designers were not surprising. It is known that bpa lbs-glider was disassembled, a special instrument made it possible to evaluate the ability of lithium-ion batteries and acoustic sensors of american manufacturing.
According to chinese media, the chinese equivalent of the bpa lbs-glider under the designation "Sea wing" and "Deep search 100" for more than five years have been successfully used for mapping the bottom of South China sea. Carriers like bpa are the hydrographic ships "Practice 1", "Science 1", "6 ocean" and "South peak". Officially, the first three vessels are in the interests of academy of sciences of China, and the fourth is subject to the superintendency of the sea. Currently, these ships carry out laying of cables from the mainland to artificial islands.
The reason is quite simple – the pla navy is only two special cable layer: one on the Eastern fleet, the second only last december entered a part of the Southern fleet. The situation in the region the scs is regularly heating up the U.S. Navy. They have conducted "Operations to protect freedom of navigation" in fact serve as a shield annual exercises in antisubmarine warfare, in conjunction with the royal australian navy, singapore, taiwan and maritime self-defense force of Japan.
Chinese military is closely watching the actions of the us vis-a-vis and systematically implement a program of placement of weapons, military and special equipment on nine artificial islands. It is known that jube, unsw, unsane and mazzi built and tested the runway. On the first two islands runway length is 3000, and the third and fourth is 2700 meters. In the analysis of satellite images it is clear that these runway suitable for all aircraft, taken into service of the navy and the pla air force: tactical fighter-bomber jianhong-7a to the strategic bomber hun-6k and transport il-76.
In addition, on two islands built helicopter landing platform. According to media reports, China man-made territories already placed 72 fighter jian-11b that will perform the tasks of air patrols and covering the islands and ships from the air strikes. The intent of the chinese military, the aircraft allows the use of rcc inci-62, -83 to combat surface ships at ranges of up to 450 km jian-11b is able to counteract the carrier-based fighter f/a-18e/f aircraft and electronic warfare ea-18g us navy. In this situation the pilots of the pla navy will use the container system electronic warfare and long-range anti-radar missiles (prr) inci-91.
In the event of armed conflict between the U.S. Navy and the pla in the area of artificial islands, the chinese military uses mentioned jianhong-7a, the crews of which on a regular exercises work out the triggers of aircraft torpedoes "Air 3-500" and depth bombs shen-3a. To combat radar, surface ships, and eliminate their air defense/missile defense pilots jianhong-7a will apply inci prr-91, and for self – defense- missiles "Air-air" sd-10. Coordination of aviation will provide aircraft airborne early warning and control (awacs) kuntzin-200.
It is known that his on-board radar can detect at the same time 500 500 air and surface targets up to 400 km at an altitude of 10,000 meters. With a unified digital system of data exchange standard 1553 is possible to transmit information on the purpose as on other aircraft or on ships and missile boats. As the primary targets for strategic bombers hun-6m determined the destruction of the destroyers of the us navy, equipped with a system air defense/missile defense aegis. The main armament of the chinese missile – the supersonic asm inci-12 (flight speed of up to mach 5. 5), which will allow hoon-6m does not enter the air defense zone american ships.
Missile launches will be carried out on the target information from the awacs aircraft countsin-200. For operations of the patrol force over the area of the scs designed the aircraft refueling two modifications, namely, the hong-6u (from the 17th regiment of the 6th bad) and the il-78, which are built on the basis of the Russian transport il-76md of ukrainian specialists using their components. It is known that the maximum capacity of the fuel tanks hun-6u is 37 tons, and so in a real combat situation the plane is loaded with fuel in the amount of from 20 to 30 tons that will allow the crew to perform a 1000-mile flight to the area of the filling to serve four fighter jian-11b, and then return to base. Il-78 at the same range can provide from 8 to 10 fighters in a high enough speed as equipped with a new set of "Opcd-1m" with the speed of the pump 2340 liters/minute.
It should be noted that the fuel-distributing apparatus hun-6u allows you to simultaneously serve the two fighters, while the il-78 is able to refuel three aircraft. It is clear that in addition to aircraft on the artificial islands will be placed and naval forces of the pla. According to experts of the chinese corporation "China North industries corporation", vmb artificial islands jubi and mazzi you can deploy ships of any class, including aircraft carriers. Berth depth is sufficient, as engineering structures guarantee a reliable parking of ships with a displacement of 20,000 tons or more.
Berths at the naval base of the island unsu allow you to deploy on a permanent basis vdcs of project 054a, destroyers st. 052с/d, and dvcd ave. 071, as well as ships of lesser tonnage – corvettes, minesweepers and missile boats. It is known that in these three islands are already a few missile boats pr.
022, which we can use asm to destroy large surface ships of the enemy. The formation of stocks of petroleum products on the island bases, and centers for the repair and maintenance of machinery will allow the pla navy to routinely deploy in the area of the archipelagos of xisha and nansha search group in an amount of about 30 surface ships and a mixed force of diesel-electric submarines and nuclear submarines. It should be noted that a similar number of surface forces South of the fleet of the pla navy stated in the strategic requirements of the command of the "Defense of the near zone and security in the long march". By the way, the ships of the pla navy, providing year-round patrols in the South China sea, periodically "Expelled" U.S.
Navy ships of the 12-mile border zone. There is information that a naval search and strike group (cpwg) South of the fleet will be built on two principles. The first principle – "Four steel faces". In the composition kpug destroyers st.
052с/d will provide air defense and escort surface ships of the enemy; tfr ave. 054a and corvettes 056а perform the task of the plo, as well as applied to missile strikes based on the target designation from coastal radars and other vehicles. As the fourth element are the large scout ships, etc 815a a which are equipped with systems of electronic countermeasures. The second principle is "Eight steel edges".
Part cpug will include both above surface ships and submarines pr. 039, st. 093г submarines, planes pla yun-8/9 and the awacs countsin-500. The use of submarines and asw aircraft will ensure the effectiveness kpug in the confrontation with ships and bpa enemy.
It is quite natural that these islands are placed a radar of the circular review, over-the-horizon station reconnaissance and aerial rtr. In addition, it has seen coastal launchers of different rcc models, and to provide air defense to deployed units of the sam hongqi-9, which in the future will be replaced by more sophisticated hongqi-26. The latter, according to some chinese experts, are the analogue of the Russian s-400 system, however, to verify this assertion is not yet possible. Given the complexity of tasks of air defense in conditions of heavy electronic countermeasures in fixed concrete positions placed air defense systems near abroad, which provide protection above sam.
It should be noted that the location unsw, jubi and mazzi (nansha archipelago) is a triangle with sides 295, 195 and 195 km. The central element in the life of island garrisons plays yongxing, of which unsw 810 km. , and from mazzi promising garrison on scarborough shoal already 625 km looking at the map it becomes clear that under the control of navy ships and aircraft of the pla air force is a significant part of the basin of South China sea.
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