US "Red Flag" Military Exercise Simulates the Sino US Sea and Air War Red Flag | Exercise | Military Exercise
The latest Red Flag Nellis 23-3 exercise by the US Air Force has recently concluded, integrating for the first time the pre deployment "synthetic training unit exercise" of the US Navy aircraft carrier.
There are reports that the focus of this "Red Flag" exercise is on the long-range maritime combat scenarios that the US military may encounter in the Pacific, targeting potential conflicts with China in the future.
To make a profit during the exercise
According to public information, the "Red Flag" exercise began in 1980 and has the characteristics of large scale, high realism, and close to actual combat. It is considered a world-class air combat exercise.
The US Air Force conducts several Red Flag military exercises annually at the Nellis Air Force Base near Las Vegas, dividing combat aircraft into two teams: red and blue. The US military and its allies form the Blue Army to confront the hypothetical enemy Red Army, and test the air combat capabilities of the US and its allies through air combat courses that approximate actual combat.
Military observer Liang Yongchun pointed out that the focus of the "Red Flag 23-3" exercise has shifted to long-range air attack and defense, which is worthy of vigilance.
Liang Yongchun:
This year's "Red Flag" military exercise moved from the western inland of the United States to the sea, and the US Air Force and Navy contributed significantly to this exercise.
The US Air Force deployed F-22 fighter jets and aerial refueling planes to extend the combat radius of the fighter jets; B-1B bombers were deployed to conduct long-range precision strikes on enemy ground targets; Rescue helicopters were deployed to conduct exercises for searching and rescuing pilots who had fallen into the water.
The US Navy has deployed the Carl Vinson aircraft carrier battle group capable of carrying F-35C stealth fighters.
The hypothetical enemy of the exercise is played by F-35A fighter jets from the US Air Force's Invader Squadron.
Exercise sea air integrated combat
Even more noteworthy is that this "Red Flag" military exercise by the US military was merged with the training of the US Navy's aircraft carrier strike group for the first time.
Liang Yongchun believes that the integration of the US Navy and Air Force into a large-scale exercise is mainly aimed at studying and testing the tactics of joint operations between the two major branches of the military.
Liang Yongchun:
The US military attempts to defeat a powerful opponent with a large number of stealth fighter jets in the open ocean, seize air superiority in the theater of war, and then use missile air strikes to destroy high-value ground and surface targets of the opponent.
Through this exercise, the US military attempts to achieve interconnectivity between the command systems of the navy and air force, connect tactical tactics, fully integrate surface and air forces, and thus seize air superiority in the open sea and oceans, thereby seizing sea superiority.
Serious strategic error
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According to reports, the focus of the latest "Red Flag" military exercise is on long-range maritime combat scenarios that the US military may encounter in the Pacific, targeting potential conflicts with China in the future.
Liang Yongchun believes that the US military's exercise of the "distributed killing" combat concept in this exercise reflects the strategic anxiety of the United States about whether it can seize control of the Western Pacific. If the United States treats China as a hypothetical enemy, it will only outweigh the gains.
Liang Yongchun:
This exercise shows that the US military no longer considers itself capable of controlling the oceans for granted, but rather wants to compete with powerful opponents for maritime control.
In the new tactics of the US military, the sea and air forces are dispersed, but they are integrated and used as a whole. Whether it's the navy or the air force, any combat platform can share battlefield information, and whoever is in the most advantageous position will launch the attack. This is what the US military calls "distributed killing".
The tactical ideas revealed by the United States Navy and Air Force in exploring integrated joint operations in the open ocean are very advanced. However, if the US military regards China as a hypothetical enemy, it would make the biggest strategic mistake. China is a nuclear power and the world's second-largest economy, with closely related interests between China and the United States. In the face of China, the US military's tactical design, no matter how ingenious, will be cracked, and the losses at the strategic level are even more unbearable for the US.
