From the desert to the sea
Love and rely on the U.S. military and political top "Lancer" is palpable.
Pentagon, Air Force operations, plans and needs of the department, Major General Michael Holmes said: "The B-1B bomber performance is particularly suitable to perform long-range mission and to meet the unique challenges of the Pacific.
U.S. Defense Secretary Panetta also stressed Vietnam's Cam Ranh Bay, "in such a vast Asia-Pacific region, for our quick action in terms of capacity, the sensitivity is extremely important."
Indeed, the B-1B in the speed, range, payload and climb performance on a variety of technical indicators have a large advantage, the limit up to 1320 kilometers per hour and a range of 12,000 km, variable sweep wing and terrain tracking radar can support it as much as possible to avoid enemy radar reconnaissance, to achieve low-altitude penetration.
Through continuous improvement and upgrading, B-1B bomber has can be mounted multi-type air-to-ground precision-guided weapons, gradually get rid of the "Armageddon weaponry." Single role, not only to provide direct fire support of ground combat infantry team, also has a strong anti-ship warfare capabilities.
U.S. Air Force 337 test and evaluation squadron commander George Holland as saying: "We have started from the desert environment, turn to warfare at sea."
Holland said that the U.S. Air Force is working with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, for the B-1B bombers equipped with a remote anti-ship missiles, in order to enable them to track ships at sea, and missile attacks from "hundreds of miles away.
Clamoring for war naked
In the eyes of many, the spearhead of the U.S. military in the Asia-Pacific region referred to is self-evident. John Pike, the person in charge of "global security", "South China Sea is the biggest security issues facing us today, and this situation will only get worse."
He also said that the Chinese navy has recently added an amphibious ship and a hospital ship, if China is to seize an island, these ships will send in handy, while the B-1B bomber may be able to play a role in the Pacific.
In fact, the U.S. Air Force bomber forces have started to target the
South China Sea.
"Air Force Times article said that the B-1B bombers took off from Guam's Andersen Airport, without aerial refueling, will be able to carry 24 Joint Standoff air-to-surface missile goal against most of the South China Sea region ; kind of precision-guided weapons can change direction in flight, the ability to attack ships and other moving targets.
According to section 28 of the U.S. Air Force bomber squadron in driving B-1B assistant flight instructor Kyle Shi Lewinsky, said the pilot of the troops earlier this year, throwing the the JASSM aspects of training in the Pacific.
"They dispatched the next, everyone is worried about ... if you really go to war with the United States, you lose, It is no secret.
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