(Taipei / Beijing Comprehensive News) The Chinese PLA rarely sent a large -scale drone to fly around Taiwan for long -range flights to show the military combat capability.According to Taiwan scholars, the PLA may fly through this type of flying in Taiwan to conduct investigations of the Taiwan's Eastern Warpower Preservation Zone during the war in the Taiwan Strait.
At the same time, a P-8A Poseidon patrol aircraft flying over Friday (April 28) flying over the Taiwan Strait on Friday (April 28th).Military aircraft flew over the Taiwan Strait.
According to the news released by the Taiwan Ministry of Defense on Friday, on Thursday (27th), from 6 am to Friday at 6 am, the official found a total of 38 military aircraft and six warships around the Taiwan Strait.Among them, there were 19 military planes that crossed the central line and its extension lines entering southwest, southeast and northeast of Taiwan.
The schematic diagram of the PLA military aircraft activity on the website of the Ministry of National Defense shows that a TB-001 drone flew from the southern end of the strait to the southeast, and then moved to the northeast after the bus strait.Outside the sea in the eastern part of Taiwan, and flew away from the northern end of the strait.
This is believed to be the first time that the Taiwan Ministry of National Defense announced the dynamics of the PLA in the Taiwan Strait daily in September 2020, the PLA military aircraft flew around Taiwan for the first time.
Public information shows that the TB-001 drone is also known as the "double-tailed scorpion". It is one of the large-scale drones active in the PLA.
It is a long -sighted drone, with a maximum battery life of 35 hours and a maximum range of 6,000 kilometers.In addition to large-scale reconnaissance, the TB-001 drone can also mount different types of missiles and laser guidance bombs, which has the ability to attack light ground armored vehicles and hard and hard targets.
Jiezhong analyzed the associate researcher of the Kuomintang think tank and the National Policy Research Foundation, in addition to the ability to fly on the sea to show long-distance flying on the sea, and conduct force display of force, this rare flight around Taiwan, but also moreThe important purpose may be that the exercise dispatched drone to reconnaissance the restaurant preservation area of the eastern part of Taiwan.
He believes that the task of the PLA's drill may include to reconnaissance the land and the sea surface of the eastern part of Taiwan to confirm the deployment of the Taiwan Army;, Pass to the PLA ship battle group or Air Force striker group in the Western Pacific to launch a long -distance blow.
The U.S. P-8A Portal patrol aircraft flew over the Taiwan Strait after two months
On the other hand, the U.S. Navy's Seventh Fleet issued a statement on Friday that a P-8A Poseidon patrol aircraft flew over the Taiwan Strait on the same day.
State that the aircraft flew over the Taiwan Strait, "indicating the United States' commitment to the Indo -Pacific region of freedom and openness."
The U.S. Navy's Seventh Fleet also sent a P-8A Poseidon patrol aircraft to cross the Taiwan Strait on February 27 this year.
A spokesman for the Eastern theater of the PLA, Shi Yi, a spokesman Shi Yi, said on Friday that the Eastern theater organized fighter aircraft to supervise the US aircraft throughout the United States and closely prevent the alarm.
He said that in the past period, the US ships have frequently implemented a provocative act, "fully prove that the United States is a peaceful and stable destroyer in the Taiwan Strait, and the safety risk manufacturer of the Taiwan Strait."
Shi Yi also said that the theater troops kept high alert at all times and resolutely defended national sovereign security and regional peace and stability.
