India-Pakistan air combat served as a wake-up call for the United States: Radar bases of the Chinese People's Liberation Army are spread across artificial islands in the South China Sea, giving the U.S. military aircraft in the Western Pacific an unobstructed view!

This India-Pakistan air combat has made the whole world clearly see that under the gap in radar technology leadership, intergenerational对决 can also produce a generational difference.

This is an air battle destined to be recorded in the annals of war history, which means that the deciding factor of modern warfare has shifted from the number of missiles to information dominance. The India-Pakistan air combat has proven through practical combat that in the face of generational gaps in radar detection range and missile range, any tactical skill cannot make up for technological disadvantages.

And this also woke up the United States, because China has already covered radar bases on its artificial reefs in the South China Sea, especially the Yongshu Reef, Zhubi Reef, and Meiji Reef, which belong to large reefs after land reclamation, with large radars densely distributed, numbering dozens.

This also means that the movements of U.S. military aircraft in the Western Pacific can be seen by us at our leisure. This also sounded the alarm for the United States. When China's radar network built on its artificial islands in the South China Sea begins to operate, China's advantage of stealth fighters is being thoroughly dismantled. As early as 2023, China's meter wave radar detected the F-22 stealth fighter flying from Japan to South Korea at a distance of 450 kilometers and achieved continuous tracking.

The phased array radars deployed by China in the South China Sea not only have anti-stealth capabilities, but more importantly, these radar systems do not exist in isolation, but form a unified combat command network with China's inland combat command centers, seamlessly connecting with naval vessels, Air Force fighters, and rocket force missile units to form a "detect-control-strike-evaluate" closed-loop combat system covering sea, air, and space.

For example, in China's systematic combat network, radar data can directly guide the Hongqi-9B air defense missiles of naval vessels and the PL-21 long-range missiles of Air Force J-20 fighters, forming a multi-layered interception network. In contrast, the U.S. radar network in the Asia-Pacific region still relies on traditional Doppler technology, and its resistance to electronic interference is clearly insufficient when facing China's electronic interference.

You know, this India-Pakistan conflict demonstrated a new paradigm of modern air combat to the world, which is that under the command of AWACS, fighters can lock onto enemy aircraft in advance and then destroy them from 100 kilometers away using ultra-long-range air-to-air missiles.

As long as the AWACS is powerful enough and the ultra-long-range air-to-air missiles have sufficient range, fourth-generation fighters can also single-handedly defeat fifth-generation fighters. And China's KJ-500 is undoubtedly the strongest AWACS in the world.

This also means that China's military presence in the South China Sea has evolved from "island defense" to "area control," and the traditional carrier strike group tactics are facing the most severe challenge since the Cold War in the face of the combination of radar and missiles.

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