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4-Mach Cruise Missile Appears

The United States has been able to show off its military might in the Asia-Pacific region for decades, and the key is its powerful navy and air force. The core of the U.S. military combat capability is fighter jets + anti-aircraft missiles + information-based combat capabilities.

U.S. fighter jets are responsible for offensive operations and seizing air superiority. The U.S. Air Force and carrier-based aircraft of the U.S. Navy can basically achieve global reach and global combat capability.

This is continuous aerial attacks, powerful bombing, and precise firepower strikes. This is the greatest military advantage of the United States, which continuously strikes with a strong air force to overwhelm the opponent.

U.S. fighter jets and bombers are offensive forces, while the U.S. Navy is actually a defensive force, like a shield. The core of the U.S. Aegis ships is the Standard 2, Standard 3, and Standard 6 anti-missile and anti-aircraft missile systems. It establishes a large anti-missile air defense area at sea for mobile warfare.

The U.S. military believes that the U.S. Air Force and carrier-based aircraft can destroy 90% of targets. However, there will still be some targets that are missed. The Aegis ships + Standard missile system are used to make up for these shortcomings.

The U.S. Army is also defensive in nature, mainly protecting the Patriot anti-aircraft missile and THAAD anti-missile systems. After the U.S. Air Force destroys the enemy, the U.S. Army will go out to clean up the battlefield and control ground towns and transportation routes.

All of this is backed by the U.S. military's C4ISR information command and combat capability, which integrates the U.S. Navy, Army, and Air Force into a single combat group.

However, the situation is changing. Before 2020, for an army to strike U.S. bases, it had to fight for air superiority and would have to engage in an aerial battle with the U.S. Air Force.

Russia's air force does not even have the ability to break through the huge wall of U.S. F-16, F-15, F-22 stealth fighters, and F-35 stealth fighters.

Now, China's 4-Mach cruise missile has appeared, which is the fastest cruise missile in the world. American media military observers reported that China has developed the most dangerous cruise missile in the world, which can attack the U.S. base on Guam at 4 Mach.

The maximum flight speed of the Dongfeng-100 cruise missile is 4 Mach, and the missile range is approximately 3,000-4,000 kilometers, which is sufficient to cover the first and second island chains' U.S. bases. The Dongfeng-100 cruise missile is a high-speed cruise missile specifically designed to strike enemy ports, airports, and energy centers.

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100,000 U.S. Troops in the Asia-Pacific Have No More Cards to Play

Because the H-6 bomber belongs to a medium bomber platform, its range and payload capacity are relatively limited. The long range of the Dongfeng-100 cruise missile greatly compensates for the short range of this bomber compared to the U.S. B-1 Lancer strategic bomber and the Russian Tu-160 Blackjack strategic bomber.

Long-range drones, stealth drones, Dongfeng-21 ballistic missiles, Dongfeng-17 hypersonic missiles, Dongfeng-26 medium-range anti-ship ballistic missiles, and the Dongfeng-100 high-speed cruise missile form a large long-range strike cluster.

There is no need to break through the interception of U.S. fighter jets, let alone to seize the air superiority of the second island chain. It is possible to conduct high-intensity, precise strikes on the first and second island chains' U.S. naval bases, air bases, logistics facilities, and energy centers.

After several days of interception, the Iranian medium-range ballistic missiles were intercepted by the U.S. THAAD system, which consumed 12% of its missile reserves and needed several years to replenish.

In the Asia-Pacific region, the U.S. missile reserve is insufficient to intercept the high-intensity, sustained strikes of the Dongfeng series. To suppress such long-range missile strikes, it is necessary to have the source strike capability to effectively attack the launch systems of ballistic missiles and cruise missiles.

However, the U.S. does not have the capability to break through the group of J-20 stealth fighters, J-11B heavy fighters, J-16 advanced fighters, the Chinese Navy's 052 and 055 class large missile destroyers, and the HQ air defense systems that form a maritime and air interception area under our anti-access/area denial (A2/AD) operational system.

With the rocket force's 40 missile battalions, the U.S. troops in the Asia-Pacific have nothing left to play. Especially, the U.S. Tomahawk cruise missile is a subsonic cruise missile, which has a long flight time, weak penetration capability, and low terminal speed, making it easy to be intercepted.

However, the Dongfeng-100 high-speed cruise missile can reach 4 Mach, which is at least four times faster than the U.S. Tomahawk cruise missile. It retains the good silent performance of the cruise missile while enhancing the terminal penetration capability.

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