PLA air operations in westpac region

escobar said:

Today Flight. Really want to understand how PLAAF operate

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A lot of flights involved Y9Q anti-submarine patrol planes, I suspect these are not just training exercises, some of which could be actual missions to detecd hostile submarines in the area, as well as hostile surface warships passing through South of Taiwan.

PLA response to Ronald Reagan entering SCS?

It has been noticeable that each Chinese aircraft formation has involved at least one maritime patrol aircraft and other “enablers” like airborne early-warning and control aircraft or intelligence gathering and electronic warfare platforms, demonstrating high levels of sophistication. The presence of the maritime patrol aircraft further suggest that the target of these large-scale incursions has indeed been the U.S. Navy, not Taiwan. What the formations have also demonstrated is impressive maturation in coordination between theatre commands (Southern and Eastern); between the PLAAF and PLA Naval Air Force; and among different air brigades and air bases—a lesson that should not be taken lightly.

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Nice log of PLA air incursions into Taiwan's ADIZ, @Gerald Brown

Ongoing signal spoofing and electronic warfare...

There were another PLAAF plane crossing the center line but TW did not report it

The real flight path of recce plane vs EP3

How many are J-16D...

Y-8 ASW entering the southeast airspace of Taiwan???

No info on the most recent flights???

escobar said:

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this is exactly it, people overlook the planning and coordination piece of this. an operation in which dozens of aircrafts of different types are dispatched will require a lot of background work. the fact that the PLAAF can do this on a regular basis means they are really good at it. This will give them an overwhelming advantage when it comes time to do the real thing since ROCAF does not have the luxury of practicing large scale maneuvers like that. the other piece of this is logistics. the PLAAF has sustained pretty intense incursion campaigns against both Taiwan and Japan for some time, you can do that without good logistics. All of this will make a huge difference in actual combat, more so than what model of airplane they are flying.