There is a military news on the Internet in China, saying that China Air Force 12 Yun -20 large military transport planes were assembled at an airport in the midwest, and their transponders were turned on at the same time. However, according to international practice, military aircraft do not need and will not open the transponder when flying in China; The answering machine will only be turned on when flying abroad to perform non-military tasks.
Yun -20, with a maximum range of 7,800 kilometers, a maximum take-off weight of more than 200 tons and a maximum load of 66 tons, is a strategic transport aircraft. It is assembled on the scale of 12, and if the transponder is really turned on, there will be an extraordinary trip. The news comes from the information display on the open source flight software "flightradar". The outside world, including netizens in China, can't help but associate it with the recent tension in Kosovo and the explosive war in the Balkans.
China Air Force has dispatched six Yun -20 transport planes, flying 18 times in a row, to Belgrade airport thousands of miles away to transport the FK-3 air defense missile system ordered by the state in China, which consists of missiles, ground phased array radars, command vehicles and launch vehicles. Serbia, located in the middle of Balkan Peninsula in southeastern Europe, is a landlocked country with an area of only 88,500 square kilometers and is almost surrounded by NATO military members.
Seven of Serbia's eight neighboring countries are NATO members; Montenegro is the only country that is not a member of NATO. It is also independent from the former Yugoslav Federation and China, and is currently applying to join NATO. As a military neutral country, Serbia attaches great importance to national air defense. NATO bombed Yugoslavia for 78 days, which caused extremely heavy losses. Serbia, as the main body of the former Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, can still remember such a bloody lesson.
Serbia, an active air defense system, is mainly composed of S- 125 Bochaola air defense missile and 2K 12 cubic air defense missile. These air defense missile systems were all developed by the Soviet Union in the 1960s and 1970s. After 265438+ 1920, their air defense performance was obviously backward, especially unable to cope with the attack of stealth fighters.
The FK-3 air defense missile system made in China has strong radar anti-jamming performance, can find and lock stealth targets in the air, and the maximum missile range exceeds 100 km, which is the correct choice made by the Serbian military after careful consideration. A FK-3 air defense missile system can cover one third of Serbia.
China has not failed Serbian hopes, which reflects the comprehensive strategic partnership between the two countries. It packed the FK-3 air defense missile system and delivered it directly to the door with six Yun -20 large transport planes, which became a major international military news that sensationalized the world at that time. Taking advantage of the window of easing tensions in Kosovo, the China Air Force urgently dispatched 12 Yun -20 transport planes to to transport two unfinished FK-3 air defense missile systems.
It has been noticed that the numbers 7A428A and 7A427F of Yun -20 disclosed on the Internet were previously flying to Serbia, so it is an inevitable choice for China Air Force to let Yun -20 crew members who are familiar with air routes lead the pilots. Serbia has three sets of FK-3 air defense missile systems, which is enough to cover the whole Serbia. If NATO takes air strikes against it, it will have to consider the huge risk of the fighter plane being shot down.
For Serbia, it rejected the demands of the United States and the West to sanction Russia, and Kosovo split from its territory. This is another huge "mine" that will be detonated at any time, thus breaking out conflicts and wars. Although Kosovo released Pantic, a former Serb policeman, and the Serbs agreed to dismantle the roadblocks set up, the tension was temporarily eased, but the attempt of the United States and the West to completely separate Kosovo from Serbia will not change.
Kosovo, as far as Serbia is concerned, is its core interest and inseparable. The situation in Kosovo will remain tense in the future, so Serbia is eager for advanced air defense systems, and expects that two sets of FK-3 air defense missile systems that have not been delivered by China can be delivered in time. ?
China Air Force dispatched 12 transport planes to transport two sets of FK-3 air defense missile systems to Serbia thousands of miles away, taking advantage of the easing of the Kosovo crisis and the temporary opening of airspace by and Bulgaria, in order to solve the urgent needs of Serbian military.
These are also speculations from outside and domestic netizens. As for whether the 12 Yun -20 transport aircraft assembled by China Air Force will fly to distant Serbia in the future, it will take time to observe and finally draw relevant conclusions.
Of course, it is not excluded that China Air Force will assemble 12 and transport -20, so it is a new year's training! The New Year's training of the PLA's armed forces is always vigorous, massive and close to the actual combat background, thus attracting the attention of the whole world and showing the growing strength of China's army from the side.