U.S. superiority in North Korea-China-Russia air combat gives Japan 86 F-35s to ‘respond to inland Chinese nuclear bases’

U.S. superiority in North Korea-China-Russia air combat gives Japan 86 F-35s to ‘respond to inland Chinese nuclear bases’

The United States announced the intensive replacement deployment of 86 of its latest stealth fighters, the F-35, to give North Korea, China, and Russia superior air combat in Northeast Asia, and Rand Corporation announced that it would be ‘for response to China’s inland nuclear bases.’
A press release from the U.S. Department of Defense on the 3rd announced, “Additional adjustments to the F-35B fighter jets deployed at the Iwakuni Marine Corps Base in Yamaguchi Prefecture to modernize the power of the U.S. Marine Corps stationed in Japan,” announcing the F-35B fighter jets deployed at the U.S. Air Force’s Kadena Air Base in Okinawa Prefecture. It was announced that 48 -15 C/D fighters will be replaced with 36 latest F-15EX fighters, and 36 F-16 fighters deployed at Misawa Air Base in Aomori Prefecture will be replaced with 48 F-35A fighters.
Regarding this, Kyodo News stated on the 4th, “The modernization of U.S. tactical aircraft is progressing amid security challenges posed by China, North Korea, and Russia.”
Regarding the U.S. Department of Defense's 'strengthening tactical aircraft capabilities and combat power' to strengthen the air combat of U.S. forces in Japan, he said, "We have decided to work closely with the Japanese government to modernize U.S. tactical aircraft deployed at various military facilities in Japan," adding, "The modernization plan is planned for the next few years." “It will be implemented over a period of time and more than $10 billion will be invested,” he said in a press release.
In response to the Pentagon's announcement, Bruce Klingner, a senior fellow at the Heritage Foundation and former CIA Deputy Director for Korea, told VOA on the 4th, "Modernizing or expanding the aircraft deployed in Japan is primarily a response to the growing Chinese threat not only in the East China Sea but throughout the region. “The threat from North Korea continues to worsen as it expands and improves its missile and nuclear capabilities, but the biggest driver of the current expansion of U.S. military capabilities in the Indo-Pacific is the threat from China,” he said.
He continued: “The United States has been primarily focused on China's growing conventional threat to Taiwan and is now largely focused on making its long-promised pivot toward Asia a reality, especially on a potential Taiwan (war) scenario.” “We are doing it,” he said, assessing ‘preparation for a conflict with Taiwan.’
Bruce Bennett, a senior researcher at the Rand Corporation, a strategic group, told VOA on this day, “Most of China’s nuclear weapons are deployed deep inland, outside the range of fighter jets. Therefore, the United States will also need ballistic missiles and Tomahawk missiles, and the United States will need nuclear weapons targets.” “When you have to be able to attack, if you want to do that with any type of aircraft, you have to have an advantage in the air,” he said.

The Yoon Seok-yeol regime, supported by Heritage, establishes a supply system for the KF-21 fighter jet using the discontinued old F-16 model at long-term, low-interest financial costs in Korea, secures a supply chain for American parts, and internationalizes the U.S.-standard weapon system with the U.S.-designed K. It became a trade relay station for self-propelled artillery supplies.