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A Chinese J-11 fighter closed within 10 feet of a US Air Force B-52 bomber over the South China Sea at night, and the Pentagon called it one of the most dangerous intercepts of the year. But the real story is what the bomber crews were doing while the fighter played chicken in the dark. This cinematic breakdown reconstructs the nighttime encounter minute by minute, from the high-speed close pass that nearly caused a collision to the tight formation shadowing, the engine-wash pass that stalled the bomber's engines, and the reckless vertical climb between two B-52s that almost ended in disaster. You will learn how the B-52's AN/ALR-46 radar warning receiver and AN/ALR-20 panoramic surveillance system catalogued the J-11's every emission, how two bombers used cross-correlated electronic surveillance over a tactical datalink to track the fighter in three dimensions and predict his moves, why the crews chose restraint over the combat-proven AN/ALQ-172 jammer, and how a single reckless intercept handed American intelligence the cleanest signature of China's Type 1493 radar and WS-10A engine ever collected. Subscribe for more real-time military analysis and breakdowns of modern confrontations in the Indo-Pacific.
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https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WDHXfjd-mH79HOvIjI2F3RhOy1rYFh-FQckoohTSiNk/preview
