It took about half a month from the launch of the first domestic aircraft carrier on April 26 to today. The degree of attention seems to be gradually decreasing. But let me talk about some of my understanding of the aircraft carrier.
The aircraft carrier, a large-scale ship with a carrier-based aircraft as its main attack mode, has subverted the traditional giant ship cannon naval battle mode. In 1903, the Wright brothers let the world's first plane fly into the sky. Just six years later, in 1909 the French inventor Claremont described the new concept of an aircraft carrier in the book Military Flight. The Italian military theorist Du He systematically expounded the importance of air supremacy in his book "Air Power". The US Army Brigadier General, Air Force theorist Mitchell conducted a bombing warship test from 1921 to 1923, proving that the aircraft could sink any ship.
—— After this series of theoretical reserves, there will be a confrontation between the aircraft carriers in the Pacific in the future, and there will be a situation in which the world’s major powers are vying to build aircraft carriers first.
Weapons and equipment can be said to be big or small. Said small, is to say its technical performance, tactical indicators. Just like a fighter, how much is it loaded? What is the maximum flight speed? What is the maximum practical ceiling? These things are very important, but these data alone are far from explaining what the problem is. If you look at any piece of equipment, you should look beyond the long-term and not just focus on it. Because the birth and application of any weapon is not independent, it is closely related to the environment and national strategic layout. This is especially true for large technical equipment such as aircraft carriers.
For an aircraft carrier, you should first give it a clear positioning, which is what it is? In my opinion, it should be defined by "strategic defensive weapons" or "offensive defensive weapons." And its role should first be strategic deterrence, followed by active defense.
The use of the US aircraft carrier formation in the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis is the best evidence. And why is the country eager to build an aircraft carrier at this stage, but it was not built before? funding problem! This must be the first reaction of most people. Is it just a matter of funding? I don't think so.
There are many people on the Internet who are talking about building an aircraft carrier to solve the Taiwan issue, the Diaoyu Islands dispute or the South China Sea issue. I think that people who hold this view don't seem to be long-term, or even a little short-sighted.
We can look at the map. The average width of the Taiwan Strait is 180 kilometers, and the widest south is only 410 kilometers. The operational radius of the carrier aircraft is nearly 800 kilometers. Putting the aircraft carrier here, there is obviously a feeling of killing the chicken with a knife, and it is not even possible to play the operational potential of the aircraft carrier formation. In the direction of the South China Sea, although the depth is large and the water depth is sufficient, it is still not the best area for using the aircraft carrier.
Because the countries of the South China Sea:
First, the territory is not large;
Second, the regions are all types of island countries;
Third, the level of national defense is not very strong.
-- Based on these three considerations, the use of aircraft carriers in the South China Sea to resolve the island reef seems not the best choice.
So where should the aircraft carrier be deployed? I believe that the location of the carrier's normalization deployment should be in two directions.
First of all, it is in the sea area between 15 degrees north latitude and 23 degrees north latitude, between 45 degrees and 70 degrees east longitude, which is now the escort of the Gulf of Aden in China. So far, China's imports of crude oil from the Middle East are close to 60% of the total crude oil imports. China, the world's second-largest economy, has become the most important foundation for the fast-growing Chinese economy. Whether we can protect this life-and-death lifeline is an important factor in whether China can continue to develop rapidly.
For the time being, China’s control over this sea area is still far from enough. At this time, the role of the aircraft carrier appeared at this time. The aircraft carrier formation has a considerable number of carrier aircraft with a combat radius of several hundred kilometers. In conjunction with various types of auxiliary ships, there will be a great improvement in the control of the entire sea area. In addition, the first overseas military port established by China in Djibouti as a guarantee can better control this life channel of the sea in a timely manner and better protect the economic construction.
Secondly, the second sea area where the aircraft carrier plays a role should be in the sea area on the west side of the international date line, which is commonly referred to as the western Pacific. This piece is more due to geopolitical issues. The United States and China are two big countries on both sides of the Pacific.
For the time being, there are no other countries in the world that have important voices in the world except China and the United States. Although Russia is currently the only country that can wage a considerable nuclear war with the United States, its conventional weapons are not weak. However, due to various factors such as national attributes and economic status, it can be said that Russia can not buy a ticket for boarding a world-class powerhouse in a foreseeable time frame. Not to mention countries such as Britain, France and Germany.
- So it is China that can compete with the United States in the world. Therefore, facing the Western Pacific has become an unavoidable issue for China and the United States. In 2012, the United States proposed the "Asia-Pacific rebalancing strategy," and as early as the 1950s, US Secretary of State Dulles had proposed the famous "island chain strategy." That is to say, the Asian-European continent has three chain-like structures in the east and west Pacific islands to block China and the former Soviet Union. Although the Cold War has ended and the Soviet Union has ceased to exist, the "island chain policy" has not ended, but has become an important strategic move to contain China's development. Similarly, China’s development will never allow these three chains to continue to be tied to themselves. Breaking through these island chains, aircraft carriers should be the best choice.
Similarly, in the national defense white paper "China's Military Strategy" published in 2015, it was clearly stated that the Chinese navy has begun a strategic transformation from "offshore defense" to "integration of offshore defense and offshore protection." This shows that the Chinese navy will become the norm in the distant sea, and its ability to carry out diversified tasks in the distant sea will also be greatly improved.
- This policy is based on the previous "offshore defense" strategy has been unable to effectively maintain the safety of China's maritime direction. Moreover, China faces complex maritime security threats and challenges, and requires the Navy to have the ability to effectively maintain territorial sovereignty and maritime rights and interests, and safeguard overseas security interests to accomplish diverse military tasks. Therefore, it is particularly important to develop and deploy a corresponding number of aircraft carriers in this context.
In response to the Taiwan issue, despite the fact that Tsai Ing-wen as the leader of the Taiwan region, the situation in the Taiwan Strait is not as good as before, but:
First of all, the road to resolving the Taiwan issue by peaceful dialogue has not been completely blocked;
Secondly, if it is true that the use of force must be used to resolve the Taiwan issue, the PLA can completely block the Taiwan Strait by means of medium- and short-range tactical missiles and shore-based aircraft, cover the entire territory of Taiwan, and destroy all the corresponding Taiwan military and political objectives and all the forces that will stop us. Regain the armed forces of Taiwan.
The same is true of the Diaoyu Islands. In the South China Sea, reclamation projects that have already started at this stage are particularly important. By reef-building the islands, the islands and reefs are connected together, and the airstrip is laid on the island reef, making it an unsinkable aircraft carrier. In the future, it will be equipped with new types of amphibious ships of various types. If so, this problem is not difficult to solve.
Looking back at history, from the 1894 Sino-Japanese Sino-Japanese naval battle, due to our own ignorance and backwardness, we have lost too much in the ocean and can no longer afford it. In the course of military development, there has been a police training of "30 years of the Army, 50 years of the Air Force, and the 100-year Navy." The 001A carrier carrying the "Navy Dream" was launched. The Centennial Navy, this is just the beginning. There is still a long way to go in the future. The revolution has not yet succeeded, and comrades still need to work hard.
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