What is the strength of the Chinese Navy?The development of the Chinese Navy has made it a large force with a large fleet. Currently, the Chinese Navy ranks second in the world, after the US Navy. The total tonnage of combat ships of all categories in the US Navy exceeds 3 million tons, while China's reaches more than 2 million tons. The Russian Navy ranks third, with a total fleet tonnage of more than 700,000 tons, while the United Kingdom, India and other countries have a total naval tonnage of about 500,000 tons.
The size of the Chinese Navy includes 3 aircraft carriers (Liaoning, Shandong, Fujian, 055 large destroyers, 29 Type 052D destroyers, 6 Type 052C destroyers, 2 Type 052B destroyers, 2 Type 052 destroyers, and 4 Hyundai-class destroyers, for a total of 56 large destroyers with a displacement of about 7,000 tons or more). In addition, China's underwater forces are also very strong, with 16 nuclear submarines and more than 70 conventional submarines of various types.
However, the most powerful thing about the Chinese Navy lies in its huge industrial production capacity. China is currently the most powerful country in the world in terms of shipbuilding, with a total tonnage of tens of millions of tons of ships launched annually. Construction accounts for only a tiny fraction of China's shipbuilding industry, which means that China can significantly expand production by adjusting the proportion of shipbuilding in the domestic shipbuilding industry. However, the main reason why China does not have a large number of launches at the moment** is due to the issue of military spending.
The construction of the company requires a significant capital investment, and the service life cycle and technological advancement are also a challenge. In the case of a fixed total number of services, the centralized decommissioning of a large number of services will become a problem. The United States is currently facing a similar problem, as a large number of Cold War-era constructions are nearing the end of their service life, and the weakening of the U.S. shipbuilding industry makes it difficult to replenish quickly.
The challenge facing the U.S. Navy is that by around 2028, the U.S. will be at its lowest point in naval strength due to a large number of decommissionings. At the same time, China's shipbuilding industry is in a booming stage, not only expanding in scale, but also in related technologies. Therefore, the launch of the first ship not only represents the growth of scale, but also means the leading technology. In this case, China chooses to build quickly in small quantities**, which is in line with China's current national conditions.
The Chinese Navy is constantly challenging the position of the U.S. Navy and showing great potential. Even if needed, the Chinese Navy's goal of launching one million tons of water per year can be achieved. Looking at the overall trend of the Chinese and American navies, it is clear that the Chinese Navy is challenging the current position of the world's largest navy. At the same time, the U.S. Navy is facing the problem of slowing down or even shrinking in size, while China's shipbuilding industry is huge and technologically advanced.
In contrast, the United States, a traditional naval power, is facing a decline in shipbuilding. In fact, the United States began to face a decline in shipbuilding as early as the Cold War. In the 80s and 90s of the last century, the American shipbuilding industry has gradually shrunk to the point where it can only rely on ** orders to maintain its operations. In the 21st century, this situation has had a devastating impact.
Because relying solely on the maintenance of first-class orders means that the shipbuilding industry is small-scale, and the small scale means that the anti-risk ability is insufficient, which will lead to the problem of regression of first-class technology. A typical example of an American shipyard is integrated mast technology. China's 055 large drive mast looks very simple, and this simple integrated mast greatly improves the stealth of the 055 large drive. And this technology was originally available in the United States, which had previously used integrated masts when building Zumwalt-class destroyers.
But due to the failure of the destroyer project, the only company in the United States engaged in the production of integrated masts went bankrupt, which led to the direct loss of this key technology in the United States. What is more serious is that due to the shrinkage of the shipbuilding industry, the US shipbuilding industry has also fallen into a vicious circle of aging equipment and labor failure. Without the support of civilian shipbuilding orders, the entire shipbuilding industry will simply fall into a situation of "slow death". Even the most valuable ** orders will not change this, and the United States is now going through this process.
The Chinese Navy has gradually gained an advantage over time in the development of **, and is even expected to surpass the total size of the US Navy. Compared with the U.S. Navy, the quality of the Chinese Navy's crew has been continuously improved, narrowing the gap with the United States, and is expected to surpass. At present, the military literacy of the crew of the US Navy has declined sharply, and the fundamental reason for this is mainly the problem of conscription. Since ancient times, combat-ready troops have carefully selected soldiers, and the U.S. conscription system has been declining since the end of the Vietnam War.
In order to make up for the difficulty of recruitment, the United States has to constantly lower the recruitment standards and outsource some military tasks, such as maintenance work. In contrast, the Chinese Navy has put forward higher requirements for the quality of personnel, both in terms of training intensity and discipline, which are higher than those of the US military. Therefore, it is foreseeable that over time, the Chinese Navy will also surpass the US military in the quality of personnel.
At the same time, those with a keen eye will find that since the "2020s", the US ** ships have generally been rusty, while the ** of the Chinese Navy has remained neat and new.