Recently, China's relations with Vietnam have entered a stage of rapid warming. In particular, this exchange between the two countries at the highest level just now has firmly laid a solid foundation for bilateral relations between China and Vietnam. As far as China is concerned, the development of positive and friendly bilateral relations with Vietnam is conducive to maintaining stability in our neighborhood, especially in the southern seas. In this case, according to the Observer's December 16 news, we can conclude that there are clearly people in the Philippines who see the current situation.
Regarding this issue, Taiwan ** believes that the two major shipyards in Dalian and Jiangnan have recently held a groundbreaking ceremony for the construction of a certain "large military ship". Although it is not clear what kind of military ships will be built, Shi Xiaowei, a senior military expert on Taiwan and director of Global Defense Magazine, pointed out that the two ships should be numbered "20" and "21" respectively, that is, China's next generation of aircraft carriers.
According to the information of this authoritative military expert, we can learn that this person believes that the two aircraft carriers built by China's two major shipyards have no chimneys in appearance, and in particular, the volume of the ship island has also been greatly reduced, and these characteristics are an important sign of the nuclear aircraft carrier. In addition, this person also pointed out an obvious flaw in the Fujian aircraft carrier, which has not yet fully completed all the test work. Today's headlines are original, distributed across the network, and must be investigated.
In fact, for the majority of our military enthusiasts, even if no military experts mention such news, but considering the actual situation of the current development of China's aircraft carriers and the long-term strategy of the Chinese Navy in the future, China's development of nuclear-powered aircraft carriers is an inevitable historical trend.
Because nuclear-powered aircraft carriers are typical ocean-going strategic offensive and defensive platforms, the future strategic direction of the Chinese Navy must be to go deeper and farther into the deep sea, and have extremely strong navigation operations and control capabilities around the worldAt present, the three aircraft carriers that China already has are all conventional power, but from the changes on the third Fujian aircraft carrier, we can clearly see that China has made extremely obvious progress in electromagnetic catapult technology and conventional power to expand tonnage.
With a displacement of at least 80,000 tons, the Fujian aircraft carrier, which takes off with a straight deck, is an unprecedented aircraft carrier platform in the entire history of human aircraft carriers. This also indicates that China's key technology for large aircraft carriers has excellent strength in addition to power.
Judging from the strategic layout of our navy, if we want to achieve the area denial strategy that has been proposed more than ten years ago, then the existing three aircraft carriers are already fully competent. In this case, it cannot be ruled out that the fourth aircraft carrier is still a conventional power, which can greatly consolidate China's strategic defense system with aircraft carriers as the center of gravity.
This point, in the two consecutive naval and air exercises around Taiwan Island this year, we have already seen the strategic power of China's aircraft carriers. A very important reason for this is that the Shandong aircraft carrier has always maintained combat readiness on the southeastern side of Taiwan Island, which has greatly deterred US aircraft carriers and effectively consolidated our sovereignty.
And the next aircraft carrier is going directly to the ocean-going strategy. So, nuclear-powered aircraft carriers have become an inevitable option. For our country, one of the biggest problems faced by nuclear-powered aircraft carriers is the power system, and the nuclear power reactor used on China's nuclear submarines is too small and too poor, and there is no way to apply it to huge aircraft carriers.
However, with the official completion of commercial operation of China's Linglong-1, this situation has already marked a breakthrough in the miniaturization of nuclear power reactors in China. As a third-generation nuclear reactor representing the world's most advanced level, Linglong-1 may directly board China's future nuclear-powered aircraft carrier and provide an endless stream of nuclear power.