The United States has the most powerful maritime power in the world, and its navy is as powerful as the navies of other countries combined.
The United States' maritime superiority mainly depends on aircraft carriers, and once the interests of the United States are challenged, the first problem for the United States is that the United States has aircraft carriers.
The United States always wants to use its own aircraft carriers to attack others, so our military has been developing the best anti-aircraft carriers in the world, and now the most advanced anti-aircraft carriers are made in China.
A few years ago, China was equipped with the YJ-055 anti-ship missile of the 21 destroyer, which has a range of at least 1000 km and a maximum of 1500 km, and its final attack speed reached 10 times the speed of sound.
But that's not enough.
Shipborne missiles are stronger than air-launched ones, but weaker than land-based ones, and the strongest anti-ship missiles must be launched from land, because only on land you can increase the size and weight of missiles at will.
According to foreign media reports, on August 5, 2023, the Chinese Rocket Force launched a Dongfeng-27 hypersonic missile, which accurately hit a target ship in the South China Sea moving at a high speed 5,000 kilometers away, with an average speed of Mach 10 and a final attack speed of Mach 15.
This is the most powerful anti-ship missile in the history of mankind, it can hit a target ship moving at high speed at a distance of 5,000 kilometers, and its terminal attack speed is up to 15 times the speed of sound, which is incredible data.
In the first test launch in February this year, our Dongfeng 27 flew only 2,100 kilometers at an average speed of 8Mach 6.
February's data is already amazing, the 2,100-kilometer range of the anti-ship missile is already the first in mankind, but the August data is even more amazing, it has increased the range to 5,000 kilometers, and the average speed has also increased to Mach 10, which shows that the performance of this missile we are developing is rapidly improving.
But 5000 km is not the limit.
According to estimates by U.S. intelligence, the theoretical range of the DF-27 is more than 8,000 kilometers, and the range was not increased so high in the official test launch, probably constantly adjusting its parameters in pursuit of accuracy.
It's simple to hit 8000 km, it's not difficult to hit even farther, China's farthest ICBM can hit 140,000 km, but if it is required to accurately hit a moving target ship at a distance of 8,000 km, it will be difficult.
Now our rocket force has the ability to accurately hit a moving target ship at a distance of 5,000 kilometers, and it is still constantly developing and improving its accuracy, and I estimate that it will not be officially finalized until it can finally accurately hit a moving target ship at the limit of 8,000 kilometers of rocket fuel.
A range of more than 8,000 kilometers is an intercontinental missile, and generally such a precious missile can only be worthy of its value if it is equipped with nuclear **, and we in China have transformed a missile with a minimum range of 5,000 kilometers and a maximum range of 8,000 kilometers into an anti-ship missile.
It's incredible, no one in the world but China would do it, not even if they had the technology.
A thing comparable to an ICBM, you only use it to blow up a ship?And the difficulty of hitting a ship is significantly much greater than hitting a city.
This is the case for all countries in the world, so anti-ship missiles with such a long range do not exist at all, let alone develop them, but not for China.
If an anti-ship missile with a range of 8,000 kilometers can be developed, and the accuracy is high enough to hit a moving target ship, it will be of great significance to China.
ICBMs are generally loaded with nuclear ** to bomb cities, and we all know that the value of a city is far greater than that of an aircraft carrier.
However, the United States alone has 311 large cities, but only 11 aircraft carriers.
In terms of China's strong industrial production capacity and the difficulty and construction time of modern aircraft carriers, if these 11 aircraft carriers can be destroyed in an instant of the start of the war, the United States will no longer have the opportunity to build a second wave of aircraft carriers.
A salvo of missiles, 3 aircraft carriers will be gone, and then another wave of missile salvos, do you say this aircraft carrier can still be used?
If there are no aircraft carriers, then what will the United States use to interfere in the world?
In addition to the particularly long range, the Dongfeng 27 adopts a wave-riding warhead design, which is the famous Qian Xuesen ballistic, which flies irregularly in the atmosphere, greatly increasing the range and making it impossible for the enemy to accurately fly the trajectory.
Ordinary missiles are easy to be accurately hit by small interceptor missiles in the flight phase outside the atmosphere, and Qian Xuesen's trajectory uses the method of atmospheric drifting, although the original purpose is to increase the range, but the collateral effect is that the trajectory is completely untraceable.
Not to mention that the enemy doesn't know the trajectory, even if he doesn't know it, only God knows how the trajectory will change the next time.
After re-entering the atmosphere, the DF-27 will recorrect its trajectory and go straight to the target accurately.
But at this time, the speed of the Dongfeng-27 has increased to Mach 15, and the time left for the anti-missile system is simply not enough, and the remaining question is whether it can accurately hit the target.
It is said that the hit accuracy of the Dongfeng-27 has reached 5000 meters at a range of 3 km, which is enough for an aircraft carrier several hundred meters long.
The U.S. aircraft carrier cannot detect the Dongfeng-27, and it can only be detected when the Dongfeng-27 re-enters the atmosphere and exits the black barrier area, and at this time, there is no reaction time in the face of the crazy acceleration of the Dongfeng-27.
As a price, the high-speed missile does not have the time and opportunity to correct its trajectory after exiting the black barrier, so this requires you to have the ability to actively correct the trajectory before leaving the black barrier.
Remember the news that a few months ago China successfully broke through the technical difficulties of observation in the black barrier area?
Many people said what was the use of this technology at the time, but it became a reality in August, and the ability range of the Dongfeng 27 to accurately hit the moving target ship skyrocketed from 2,100 kilometers to 5,000 kilometers, and the average speed was greatly improved, and there was no longer a need to reserve speed for the final final attack to correct the trajectory.
What does it mean if we can accurately hit an American aircraft carrier at a minimum of 5000 km and a maximum of 8000 km?
It means that in such a large range below, as long as China and the United States go to war, the US aircraft carrier will be at risk of being in situ at any time.
image Dongfeng 27 is very expensive, but no matter how expensive it is, it is not as expensive as the aircraft carrier, and the cost is only a fraction of the aircraft carrier, even if it is 10 for 1, it is blood gain.
If you can replace 10 US aircraft carriers, then there will be nothing to do with the United States.
Will we be able to beat the United States after we develop the Dongfeng 27?
It depends on your preset range.
If the war is limited to the South China Sea and Taiwan, then as early as 2016 we can fight the United States, the navy is indeed inferior to the United States, but that area is within the attack range of our army's land-based missiles and fighters.
In 2016, the Chinese and American fleets gathered in the South China Sea, and the confrontation with loaded guns and ammunition, with the character of the American Angsa people, if they could fight too far, they would have started it directly, who would still play a ** war with you and then accompany you to waste saliva at the negotiating table.
But for China, there will be an extremely huge risk of going to war with the United States at any time, because the United States is not only the largest power in terms of conventional forces, but also the first major power in nuclear power.
Once a nuclear war starts, it will be the end of the war, and the United States cannot afford to take this risk, and we cannot afford to take it.
In today's world of nuclear equilibrium, it is very difficult for two nuclear powers to have a conflict, and the opportunity for a direct armed collision without starting a nuclear war is very, very rare.
Once such an opportunity is born, it will be the moment to reforge the new world order, the time window is extremely short, and the number of spheres of influence you can occupy is how much, and it is difficult to change it with 10 times the effort and cost in the future.
Unless you have a way to break the nuclear **, this is the way to play and rule in the new era.
China has been holding back, just waiting for such an opportunity, and all the efforts we are making now are to expand its living space and security as much as possible at such an opportunity.
What is the first island chain, can we afford to waste such a precious opportunity on the first island chain like Taiwan?
Once the opportunity comes, the second and third island chains, the whole of Southeast Asia and even half of the Pacific Ocean, can be our sphere of influence.
Why do these places have to be the sphere of influence of the United States?Why can the rules set by World War II last a lifetime?
With a range of 8,000 kilometers, it is enough to hit directly from the Chinese mainland to Hawaii, which is the home of the US Pacific Fleet, on which there are two aircraft carrier battle groups.
It would be interesting if the range of a land-based anti-ship missile was enough to cover it and hit a moving target.