The US military entered the waters adjacent to Ren'ai Jiao in China's Nansha without authorization and was subsequently expelled by the Chinese Navy. Air Force Senior Colonel Tian Junli, spokesman for the Southern Theater of Operations, reported that on December 4, the US Navy's Littoral Combat Ship USS Giffords (LCS-10) illegally intruded into the waters adjacent to Ren'ai Jiao in China's Nansha Islands without China's approval. Our navy organized maritime forces to track, monitor, and guard the invading US ships throughout the whole process, verified and identified them, and warned them to leave in accordance with the law. The US military has deliberately disrupted the South China Sea, seriously violating China's sovereignty and security, and seriously undermining peace and stability in the region.
The U.S. Navy frequently harasses the South China Sea through littoral combat vessels, and the USS Giffords (LCS-10) is an Independence-class littoral combat ship. Littoral combat ships often provoke the waters adjacent to China's Spratly and Paracel Islands. The U.S. military has deployed such ships in Singapore and has the potential to establish a naval base in the Philippines to add more Littoral Combat Ships. The Littoral Combat Ship's actions constituted a nuisance in the South China Sea, and its intention was clearly a provocation. This class of ships is not intended for large-scale naval battles, has a peculiar appearance, weak firepower, and is not even a match for Type 056 corvettes. It is recommended that they have an angle of attack in the bow of the ship for close-quarters combat.
After losing a formidable opponent, the U.S. Navy adjusted its naval construction strategy, focusing on "near-shore operations and supporting land operations" and "forward presence." Therefore, they proposed to build dozens of highly stealthy, high-speed cruising combat ships in order to deal with weak and small navies. Littoral combat ships have the characteristics of high speed, high maneuverability and adaptability to unfamiliar waters, and can be quickly replaced with a modular design.
Although initially it was planned to build 55-60 ships with a ** 5 each600 million US dollars, but in fact only 38 were built, the actual performance of the "Giffords" littoral combat ship was far less than expected, and it was rated as "the most failed project in the history of the US Navy", and was even jokingly called the "sea garbage dump" by the United States. The ship's ** system is single, the firepower is weak, it is equipped with only one 57 mm main gun, and there is no vertical hair system. Problems of the U.S. Navy Littoral Combat Ship Littoral Combat Ship The replacement of the mission module is time-consuming and laborious, and the original plan is to complete the replacement of the first system module in 96 hours, but the actual operation often takes two weeks.
The US Navy's assessment report directly pointed out that littoral combat ships are very easy to become targets for enemy anti-ship missiles and seriously lack anti-missile defense capabilities. The United States sent the Littoral Combat Ship to the South China Sea, not because of its firepower (which is actually quite vulnerable), but because of its two distinct advantages. The first is stealth performance, the Independence class adopts a sci-fi trimaran structure and superstructure stealth design, and its 4000-ton displacement makes the radar stealth effect equivalent to a 400-ton fishing boat, which can reduce the detection range of our coastal defense radar.
The second is high-speed performance, the Littoral Combat Ship can sail at a speed of 40 45 knots, while the Chinese Navy's missile frigates mostly use diesel engines, and the speed is generally only about 25 28 knots, and the acceleration is not good, so they are at a disadvantage when monitoring and driving away US ships. However, since its commissioning, the power system of the US Littoral Combat Ship has been criticized for its low reliability and has been a problem for the US Navy. At present, only a small number of Type 022 missile boats can compete with the speed of US littoral combat ships, but the displacement of this type of missile boat is too small, and its self-sustaining power is very low, so it is only suitable for sea assault and is not suitable for sea dogfight.
Therefore, the Chinese Navy urgently needs a high-speed stealth frigate, such as a certain type of stealth ship test platform not long ago, using gas turbines and water jet propulsion, and the speed may exceed 35 knots, which will be able to compete with the ships of the US Navy. After the US littoral combat ship entered the waters of Ren'ai Jiao in the Nansha Islands, it was intercepted by PLA warships, and finally chose to give up its plan to break in. The move is clearly in support of the Philippines in the hope that the Philippines will continue its tough confrontation with China over the Ren'ai Jiao issue. The United States intends to expand and prolong the Ren'ai Jiao issue in order to disrupt the South China Sea.
Under these circumstances, we should consider a complete solution to the Ren'ai Jiao issue, and it has become very necessary to tow away the broken ship that the Philippines illegally sat on China's Ren'ai Jiao. The US military usually calls the use of littoral combat ships into the waters of the Nansha Islands a "lone wolf" type of sea cruise, and its main purpose is to harass, provoke, and display its presence. The surface fleet of the Chinese Navy is not only designed to participate in large-scale naval and air battles and influence the fate of the country, it also plays the role of a lone ranger who disrupts the adversary. In general, the ocean-going navy plays the role of a provocateur.
When deploying overseas, it is not always a goodwill visit and a peace mission, but it is necessary to create some trouble, a show of presence and force in sensitive areas on a regular basis. Both the Chinese and European navies are very good at these tactics, and Russia has some experience. Previously, the Chinese Navy was relatively rusty with the "lone wolf" cruising of surface ships, but we have made the fastest progress, and the Chinese Navy has been able to surpass any rival below the United States in terms of the size of its surface ships.
In recent years, the Chinese Navy's destroyers and frigates have often cruised, individually or in pairs, in the vast expanses of the Pacific Ocean, including the first and second island chains, the Bering Sea-Alaska, the North Pacific, the waters around Hawaii and Australia, and multiple waters in the Indian Ocean. The Navy's ocean-going ships can use their vast maneuverability to demonstrate force to an adversary, cause trouble, or even divert an adversary's deployment. In this regard, we also need to seriously Xi the experience of the US Navy and other sophisticated navies. We will operate where the enemy appears!