China has 400 ships, while the United States has only 290, is this American modesty?It's not!Is the Pentagon going to Congress for money?Neither is it!This is a reality, a reality that is difficult for Americans to accept. A few days ago, at a forum held by the Reagan *** in CaliforniaCalifornia Republican Rep. Ken Calvert spoke"China (the Navy) has almost 400 ships, and we have only about 290. This is one of the reasons why we are developing so-called unmanned ships。They are cheaper and more flexible, but we still need to build large ships. Our backwardness is a source of heavy heart
The footprint of the Chinese Navy has spread all over the world, and the picture shows the liberation team going to Russia to participate in the Sino-Russian joint sea to stage Xi).
Although Calvert's speech was a platform for the United States to develop unmanned ships, it also pointed out a real problem, that is, the Chinese Navy does surpass the United States in the number of ships built, which does make the United States feel threatened. But does the Chinese Navy really have 400 **?According to the statistical estimation of public data,By 2025, the Chinese Navy will be equipped with 3 aircraft carriers, 1 Type 076 amphibious assault ship, 4 Type 075 amphibious assault ships, 8 Type 071 dock landing ships, 12 Type 055 large missile destroyers, 34 Type 052D destroyers and a large number of warshipsBy that time, the Chinese Navy will be equipped with a total of about 179 capital ships of various types, and even if you include all types of submarines, the number of "400" is still far from it.
Dumplings generally continue to be launched in the Chinese Sea ** boat).
Although the US Navy is in decline, it still has a large "stock advantage" over the PLAFor example, the current US military is also equipped with about 17 "Ticonderoga"-class cruisers and about 70 "Arleigh Burke"-class destroyers, both of which are "Aegis ships" and significantly exceed the "Aegis ships" of our army in terms of quantity. In addition, the US military is also equipped with 11 supercarriers, all of which are nuclear-powered aircraft carriers, and the US military is also equipped with about 69 nuclear submarines, which is significantly more than our military. Although the Chinese Navy is building ships faster than the United States, it will still take many years to make up for such a huge number gap.
The unmanned ship developed by the U.S. military adopts a design similar to the Austronesian canoe, which can obtain very good stability).
Calvert hyped up the so-called Chinese Navy with 400 ships and the U.S. military with only 290Essentially, it is to advance the US Navy's unmanned ship programAt present, the US Navy is facing both internal and external pressures. Among them, there are two main internal pressures: on the one hand, due to the hollowing out of the domestic industry in the United States, the only shipyards in the US Navy have a serious shortage of production capacity, and if the construction speed of large warships is obviously not comparable to that of Chinese shipyards;On the other hand, due to the decay of the domestic society in the United States, the US military has been unable to recruit enough qualified soldiers, and even the warships in active service are generally understaffed, which has led to various man-made accidents in the US military in recent years.
Chinese ships are not only built quickly, but also have superior performance, and the key is that they are cheap!This makes the United States completely incapable of fighting)
Externally, it's the so-called "China threat" hyped up by Calvert, and China has been steadily advancing its own naval development program, and because we have the world's largest industrial chain and the world's largest shipbuilding industry, soNot only is the speed of building a ship more than three times that of the United States, but the cost of building a ship is only about one-third of that of the United StatesIt is a real "cheap and good".
More importantly, China's rapid development in recent years has built a whole new set of marine combat systems, we not only have aircraft carriers, bombers, nuclear submarines these traditions, but also equipped with a unique "anti-ship ballistic missile" this kind of **, which obviously makes the US Navy feel unprecedented pressure. The construction of unmanned ships is the only option that the United States is currently likely to catch up with China in terms of the number of ships, which is why the Republican Party strongly recommends this plan.
In recent years, the US Navy has frequently had various man-made accidents, which shows that the combat effectiveness of the US military has also been greatly inferior to what it used to be
StillFor the U.S. military, the best option is actually not to meet with the Chinese soldiers。Attended the "California State Forum" meeting of the Reagan Conference with CalvertThe top general of the US military, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Charles BrownSpeaking at the meeting"The United States is trying to avoid a military conflict with China, but is prepared for such a conflict," he said. ”
This sounds paradoxical, why try to avoid it when you are already determined to be ready for conflict with China?In fact, the reason why Admiral Brown is embarrassed to say this is that the US Navy is currently unable to defeat the Chinese Navy in the 2,000-kilometer-deep waters around China, and if an armed conflict breaks out with China, the US military will suffer a greater defeat than the Korean War and the Vietnam War
Admiral Samuel Paparo, commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, was interviewed by reporters on the aircraft carrier of **).
Therefore, it is not that the Americans have suddenly become "modest", it is that they have now realized that they really cannot win the PLA, and that their current toughness is just finding a step for themselves.