Recently, China has done something that has sent chills down the spine of the US Navy, the US supercarrier "USS Ford" dedicated itself to the Chinese desert, which is a target ship of the USS Ford aircraft carrier in terms of size, and it is also a mobile target ship, which has virtually put pressure on the US Navy.
In fact, the overall improvement of the technology of fighting aircraft carriers, the construction of the system is the highlight. For the United States, which has 11 supercarriers, it now watches China every day make its aircraft carriers into aircraft carrier targets in desert areas, and there are not only mobile and radar-reflecting features, but also bomb craters. In fact, the targets that China uses to train its ability to fight aircraft carriers do not necessarily have to be the same as those of real aircraft carriers, or there is no need to change their tricks every day, but things are often moving in a direction that is not in accordance with common sense.
Recently, the Americans discovered that a model of the aircraft carrier USS Ford appeared in the desert of northwest China. According to foreign media reports, in this desert range, the black outline of the Ford-class aircraft carrier is clearly visible, this target is about 330 meters long, and there is a structure located in the same position as the island of the Ford aircraft carrier, and there are even four catapult tracks, and the overall outline of the target is almost the same as that of the Ford aircraft carrier. It should be noted that this aircraft carrier target is not a flat target, but a three-dimensional one, with various masts dotted around the target, acting as a radar reflector for the complete radar signal of the real ship. The back bar also has antennas mounted on top, indicating that China is also simulating the sensors, communication systems and electronic warfare systems of the USS Ford.
What does it mean for the USS Ford to appear in the Chinese desert? First of all, it proves that there is no end to China's anti-access area denial strategy, whether from the perspective of Sino-US military competition or from the perspective of China's completion of the great cause of reunification, the PLA seems to have established a sufficiently powerful anti-aircraft carrier combat system, and the US military has still not found a way to counter China's land and sea strategy. Does China not need to continue to innovate technology? And what we see now may be that China is developing a more powerful anti-aircraft carrier combat system, or that it may be our future anti-aircraft carrier 2Version 0.
Its main performance characteristics are: first, the system of reconnaissance aircraft carriers is more complete; secondly, the means of striking aircraft carriers are more abundant; Thirdly, the tactics of attacking aircraft carriers are more mature and reliable. Secondly, the manufacturing method of China's anti-aircraft carrier missiles is becoming more and more complex, more and more diverse, it can clearly distinguish the specific characteristics of a class 1 aircraft carrier, these characteristics include infrared radar and electromagnetic signals, etc., for the aircraft carrier target, the installation of radar reflectors and antennas, proving that China's attack on the enemy's aircraft carrier missiles, may have been from radar guidance to infrared guidance, anti-radiation guidance, and the evolution of composite guidance, strike accuracy and anti-jamming capabilities, are constantly improving.
All in all, no matter what the Americans think, the PLA's tactics of controlling the sea by road are moving towards a more mature historical stage, and in the past they have not been able to come up with a targeted countermeasure strategy, and in the future they can only accept the reality that their aircraft carriers do not pose any threat to China.