Is our Navy really the second in the world? The number of ships surpassed that of the US military, so that the United States had to recognize. In August 2023, the famous U.S. military ** World Modern Military Warship Department released a naval strength ranking for that year, and the U.S. military naturally ranked first in the world, while China followed closely in the second place in the world. And according to the data given by the **, our Navy and the US Navy are almost the same in terms of strength index. Although there is inevitably a certain element of praise and exaggeration of the China threat theory, at the same time, China's growing naval strength is indeed unable to cover up. At present, China's navy already has more than 350 surface ships and submarines, with a total tonnage of nearly 3 million tons, while the United States has only more than 290 in total, but the total tonnage is much higher than China's, mainly because the United States still has 11 heavy nuclear-powered aircraft carriers of more than 100,000 tons, and has always maintained an advantage over China in terms of aircraft carrier scale.
However, with China's latest development of Fujian aircraft carrier is about to come to the market, China will soon enter the era of three aircraft carriers in the future, although there is still a big gap compared with the United States, but this alone is enough to make China the world's second largest aircraft carrier power. From the Liaoning ship, which can be improved from a 60,000-ton glide jump take-off aircraft carrier that can be improved from foreign aircraft carrier ships, to the first domestic aircraft carrier Shandong of more than 70,000 tons, which is completely independently developed and optimized and upgraded by China, and then to the Fujian ship, which weighs more than 80,000 tons and is comparable to the USS Ford supercarrier in electromagnetic catapult technology, it took only ten years for China to not only complete the upgrade from a medium-sized aircraft carrier to a heavy aircraft carrier, but also realize the leap from a sliding jump take-off mode to an electromagnetic catapult mode.
In addition to aircraft carriers, the transcendence of our navy on other ships such as missile destroyers has made the United States even more helpless. How much does our navy make the United States jealous? Region 055 singled out the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier battle group and directly let the U.S. military break the defense! At the end of 2022, when the Liaoning aircraft carrier battle group entered a certain sea area in the western Pacific Ocean to carry out an ocean-going training mission, in the face of the US Navy aircraft carrier battle group that had already smelled the smell and tried to provoke hundreds of miles away, the Chinese Navy not only directly sent the aircraft carrier guard 055 with a knife to the Nanchang police to respond to the battle, but also the commander of the corps boldly let it sneak out of 100 nautical miles in concealment, and made contact with the US aircraft carrier battle force alone, and after more than 20 days of fighting, successfully thwarted the electronic warfare attack launched by the US Navy against our army. It even forced the US military to save face by dismissing the officers who commanded electronic warfare at that time after the incident. Of course, this is not the first time that the Nanchang ship has had frontal contact with foreign forces, and the combat power of Region 055 has already made the North Navy feel uneasy.
And so the displacement exceeds 1Of the 20,000-ton ultra-large destroyers, there are 8 of the first batch of destroyers in service in China, and the first of the second batch has also been launched, and many follow-up destroyers are also in the process of construction. The ship has 112 universal missile vertical launch units, which are capable of launching air defense, anti-ship and land-based cruise missiles and hypersonic missiles in hot and cold compatibility, as well as anti-submarine and electronic warfare. In addition, the tonnage is slightly smaller, but the improved full load displacement can still reach 7,000 tons, and there are 10 ships in the shipyard construction plan and successively launched for service, counting the existing 052B, 052C and other types of destroyers, the total number of destroyers in China will exceed 60, and will soon catch up with and surpass the number of American destroyers. In contrast, most of the destroyers of all types in the United States were not only built in the last century, but also have no ability to replace them in large quantities today.
In 2023, the shipbuilding speed of my country's navy will still achieve the good results of launching 12 ships and 8 ships in the list, with a total tonnage of more than 110,000 tons. Of course, in addition to the outstanding ability to build and upgrade surface ships, China also has more than 70 submarines of various types underwater, including more than 10 attack nuclear submarines and nearly 1 strategic-class ballistic missile nuclear submarine. Therefore, in the future, the only thing that the US Navy can maintain its nominal short-term advantage is the number and tonnage of aircraft carriers, and the strategic nuclear submarines that are still in the leading position. However, according to the current situation, it is only a matter of time before China's navy surpasses the US navy and becomes the world's first.