The rise of a great power: starting with military industry

Chapter 751: Aircraft Carriers Are Useless (Subscription Request)
Beijing.

Liu Tao rushed back specially.

This time he returned to Beijing to attend a seminar.

It is a seminar on the Gulf War so far. During this period, although the live broadcast guests always get slapped in the face for what they say, in fact, research on the Gulf War is being conducted later.

All major military academies in the country are keeping a close eye on the Middle East and the Gulf War.

The Gulf War is really inspiring.

伊拉克，装备着大量苏式武器，比如伊拉克空军装备了大量的米格-23、米格-25、米格-29，除此之外还装备了大量的歼-5、歼-6、歼-7以及歼-8战斗机。

For example, the Iraqi Army is equipped with a large number of Soviet tanks and armored vehicles, as well as thousands of tanks and armored vehicles produced by Panshan Group.

Iraq's navy is equipped with Type 022 missile boats and Type 022 torpedo boats produced by Panshan Group.

Not to mention that the main force of Iraq's air defense forces is the air defense weapons produced by Panshan Group.

Iraq's equipment, based on paper data alone, can be called the world's third largest military power.

Stronger than China’s military force.

On the other side, the Arab coalition forces were not much worse equipped than the Iraqi army, and the US army was even more armed to the teeth.

More than half a month has passed since the war broke out, and it has lasted for a full 21 days. Many things have been revealed.

The fighting style of the multinational coalition forces and the situation of the Iraqi army are all clear at a glance.

The current wars do not involve ground troops, but air strikes and air defense.

"It has been proven that the idea of ​​using missiles to attack aircraft carriers is feasible. Missiles will become aircraft carrier killers." A military expert said, "The theory that aircraft carriers are useless is not groundless. With the development of missiles, an aircraft carrier costing more than $1 billion will be destroyed by a missile costing $1 million."

"Not to mention one missile to sink an aircraft carrier, launching a thousand missiles to sink a large aircraft carrier is very worthwhile!" said the military expert. "I suggest that the country should not develop aircraft carriers in the future. Aircraft carriers will become less and less suitable for the future development of the navy. We should focus on developing ballistic missiles and strategic bombers."

Since the outbreak of the Gulf War, Iraq has inflicted heavy damage on the US Navy. This military expert has analyzed an astonishing fact: aircraft carriers, as carrier-based aircraft combat platforms, are very powerless in the face of missiles.

If we launch a thousand missiles and only need to sink one large aircraft carrier, then we will not lose anything.

During this period, the "aircraft carrier is useless" theory has once again become popular.

Some military experts are accustomed to this view.

After all, it makes sense. Missile interception is not easy, especially now that missile ranges are getting longer and longer and missile speeds are getting faster and faster, making missile interception more and more difficult.

No matter how good a missile defense system is, it cannot guarantee a 80% interception rate. Even in actual combat, it is not easy to achieve an interception rate of %.

Not to mention, in addition to land-based missiles, missile launch platforms can also be launched from aircraft, warships, and submarines.

Regarding whether to develop aircraft carriers, people immediately split into two camps.

There is a real analysis here from the perspective of missile development and warship conditions, and from the perspective of future development in technology and military.

Of course, there are also positions, such as the Air Force's emphasis on the uselessness of aircraft carriers. As the saying goes, "competitors are enemies", competing for budgets is not shameful. Military expenditures are fixed, and if the Navy takes more, the Air Force will have less, which the Air Force is unwilling to do. Therefore, the Air Force has mentioned the uselessness of aircraft carriers more than once, and the tone is getting louder and louder.

In the view of the Air Force, as long as the Air Force is strong enough, aircraft carriers and even all warships within the Air Force's combat range are nothing more than sitting ducks.

Of course, not everyone in the navy believes that aircraft carriers should be developed. Some people think that aircraft carriers are useless. Instead of spending a lot of money to build aircraft carriers, it is better to build more frigates and destroyers. Destroyers are equipped with a large number of anti-ship missiles, which are enough to pose a huge threat to an aircraft carrier formation and even sink an aircraft carrier.

Building an aircraft carrier fleet is enough to build more than ten frigates and destroyers!
Liu Tao felt amused as he listened to the quarrel between the two parties.

The theory that aircraft carriers are useless and the theory that tanks are useless are essentially the same.

They all believe that the survivability of aircraft carriers and tanks has declined significantly under the ever-changing strike weapons, and the development of such weapons should be stopped.

However, from the history of weapon development, we can find that the demise of a main combat weapon is not due to the emergence of a weapon that can effectively attack it, but the emergence of a substitute with better performance.

From this point of view, neither anti-ship missiles nor anti-tank missiles nor armed helicopters can replace the status of aircraft carriers and tanks.

In addition, weapons such as aircraft carriers and tanks can be deployed in a mobile manner during non-wartime to put pressure on potential opponents.

During the Cold War, this was true for the Soviet armored fleet and the U.S. aircraft carrier battle groups.

The same goes for bombers!

"Ladies and gentlemen, if you are discussing whether the 'aircraft carrier is useless' theory is right or wrong, I think there is no need to discuss it." When Liu Tao expressed his opinion, his attitude was very clear: "The role of an aircraft carrier is to serve as a combat platform for carrier-based aircraft, to carry out the presence of ocean-going naval military forces and to provide deterrence."

"It is true that aircraft carriers are not very efficient in combat under extremely limited and specific circumstances, or that they do not have the ability to achieve strategic significance. But we should also be clear that no weapon is perfect," Liu Tao said. "In most circumstances, the side with an aircraft carrier strike group will inevitably have a strategic advantage."

"Aircraft carriers and accompanying destroyers and frigates form the core of defense/strike command. Their command and situation perception capabilities are at the strategic level. A single aircraft carrier can serve as a fulcrum for a campaign. They can fight and run, consume the enemy's long-range strike force and air support force, cover the landing of amphibious forces, focus fire on weak fronts with their mobility advantages, form an interception front in the ocean, conduct anti-submarine operations, and dispatch the Navy and Marine Corps for coordinated operations. When fighting a big country, it can drag it into a war of attrition to see who will outlast the other. When fighting a small country, it can cross half the globe and beat the other country to the ground." Liu Tao emphasized the advantages of aircraft carriers, "If our navy is only a near-shore navy, then there is no need to develop aircraft carriers, but if our navy is to develop into an ocean-going navy to protect our overseas interests, then developing aircraft carriers is inevitable!"

In Liu Tao's opinion, this is a question of cost-effectiveness. Those who simply blame it on uselessness when they have a disagreement are not really bad, they are just stupid.

China is no longer what it was before. In the past, China had no interests overseas, but now China has huge interests abroad. China has overseas investment assets, export routes for its goods, and China is now a net importer of oil.

The purpose of developing aircraft carriers is not to attack anyone, but to protect one's own interests!
The weapons and equipment developed by China are never intended to fight anyone, but to defend and protect the lives and property of its own people.

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