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There was another buzz in the meeting room, but this time, the voice of questioning was not as loud as before.

The reasons mentioned by Chen Xin have been mentioned before, but the gap between the Chinese navy and the United States is too large at present. It is already very good to be able to form an advantage over the Seventh Fleet in the Western Pacific within ten years, and everyone has not carefully considered China. How the navy competes with the United States around the world, only thinks that China's economic strength and technological level will catch up with the United States. Sooner or later, the Chinese navy will also be able to compete with the US emperor.

But if you think about it now, even if one day the Chinese navy can really reach the strength of the US navy, if you count the US naval bases all over the world, it may not be easy for China to challenge the US.

This is really a depressing conclusion.

Chen Xin seemed to have sensed the thoughts of everyone in the conference room, and said with a chuckle: "But you don't have to be depressed. If we want to catch up with the United States at the naval level, we don't have a chance."

"What chance?" asked the man in the colonel's uniform.

Chen Xindao: "This involves new technologies and new tactics! Everyone should never forget that before World War II, before the aircraft carrier showed its real combat power, the navies of all countries in the world were still dominated by battleships/battlecruisers. In 1922 The "Washington Naval Treaty" signed by the great powers has very strict restrictions on the tonnage (35000 tons) and main gun caliber (16 inches) of the capital ships (battleships/battlecruisers) of various countries. Who would have thought that more than ten years later. Is it possible that the disdainful aircraft carrier can easily beat the battleship? The Americans relied on the opportunity of World War II to rely on the aircraft carrier to establish the status of the world's number one naval power in one fell swoop, while the British Empire Navy declined. The most speechless is the Japanese, obviously In the Battle of Pearl Harbor, I saw the powerful combat power of the aircraft carrier, but still spent a lot of resources on the two useless Yamato-class battleships, and finally ended up buried in the ocean. Sometimes the paranoia of the islanders is really hard to understand. "

There was a burst of laughter in the conference room. Everyone knows this history. The sinking of the Yamato officially announced the complete end of the era of large ships and cannons, and the world navy has since entered a new era.

Chen Xin paused, and continued: "Because of this, the appearance of the aircraft carrier can be said to be a milestone event in the history of the modern navy. Just like the battleship back then, it is also a symbol of the great navy of our era. However, we also The weaknesses of the aircraft carrier cannot be ignored, such as its large size, large targets, and easy to be attacked. Furthermore, there is a large amount of aviation fuel and aviation ammunition stored on the aircraft carrier. Once it is shot, it will often cause a secondary explosion. The consequences are often unimaginable. These They are all inherent shortcomings of aircraft carriers. In order to overcome these shortcomings, the main method for the Americans is to enhance the combat capabilities of carrier-based aircraft, expand the defense radius of aircraft carriers, and improve the capabilities of aircraft carriers such as air dominance, sea dominance, and electromagnetic dominance. The core is to build a multi-layered defense system so that aircraft, missiles, ships, and submarines that threaten the aircraft carrier cannot break through the multi-layered defense line, thereby ensuring the absolute safety of the aircraft carrier. Therefore, every time an American aircraft carrier battle group is dispatched, a large number of This also means that the aircraft carrier battle group has a bloated structure, and the cost-effectiveness is not high. It is often not flexible enough to deal with some small-scale armed conflicts. This is why the United States has developed amphibious assault ships and endangered The reason for the sea battleship."

The expressions of many people present gradually became serious. In recent years, the Chinese Navy has been adhering to the strategy of taking small steps and running fast, and has always taken the US Navy as its main target. The development plan also takes the US as a teacher, focusing on aircraft carriers.

Just two years ago at the elders' meeting, the elders passed the "Outline of Mid- and Long-Term Naval Development Planning."This outline puts forward some guiding opinions for the development of the Chinese navy in the next 20 years. In addition to vigorously developing nuclear submarines and large-tonnage destroyers, aircraft carriers have always been the core of the navy.

But now from Chen Xin's words, everyone can hear his pessimism about the future development of aircraft carriers. Is it possible that Zhan Huju will completely overturn the future development plan of the Chinese Navy this time?

Not to mention these senior military officers who are relatively sensitive to politics, even the technical experts of those military industrial units have noticed something is wrong. China has invested a huge amount of money in the construction of the aircraft carrier system over the years. Big changes are to be made.

For a time, everyone's hearts were raised.

Chen Xin knew what everyone was thinking, but he didn't point it out at all. He still said calmly: "Perhaps considering the many weaknesses of the aircraft carrier, the U.S. Navy put forward the 21st Century Warship (SC-21) plan." A large-scale surface ship solution, that is, the famous arsenal ship. This warship can support ground operations with powerful firepower, and carries a large number of missile weapons. It has extremely strong strike capabilities against land, sea, and air. It is a floating The missile arsenal on the sea. In a sense, the arsenal ship is a surface ship between an aircraft carrier and a battleship. After the end of the Cold War, countries have generally reduced military expenditures, coupled with the characteristics of precise strikes by missile weapons , so that huge expenditures are required. The practical value of ordinary large surface ships operated by many manpower is rapidly reduced. In order to solve the contradiction between limited military expenditures and maintaining strong maritime military capabilities, and reduce the losses of aircraft carrier-based pilots in battle, the United States took the lead in proposing The concept of the arsenal ship is to replace the large-caliber artillery on the battleship with ship-launched missiles, and the missiles launched by the carrier-based aircraft of the aircraft carrier."

"However, arsenal ships also have unavoidable shortcomings. For example, arsenal ships, like aircraft carriers, require more accompanying support ships, satellites, reconnaissance aircraft, unmanned aircraft, air early warning aircraft or ground search radars in combat to provide a The huge combat coordination and control system is closely related to the various links that make up the system. If any link goes wrong, it will reduce the strike accuracy and even the combat capability of the arsenal ship. It is much lower than other large and medium-sized ships. Because of the low hull, the detection distance of the shipboard radar is short, and it does not have various types of early warning aircraft and fighter jets carried on the aircraft carrier, the air defense capability of a single ship is very fragile, and it does not have individual combat capabilities. Moreover, the cost-effectiveness ratio of the arsenal ship’s operations is not as high as imagined. The value of each missile launched by the arsenal ship is more than 100 million U.S. dollars, and the cost of using it in large quantities will naturally become expensive.”

"Mr. Chen, what do you mean...?" Someone from the audience asked loudly.

Chen Xin belittled the aircraft carrier first, and then belittled the arsenal ship that replaced the aircraft carrier. This is confusing. What is Chen Xin's real thinking? (to be continued~^~)