Chapter 1227 Actual Needs
"Actually, I have very deep feelings for the navy. Chen Guangxi left! Afterwards, he was privately shocked," Ji's son Fan Wubing said. Needless to say, the original Pingyuan Factory and later Panshi Heavy Industry were basically to provide equipment for the navy.
Had it not been for the torpedo incident. Probably Fan Heng and Fan Wubing's father and son will never get ahead and get into the officialdom, so this is a fate, even now Fan Heng. Already occupying the ranks of the top leaders, they are still obsessed with military production. Especially since he is directly responsible for the management of a large state-owned enterprise, it is even more impossible that he does not know the importance of naval construction.
Both father and son are very clear that the Chinese navy in the new era will definitely go to the ocean without hesitation, and to effectively carry out ocean operations, the decisive factor is whether it has complete air defense capabilities.
Judging from the experience of various naval powers, if you want to have global naval power, you must have an offensive ocean-going fleet including a powerful aircraft carrier battle group. Only such a fleet can shoulder the navy's original mission of safeguarding national maritime territorial security, truly be responsible for ensuring the smooth execution of strategic nuclear counterattack missions by strategic missile nuclear submarines, and more effectively support maritime surveillance, patrol, fishery administration, coast guard, etc. Marine law enforcement forces are tasked with safeguarding marine energy and economic interests. These tasks strongly call for the navy to establish a powerful offensive ocean fleet with aircraft carriers as the core.
But the father and son also know that the aircraft carrier is an important national strategic engineering project, involving all aspects of the defense industry, although the relevant parties have begun planning in this regard as early as the 1980s.
In the more than eighty years since the advent of aircraft carriers. After several twists and turns, it finally developed into today's multi-spherical offensive and defensive system that combines ships and aircraft, has both offense and defense, is mobile and flexible, is strong and difficult to damage, and is high-tech intensive. It is not only a powerful tactical weapon unit, but also the core of the maritime combat system and a strategic deterrent capable of dropping nuclear bombs.
China is a large coastal country with more than three million square kilometers of maritime territory. With the development of maritime development and maritime struggles, the maritime threats it faces are very different from those in the past. It needs to deal with ballistic missile nuclear submarines and long-distance combat capabilities. Carrier aviation. Faced with this situation, the strength of the Chinese navy seems to be somewhat stretched. Although the maritime territory is vast, it only has small and medium-sized ships and short-range shore-based aviation. Once war breaks out, it can only look back and sigh. Everyone knows that aircraft carriers must be built, and they must be conventional attack aircraft carriers from the beginning.
In fact, relevant parties have already been carrying out relevant work in some important fields. Not only did they first acquire the aircraft carrier Melbourne from Australia, they also later purchased the semi-finished aircraft carrier of the former Soviet Navy Varyag from Ukraine in a private name. At the same time, at a certain period, a prototype of a Chinese carrier-based fighter jet was purchased from Ukraine through some channels. It provides a solid material guarantee for relevant parties to refer to and learn from.
However, the aircraft carrier itself is only the core part of its battle group, and it also needs to include the construction of carrier-based combat and service aviation forces.
Underwater, attack nuclear submarines are also required to move forward to clear underwater obstacles on the route. Of course, they are also inseparable from the destroyer and frigate formations with powerful air defense and anti-submarine functions to undertake air defense and anti-missile within a radius of 200 kilometers around the aircraft carrier battle group. Mission and internal submersible driving and anti-submarine
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When necessary, it must also be able to cooperate with multi-purpose attack nuclear submarines to use ship-borne vertical and ejection devices to pour land-attack cruise missiles against hostile forces. Now of these two types of equipment, one has entered the engineering construction stage, and the other has existed for many years and is being gradually improved.
in addition. Nuclear submarines are also one of the indispensable and important equipment in the naval equipment system. After years of development, second-generation attack nuclear submarines and strategic missile nuclear submarines have been put into active service. It is responsible for the important tasks of high-sea assault operations and strategic nuclear counterattacks, and the development of third-generation underwater nuclear forces is also in full swing.
Judging from the relevant internal information that Fan Wubing can see, the brewing third-generation underwater nuclear force has fast and quiet maneuverability. With its agile and flexible performance and powerful long-range sea and land attack capabilities, it can independently complete strategic nuclear counterattack missions and cooperate with aircraft carrier task forces to effectively compete for ocean control.
Although the current Chinese Navy has the largest fleet of surface combatants, submarines and amphibious warships in Asia, its actual combat capabilities are relatively weak.
It is well known that the navy has developed slowly in the past two decades. The strategic task of the navy is to control the ocean, that is, to seize and use sea control. This is something that submarines lurking underwater can never accomplish, so the surface fleet is Strength determines whether a navy is strong or not.
The former Soviet Union focused too much on nuclear
The fierce demand, focusing on the development of nuclear submarines and despising the construction of surface fleets are the main reasons for the rapid decline of the Russian Navy after the war.
Compared with the air force, the navy has developed more slowly in the past two decades, mainly because of the large capital investment required for naval equipment. Russia's naval equipment technology is also relatively backward. The Chinese navy lacks advanced technology sources and mainly relies on domestic self-developed new equipment. Equipment upgrade progress is very slow. Due to power limitations, the new type of guided missile destroyer cannot increase its displacement and the number of missiles it can carry is restricted. The Navy is very dissatisfied, so no new ships of the same class have been launched in recent years.
The number of new surface ships in the Navy has increased very little. Since two thousand years, the increase in new capital ships has been only single digits. The service of these ships has enabled the Chinese Navy to basically form a combat formation that has always had regional air defense capabilities, but it is still stretched thin.
At present, with the maturity of domestic gas turbines, the construction of domestic large guided missile destroyers will also begin within the year. It is foreseeable that as the Second Artillery Force and the Air Force have broken through their bottlenecks, military resources will definitely be tilted more towards the Navy. The next good year will be a decade of great development for the Navy.
The unavoidable topic in China's naval exhibition is aircraft carriers. Not to mention longer-distance military power projection, China has a vast exclusive maritime economic zone. To maintain the integrity of the country's territorial sovereignty, aircraft carriers are necessary equipment. Judging from the current situation, the Varyag aircraft carrier is being refitted in Dalian, and it is a certainty that it will enter naval service.
Construction of domestically produced aircraft carriers will inevitably begin. This is because taking into account maintenance and training needs, at least three aircraft carriers are needed to keep at least one aircraft carrier in a state of combat readiness. But what must be noted is that aircraft carriers are the most complex military equipment in the world. The improvement of the operating system and the training of carrier-based aircraft pilots and deck workers require a lot of time to explore.
Consider the experience of the Russian and French navies. Even if the domestic aircraft carrier can be fully commissioned within ten years. It may still take fifteen years for China's aircraft carriers to have full combat capabilities.
From the concept of offshore active defense. The Second Artillery, the Navy, the Army and the Air Force all have basic active defense capabilities and can limit the scope of war to the national border or within a range of 500 kilometers beyond the national border. However, the required further active defense capabilities in far seas are not yet available. The conditions are met, especially as the navy, as a far-sea combat service, lacks aircraft carriers and corresponding large surface combatant groups and does not have basic combat capabilities beyond the first island chain, so it is still an offshore defensive navy.
This is also a normal situation. Although military expenditures have been growing at a high rate in recent years, due to the Cultural Revolution and the endurance period of reform and opening up, China’s military power has developed slowly for more than thirty years, which is incompatible with the world. The gap between advanced levels is huge, and we are still in a state of compensating for historical debts.
"No matter which country, including China of course, when establishing the development direction of its military power, it must focus on the country's main security goals and security interests in the future. And how to achieve this goal, or with Other related strategic goals depend on the country's overall scientific research capabilities and industrial levels. The fundamental issue is whether the economic and human resources within the framework of this scientific research and manufacturing system are sufficient." Fan Heng frowned and asked his son Fan Wu. Bing said, "No matter how many years pass, the maritime geography of Asia will not change much, but energy disputes, shifts in national interests, and adjustments in national development strategic goals will change the political landscape between countries. It is inevitable that significant changes will occur. At that time, the views of the Chinese government, allied governments, and even hostile countries on these changes will greatly affect any decisions made by China, and indirectly affect the future construction direction and development of the Chinese Navy. process. Therefore, it is necessary for us to first set up a credible framework and use it as a basis to analyze various parameter variables, future maritime security issues in Asia, the development direction and goals of the Chinese Navy, and the overall future of the Chinese Navy. strength and combat level, etc., to be assessed as accurately as possible.”
Fan Wubing nodded in agreement. In fact, what the navy currently needs most urgently is an aircraft carrier formation.
For nothing else, just like Fan Investment Group's investment in Africa now, if there is an aircraft carrier fleet in China, there is no need to worry about what some small countries will do to domestic companies by then, and it will not matter if you give them ten courages. dare. The reason why Americans’ investments in various places are so stable. It's because their global strike capability ranks first in the world.
Thinking more deeply, isn't it because the United States now has a total of twelve aircraft carriers in active service to safeguard and expand the national interests of the United States?