500!The U.S. Navy announced

After the Pentagon rendered "the size of the Chinese Navy is the first in the world" for a long time, the U.S. Navy finally launched an ambitious expansion plan. The U.S. Navy Society website said on the 26th that according to the planning of the US Navy Battle Minister Michael Gildi, the United States will have a super fleet consisting of 373 warships and 150 unmanned large combat ships in 2045. The lines of this plan reveal the meaning of China.

It is reported that the US Navy's "2045 plan" clearly stated that "after the 1940s, we envisioned (the United States) the mixed fleet needed more than 350 people's warships, 150 large unmanned surfaces and underwater platforms and covenants. 3000 aircraft. "The US" Navy Intelligence "website said that this will greatly change the current situation of the continuous shrinking of the US Navy. At present, there are only less than 290 battleships in the US Navy.

It is worth noting that this plan not only contains a large number of ships, but also involves a series of advanced performance warships. These include 12 "Columbia" class strategic nuclear submarines, 12 aircraft carriers, 66 attack nuclear submarines, 96 large surface warships (including the "Alley Berke" class destroyer and the next -generation DDG (X) destroyer in developed), 56 ships in the development The "constellation" class missile frigate, 31 large amphibious ships, 18 light amphibious warships, 82 logistics and auxiliary ships, 150 large surface unmanned ships and underwater unmanned boats. Some people's fleet's weapon loading platform. In addition, the U.S. Navy also plans to obtain a 1300 fifth -generation carrier -based fighter, the next -generation air superior fighter and drone, 900 helicopters, patrollers and reconnaissance aircraft anti -submarine/anti -ship air platforms, as well as 750 each. Support aircraft.

Gildi said the U.S. Navy's plan highlights the emphasis on unmanned combat platforms. "I hope that in the mid -to -late 1920s, large unmanned surface ships can be deployed along with the aircraft carrier." According to his ideas, these large unmanned ships can act as a mobile missile launch platform to enhance the aircraft carrier strike group’s Attack firepower. However, the report acknowledged that the U.S. Navy has not yet clarified the specific performance of these unmanned ships. During the "Pacific Rim Pacific 2022" joint exercises, the U.S. Navy dispatched all four large unmanned surface ships in active duty to try to cooperate with other people's driving missile destroyers.

Strive to render "China Threat"

Gildi claims that "the strategic competition with China is both the current challenge and long -term challenges. The focus of our fleet design will be focused on 2045. Provide evidence."

The Navy Society website revealed that the US Navy had previously submitted a confidential force for the structural assessment of the Congress, which considers the requirements of combat commanders and a more detailed threat assessment -especially in the Western Pacific. The U.S. Navy integrates the latest "comprehensive deterrent" national defense strategy concept into it, emphasizing the cooperation between the Pentagon and other US government agencies, "in order to compete with China and maintain its military advantages to Russia. The Concept of Emerging Combat Combat together. "

Anonymous Chinese military experts said that the "2045 plan" of the U.S. Navy revealed the meaning of China. Since the Trump administration's era, the Pentagon has begun to advocate that "the Chinese navy has surpassed the United States in scale", completely ignoring the obvious advantages of the U.S. Navy in large ships such as aircraft carriers, nuclear submarines, amphibious attack ships. In order to "regain the advantages of the navy from China", the U.S. Navy proposed in 2020 by 400 people (including 8-11 super carrier, 6 light aircraft carriers, 20 frigates/small warships, 10-20 destroyers, and numbers Ten submarines) and 140-240 unmanned ships were composed of unmanned ships, but the plan was not approved by the US Congress. Experts said that the "2045 plan" proposed by Gildi today is actually the refinement of the previous plan, and the purpose is to compete with the Chinese Navy.

The decline of the US shipbuilding industry seriously affects the US Navy's expansion plan

The plan also contains a large number of details for the Chinese Navy. For example, the U.S. Marine Corps proposed in recent years that it is necessary to quickly transport small -scale troops to fight for islands in the vast Pacific Ocean. The 18 light amphibious warships in the "2045 plan" are specially created for this. The unmanned combat ships that have developed strongly in the Pentagon are in order to deal with China's "regional refusal" strategy in the Western Pacific waters. Through the concept of distributed maritime combat, the PLA avoids the number of high -value targets such as aircraft carriers.

Facing many internal resistance

However, even Gildy himself admitted that the reason for the expansion plan of the US Navy was set at 2045, which is largely because the US Navy is currently facing many difficult problems in a short period of time. Especially in recent years, the continued decline of the American shipbuilding industry has led to the soaring production and maintenance costs of U.S. naval ships and serious progress. Gildi said at a press conference on the 26th, "In terms of current situation, such a plan is realistic. I think it takes decades to produce the final mixed fleet. It must be acknowledged that our industrial base has no industrial base. Capacity creates so many ships in a short period of time, it will take decades to truly deliver them. "The US" Navy Intelligence "website said that Gildi also publicly called on a platform that cannot be retired" to maintain a deterrent capacity in controversial waters. "". He refers to the U.S. Navy's proposal to retire the "free" -class coastal mito battleship and the old -fashioned "Titanroga" cruiser. The US Congress is worried that this will lead to a significant shrinkage of the US Navy and strong opposition. However, Gildi advocated eliminating these "unsuccessful" ships from the active list of the Navy, and then used the saved funds for new high -end combat platforms. He warned that the cost of "2045 planning" was expensive. "If Congress cannot provide enough funds, we will give priority to modernization rather than retain the scale of existing fleets."

The report also mentioned that the significant decline in personnel quality also affected the future combat capabilities of the US Navy. Since 2017, there have been three major casualties in the U.S. Navy, including the "McCain" and "Fitzgerald" destroyers' two crash accidents, all caused by artificial mistakes, causing a total of $ 1 billion in $ 1 billion loss.

Global Times special reporter Chen Shan

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