Volume 4 Arms Empire Chapter 46 The Aircraft Carrier Storm
: The summit did not achieve any results, and the first meeting between China and the United States only reached "understanding".
Zhao Rundong rejected Frederick's proposal for "Sino-US bilateral nuclear arms control talks" and proposed that all nuclear-armed states and at least five permanent members of the Security Council should discuss the issue of nuclear arms control together, and that no bilateral agreement can fundamentally eliminate the serious threat posed by nuclear weapons to world security.
At a press conference before the end of the meeting, Zhao Rundong took the opportunity to answer reporters' questions and said that the Republic insists that all nuclear-weapon states should completely, completely, and as soon as possible destroy nuclear weapons, and if all nuclear-weapon states can reach a concrete treaty on the complete elimination of nuclear weapons, the Republic is willing to sign the treaty first and take substantive action to eliminate the devastating threat posed by nuclear weapons to all mankind.
In the eyes of the Western media, Zhao Rundong is "putting on a show".
Other countries that remain neutral see Cho as a significant contribution to a "world free of nuclear weapons."
It's just that all of them are so that no nuclear-armed State will want to destroy nuclear weapons in the foreseeable future. The reason is simple: the United States and other world powers have the most advanced conventional military technology, and if the relatively weak nuclear power destroys its nuclear weapons, there will be no guarantee for national security.
In the view of "military experts," only after a few major powers have established a sound "national strategic defense system" that is sufficient to neutralize the strategic nuclear threat of any hostile state, will the major powers take concrete action to exert pressure on other nuclear states to achieve the ultimate goal of destroying all nuclear weapons.
The limited consensus reached by the Chinese and US leaders at the G20 summit cannot fundamentally eliminate the threat of nuclear weapons to the world~.
At this time, another matter that attracted the attention of the Western media was that the aircraft carrier "Republic", which was launched in early 20117, completed all sea trials, stationed at the Sanya Naval Base, was incorporated into the South China Sea Fleet, and officially carried out combat readiness patrol missions in the South China Sea.
1 On April Fool's Day, the Ministry of Defense of the Republic announced the specific performance of the aircraft carrier "Republic".
Because it's April Fool's Day. That's why many Western media believe that the republic is "fooling" the whole world.
The performance of the "Republic" is as follows:
Weight and size data: standard displacement of 57,482, full load displacement of 68,326 tons. Flight deck meters, width 724. The waterline is 28,677 meters long and 374 meters wide. Standard drain draft 07 meters.
Power system: 2 pressurized water reactors, turbine steam engine, propulsion power 210,000 shaft horsepower (15,675 MW). 6 emergency diesel engines with a total power of 8,500 hp (636 MW). Push forward.
: The maximum speed is more than 30 knots.
Staffing: 2154 crews, including 1 officer. Aviation personnel 1874, including 316 officers. 78 of the flagship, of which 32 were officers.
Missiles: 3 sets of "Haihongqi-1 vertical launch medium and short-range air defense systems, 24 missiles each", and 3 sets of "Haihongqi-15 terminal interceptor missile systems", each with 211 bombs.
Artillery: 3 sets of "Triton 730 guns, 20 mm single-barreled machine guns.
Catapult: 3" magnetoelectric 1" type electromagnetic catapult.
Countermeasure system: "Sea Elf" sound-guided torpedo decoy system, "Guardian" electronic countermeasures/jamming/deception system.
Operational data system: "Navy" tactical data link, "Navy No. 6" tactical data link, "Union" battlefield information network system, "Air Guardian" information transmission system, "Joint Command No. 2" tactical command system.
Weapon control: 3 provides guidance and command for the "Haihongqi 1" sea defense line type 1 commander.
Radar: 1 "Clairvoyant-15 three-coordinate air-to-air search radar", 1 set of "Aegis-3 phased array search/fire control radar", 1 "Lock-11" target interception radar, 1 sea-to-sea search radar.
Aircraft landing guidance: 1 "Assistant" and 1 "Pilot" electronic guidance system, 1 "Fresnel" optical landing guidance system, and 1 "Identification" friend or foe identification system.
Navigation: 1 "Leader" navigation radar, 1 "Lighthouse" electronic navigation/positioning system.
Fire control: 6 "Aiming 11" fire control mines (each set of "Haihongqi 1 Type 2").
Fixed-wing aircraft: 24J-15B (B is the Navy type number, 8 two-seater, 16 single-seater), 24J-10C (not the J-10C of the Air Force, but a carrier-based type developed for the Navy, the performance is comparable to J0B, of which 8 two-seater type, 16 single-seat type), 12J-13B (all two-seater type), HJ200.
Helicopters: Z-9, Z-12B.
Whether it is the "proactive" attitude or the detailed performance data that is published, it is completely unbelievable to the Western media.
Prior to this, the Republic rarely released the detailed performance of any advanced weaponry to the public, let alone the only detailed performance data of aircraft carriers. Although there is no detailed performance of various equipment and equipment in the information distributed by the Ministry of National Defense, such a "bold and open" approach is still unprecedented.
The data on the actual performance of the "Republic" are even more unbelievable to Western journalists.
A medium-sized aircraft carrier with a displacement of less than 60,000 tons actually carried 64 fixed-wing aircraft, including AWACS aircraft and 12 heavy fighters! The standard displacement of "Kuznetzo is equipped with only 22 as standard
Wing aircraft, the "Charles de Gaulle" with a standard displacement of 37000 aircraft has only 34 aircraft, and the standard carrier aircraft of the "King Elizabeth", which is not much less than the "Republic" with a full load displacement, is also only about about it. Why did the "Republic" carry up to 64 fixed-wing aircraft?
After the USS Bush and USS Ford, the USS Republic is one of the three aircraft carriers that have adopted electromagnetic catapults.
Although no one doubts that the Republic has invested huge sums of money in the development of electromagnetic catapults, and no one doubts that the Republic has the ability to develop electromagnetic catapults, most Western journalists believe that with a displacement of less than 60,000 tons, the "Republic" is equipped with electromagnetic catapults at most, not three.
The most surprising thing to the outside world was the preparation of the carrier aircraft of the "Republic".
The appearance of the J-15 fighter broke the monopoly of the F-35 fourth-generation light fighter market. The appearance of the J-15 on the aircraft carrier not only indicates that there are two basic models of this type of fighter, but also indicates that the Navy's carrier-based aviation has received a higher priority.
At that time, there was a lot of speculation about the J-15B: specific performance.
In addition to the eye-catching J-15B fighter, the HJ200 early warning aircraft that appeared in the compilation sequence has also become the focus of attention~ .
As one of the world's two carrier-based fixed-wing early warning aircraft, the emergence of HJ200 is of epoch-making significance.
In the past, the only alternative carrier-based fixed-wing AWACS aircraft was the E-2 series, and France had to purchase the 3E-2 from the United States after the construction of the aircraft carrier "Charles de Gaulle". The appearance of HJ2 not only broke the monopoly of E-2, but also announced that the Republic of China has become the second country in the world that can develop and produce fixed-wing carrier-based early warning aircraft on its own.
It can be said that the HJ20 is even more significant than the J-15B.
With the possession of fixed-wing carrier-based early warning aircraft, the air defense combat capability of the "Republic" aircraft carrier has been substantially improved. Whether it is a fleet air defense operation or a sea attack, the fixed-wing carrier-based early warning aircraft can provide all-round support for the 60 carrier-based fighters carried by the "Republic".
Soon after the news was announced, many countries, including Pakistan, began to inquire about the price of HJ200.
For some countries with relatively weak strength, in the case of not being able to afford a large early warning aircraft such as KJ2000, a small early warning aircraft such as HJ200 has become the best choice.
However, the Republic did not include HJ200 in the list of weapons that could be sold.
According to Al Jazeera's assessment, if the figures released by the Ministry of Defense of the Republic are "correct", the USS Republic not only has the best combat capability, but also has the strength to confront the US Navy's large attack carriers.
Compared to Al Jazeera, the attitude of the Western news media is a bit more complicated.
In the beginning, almost none of the Western news media believed the data published by the Ministry of Defense of the Republic, believing that many of them were "unreliable" and that the Republic was deliberately creating public opinion.
As the CIA came forward to confirm that it took out the photos of the aircraft carrier "Republic" taken by satellite, the Western media changed their attitude.
Since it is a fact, we have to pick a bone from it.
N first proposed that the HJ200 could be operational in 2018, because the CIA took all the photos on the ground with only 1 HJ200 with the number "1809001", and did not see the second HJ200, and then proposed that the J-15B was in trouble with production, because the J-15B that appeared on the "Republic" only had a total of 6 to 8, not the place announced by the Ministry of Defense of the Republic. Finally, it was also suggested that there were problems with the ground performance of the electromagnetic catapult of the "Republic", since during the training, only the No. 1 catapult, located on the right side of the take-off deck, was used, and the other 2 catapults were not used.
As the "hype" expanded, some other media also pointed out that the actual combat capability of the "Republic" was very different from the claimed figures, otherwise only one ship would not have been built. Some media even analyzed the "specific reason", that is, the "Republic" made excessive requirements for the number of aircraft carriers, which reduced the survivability of the aircraft carrier. When the comments of the Western media reached the most **, some people even believed that the "Republic" did not have the ability to fight in the ocean, and if it encountered bad sea conditions, such as typhoons that are very common in the western Pacific region, there was a danger of capsizing and sinking!
Raising so many "questions" only proves that the media are both afraid and envious.
The mentality of the Western media is completely understandable, the appearance of the "Republic" broke the monopoly of the United States on attack aircraft carriers, the appearance of the J-15 broke the monopoly of the F-35 in the market of advanced light fighters, and the appearance of the HJ200 broke the monopoly of the E-2 light AWACS aircraft in the market.
The "Republic" itself poses a significant challenge to the global strategy of the US Navy.
Prior to this, the only thing that could pose a threat to the US Navy's aircraft carrier was the Russian "Kuznetsov", but the ship's aircraft-carrying capacity was very limited, and the carrier-based fighters did not have a strong sea strike capability, and were even jokingly called "aircraft-carrying cruisers", which was difficult to compete with the US Navy's aircraft carrier battle group.
The "Republic" is a veritable attack aircraft carrier, and its combat capabilities far exceed that of the "Kuznetsov".
As more and more "data" was confirmed, suspicions about the "Republic" gradually faded away. The question then arises, how many aircraft carriers are the republics ready to build? (To be continued)
Starting