The same are all aircraft carriers, China's aircraft carriers, just not as good as American aircraft carriers?
Some American experts ridiculed after seeing this, believing that China's aircraft carrier construction technology is at least 70 years behind the United States.
So is that really the case?
Let's find out!
1. The key to determining the combat effectiveness of aircraft carriers
As the mainland's second domestically produced aircraft carrier, the Fujian has a full load displacement of more than 80,000 tons.
However, like the other two aircraft carriers, the Liaoning and Shandong, the Fujian is also a conventionally powered aircraft carrier.
In contrast, U.S. aircraft carriers are all nuclear-powered, and as early as 70 years ago, the United States began to build nuclear aircraft carriers.
So are Chinese aircraft carriers really lagging behind? The answer, of course, is no, not only is it not lagging behind, but in some respects, it has achieved "corner overtaking".
For example, in terms of carrier-based aircraft, the Fujian warship makes 270 sorties a day, which is 50 times higher than that of the Nimitz-class aircraft carriers of the United States, which have already formed combat effectiveness.
Of course, there is no electromagnetic catapult on the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier, and among the US aircraft carriers, only the Ford-class aircraft carrier has an electromagnetic catapult, which is the same as China, and China is also the only one on the Fujian ship.
From the point of view of electromagnetic catapult technology, China is at least one generation ahead of the United States, so in the case of more sorties of carrier-based aircraft of the Fujian ship, it naturally means that the combat effectiveness of the Fujian ship is stronger.
Because it is only an aircraft carrier, it has no combat effectiveness, and the key to measuring whether an aircraft carrier has combat effectiveness is the carrier-based aircraft carried on it, as well as all kinds of weapons.
Because the aircraft carrier is a large maritime combat platform, whether it is strong or not has nothing to do with whether it is nuclear powered, as long as it depends on the configuration above.
Take the US aircraft carrier as an example, the United States has a powerful aircraft carrier fleet, and it sails all over the world by relying on strong air suppression, that is, carrier-based aircraft, and the protection of other ships in the fleet.
When the US fleet is carrying out missions in Europe and the Middle East, there is no opponent at sea at all, because the other side does not even have a decent aircraft carrier, but once the US aircraft carrier fleet comes to Chinese waters, it will not be so calm.
After all, with the improvement of the strength of the Chinese Navy, the Chinese Navy is not at all weaker than the US aircraft carrier fleet in coastal operations, especially with an aircraft carrier fleet.
So after 2016, in fact, the United States rarely drove aircraft carriers around China, because he also knew that he was not an opponent.
2. The "mascot" of the US aircraft carrier
Among the active aircraft carriers of the US military, the No. 1 ship of the Ford-class aircraft carrier, that is, the "Ford", is the strongest in terms of comprehensive strength.
However, this is only the "strength on paper" of the US military, because the Ford has been in service for many years and still has not formed its final combat effectiveness.
As for the reason, it is because the electromagnetic catapult technology of the US military is not up to standard, so the electromagnetic catapult on the Ford often "strikes", and naturally the carrier-based aircraft cannot take off and land normally.
As we mentioned earlier, carrier-based aircraft are the key to determining combat effectiveness for an aircraft carrier, so the Ford naturally cannot form combat effectiveness.
On the other hand, China's research in the field of electromagnetic has come to the forefront of the world, electromagnetic guns, space railguns, electromagnetic catapults, this series of weapons and equipment, China is at least 20 years ahead of the United States.
In the past, the United States has done some research in the field of electromagnetism, not because the United States has passed the technology, but because there have been relevant leaks in our country before, so the United States has stolen a lot of secrets of China's electromagnetic technology, so many years ago, the development of the United States in the field of electromagnetic is indeed very ideal.
But with the arrest of the spy who leaked the secrets, the United States has no way to continue to steal Chinese technology.
Therefore, the electromagnetic technology of the United States will only be at the level of "half-ass".
Compared with Chinese aircraft carriers, the current US aircraft carriers have a large tonnage and a large number of them.
These are also the two existing advantages of US aircraft carriers, coupled with the blessing of nuclear power, so that the US aircraft carrier fleet can achieve "global navigation and global operations".
At present, China is not able to do this, on the one hand, it does not have nuclear-powered aircraft carriers, and on the other hand, China does not have overseas military bases.
However, these gaps are not a problem, because with the development of China's aircraft carriers and the development of the Chinese Navy, these shortcomings can soon catch up.
The fact that the American "experts" forcibly belittled the Fujian in disregard of the facts is itself a habit of Westerners, looking at China with colored glasses, and no matter how good China's development is, in their eyes, China is far inferior to the United States.
In addition to the Fujian, China will build at least four to six aircraft carriers in the future, and now the fourth and fifth aircraft carriers have also completed their designs and entered the construction stage.
Judging from the information spread on the Internet, at least one of China's 04 and 05 aircraft carriers will use nuclear reactors as power sources. This is because from a technical point of view, the mainland has also broken through the technical difficulties in building nuclear aircraft carriers, and there are no longer any technical problems.
Therefore, the advantage of US aircraft carriers will soon be completely lost.
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