The United States gathered 29 countries for military exercises and planned to sink Type 076 target ships, and the Ministry of Defense rarely replied. In this year's RIMPAC military exercise, the United States gathered 29 countries to participate, but the content of the exercise showed the ulterior motives of the United States. And what is unusual about the response of the Ministry of Defense?
According to the U.S. Navy, the biennial RIMPAC military exercise will involve 29 countries, including 40 surface ships, three submarines, more than 150 aircraft and more than 25,000 soldiers, of which the U.S. aircraft carrier Carl Vinson will be the largest participating warship in this exercise, far exceeding the 2022 exercise lineup.
It has been learned that the exercise will include antisubmarine training, joint surface operations of multiple ships, amphibious landing drills, and confrontation of aircraft carrier strike groups. The highlight of the exercise was to destroy the 40,000-ton US amphibious assault ship "Tarawa" as a target ship in the "sinking" link.
The ship entered service in 1976 and served in the Gulf War, Afghanistan and Iraq wars, and has been on naval base at Pearl Harbor since its retirement in 2009.
The ship's full load displacement reached 40,000 tons, and in the past 10 years, the largest target ship displacement was less than 20,000 tons, which is also the largest displacement target ship in the RIMPAC military exercise since the "Kitty Hawk" aircraft carrier in 2005.
According to media analysis, the US move is intended to test the strike resistance of such a super-large warship. More attentive media found that the specifications of this "Tarawa" seem to be very similar to the Type 076 amphibious landing ship being built on the mainland.
According to information disclosed by the media, the mainland's 076 landing ship will be equipped with a light electromagnetic catapult and a landing arresting cable system, which will be mainly used to operate fixed-wing vehicles similar to unmanned combat aviation vehicles. Its attack power will far exceed that of the Type 075 amphibious landing ship, and after its commissioning, it will become the fourth largest warship of the PLA Navy after three aircraft carriers.
Then if you compare the data of the two warships, you can find that the full load displacement of 076 is 48,000 tons, 252.3 meters long and 45 meters wide, while the displacement of the "Tarawa" is 40,000 tons, 254.2 meters long and 40.2 meters wide. Therefore, the outside world analyzes that the US military's move is fundamentally aimed at the Chinese Navy, and it is not groundless.
In the recent "Joint Sword-2024A" exercise, the Type 071 landing ship that appeared in the picture was given the title of "Landing General", so it seems that the Type 076 landing ship under construction is fully worthy of the title of "Landing General PLUS". By taking this as an "imaginary enemy," the United States is actually simulating a situation in which the two sides may "meet" in the Taiwan Strait.
He said in an interview that in case of war in the Taiwan Strait, the United States will launch a combat plan called "Hell Landscape", when hundreds of new drones, unmanned submarines and unmanned surface ships will flood the Taiwan Strait, and the Taiwan Strait will become a "hell on earth", so as to buy more time for the United States.
However, Paparo's remarks were questioned by some Taiwan media people, who commented that if enough mines were laid in the Taiwan Strait, the plan would be "self-defeating."
On the afternoon of the 27th, Senior Colonel Wu Qian, spokesman for the Ministry of National Defense, also responded at a press conference with one sentence: "We have never accepted the threats and intimidation of some people. ”
Behind the phrase "we have never eaten this set" reflects the mainland's absolute confidence in its strength and its determination to defend its territorial sovereignty.
At the same time, Senior Colonel Wu Qian once again warned those who "rely on the United States to seek independence" that their ultimate fate will also be changed from "chess pieces" to "abandoned children."