After the USS Eisenhower incident, the United States became more and more anxious about its maritime supremacy, and even pulled out a quasi-aircraft carrier to test its sinking capability.
Let's not say that the USS Eisenhower must have been hit, but judging from its performance, whether or not the "Eisenhower" was damaged, the direct firepower attack of the US Navy's 11 aircraft carriers and 9 amphibious assault ships in active combat is no longer a theoretical possibility, but a real and credible threat.
According to CCTV military reports, on June 26, local time, the US-led "Rim of the Pacific-2024" military exercise officially began. The most eye-catching "grand finale" of the exercise was to use the 40,000-ton "quasi-aircraft carrier" "Tarawa" amphibious assault ship as a target ship and use various firepower to sink it.
Not only that, but a total of 29 countries were involved in the project, including more than 40 warships, 3 submarines and more than 150 aircraft. A total of about 25,000 people participated in the exercise, which included anti-submarine warfare, multi-ship surface warfare, amphibious landing offensive and defensive warfare, and aircraft carrier strike group offensive and defensive warfare.
RIMPAC is a product of the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union in 1971, which was originally held every year, but with the collapse of the Soviet Union, the exercise was held in even-numbered years, with the participation of all Pacific Rim U.S. friendly countries, and China also participated in 2014 and 2016.
And the highlight of this military exercise is to set up a target ship, and everyone happily uses various weapons to sink it.
During the "2010" military exercise, the US target ship "New Orleans" was hit.
In the 2020 exercise, the sunken target ship was the amphibious transport ship "Durham", with a displacement of only half of the 20,000 tons of "Tarawa".
In 2005, the 70,000-ton dismantling of the retired Kitty Hawk-class aircraft carrier "America," which had been partially dismantled, sank to the bottom of the sea after 25 days of indiscriminate bombardment.
In the 14 years since 2010, the United States has conducted the Rim of the Pacific military exercise, which has somewhat coped with it.
And this time in 2024, it is of special significance to take out the giant ship at the bottom of the current pressure box to try the craft.
The amphibious assault ship "Tarawa", commissioned in 1976, is 254 meters long and 40.2 meters wide, carrying hovercraft and landing craft to carry out traditional beach-grabbing landing missions, and can take off and land large and medium-sized helicopters such as "Sea Stallions" and "Sea Knights" through the deck to launch vertical landing operations. He participated in the Gulf War and the Iraq War. Since its decommissioning in 2009, the ship has been anchored at Ford Island in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
Since I haven't played the sinking game much for 14 years, this time I pulled out such a big guy to carry out the sinking subject, which is nothing more than to understand the effectiveness of the existing equipment of the United States, as well as accumulate relevant data on the tolerance of large ships and the rescue time of cocoa, so as to prepare accordingly for future conflicts and wars.
The United States is still the world's maritime hegemon, but the status of this hegemon is almost unworthy of the name, and it should be a shame for the United States to be attacked by the Houthis' not advanced weapons system, and the United States is vague and does not read back, which makes the world even more suspicious, and the intensity of this military exercise can prove from the side that the Eisenhower was indeed injured, or to put it mildly, frightened.
This year's RIMPAC military exercise is willing to invest such a huge "blood cost" on the "Tarawa", which just highlights the anxiety of the US Navy about the possibility of losing large capital ships in future large-scale conflicts.
Moreover, the United States does not currently have effective anti-ship weapons, and the main weapons used by the modern US Navy for anti-ship include "Harpoon", "Rasmus" anti-ship missiles, and a small number of anti-ship versions of "Tomahawk" cruise missiles. Used to strike at giant ships, the penetration capability of these US missiles is relatively weak, and their power is not great. "The US military does not have hypersonic missiles or anti-ship ballistic missiles in its hands." It is also with the help of this strike test of large ships that we will sum up the direction and requirements for improving the anti-ship capability of some US forces and developing the military industry.
In addition, one implication also lies in the fact that a large amphibious assault ship was specifically selected for testing this time, and there is also a sense of rehearsing and studying the response plan in the event of an amphibious attack in the Taiwan Strait, and showing us.
Let's pay attention to the results of this military exercise, and see how many countries and weapons, with how many and with what weapons this 40,000-ton giant thing was sunk. I estimate that it is very likely that a large underwater torpedo launched by a submarine will penetrate the underwater part of the hull and cause the sinking in the end, I don't know if I, a layman of a non-military profession, is right.
In fact, Americans can be generous, discuss with the mainland, pay for a favor from the mainland's Dongfeng Express, and see the effect, so they don't have to be anxious.