Chapter 1224 Chen Guangyi's Family Background

Xiao Guangzi is appointed as a dedicated horse guard! Finally, one thing I have to do is clear away the old. I only have a family background.

Of course he didn't have much money of his own. But the Navy is such a big business that it cannot be explained clearly at once.

The countries with powerful navies in the world are those countries that are the most aggressive in their outward expansion. In the 19th century, every European country had a powerful navy. Britain, Japan, Russia, etc. were the emerging naval powers.

In recent years, with the needs of national defense construction. The domestic navy has also made a qualitative leap compared to before. Not long ago, an authoritative foreign organization made a large list of the world's navies. Their classification standard is based on the more traditional ten-level classification method.

The first level is a surface combat force dominated by large aircraft carriers and with a large number of nuclear submarines. It is called a global control navy. Only one country can do this, and that is the United States.

The second level is a surface combat force based on cruisers, supplemented by large aircraft carriers, with a large number of nuclear submarines. It is called a global challenge navy. There is only one outcome, that is Russia.

The third level is centered on aircraft carriers, escorted by destroyers, and has nuclear submarines or submarines. It is called a global presence navy or an ocean navy. The typical countries here are France, the United Kingdom, Italy and Spain. France and the United Kingdom have two to three aircraft carriers, and nuclear submarines constitute the first step in this level. The fourth level is composed of cruisers or large destroyers as the core, general destroyers as escorts, and a considerable number of submarines. It is called a global dispatch navy. Typical countries are Japan, Germany and Jianlan.

The fifth level is centered on destroyers, with a large number of frigates and a small number of submarines, typically the Chinese Taiwan Navy.

According to this standard, India can be ranked in the third level, and its strength is behind Britain and France. Before Italy and Spain, its equipment level is relatively low. Others such as Brazil, Argentina, and Thailand also have aircraft carriers, but they are better than nothing and have no actual combat capabilities. Although they can be ranked third, their strength is not as good as fourth. level Japan.

China's situation is dominated by frigates. So it is mainly ranked at the fifth level, but China has nuclear submarines, and it seems that it can be ranked at the third level. After comprehensively considering the number of submarines and aviation strength, it is more appropriate to be ranked at the fourth level.

Of course, this rank is not exactly equal to ranking. Japan's strength is higher than Brazil, Argentina, Thailand, and even India. So the top six rankings should be: the United States, Russia, France, the United Kingdom, Japan, and India.

However, the next few are not easy to arrange. Italy, Spain, Germany, Netherlands, China, Taiwan, then Thailand, Brazil, Argentina.

It can be seen that the strength of the Chinese navy should be ranked seventh.

This is basically consistent with the ranking of comprehensive national power in the world, but war does not entirely rely on the navy. A strong air force and army are also very necessary. The ten-level classification only analyzes the ranking of the Chinese navy from the perspective of weapons, but does not It involves important reference conditions such as security, research, personnel quality, and strategic policies, so the above ranking is relatively one-sided.

So what is the current situation of the Chinese navy? Can the navy only rank seventh in the world? This is also an issue that many people are very concerned about.

"China's maritime power goals are very clear." After Chen Guangyi took office, he came back to thank Fan Heng and discussed this issue. Fan Wubing was also present to listen.

"There are now three fleets in the country from north to south: the North Sea Fleet is responsible for the defense of the Yellow Sea and the Bohai Sea, and its main task is to guard Beijing's maritime gateway; the East China Sea Fleet is responsible for the East China Sea area south of Lianyungang and north of the southern end of the Taiwan Strait, mainly in the direction of It is the Taiwan Strait; the South China Sea Fleet has the largest defense area, conceptually including the entire South China Sea from the south of the Taiwan Strait to the Zengmu Shoal. It is responsible for safeguarding China's maritime rights and interests in the South China Sea and the defense of islands," Chen Guangyi said. "Maintaining the security of maritime territory, recovering occupied islands, defeating enemy invasion of our mainland from the sea, and reunifying Taiwan are the sacred missions of the navy. Judging from the distribution of China's maritime territory, the Diaoyu Islands in the East China Sea, the South China Sea Islands and Most of the maritime territory is located in the Western Pacific, starting from Kumen Island, passing through the Japanese Islands, Ryukyu Islands, Taiwan, Philippine Islands, and ending at Kalimantan Island. It is the first island chain formed by a series of islands outside our land baseline. In other words, if the Chinese navy is responsible for reunifying Taiwan by force when necessary and defending its maritime rights and interests, it must have the ability to enter the blue water and conduct operations at sea inside and outside the first island chain.”

As foreign trade accounts for an increasingly important proportion of the national economy, maritime shipping has an unprecedented strategic significance for the Chinese economy. Therefore, the navy's long-term goals should also consider the ability to go to the oceans to escort Chinese merchant ships.

Among the countries in the first island chain that have maritime rights disputes with China, the only country that has the ability to compete with the Chinese navy is probably Japan.

Japan and the United States are military allies. According to the "Treaty of Security", the United States is obligated to help Japan defend its territory. In addition, Fang Kui said that when the country is fighting in the Western Pacific, even if a so-called "peripheral incident" occurs, Japan can also provide bases, logistics, intelligence and other military support to the United States.

Therefore, whether China regains the Diaoyu Islands or unifies Taiwan by force, it must face the navies of the United States and Japan.

The United States is a country with global interests, so it will naturally not use its entire navy in the Western Pacific. The main force responsible for the defense of the Western Pacific is the Seventh Fleet of the United States Navy, headquartered in Yokosuka, Japan. Therefore, the Chinese Navy can only have the ability to compete with the Seventh Fleet of the United States. Only then can it have the ability to defend all of China's maritime rights and interests, including the naval force needed to unify Taiwan by force when necessary.

As for the current assets of the Navy, Chen Guangyi also knows it well. After all, he has been in the Navy for decades, and he has worked from the grassroots to the highest position of commander, and it is not in vain.

The Navy uses warships as combat platforms. The deployment of the Navy is the deployment of warships, so to talk about the Navy, you must first understand warships.

The Chinese Navy is said to have the most warships in the world, with a total of more than 2,500 large and small boats, but among the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council, only China does not have an aircraft carrier. Comprehensively considered, the Navy has a total of 300,000 active troops, including 25,000 naval aviation troops and 25,000 naval coastal defense forces. There are 40,000 marines. The combat units of the navy are the North Sea Fleet, the East Sea Fleet and the South Sea Fleet, as well as the naval aviation and coastal defense forces.

The equipment of the Chinese Navy is also constantly modernizing, especially after the reform and opening up, the navy has more and more foreign exchanges, the most eye-catching of which was in February 1997, when two Chinese naval fleets went abroad at the same time. Going to the ocean, they visited four American countries and three Southeast Asian countries successively, with a total voyage of more than 30,000 nautical miles. The leaders of the two long-distance fleets were the new missile destroyer "Harbin" and its sister ship "Qingdao", which are known as the first ship of China.

"Harbin" and "Qingdao" are the second-generation missile destroyers of the Chinese Navy, belonging to the "Luhu" class, and are currently the newest and most advanced destroyers of the Chinese Navy.

In 1994, the Luhu-class guided missile destroyer "Harbin" was completed and put into service. It has a full load displacement of 4,200 tons, uses a diesel-turbine combined power, can sail at 31 knots, and has a cruising range of 5,000 nautical miles. It is equipped with "Eagle Strike" anti-ship missiles and "Sea Sidewinder" ship-to-air missiles, and is equipped with two ship-borne helicopters.

The internationally popular stealth technology has also been applied to this class of ships, which has greatly improved the concealment and survivability of this class of ships. In order to give full play to the effectiveness of various advanced weapons and equipment, this class of ships is also equipped with a combat command center that can connect more than a dozen weapon systems into one. The combat system can achieve early warning, timely judgment, centralized command, decentralized control, fast response, and comprehensive use of soft and hard weapons.

China's conventional submarines have long entered the stage of self-development and all use of domestic materials and equipment from the purchase stage and imitation stage. With the rapid development of science and technology, missileization and nuclear energy have become the trend of naval equipment development.

As early as the early 1980s, the Navy's Long March III nuclear submarine sailed through canyons and undercurrents during a months-long deep-sea voyage, breaking the 84-day record of the maximum self-sufficiency of the US Nautilus nuclear submarine, fully demonstrating the advantages of China's nuclear submarines in good maneuverability, concealment, seaworthiness, and stable and reliable operation of the power system.

Currently, the main large combat ships deployed in the three major fleets of the North Sea, East China Sea and South China Sea include 23 missile destroyers, 10 missile frigates, 70 conventional submarines, 16 large tank landing ships, and 6 nuclear submarines.

"It sounds good, the number is not small, and some brilliant records have been created. But the actual situation is a bit worrying." Chen Guangyi first told the Fan father and son about his family background, and then began to complain.

Fan Wubing listened to Chen Guangyi's complaints seriously, with a slight smile on his face, but he still focused on the problems that troubled Chen Guangyi, such as outdated equipment, lack of funds for technology upgrades, outdated training methods, and low quality of officers. Of course, a very important problem is that there is not even an aircraft carrier in the country.

"There is nothing to show for it. It's not easy for me to be the commander of the navy!" Chen Guangyi said to Fan Heng pitifully, but his eyes were always circling around Fan Wubing.

"You guy" Fan Heng didn't understand what Chen Guangyi meant, but just smiled and pointed at him, but refused to continue talking about this issue.