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Some people to follow the U.S. officials and scholars talk about the In August 2011, Northrop Grumman announced that the first ship of the U.S. Navy’s next-generation Ford class aircraft carrier Next, the level of the aircraft carrier will be built 11.
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The recent news worth noting, January 22, 2012, Plus rushed to the waters of the
It can be seen, some U.S. officials and scholars have thrown the by many factors from the international and domestic constraints, the aircraft carrier and other strategic weapons, while on the road ahead, especially in countries that impose restrictions of the United States.
The United States did not care for the nuclear weapons useless, became the possession of nuclear superpower with nuclear and hold high the nuclear stick. Similarly, the United States is not reasonable But by the first ship of its next-generation aircraft carrier,
Very large
Ford is stepping up the construction of hull number, 40.8 meters wide, the flight deck is 332.8 meters long, 78 meters wide, fully loaded draft of 12.4 meters, a displacement of 100,000 tons, is worthy of the sea.
Why the United States is no longer controversial
In fact, the United States earlier also, like other countries, once fell into the
But the United States that sum up the experience for small and medium-sized aircraft carrier, the large aircraft carriers cost-effective than and combat performance advantage. U.S. Navy statistics to build an aircraft capable of carrying 75 carrier aircraft, large aircraft carriers, and the construction of a medium-sized aircraft carrier of 55 carrier-based aircraft capable of carrying compared to the actual cost of only 8% higher, while the actual shipboard machine sorties have to 1-fold higher.
In addition, small and medium-sized aircraft carrier construction cycle is short, less requirements, but the tonnage is small, airworthiness, a small number of aircraft carrier, the weak capacity of the air defense and antisubmarine warfare, air combat, anti-ship attack is weaker, simply can not meet away from the shore-based operational requirements. Therefore, since the beginning of the 1960s, the United States gradually began to abandon the small pursuing big. The U.S. fleet of 11 aircraft carriers, all of a displacement of 80,000 tons or more of the large aircraft carriers.
Of course, the U.S. abandoned small pursuing big, strong demand for its global dominate the strategy also has its own super economic, technological strength to do the support. However, as the State of the weighing, the large aircraft carrier does is to maintain a large country, powerful interests are necessary. Imagine if the U.S. does not have such a sea. News that the United States Air Sea Battle,
Nuclear Power
As Why the United States is no longer controversial nuclear and often direct the development of nuclear power? The main consideration is the ability of nuclear-powered aircraft carrier life, full life-cycle benefit-cost ratio to be much lower than the conventional steam turbine power. And nuclear-powered aircraft carrier to provide enough power, and conducive to the realization of the full electric propulsion to meet the electricity needs of the electromagnetic, laser high-energy new-concept weapons.
Need to replace it in 50 years of full life-cycle within the core, the equivalent of It provides a powerful driving force, make The 13,800-volt distribution system to provide more than 60 megawatts of electricity, to meet the electric propulsion, electricity demand of an electromagnetic launcher, electromagnetic and laser weapons.
Aboard the new aircraft carrier, four electromagnetic catapult charge would be 16 MW. It is precise regulation in a wide range catapult thrust, interspersed with the ejection of several tons to 40 tons of UAVs, machine, daily average of 160 sorties ejection, peak up to 270 vehicles, such a high energy consumption, the traditional steam turbine can not guarantee that.
Multifunctional
The aircraft carrier is typical to attack, both offensive and defensive, integration of air and sea aircraft carrier.
Why the United States no longer debate on offense and defense, and direct the development of multi-function carrier? In fact, the United States in the development of the carrier, always walk the path very different from the Soviet Union.
The United States insisted on an empty joint naval, integration, emphasizing the collaborative offensive and defensive air and sea to sea to help empty the joint over. While the Soviet Union did not always get rid of the mode of the Air Force and Navy to develop independently, although it stressed that the Air Force cooperative naval counterattack Sea violations, but insists that is the sea the sea, and air to help the sea, collaborative attack and defense.
Construction of aircraft carriers, matching weapons, co-ordinated air, sea, submarine and land combat needs, the Soviet Union highlight the shore-based aviation and carrier-based aviation collaborative unilateral demand to cover the submarine breakthrough in anti-submarine barrier . The Soviet Navy long-term adherence to the
Such as its construction started in 1982, ton, but the basic combat positioning separate offensive and defensive cover submarines. Carrier ship is equipped with a number of offensive and defensive weapons, but compared with the large U.S. aircraft carrier battle group, its consolidated capacity between the larger. Plus the United States stressed that joint air, sea, air and maritime, and participate in the implementation of air-to-sea and submarine warfare aircraft carrier battle group is responsible for regional air defense and anti-submarine, the sea, the camera by the Air Force is responsible for air supremacy, land combat, combat effectiveness is not compared.
Soviet Union deeply the difference between them, started construction in 1988, equipped with a steam catapult take-off, including 80,000 tons, including a variety of fixed-wing AWACS aircraft carrier Ulyanovsk nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, in order to by fixed-wing AWACS enhance the synergy of air and naval forces, thereby increasing the strike capability of the aircraft carrier battle groups. But the collapse of the Soviet Union, the ship’s stop the construction, an end to the expectations vanish into thin air, and also various types of aircraft carrier of the United States so far like a
forces defeated the opponent’s combat guiding ideology has not changed.
Network
If very large, nuclear-powered, multi-function .
platform, online, online weapons, ammunition online and preparedness accessories online, network level and network-centric warfare capability has been a qualitative leap.
For example, do not have the network-centric warfare capabilities, carrier-based aircraft carrier-based aircraft, only in relative isolation from the weapons platform, and its operational effectiveness can only be the number of overlay. The aircraft carrier with network-centric warfare capabilities, such as the F-35B, E/A-18G, E-2D, the MH-60R / S, the X-47B, etc., not only have independent access to information and independent targets, and can also be online to receive information and instructions from the Army, Navy, Marines, Air Force and space, space-based platforms.
As a node in the Internet of things, not only to serve the entire network, but also the entire network service. Mount the assault weapons, not only can accept the control of the machine, also available online to accept the control of other authorized users, to fight who, and who to play, and at what time, location, direction, and with what weapons to fight, and are based on the cloud calculate the co-ordination of the network, its timeliness, its validity is not the number of simple superposition can be compared.
Like the X-47B carrier-based unmanned aerial vehicles, will be the edge in combat, reconnaissance, side commanding edge to combat, while assessment of combat effectiveness, and receive online, processing, distribution and application of the above information. Combat support aircraft, such as the MH-60R / S will be able to support operations, according to online information directly on the time-critical targets, high-threat target the implementation of timely blow.
Such as electromagnetic rail guns, modular laser weapons, according to the online destination instructions, implementation of servo attack. 32 MJ railgun, to 2.5 kilometers per second muzzle velocity fired artillery shells at targets within 340 km implementation of the kinetic energy of impact. Multi-module laser used in combination, can directly damage the target.
According to the U.S. Navy’s assessment, one equipped with 75 aircraft carrier Equipped with the same number of aircraft carrier Consider the use of other weapons, and its operational effectiveness
Threat
Of course, the This symmetry operations from the aircraft carrier and carrier point of view, it is uncontested. However, submarines, aircraft carriers, guided missile on the angle of the aircraft carriers and other asymmetric warfare, the threat it faces is not small.
Earlier, the U.S. defense experts pointed out, had hoped to help the US-led oceans half a century, attacks such as the variety of challenges.
Is already in use, orbit and sub-guided anti-ship ballistic missiles, anti-missile system to intercept cruise missiles, the flight altitude is too high; for anti-missile system to intercept ballistic missiles, the flight altitude was too low. Several missiles simultaneously launched, with a wide range of sub-guided warheads destruction, In this sense, the
Just think, whether it is the latest Ford
Similarly, relative to new aircraft carriers to attack the main offensive and defensive, the integration of air, sea, traditional small tonnage, isolated, offshore type, defensive aircraft carrier, if regardless of each other Take spear rifle. Drilled into the obsolete aircraft carrier on the controversy can not get out, should develop aircraft carrier without development, it is in someone else’s trick children! At the expense of another
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