In the past two days, China's "desert aircraft carrier" has caught fire. The story began on November 7, when the U.S. Naval Research Institute issued a report that satellite images provided by Maxar, a commercial satellite imagery company, showed that China had built an equal-scale contour target for U.S. aircraft carriers and other warships in the Taklamakan Desert. These targets are large in size and can even simulate the maneuvering of target ships at sea. Specifically, the desert was paved with rails, and these targets made of the outline of the target ship were placed on the trailer of the rail. In this way, you can "travel by land" and walk in the desert. Although it is only a contour target, it has various signs on it that can simulate the electromagnetic and other signals of these ships.
The U.S. claims that China's move shows that it continues to focus on building anti-aircraft carrier capabilities to deter U.S. aircraft carrier formations that dare to approach China. The topic itself is easy to stir up. At the Foreign Ministry's regular press conference on November 8, foreign media reporters also asked questions on relevant issues. At that time, spokesman Wang Wenbin replied with one sentence, "I don't understand the situation you mentioned", and as a result, the topic was further stirred up.
In fact, the military value of this information itself is limited. Are China's anti-aircraft carrier ballistic missiles good or not? Is it a combat effectiveness? In fact, the US military has long known this. If China does not have the killer weapon of anti-carrier ballistic missiles, why would the United States scrap the Zumwalt and the Littoral Combat Ship? It is precisely because of anti-carrier ballistic missiles that the US aircraft carrier cannot enter the waters close to China during wartime. The Zumwalt and the Littoral Combat Ship were no longer "umbrellaed" by anyone. No one "struck an umbrella", and the survival rate in wartime tended to be close to 0. As a result, these two new types of ships, which were said by the Americans to be gods, were directly abolished.
Two surface main battleships of the same generation were abolished, which is extremely rare in the history of the development of US surface ship equipment after World War II. There must be a big change in this situation. What is this big change? It is because the Americans know that China's anti-carrier ballistic missiles have made their aircraft carriers a "target of activity" in wartime and have no survivability at all.
Although the U.S. military knows it, the U.S. has been publicly reluctant to publicize it for a long time. Because this matter is very humiliating, and it affects the United States to establish national prestige. For a long time, U.S. aircraft carriers have been their number one weapon in pursuing their overseas strategy. Now if we tell the whole world that this thing is not good at all in the face of anti-aircraft carrier ballistic missiles, how can the United States still engage in maritime strategic deterrence in a false way in the whole world? How else does the United States bring the so-called "allies" of little brothers under its own banner? So I understand in my heart that I haven't said it on my lips, and now I don't know which one has poked this thing out without a long eye. The US military can no longer try to cover its ears and steal the bell, and the consequences are very serious.
Previously, foreign media and foreign so-called experts said that although China's anti-aircraft carrier ballistic missiles do exist, they have never seen the Chinese military launch live ammunition at sea targets in the context of actual combat. Later, we fought in the South China Sea, and we also shot several shots from different directions. So some people jumped out and said, ballistic missile anti-aircraft carrier is a complex system engineering, your missiles can hit, but can your satellites see? Barabala said a whole bunch.
Now with this "desert aircraft carrier" target, the problem can be explained very clearly. And the Desert Carrier target actually conveys more information.
First of all, such a mobile simulation target, it has both a scientific research role and a training role. This shows that this kind of thing has been used for the deployment and training of actual combat. Secondly, on such a basis, by changing the configuration of different targets, what stealth technology and other messy things you use on the aircraft carrier, I can simulate it, and I can experiment and train. There is also an extremely noteworthy thing, and it is also something that is easy to ignore. That is the "desert aircraft carrier" target that appeared this time, not only aircraft carriers, but also other medium-sized surface ships. That's a big deal. Why? It shows that our anti-ship ballistic missiles can not only hit aircraft carriers, I am afraid that even medium-sized surface ships cannot escape. It's like the "Rulai Divine Palm" that descends from the sky. If this trend develops, it will be a fatal thing for the U.S. Navy. No matter what 350 ships you build, even if you build 3500 ships, there are thousands, thousands of anti-ship missiles, if you really fight, none of them can survive. The way of naval warfare and the way of controlling sea power will change radically as a result. How will the battle be fought in the future? How will this game be played in the future?