Written by | Li Yan
The Global Network reported last night (December 8) that the Chinese Navy's Type 055 destroyer recently conducted anti-submarine, strait artery blockade and other practical exercises in the waters of the Yellow Sea.
The article revealed that the exercise attracted the attention of the US military. For two consecutive days, the US military dispatched the Navy's P-8A anti-submarine patrol aircraft and the Air Force's RC-135S missile surveillance aircraft to the nearly 055 destroyer exercise area for reconnaissance.
Let's take a look at what exercises were conducted during the 055 drills for several consecutive days.
According to CCTV military reports, the Type 055 destroyer Nanchang recently conducted anti-submarine drills for four consecutive days and nights in a certain area of the Yellow Sea, and the actual combat subjects of joint anti-submarine warfare between ships and aircraft, blockade of key strait routes, and escort of formations were successively launched, testing the level of anti-submarine warfare of equipment.
The Global Network article pointed out that after receiving the notification of the enemy's submarine activities, the Nanchang warship "changed from training to combat," carried out tactical maneuvers, and sent ship-based helicopters to the designated sea area to carry out a search in the suspected submarine activity area, and then deployed sonar to search for submarines. Wang Jiabi, chief of business of a certain destroyer detachment of the Navy, told reporters that the Nanchang warship combined its own equipment performance and used existing sonar detection methods to complement each other's advantages, so that the conditions for the use of equipment could be simplified, the audiometry distance was farther, and the coverage was wider.
There are many fishing boats in the training area, which interferes with the ship's sonar identification submarine, and the Nanchang ship uses the underwater acoustic data processing application system to accurately determine the submarine noise. After finding the target, the Nanchang ship found and locked the target submarine. The Nanchang ship loaded and tested the tactical system equipment, which can respond quickly, wide-area anti-submarine, and meet the conditions of high-speed cruise and long-term endurance. It has effectively tested the combat effectiveness of the new quality combat forces and improved the tactical tactics of the anti-submarine system of surface ships.
The Global Network released a video review in this regard, specifically mentioning that the exercise highlighted the command role of the Nanchang warship in anti-submarine operations, and the exercise explored the nanchang warship's anti-submarine combat tactics.
According to the data, the Type 055 destroyer is a new generation of large destroyers of the Chinese Navy, with a displacement of more than 10,000 tons, equipped with a missile vertical launch system, and has a strong air defense, anti-ship, anti-submarine, and land strike capabilities. The first ship, the Nanchang, was added to the list in January 2020.
What advantages does the 055 large destroyer have in the anti-submarine and blockade of the main channel of the strait?
Military commentator Song Zhongping Xiangzheng (WeChat ID: upolitics) said that in fact, the above two tasks are largely intersecting, because in the process of blocking the main channel of the strait, the main threat of the enemy is the submarine cruising in the depths of the ocean.
Song Zhongping said that the 055 large drive can be called the strongest warship of the PLA in terms of anti-submarine and air defense capabilities. The 055 large drive benefits from its large tonnage, the amount of anti-submarine equipment carried on the ship is of high quality, high power and complete variety, whether it is the creation of a single-ship anti-submarine or a three-dimensional anti-submarine system, the ability is very powerful. At the same time, in the system of anti-submarine warfare, 055 relies on strong situational awareness capabilities, and can also perfectly assume the flagship role of command operations.
"Through the anti-submarine equipment and anti-submarine weapons brought by the battleship, as well as the wide-area submarine search and anti-submarine capabilities formed by the carrier-based aircraft and carrier-based helicopters, the combat system with the 055 large drive as the core has the ability to block the main channel of the strait." Of course, for the search and attack capabilities of enemy surface ships, combat aircraft and other equipment, the 055 large drive is also not a problem. Song Zhongping added that the endurance time of the 055 drive is also very long, which is equally important for the task of blocking the main channel of the strait.
Why did the Nanchang warship choose to conduct important exercises in the Yellow Sea?
Song Zhongping also interpreted that the 055 large destroyer Nanchang belongs to the northern theater, and the naval forces in the northern theater mainly guard the waters of the Yellow Sea in the Bohai Sea. He said bluntly that the above-mentioned sea area is facing the urgent need for military training to block the main channels of the strait.
Song Zhongping stressed: The Tsushima Strait near the Yellow Sea is also a strategic route for extraterritorial military forces to reach China's coast. Due to the narrow width of the Tsushima Strait and the strong anti-submarine capability of the 055 large drive, a 055 large vehicle can undertake the task of searching for submarines and opposing submarines in the waters of the Tsushima Strait.
Information 丨Global Network CCTV Military National Defense Times, etc
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