On the morning of 11 January, the HMS Carl Vinson aircraft carrier strike group entered the South China Sea via the Barak Strait, and late on the night of 11 January, the Essex Amphibious Alert Group passed through the Strait of Malacca. When the U.S. Navy," an uninvited and ill-intentioned bully, passes through the South China Sea, the United States is bound to hold a military exercise aimed at targeting China in the South China Sea. This kind of us exercise is an important reason for the deployment of The Type 022 missile boat in the South China Sea.
The U.S. Navy conducts military exercises in the South China Sea with an aircraft carrier and an amphibious assault ship
The U.S. Navy is a global navy, all strategic seas in the world have the figure of the U.S. Navy, and the global presence also means global mobilization, the U.S. Navy's surface ships need to frequently travel to and from the ocean, so the probability of returning to the U.S. aircraft carrier from the Middle East and the warships from the U.S. mainland to the Middle East is very high, whenever the Two U.S. surface ship groups meet, the U.S. Navy will inevitably hold a military exercise, regardless of whether the meeting place is near Hawaii, near the South China Sea, near Malacca. This is true near the Indian Ocean, or near the Arabian Sea.
When the USS Carl Vinson carrier strike group and the USS Essex amphibious readiness group, which entered the South China Sea on January 11, met in the South China Sea, the U.S. Navy naturally conducted military exercises.
Recently, the U.S. Navy released relevant photos of the US military exercise in Yugoslavia, showing that the Carl Vinson, Essex, Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyers Okaine, Michael Murphy, Whedbey Island-class dock landing ship Pearl Harbor (LSD-52), Lewis Clark-class supply ship Alan Shepard (T-AKE-3), John Erikson Fleet oil tanker and so on participated in the military exercise. The San Antonio-class dock landing ship Portland, which was originally in the Essex amphibious guard group, has left the group, and the DDG-105 Dewey has also left the carrier formation and has recently received supplies from the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force.
As can be seen in the figure, the US aircraft carrier is sailing around the Spratly Islands
Where are the U.S. Navy exercises located?
On January 13, the U.S. Navy conducted military exercises on many surface ships, and on January 14, the aircraft carrier CARVinson appeared in the western waters of the Spratly Islands, and on January 15, the CARvinson sailed to the northern waters of the Spratly Islands.
In other words, the US aircraft carrier is holding military exercises around China's Nansha Islands. It can be said that the US Navy's military exercise is to show the carriage and horse against China! Support countries that have no hope for China's territory!
The Chinese officers and men stationed on the Spratly Islands watched the US Navy's highly targeted military exercise almost the whole process, and perhaps the officers and men guarding the island could hear the roar of the US fighter jet or the figure of the high-altitude skipped. During the Essex-class amphibious assault ship's military exercise with the USS Carl Vinson, the 11th Marine Corps Expeditionary Force of the USS Marine Corps also carried out activities in the South China Sea, and what else could the Marines practice in addition to island-grabbing operations?
In 2021, China staged a large group of aircraft attack drills in the face of the Roosevelt aircraft carrier, so the Roosevelt slipped away in gray, and the end of this time must be the same, after all, the Chinese Air Force has seen a lot of US aircraft carriers, the Chinese Air Force has a very mature way of playing, plus the US Navy within the first island chain does not want to jump, so Carl Vinson and Essex must be a gray and slippery run. Sit and other related reports and you're done.
However, the sea area of the US Navy's South Naval Exercise also shows from the side the reasons why the Type 022 missile boat is deployed on the islands and reefs in the South China Sea.
It is well known that the Type 022 missile boat adopts a stealth design with a strong stealth, and obtains a strong ability to hide within the visual range through marine camouflage, coupled with a maximum speed of 50 knots and 8 Rounds of Eagle Strike-83 anti-ship missiles, so when the Type 022 missile boat is active, it is eligible to become an aircraft carrier killer in the narrow sense. However, the Chinese Navy continues to go to the ocean and has more and more large surface ships in China's home military ports, so it is no longer necessary to use 022 in China's coastal waters, so 022 has become the tear of the times.
As can be seen in the figure, when the US aircraft carrier South Naval Exercise, the distance from China's islands and reefs is really not necessarily three hundred kilometers
However, the South China Sea lacks military ports long-standing enough for frigates, so no matter how strong the South China Sea Fleet is, it is impossible to stop a group of 054A on the Nansha Islands. However, there is no shortage of military ports in the Spratly Islands that can dock 022, so the islands and reefs in the South China Sea with relatively insufficient infrastructure can also achieve long-term berthing in 022.
Relying on the Nansha Islands and other archipelagos, 022 can quickly track/intercept/drive away other countries' surface ships/coast guard ships/special ships that appear in the South China Sea in peacetime with a speed of up to 50 knots to support frontline islands and reefs (in peacetime, there is no conflict ≠, and Vietnamese frogmen have not less poisoned China's island guards in the last century, which is why we should carry out regular patrols on islands and reefs and send troops to garrison them).
022, who is driving the broken boat to Ren'ai Reef to give to the fishing boats such as Yang
In the war years, the 022, which is tracking other countries' ships, can react at the first time, approach enemy ships at high speed and launch anti-ship missiles; it can also use camouflage nets to camouflage in the south China Sea islands and reefs, waiting for opportunities to sneak attack other countries' warships. Therefore, the 022 is a missile boat that is very suitable for the South China Sea, and the 022 can maximize its advantages in the South China Sea.