Source: Privy Council No. 10
The U.S. Naval Academy website released the latest global distribution map of U.S. aircraft carriers and amphibious combat groups on the 18th. As expected by the old driver, the "Lincoln" supercarrier, which traveled thousands of miles from the west coast of the United States, has arrived around China.
It should be said that from this map, it can be clearly seen that the US Navy attaches great importance to China - the nominal global deployment, in fact, in addition to the "Truman" alone in the Mediterranean to guard against "Russia's sudden attack on Ukraine", the "Reagan" aircraft carrier, the "Lincoln" aircraft carrier, the "Carl Vinson" aircraft carrier, the "United States" amphibious assault ship, the "Essex" amphibious assault ship are concentrated in the waters around China, which is really "awe-inspiring".
In the recent South China Sea exercises, the "Essex" carried the old AV8B fighter
The US "Navy Times" even more triumphantly declared that the aircraft carrier "Carl Vinson" and the amphibious assault ship "Essex" recently completed a joint expeditionary strike force exercise in the South China Sea. Rear Admiral Dan Martin, commander of the carrier strike group, said that "the long-range strike capability of the Carl Vincent strike group combined with the potential of the USS Essex to transport Marines to any sea has greatly enhanced the strategic capability of the United States to continue to defend a free and open Indo-Pacific region."
This mass buildup of US aircraft carriers can make Taiwan's green media "Liberty Times" happy. The report deliberately used the words "Shock! The Lincoln arrives in the western Pacific, and the US 3+2 aircraft carriers gather around China" is the title, trumpeting that "in the western Pacific region, there will be three US Nimitz-class aircraft carriers at the same time, and two amphibious assault ships that can take off and land F-35B fighters will be deployed."
The report also claimed that the USS Lincoln carrier strike group from the US mainland had arrived in the western Pacific ocean and was expected to operate jointly with the USS Carl Vinson aircraft carrier strike group. For the first time, the Lincoln also carried the F-35C Stealth Fighter Squadron, which was part of the U.S. Marine Corps' 314th Fighter Attack Squadron, and the Lincoln became the second U.S. aircraft carrier capable of deploying F-35C stealth carrier-based aircraft after the CARL Vinson.
Unfortunately, the old driver said yesterday that the "Carl Vincent" and the "Essex" have been deployed overseas for a long time and will return to Hong Kong for recuperation in the near future.
The report on the website of the U.S. Naval Academy revealed another fact that made the island's green media happy. The USS Reagan, which is currently docked in a Japanese port, will not come out at all — it is planned to carry out routine maintenance and repairs at the beginning of each year in the port, and the Lincoln rushed to the western Pacific to take over the forward deployment mission.
This sentence reveals two pieces of information: first, the "Reagan" aircraft carrier will not be able to go to sea in the next few months, and it will not need to calculate its combat strength for the time being; second, the "Lincoln" will carry out the forward deployment mission in the western Pacific, indicating that the "Carl Vinson" aircraft carrier that did this work before will also leave, and in the future, only the "Lincoln" aircraft carrier and the "United States" amphibious assault ship will be deployed in the western Pacific region.
In the blink of an eye, the "3+2" battle that excited the green media immediately shrank into "1+1".
Oh, I don't know if the bay has the feeling of "relying on the mountains and mountains, relying on the sea and drying up"?