Since the United States officially positioned China as a strategic competitor, the waters around China have ceased to be peaceful. According to the report of the "South China Sea Strategic Situational Awareness" platform, the USS Carl Vinson aircraft carrier battle group recently appeared in the waters north of the Mainland's Nansha Islands to conduct joint exercises with the amphibious assault ship "Essex". This is also the beginning of the new year, the first time that the US aircraft carrier has entered the South China Sea.
(USS Carl Vinson Aircraft Carrier Battle Group)
It is worth noting that in addition to the "Carl Vinson" aircraft carrier that entered the South China Sea, the US aircraft carrier "Reagan" is resting in Yokosuka, Japan, and the "Lincoln" aircraft carrier is rushing from the US mainland to the western Pacific waters, and soon the western Pacific waters will usher in the "three aircraft carrier period" of the US Navy. Each of the two carriers carries a squadron of F-35C carrier-based stealth fighters, which is more effective than the average US aircraft carrier.
(F-35C carrier-based stealth fighter landing)
However, in the face of the upcoming 3 aircraft carrier battle groups of the US military, the Platon Army is quite calm, and there is no sense of tension at all. In fact, it is very simple, today's People's Liberation Army is not afraid of the US aircraft carrier at all, and even prepared a variety of "packages" for the US aircraft carrier battle group to "entertain" the US military. Of course, the PLA's so-called "aircraft carrier package" is actually a combat method used against the aircraft carrier battle group, in layman's terms: how many steps is it to sink the US aircraft carrier? A: Three steps!
(Three aircraft carriers gather in the Asia-Pacific region, and the Platon Is not nervous, because we have a mature four-set anti-aircraft carrier system)
The first step is to search for the aircraft carrier. Modern warfare "discovery = destruction" is a military common sense, with a perfect and thorough reconnaissance system, can be effectively searched, and can be found in the shortest possible time to find the enemy aircraft carrier reconnaissance system, is the core element of the implementation of anti-aircraft carrier operations. Probably most people are more concerned about various anti-ship missiles, and are accustomed to arguing about the range, accuracy, etc. of missiles, but think about it carefully: if the target cannot be found at all, then what is the use of advanced missiles? Therefore, "discovery" is the basis of all subsequent means.
(Although the aircraft carrier is large, but in the vast sea, like a drop in the ocean, it is still difficult to find and accurately locate)
Although the aircraft carrier is currently the largest tonnage of maritime combat ships, but relative to the vast sea, the aircraft carrier is still a grain of sand, to effectively find an aircraft carrier on the ocean, is a huge test, there is no extremely sophisticated technology can not do, even in today's world, only a very few countries have such advanced technology.
The sea is vast, and both ships and aircraft are unable to carry out reconnaissance tasks. For example, during the 1985 US Navy", the CONSTA CV-66 "USA" aircraft carrier took a formation and secretly sneaked into Norwegian waters in a radio silent manner, until Murmansk was included in the attack range of the USS American carrier-based aircraft, and the entire US military formation was not discovered by the Soviets from entry to withdrawal! So in that era, aircraft carriers did have extremely strong strike capabilities, while also taking into account good concealment.
But now, everything is different! China's ocean surveillance satellites can provide 24-hour full surveillance of the western Pacific waters, as well as any naval vessels operating in this area. The most typical is that last year, the British Navy's "Queen Elizabeth" aircraft carrier battle group "CSG-21" came to the western Pacific to "show off", and as a result, from the time the Queen entered the Strait of Malacca, the mainland's "South China Sea Strategic Situational Awareness" platform began to monitor the movement of British ships throughout the process, updating the position of British ships every day, including satellite photos. Until the Queen Elizabeth left the South China Sea.
(After the Queen led the team closer, it was always under the surveillance of the mainland; they themselves understood it, so they did not make a mistake in the South China Sea.)
It is not difficult to see that China's marine surveillance satellites are fully capable of monitoring the movements of various ships around China. Nowadays, whether it is the United States, Japan, Britain, france, any country's navy entering the South China Sea will be discovered and monitored by the mainland's marine satellites, and there is no way to hide it. This move can be understood as follows: If war breaks out, any aircraft carrier close to China's coast will be discovered by China's reconnaissance satellites, and it is pure wishful thinking to sneak up on the "black guns" of the PLA.
(Model of the world's first quantum communication experimental satellite "Mozi" satellite)
After discovering the whereabouts of other countries' aircraft carriers, it is necessary to report the intelligence upwards and maintain continuous tracking, which is the second step of fighting the aircraft carrier: locking, which requires extremely strong communication capabilities. At present, China is the most perfect and mature country in the world's 5G technology, and the mainland is also the first country in the world to practically apply quantum communication technology, the mainland launched its first experimental quantum communication satellite - "Mozi" in 2016, and at present, according to public reports, China's quantum communication distance has reached 4600 kilometers, 5G technology + quantum communication, so that China's satellite communication technology level has reached an unprecedented height, so the goal of reconnaissance satellite discovery, It can be transmitted back to our command center at the fastest speed, and then the command center will send the data to various anti-aircraft carrier weapons for data loading, and once needed, it can be fired at any time.
(The aircraft carrier tonnage is large, but the speed is not slow at all, the picture shows the US Nimitz-class aircraft carrier in the S-type navigation, it is not difficult to see from the wake, the aircraft carrier speed is quite fast)
It is worth noting that because the aircraft carrier is the active sea target, and the activity speed is not low (the maximum speed of the aircraft carrier is generally 30 knots, the contract is 55.56 km / h), after the discovery of the aircraft carrier, the real-time monitoring of the aircraft carrier's whereabouts, and the correction of coordinate parameters, which requires high-speed data links and highly encrypted satellite communication systems to achieve (so the previous emphasis on the need for "5G technology + quantum communication" these two technologies), and this set of systems, at present, only China is the most mature. The Chinese navy can not only monitor the movement of the enemy aircraft carrier in real time, but also correct the coordinate parameters in real time, and even after the missile is launched, it can still correct the course of the missile through the data link to ensure that the missile can accurately hit the target.
(Anti-ship ballistic missile launch)
After finding and locking in the target, the most important third step comes: sinking! In fact, the four "packages" that China has prepared for U.S. aircraft carriers are essentially four weapons: anti-ship ballistic missiles, hypersonic anti-ship missiles, bombers, and torpedoes. Among them, anti-ship ballistic missiles are the most familiar to everyone, the People's Liberation Army currently has two kinds of anti-ship ballistic missiles, dongfeng-21D and DF-26, and these two have been tested many times by live-fire strikes, so I will not say more here.
(Hypersonic weapons are the future direction of anti-ship missiles)
Hypersonic anti-ship missiles are a relatively unique weapon, and the main ones that the mainland has made public appearances are currently DF-17 hypersonic missiles. The DF-17 adopts the mainland's unique "Qian Xuesen Ballistic", which can glide at hypersonic speed in suborbital space, and has the ability to change orbit and dodge, which can effectively evade the interception of enemy air defense missiles and has higher hit accuracy than ballistic missiles. As a hypersonic weapon with accurate ground strike capability, the DF-17 also has anti-ship, especially anti-aircraft carrier combat capabilities.
(The combination of the H-6K and The Eagle Strike-12 anti-ship missile also has a strong anti-aircraft carrier combat capability)
Bombers, mainly refers to the Bomb-6K bomber, of course, the simple Bomber 6K does not have the ability to oppose aircraft carriers, with anti-aircraft carrier combat capabilities, is the Bomber-6K carried by the Eagle Strike-12 supersonic heavy anti-ship missile. The Eagle Strike-12 missile looks a lot like a Chinese copycat version of the Russian SS-N-22 Sunburn heavy anti-ship missile.
According to the export model CM-302 missile of the Eagle Strike-12 missile, the launch weight of the Eagle Strike-12 missile is about 2.5 tons, the warhead weight is 250 to 400 kg, the effective range is 400 kilometers, the ramjet is used to advance, the missile is supersonic throughout the process, and the flight speed is Mach 3 to 3.5. A single hit is enough to sink or paralyze a large surface ship of 8,000 tons, and of course enough to seriously damage the aircraft carrier.
(Although there is still a gap between the comprehensive performance of China's nuclear submarines and those of the United States and Russia, they are still a sharp weapon against aircraft carriers)
Torpedoes are easier to understand – the Chinese Navy has nuclear submarines, and with the power level of nuclear submarines, they can track and monitor the aircraft carrier battle group, and in wartime, they can be directly sunk by torpedo attacks. Submarines have been the biggest threat to aircraft carriers since World War II, with about 55 percent of aircraft carriers sunk in World War II being sunk by torpedoes, and because of the incompressibility of water, torpedoes traveling in the water, once they hit the carrier, caused far more damage than anti-ship missiles that exploded in the air. And now China's nuclear submarine strength is growing steadily, although it is not enough to compete with the US submarine force on a global scale, but in the western Pacific, china's doorstep, the PLA's nuclear submarines are also one of the nemesis of the US aircraft carrier, and this nemesis is unusually low-key, if not mentioned, many people may have forgotten.
(We also have aircraft carrier battle groups, so various anti-aircraft carrier tactics are guaranteed to be thoroughly studied)
In summary, the sinking of the US aircraft carrier requires three steps: the discovery of the → locked → sinking. However, limited by the technical level and economic conditions, the only countries in the world that really have anti-aircraft carrier combat systems are probably China and Russia, and even those old european powers do not have such a high-end combat system. Therefore, the US Navy's aircraft carrier battle group, which is flaunting its might around the world, is just a living target of the People's Liberation Army in the vicinity of East Asia, and since it is a target, of course, there is nothing to worry about.
(Although the H-6K bomber itself is technically old, it can still effectively perform long-range anti-carrier combat tasks with fighter escorts.)
Finally, careful netizens may have found that since last year, as long as the US aircraft carrier enters the waters of the South China Sea, China will dispatch bombers and Carry Eagle Strike-12 missiles to "watch". However, the H-6K bomber usually maintains a distance of 280 to 400 kilometers with the US aircraft carrier, which is obviously the range of fire of the Eagle Strike-12 missile.
In fact, it is also very understandable to send bombers to "watch" the US aircraft carrier, after all, anti-ship ballistic missiles, hypersonic missiles and torpedoes, these three weapons are not convenient to show casually, and the bomb-6K hanging Eagle Strike-12 missile can bring sufficient deterrence effect, but also will not expose too much the actual combat effectiveness of PLA weapons and equipment. And the H-6K is not a single-handed to watch the US aircraft carrier, the PLA will also send out J-16 or Su-35 fighters to provide air cover for the H-6K, after all, the US aircraft carrier is such a good free sparring, do not seize the opportunity to make more use of it, it is a pity!
Objectively speaking, the US aircraft carrier battle group still has a strong combat effectiveness, especially after carrying stealth carrier-based fighters, the combat effectiveness of the US aircraft carrier will be significantly improved. However, with the development of China's economy and science and technology, the equipment level of the People's Liberation Army has also been greatly improved, so in front of China, the US aircraft carrier battle group has no special combat effectiveness to show off, on the contrary, in the waters around the western Pacific, China has established a set of three-dimensional, multi-level aircraft carrier strike system, not to mention 3 aircraft carrier battle groups, even if the US military sends all its aircraft carrier battle groups to the western Pacific, we also have full confidence, completely annihilate the US aircraft carrier battle group!