According to foreign media reports quoted by the Global Network, the "strongest weapon" of the US Navy has recently approached Taiwan. CNN recently reported that the US Navy's "Nevada" strategic missile nuclear submarine arrived at the Guam base, which is the first time since 2016 that the US ballistic missile nuclear submarine has docked at the Guam Naval Base. In response, Russia Today (RT) reported that "Guam is near Taiwan, where there is the closest U.S. military base to China on U.S. soil." ”
(The U.S. Navy's Ohio-class strategic missile nuclear submarine "Nevada" docked in Guam for rest and supply)
It is generally believed that aircraft carriers capable of carrying dozens of various combat aircraft are the most powerful combat weapons of the Navy, but in fact, strategic missile nuclear submarines that are buried in the depths of the ocean and can carry a large number of submarine-launched ballistic missiles are the most powerful combat ships of the Navy at present. Moreover, among the strategic nuclear submarines of the five permanent members of the United Nations, the "Ohio" class of the US Navy is undoubtedly the most powerful single boat, and there is no one!
(Large aircraft carriers are undoubtedly a symbol of great power navies, but the navy's most powerful ships are strategic missile nuclear submarines.)
The Ohio class is the third generation of strategic nuclear submarines developed by the U.S. Navy to replace the George Washington class and ethan Allen class, and has been delivered to the U.S. military since 1981, with a total of 18 built, the first four of which have now been converted into cruise missile nuclear submarines to carry a large number of Tomahawk cruise missiles for tactical strike missions. The remaining 14 are the core weapons of the U.S. Navy's strategic strike force.
(24 missile launchers of the Ohio-class strategic missile nuclear submarine)
The Ohio-class strategic nuclear submarine is 170.7 meters long, with a maximum width of 12.8 meters and a full load displacement of 18,700 tons, making it the largest nuclear submarine of tonnage built by the U.S. Navy. The Ohio class adopts the traditional single-hull design of the US military, so although the displacement is smaller than That of Russia's various nuclear submarines, the Ohio class can carry up to 24 "Trident II-D5" submarine-launched strategic nuclear missiles, each "Trident" can carry 8 475,000 tons of TNT equivalent missiles, so the maximum yield of such a Trident missile is 3.8 million tons, calculated, a Ohio-class nuclear submarine can carry a total of 91.2 million tons of nuclear bombs!
The most advanced "North Wind God" class in Russia can only carry 16 "Bulava" intercontinental missiles, each "Bulava" can carry up to 10 sub-missile heads of 150,000 tons of TNT equivalent, so the total nuclear warhead equivalent carried by the "North Wind God" class strategic nuclear submarine is 24 million tons of TNT, slightly more than one-third of the total equivalent of the Ohio class. It's not an Ohio-level opponent yet (a reminder: the actual combat effectiveness isn't counted that way, it's just a comparison of the data).
(The Trident II-D5 submarine-launched strategic missile carried by the Ohio-class nuclear submarine)
According to the U.S. Navy's consistent combat readiness duty deployment, Ohio-class nuclear submarines will usually return to port for a month of rest and supply after 77 days of combat duty, and then go to sea again. As a strategic missile submarine, the "Trident II-D5" submarine-launched missile carried by the Ohio class has a maximum range of 11,000 kilometers, and even with the maximum load (the largest number of missile heads), its range can easily reach 7,400 kilometers. Therefore, from a tactical point of view, the Ohio-class strategic nuclear submarine does not need to be close to the Chinese mainland at all to perform combat readiness duty, and the missiles they carry are enough to cover the entire territory of the mainland.
So, we see, Ohio-class strategic nuclear submarines, it's coming!
(Aerial view of Apra Naval Base in Guam)
Guam, unlike Japan and South Korea, is the territory of the United States in the legal sense, and the United States can reasonably and legally build a large number of civil engineering projects in Guam. Therefore, since the beginning of the Cold War era, Guam is the most important base of the US Navy and Air Force in the western Pacific waters, Guam is located in the second island chain of the Pacific Ocean, about 2540 kilometers from manila, the capital of the Philippines, and about 2677 kilometers from the mainland Taiwan, and its strategic position is very important. Now that the US strategic missile submarines have openly docked on Guam, the information released is actually very obvious, that is, public demonstrations against China.
(China doesn't eat this set!) ）
At the 2021 Sino-US "Anchorage Summit", the Chinese side bluntly rebuked the Americans: You are not qualified to say in front of China, you talk to China from the position of strength! Since then, the United States has been trying to prove that it has this qualification, so throughout 2021, the United States has been constantly "showing muscle" around China, not only pulling aircraft carriers from britain, Japan and other countries to stand for themselves, just recently, the United States has also assembled 3 aircraft carrier battle groups in the western Pacific to demonstrate to China. Now, with the arrival of the Ohio-class strategic nuclear submarines in Guam, all of this is actually the United States saying to China: Look, I still have the strength, I am qualified to talk to you from the position of strength.
(Although China's strategic nuclear submarines are not as good as the United States, they are definitely enough!) ）
However, the Americans forget that Chinese is not intimidated, and since the end of World War II, the two local wars organized by the United States in the western Pacific have been tragically defeated by China. Not to mention that China is now one of the world's nuclear powers, and although our nuclear arsenal is not as large as that of the United States, "killing the enemy ten times is the same as killing the enemy once, because human life is only once." "So no matter how much the United States shows its muscles around China, it can't intimidate China."
(Vigorously developing the naval fleet and pushing the mainland's strategic defense circle outward as far as possible is the first priority of the Chinese Navy.)
From a purely tactical point of view, the Ohio class is a "strategic missile nuclear submarine," which carries a strategic nuclear weapon that destroys the world and the earth, and even if the United States tries to intervene in China's Taiwan issue by force, it is also using conventional weapons, because if nuclear weapons are used, it is tantamount to triggering the destruction of the world, and the United States is justifiably impossible to really end up with the mainland for the sake of Taiwan Province. Therefore, the arrival of the Ohio-class nuclear submarine shows that the United States is now poor in donkey skills: conventional forces cannot frighten China, so they have to use nuclear submarines to show their muscles, but nuclear submarines are actually not used at all in possible conflicts, so the conclusion is still: no one can be frightened!
(Submarines are the best anti-submarine weapons, and vigorously developing nuclear submarines on the mainland so that they can hunt down "Ohio" class strategic nuclear submarines is also an important way to counter the US sea-based nuclear deterrence.)
However, the arrival of the Ohio-class strategic nuclear submarines has objectively constituted a certain nuclear deterrent to the mainland, and for this reason, while we despise the United States strategically, we still need to pay attention to the nuclear submarines of the US military in terms of tactics. The best way to effectively counter the US military's strategic nuclear submarines is to continue to develop a balanced ocean-going navy, steadily promote the development and construction of the mainland's aircraft carrier fleet, and then push the mainland's maritime defense circle outward as far as possible, from the current first island chain to the second island chain, directly occupy the missile launch position of the Ohio-class nuclear submarine, and drive the US strategic nuclear submarine to the farthest possible distance from the mainland of the motherland, not only so that the US military's submarine-launched missiles cannot cover the Chinese mainland. Moreover, it can also allow the US strategic missile nuclear submarine to be under the monitoring of the Chinese fleet at any time, which may be the best way to counter the US strategic missile nuclear submarine in the future.