Original A green tree
A few days ago, when Algeria and Saudi Arabia bought China's 052D guided-missile destroyers, I popularized the science of China's warships, which are simply the Chinese version of Aegis destroyers.
It is too difficult to publicize the power of the 052D destroyer, and the European and American media have publicized the Aegis destroyer in the past 20 years, so it is best to introduce the power of 052D to everyone with the simplest and roughest effect.
And when introducing 052D, I also said about China's 055 destroyers, which friendly countries are very hungry, but China does not sell them.
The same destroyer, 052D has reached or even surpassed the level of Aegis destroyers, we in China are not only willing to sell, but also willing to sell for small profits and sell big sales, while 055 destroyers are not for sale in our China, and we do not sell them for much money.
are all destroyers, 055 is 13,000 tons, big is indeed much bigger, but it is still much lighter than an aircraft carrier, where is it strong?
Because the 055 is too special, this is a destroyer tailored for us for the US aircraft carrier, and the product of the special design for destroying the aircraft carrier, because it can pose a huge threat to the aircraft carrier and other destroyers cannot, so the 055 is very powerful.
Since it is strong, since some people are willing to buy, why don't we sell it?
Because against ordinary military targets 052D is the most economical choice, only when fighting against aircraft carriers can 055 highlight its own power.
But on the earth, China and the United States have a large number of aircraft carrier fleets, why do you ordinary countries buy this thing, you use it to fight Chinese aircraft carriers, it will definitely not work, if you use it to fight American aircraft carriers, then the United States will directly determine that we hit it, there is no need to cause trouble, so we don't sell it.
So many destroyers on the planet are hammered by aircraft carriers, why can you say that 055 can destroy aircraft carriers?
To explain this principle, we must first explain why aircraft carriers can rise.
Before World War II, the strongest warship on the earth was a battleship, and the aircraft carrier and the large transport ship of that era were no different in manufacturing, just a transport ship that could transport aircraft, and was not regarded as the main force of the Navy, until people found that this thing could fight battleships and all warships.
Battleships have been extinct for more than half a century, and the current warships are all thin and stuffed, and no one has known the horror of battleships for a long time.
The ships of the Navy are not omnipotent, and there will be different specialized designs according to different combat needs, and then distinguish different types of warships.
There were three major categories of warships before World War II, cruisers, destroyers, and battleships.
The cruiser is designed to cruise, and for the purpose of safeguarding national interests, the warship must regularly patrol the sea, so you can't spend too much fuel, otherwise the cost of the cruise can drain the country into ruin.
Therefore, the specialized design goal of the cruiser is to sacrifice armor and firepower in exchange for high maneuverability and high endurance to achieve the required sustained cruising objectives.
The destroyer appeared much later, the reason for the emergence was that the navy at that time appeared a thing called torpedo boats, this thing is extremely concealed, very small, fast, low cost, it is not a pity to die, but once there is an opportunity to get close can cause a huge blow to enemy warships, so it is necessary to design a warship specifically for destroying torpedo boats.
Warships specially designed with the goal of destroying torpedo boats are called destroyers.
And battleships are typical representatives of artillery giants, with the main force of the enemy navy as a specialized design goal, sacrificing everything just to improve their own defense and attack power.
The cruiser wants to run and the battleship can't catch up at all, but when the battleship is approaching your port, the cruiser can only meet the battle, at this time you will find that the battleship beats the cruiser that is the same as beating a child.
This kind of character who sacrifices everything just to fill the attack and defense is extremely terrifying.
The Japanese Yamato ship is the most powerful battleship made in human history, because the death at the hands of the aircraft carrier has also become the last glory of the extinction of the battleship, I will show you the power of this thing with the parameters of the Yamato ship.
The Army's largest conventional cannon is the 155mm howitzer, which fires 155mm shells that can blow an entire football stadium to pieces.
This thing can be so powerful because the shell is heavy enough, a 155mm shell weighs about 50 kilograms, reaching the upper limit of the physical strength that normal adult male soldiers can reload frequently.
And this is just a warhead, the complete 155mm shell after the propellant is so long below, the warhead and the propellant need to be loaded separately by two gunners, and the upper limit of the gunner's physical strength is so heavy...
Of course, larger heavy artillery humans have to design it, but artillery can not be equipped with shells, or barely equipped with a few human arms and wasted, has no real combat value.
If it is made into mechanical automatic loading, it can be loaded with multiple shells, but in this way, the cannon will be very large, and can only fight along the line of communication, and once the enemy leaves the line of communication, such a huge cannon will directly become scrap iron.
All things considered, the army's largest heavy artillery was set at the level of 155mm howitzers, each requiring an entire artillery squad to operate, and such heavy guns once fired.
The effect of the shell falling on the ground is probably the following, which intuitively tells you why a 155mm howitzer can empty an entire football field of humans.
How about it, the 155mm howitzer of the army is terrifyingly powerful.
But there are no lines of communication restrictions on the ocean, warships can use automatic loading systems, the caliber of shells can be not limited by manpower, and the terrifying-looking 155-mm heavy gun hit the battleship without even breaking the skin.
The Yamato ship weighs up to 70,000 tons, and there are 7 reconnaissance aircraft alone, this battleship is as heavy as an aircraft carrier, and the cost is similar to that of an aircraft carrier, and so many resources Yamato are all spent on attack and defense.
Yamato was equipped with nine 460 mm guns, 24 127 mm anti-aircraft guns for air defense, and 162 25 mm guns for terminal air defense.
50 kg of 155 mm shells are too heavy for you?
The 460-mm shells used by Yamato, weighing 1.5 tons per shot, can directly penetrate 9-meter-thick reinforced concrete fortifications and have a maximum range of 42 kilometers.
This is the attack power of Yamato's main guns.
When the Yamato ship was designed, the hypothetical enemy would also have a 460mm main gun, so the Yamato's defense must also be full.
The steel plate of the Yamato ship was so thick that it was mad.
The effect of the overwhelming steel plates is that the frontal armor of the Yamato's main turret can ignore the enemy's 460mm main gun attack, the side armor can withstand the shelling of 460mm main gun from 25 kilometers away, and the deck can ignore the attack of 500kg aerial bombs dropped from a height of 3355 meters, all of which are the thickest warship armor in human history.
The only weakness was the lack of anti-torpedo armor, as the ship was already too heavy to add steel plates, and to compensate for this weakness, the entire Yamato ship was divided into 1147 watertight compartments to ensure that occasional torpedo attacks would not deal a fatal blow to the Yamato.
The task of air combat was given to aircraft carriers, the task of fighting torpedoes to destroyers, and the task of fighting the main battleships of the enemy navy to Yamato, which was originally conceived by the Japanese Navy.
Theoretically, there is no problem, but the aircraft carrier is too perverted.
After the United States participated in World War II, because of its own civilian giant transport ships, it could be changed to light aircraft carriers at will, and it was too late to build battleships, so it frantically built a bunch of light aircraft carrier dumplings, and then humans were surprised to find that the aircraft carrier this thing actually killed all warships, at this time the Yamato ship was almost built, and it could not be changed if you wanted to, so the Yamato ship was launched, and then it was blown up alive and sunk, and I never saw the aircraft carrier until death.
The attack and defense of aircraft carriers are far weaker than battleships, and if the aircraft carrier dares to let the Yamato ship close, the 460mm main gun can send an aircraft carrier to the west with one shell, and the aircraft carrier is not as good as the Yamato ship in terms of sustained attack power.
The only thing that surpasses the Yamato in all the combat parameters of the aircraft carrier is the range, because the range of the Yamato's main gun is only 42 kilometers, and the carrier's carrier-based aircraft can fly, so the aircraft carrier can attack the Yamato ship from hundreds of kilometers away.
Because the range exceeds all warships, any warship can only be passively beaten when it touches an aircraft carrier, so the main guns of warships are all scrap iron, only anti-aircraft guns are still somewhat useful, and your biggest victory is at most the carrier-based aircraft that hit the aircraft carrier, and it is never possible to damage the aircraft carrier itself.
Even countless mistakes of the carrier-based aircraft of the aircraft carrier will not cause the aircraft carrier to sink, but the battleship will be sent to the bottom of the sea with only one mistake.
This advantage in range caused Yamato to fight carrier-based aircraft forever, and never fired a single main gun at the aircraft carrier until his death.
In the final battle, a total of 386 carrier-based aircraft from several US aircraft carriers carried out multiple waves of attacks on the Yamato ship, and loaded ammunition and dropped them on the Yamato ship many times, with a total attack sortie of more than 1,000 times.
In this endless air attack, although the armored Yamato ship can ignore most of the attacks, the anti-aircraft guns are placed above the deck, and after being blown up one by one by the US carrier-based aircraft, they gradually lose the ability to counterattack, and become the Iron King VIII who can only be passively beaten.
But as I just said, the Iron King VIII has weaknesses, the underwater anti-torpedo armor is not thick enough, and after losing most of its air defense capabilities, the US carrier-based aircraft recklessly return to the aircraft carrier to load torpedoes and drop them at low altitude,
In this endless torpedo attack, although the Yamato ship designed a total of 1147 watertight compartments with huge blood bars, there was always a time when it was exhausted, and finally it was finally blown up alive by the torpedoes of the carrier-based aircraft.
In the end, a torpedo of the American army hit the ammunition depot, causing a large explosion of the Yamato, and the entire battleship sank directly, resulting in the death of 2,767 crew members of the Yamato ship, and only more than 200 people were rescued.
From launching to being bombed and sunk, Yamato has never seen a single American warship, and to the death is fighting carrier-based aircraft, and destroyers specializing in air defense are more useful than Yamato.
The Yamato ship loses in the range of the main gun, no matter how powerful it is, it has only a range of 42 kilometers, and it cannot touch the aircraft carrier at all, and the aircraft carrier is so powerful that the carrier-based aircraft can soar the range to hundreds of kilometers.
So the era of battleships is over, so it is said that aircraft carriers can kill all warships.
It's not that the battleships attack not high enough, it's not that the battleship defense is not high enough, it's just that the range of the battleships is not long enough.
Throughout World War II, aircraft were the weapons with the highest range, and aircraft carriers deserved to be the king of war.
But after World War II, humans invented missiles.
With the development of missile technology to this day, the range has clearly exceeded that of aircraft, and far exceeded.
Someone started from the principle of the elimination of battleships and put forward an idea, if the range of warships can exceed the aircraft carrier aircraft, and the aircraft carrier can only be passively defended, then can the aircraft carrier be eliminated? Just like aircraft carriers eliminated battleships in those years.
The Chinese 055 destroyer is specially designed according to this principle, and will do everything to increase the range.
ICBMs can hit tens of thousands of kilometers far, but ICBMs are too big and heavy to be carried on warships, even if they can barely get on the ship, they can't shoot a few shots, once intercepted, the whole ship will have no combat effectiveness, it's not cost-effective, this super missile can be launched on land.
Combined with the carrying capacity of the warship itself, China has specially invented a new missile for the 055 destroyer, called the Eagle Strike 21 hypersonic anti-ship missile, with a range of more than 1,000 kilometers, far exceeding conventional anti-ship missiles, and can skim the sea at low altitude penetration, and the terminal speed is up to 10 times the speed of sound, that is, 3400 meters per second.
This terrifying hypersonic speed is a major challenge to all human air defense systems, and if 055 launches a saturation attack, it is basically impossible to stop the aircraft carrier, and the aircraft carrier will explode in place.
And the entire 055 destroyer is not only designed for stealth, but also has 112 launch cells that can carry 112 missiles at a time.
Among them, the Eagle Strike 21 anti-ship missile 055 destroyer can load 8~16 pieces according to the needs of the mission, and the rest are anti-aircraft missiles, anti-submarine missiles, etc.
There is no real picture of the missile hit effect, but the official has given a simulation map, probably like this, the very flat deck is estimated to be a simulated US military sand carrier, which was hit without being stopped after a saturation attack.
If you want to explode the rendering, it is probably the following.
Even if it is hit by an iron pimple at 10 times the speed of sound, it is a devastating blow, not to mention a missile specially designed for anti-ship, and the explosion effect will definitely surprise modern aircraft carriers with thin skin and thick filling full of aircraft ammunition.
Now that we know that the 055 destroyer can launch a lethal attack on an aircraft carrier at a distance of 1000 km, what is the attack range of the aircraft carrier?
The attack range of the aircraft carrier depends on the attack range of the carrier-based aircraft, and the attack range of the carrier-based aircraft is not fixed, the biggest reason is because modern advanced fighters are too heavy.
The Zero fighter carried by the Japanese aircraft carrier was the most advanced fighter during World War II, with a total combat weight of less than 2.7 tons, and could easily take off as long as a 70-meter runway.
The combat weight of the fourth-generation aircraft F18 of the US military has reached more than 20 tons, and the aircraft carrier can only achieve a deck more than 200 meters long, which cannot support the takeoff of fighters at all.
The most advanced fighter in the United States, the F22, has an empty weight of 16 tons and a total combat weight of 35 tons.
China's most advanced fighter J-20 has an empty weight of 17 tons and a total combat weight of 37 tons.
The J-20 is China's most advanced 5th generation fighter, air combat crushes all aircraft, this kind of baby Navy definitely wants, but the J-20 is too heavy, it can't fly at all on the aircraft carrier, and it can't be used for the Navy.
The same is true in the United States, not to mention 5th generation aircraft of more than 35 tons, even 4th generation aircraft of more than 20 tons cannot fly on aircraft carriers.
Therefore, carrier-based aircraft are all reduced, in order to be able to fly on the aircraft carrier either reduce the weight of fuel or reduce the weight of the bomb, the combat radius is much lower than that of road-based aircraft, as long as you are an aircraft carrier with a ski-jump deck design.
The defense circle of the US Nimitz-class nuclear-powered aircraft carrier is about 650 kilometers, and the defense circle of the aircraft carrier Ford is about 850 kilometers.
The Russian aircraft carrier Kuznetsov has a defensive circle of about 600 kilometers.
The defense circle of the Chinese aircraft carrier Liaoning is about 700 kilometers.
This defensive circle refers to the area where combat effectiveness can be effectively exerted, not the limit range of the aircraft carrier.
Aircraft carriers are limited by size, and the missiles they carry are much weaker than those launched by warships, and the maximum range is 120 kilometers, so improving the range mainly depends on improving the range.
If the carrier-based aircraft of the aircraft carrier carries only one round of ammunition and is full of fuel, it can indeed greatly increase the range, and thus the extreme range, but this does not make sense.
Therefore, increasing the take-off weight of carrier-based aircraft can immediately improve the combat effectiveness of aircraft carriers, and electromagnetic catapult technology can significantly increase the take-off weight of carrier-based aircraft.
Therefore, China's development of aircraft carrier electromagnetic ejection technology will shake the world, so Ma Weiming, who developed electromagnetic ejection technology for China, will be called the true king of electromagnetic manifestation and protector, and will be regarded as a treasure by the commander of the navy.
At present, the electromagnetic catapult technology of aircraft carriers is only mastered by China and the United States, the United States has only one electromagnetic catapult aircraft carrier is the Ford, and China has only one electromagnetic catapult aircraft carrier Fujian.
Therefore, the defense circle of the Ford will be directly raised by 200 kilometers than the Nimitz, and what kind of combat effectiveness the electromagnetic catapult aircraft carrier can have will be clear to China, because it can be simulated with the benchmark of the Fujian ship.
But even if it is a Ford, the range is 850 kilometers, which is still not as far as 1,000 kilometers away from the 055 carrier-based missile, which is at a serious disadvantage, and an ordinary aircraft carrier with a defensive circle of about 600 kilometers can only be pressed and hit when it encounters 055.
This is a real passive beating, 055 can attack casually, and it's nothing if the attack fails, but the air defense network of the aircraft carrier is finished as long as it is lost once, and the aircraft carrier is not the kind of Iron King Eight of Yamato, and it can't stand a shot.
Of course, if the carrier-based aircraft of the aircraft carrier give up carrying the bomb load and desperately load the fuel, the range can also be increased to more than 1,000 kilometers under desperate circumstances, but in this way, the combat effectiveness of the aircraft carrier will be greatly damaged, and only the carrier-based mechanism without fuel and ammunition is not too much of a threat.
And even so, carrier-based aircraft fly 1000 kilometers for at least 1 hour, and Eagle Strike 21 only takes 10 minutes to arrive, and carrier-based aircraft are still at a disadvantage.
What is even more outrageous is that the 055 destroyer is also equipped with a large number of air defense missiles, specializing in carrier-based aircraft, and the range is set at 200 kilometers, which is exactly 80 kilometers higher than the attack range of the anti-ship missiles mounted by the US carrier-based aircraft.
But if it encounters the Chinese 055 destroyer, the aircraft carrier can only send a death attack in this way, otherwise it will become a live target of 055, and if you don't want to do this, you can only turn around and run quickly, out of the range of 055.
Either the combat power is greatly lost, or turn around and run, 055 has this miracle effect on aircraft carriers, so 055 is a destroyer specially developed to destroy aircraft carriers.
The reason why the 055 is so powerful is that the Eagle Strike 21 anti-ship missile is too perverted.
The range of anti-ship missiles carried by US carrier-based aircraft is 120 kilometers, and the most advanced in China is currently 200 kilometers.
The range of anti-ship missiles carried by normal warships is 400~600 kilometers, which is not enough to pose a crushing threat to aircraft carriers.
The anti-ship missiles carried by the 055 increased the range to 1,000 kilometers in one go, which led to a qualitative change in the range comparison between destroyers and aircraft carriers.
Therefore, 055 is China's Zhenguo heavy weapon, only look at it and not sell it.
Of course, the aircraft carrier is not so eliminated, if the competition continues to fire projection, the aircraft carrier is far better than 055, such as attacking land targets, then only relying on the aircraft carrier.
But if only naval battles are considered, aircraft carriers are really afraid of ultra-long-range anti-ship missiles such as 055.
With the birth of the YJ-21, the research and development of human missile technology has broken through a critical point, and the subsequent shipborne missiles will definitely have a longer and farther range and greater power.
Limited by size and weight, the missiles that aircraft carriers can carry are always weaker than those carried by 10,000-ton giant ships, and they are far weaker.
If the current aircraft carrier goes crazy and desperately fuels the carrier-based aircraft, the extreme attack range can indeed exceed 1,000 kilometers, and it can be exchanged with 055, but if the missile technology is further improved, it is difficult to say.
When the advantage in the range of the aircraft is not enough to compensate for the range advantage of the missile, the balance of naval warfare will tilt in favor of the destroyer.
Subsequent human missile technology continues to develop, I am not surprised to develop a shipborne anti-ship missile with a range of 1,500 kilometers or even a range of 2,000 kilometers, and the corresponding destroyer weight will continue to increase from 13,000 tons, and finally develop a 30,000-ton 50,000-ton guided-missile destroyer is possible, and may even be heavier than today's aircraft carriers.
At that time, such destroyers should actually be called missile carriers, and fighting conventional warships is like aircraft carriers fighting battleships in those days, bullying opponents at will based on range advantages.
In terms of attack range, anti-ship missiles have reached more than 1,000 kilometers, while carrier-based aircraft can fly 600 kilometers full of ammunition, and the missiles they carry can only hit 120 kilometers.
In terms of attack speed, anti-ship missiles are easily 10 times the speed of sound, while carrier-based aircraft are difficult to fly at supersonic speeds, afraid of fuel consumption.
In terms of the will to fight, anti-ship missiles are not afraid of death, as long as they can complete the mission goal, how to thrill, low-altitude sea-skimming flight is a conventional operation, while carrier-based aircraft only warriors who are not afraid of death dare to skim the sea at low altitude.
This is the epoch-making significance of China's development of the 055 destroyer, which can point out the scientific and technological tree of this special anti-ship missile, to put it bluntly, it has been forced by the pressure of the US aircraft carrier over the years.
In the future, if a war breaks out, then all aircraft carriers within 1000 kilometers of the place where the Chinese destroyer 055 appears will be automatically expelled, either go on their own, or all our YJ-21 will launch saturation attacks to send you on the road.
So even if it is a Zhenguo heavy weapon, 055 is still called a destroyer, because the current effect is to destroy aircraft carriers.
We have launched 8 such war artifacts and are still under construction.