At a time when the Houthis are frequently deflated and anxious in the Red Sea, the United States is gathering heavy troops and preparing to provoke the situation in the Western Pacific. After the recent conclusion of the large-scale maritime exercises of the United States, Japan, and South Korea from 15 to 17 July, the United States is not enough. According to the information already known, the US Navy brazenly dispatched three powerful 100,000-ton nuclear-powered aircraft carriers: the USS Carl Vinson, the USS Ronald Reagan, and the USS Roosevelt, approaching the peninsula and threatening it with great momentum!
You know, the US aircraft carriers will not go alone, but will carry at least a strong escort force including a Ticonderoga-class cruiser, 1-3 Burke-class destroyers, and at least one nuclear submarine. Of course, there is also a powerful carrier-based aircraft force composed of dozens of aircraft of various types with the ship. It is not difficult to see that the strength of the three US aircraft carriers can be said to exceed the total strength of more than 99% of the world's navies, which is enough to win a war with a middle power. For this reason, we can't help but ask: what exactly do the Americans want to do in the Western Pacific!
Whatever the Americans do, at least with three powerful aircraft carriers in the Western Pacific, they already have the ability to launch armed provocations and large-scale military operations. As a major country with a sense of justice in the region, Russia naturally will not sit idly by! According to relevant sources, the Pacific Fleet of the Russian Navy has moved south from the coastal ports of the Sea of Japan and entered the waters of the East China Sea, and has launched a large-scale naval exercise in the nearby waters in a-for-tat manner!
The Pacific Fleet of the Russian Navy dispatched the flagship 10,000-ton cruiser Varyag, which is the backbone of the surface combat force of the Pacific Fleet of the Russian Navy, and its main combat power lies in anti-ship operations at sea. The 8-seat twin SSN12 long-range supersonic anti-ship missiles carried on the left and right sides of the board, the maximum range of this heavy anti-ship missile is 550 kilometers, the maximum cruising altitude is 13,000 meters, and the weight of the warhead is as high as 1 ton.
In addition, the Russian Navy also dispatched a cutting-edge ship, the "Marshal Shaposhnikov" missile frigate, which is equipped with the Russian Navy's most advanced "Zircon" hypersonic missile, with an average flight speed of 5,700 kilometers per hour.
At present, according to the information disclosed by the Russian side, after the Russian fleet entered the relevant sea area, it has launched an intensive maritime exercise, including air defense exercises, electronic warfare exercises, and so on. Obviously, the fleet of the Russian Navy has been put on "full alert" through high-intensity exercises, and it can even be said that it is ready to directly "face to face" with the powerful aircraft carrier formation of the United States!
The author believes that this rare maritime confrontation between the United States and Russia in the western Pacific waters may be a manifestation of the spillover of the Russia-Ukraine war. At the instigation and instigation of the United States, South Korean-made NATO standard 155mm ammunition has been shipped to Ukraine in a large manner, and Japanese tracked vehicles and light armored vehicles have also been delivered to Kyiv. There is also economic, trade, cultural, and scientific and technological cooperation between Russia and the DPRK. This made the United States very dissatisfied, so it began to join forces with Japan and South Korea to frequently make moves in the western Pacific and carried out continuous military exercises on many occasions, so that the North Korean military had no choice but to deter the United States, Japan, and South Korea by test-firing missiles in an attempt to protect itself.
The purpose of the Russian army's dispatch of its naval fleet to meet it directly is to prevent the United States, Japan, and South Korea from making further improper moves, so as to calm down the incident as much as possible and maintain regional peace.
From the point of view of fleet strength, although the United States does have a great advantage, let's not forget that the East China Sea is a semi-closed coastal area, and the rare gathering of US aircraft carrier formations here is actually equivalent to "sending itself to the door." In the surrounding North Korean army, the Russian army actually does not need to dispatch the corresponding fleet at all, and completely relies on the power of shore-based missiles to make the US military have a good "drink".
In fact, the US military is well aware of this, so although this move by the US military seems to be menacing, it can't make big waves at all, but it is just to "cheer up" Japan, South Korea and other small partners, and show its sense of existence by the way. And the Russian army also saw this, so it dared to dispatch two ships to face the US aircraft carrier formation.
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