Why doesn't the United States build a 10,000-ton drive like the 055? After all, even South Korea now has a destroyer larger than the 055. Then why is the United States so strong in its comprehensive national strength, and he does not develop it?
First of all, let's see if the United States has this technology. The most advanced systems of the 055 are the vertical launch system of missiles with four bombs in one pit, which has a diameter of 0.85 meters, which can fully fit the 0.75-meter-thick YJ-21.
The United States and other Aegis warships generally use the Marx-1 hammer system, such as Japan, South Korea or France, and many countries have bought warships from the United States. Whether in terms of production quantity or quality, the research and development experience of the American vertical hair system is absolutely second to none. Then this technology, he will certainly not be worse than any country.
The second technology on the 055 is this double-segment active phased radar in the X and S bands, which not only sees far but also eats up and down, and can see everything clearly. After discovering hundreds of targets, it is also possible to track dozens of them at the same time and guide missiles to intercept. But this technology was actually first proposed by the United States in the 90s, and we cut it off and applied it to 055 first.
Because the Soviet Union collapsed in the 90s, and the powerful navy disappeared with it, the United States had no strategic opponents, and he was suddenly confused and didn't know how to play.
In this way, the Burke-class destroyer in his hand and this Ticonderoga-class cruiser are already invincible in the world. In this way, he doesn't need to spend a lot of money to disembowel these warships to change the radar, which is very time-consuming, at least two or three years, which is similar to building a new one. We can also see this from their latest launch of the Burke 3 equipped with this dual-band radar.
But in terms of technical reserves, he has long had. The third point is that this 055 has a very advanced integrated radio frequency technology. We can simply understand it as a comprehensive radar management system, that is, the electricity used by all the radars on the ship is more accurate, when to turn on and when to turn off, which is completely computerized automatic management, which is very power-saving. This technology was also used in the United States on Ford-class aircraft carriers.
Then there is this 055's power generation and power system, which has always been his strength. On the whole, it is not a problem for the United States to build a destroyer that can match or even surpass 055. The reason why it was not built is because the overall combat effectiveness of the US destroyers is already the first in the world in terms of the scale of 50 or 60 destroyers, and its destroyer combat effectiveness accounts for 28.8 percent of the US Navy, which is on the same level as the combat effectiveness of this nuclear-powered submarine.
And our destroyers have only 11% of the Navy's combat strength. Therefore, the United States does not think it is necessary to spend this large amount of money to rebuild fifty or sixty destroyers like 055 in a short period of time, because what it wants is not to surpass in a single combat effectiveness, but to maintain the world's first overall strength.