It has been reported that the United States has recently rushed to the Asia-Pacific region with three aircraft carrier strike groups and gathered around us. Assuming that the United States still uses this method to deter China today, it will not be able to do it at all.
It is said that the three aircraft carriers, the USS Carl Vinson, and the USS Roosevelt, which are now deployed in Japan, are heading for Asia-Pacific waters. If the three aircraft carriers form a strike group, their strike capability is indeed extraordinary, and their deterrent and actual strike capabilities are indeed very powerful.
Three aircraft carriers have gathered around us, to mention twice in the last 20 years. The first time was in '07, when the United States had three aircraft carriers conducting military exercises near Guam. The second time was 17 years later, when the USS Reagan, the USS Roosevelt and the USS Nimitz went to the Korean Peninsula to conduct joint military exercises with South Korea and the United States. Now it is rumored that these three aircraft carriers have come to our side, which has aroused great concern and heated discussions.
But in the end, looking up the source of this message, and looking at some of the current situation, it is actually not the case, this news is inaccurate. It is true that only one of the officially deployed US aircraft carriers, the USS Carl Vinson and the USS Reagan, is in Japan, but it is impossible for him to use it for a while while and a half in the port of Yokosuka for repairs, and the Roosevelt is now on the west coast of the United States, on the California side, and there is no sign of rushing over.
However, you say that the United States is now squeezing out its maritime power again, creating a three-aircraft carrier cluster, and then running to the Asia-Pacific region. But if you want to use this method to deter China, it is already very difficult to do it from a military point of view, and the United States does not dare to do that.
And the aircraft carrier group does have a very strong strike capability, and it can even be described as terrifying, it is enough to launch a regional war above the medium scale, for small countries, or even for medium-sized countries, it will indeed form a catastrophe.
Theoretically speaking, if you look at a Nimitz-class aircraft carrier with 75 carrier-based aircraft, in fact, the USS Ford is similar, and in the first three days, it can hit nearly 250 ground targets per day. Four days before the start of the war, if the three aircraft carriers used the peak sortie mode, they could make 750 sorties in one day and night, and after the peak primary mode of the past three to four days, its strike intensity would be reduced, and it could not last too long, and it would have to adopt the continuous sortie mode in the next few days.
Then in this case, it is also possible to make 450 sorties per day and night, and I'm talking about the three carriers combined, if you calculate that, it can make 4, 350 sorties in a whole week, and that can drop more than 7, 000 bombs, and theoretically it can destroy 3, 000 to 5, 000 targets.
It is very difficult for a small and medium-sized country to withstand this kind of fighting, but in the face of a land power like China, this method does not work at all, and the strike efficiency of carrier-based aviation is lower than that of land-based aviation, so in the confrontation between major powers, the role of aircraft carriers is not so powerful, and it is not so high in military aspects, and it is more reflected in other aspects.
The most important and crucial thing is that the United States does not dare to do so now. Because of our powerful sawtooth ability, the American aircraft carrier is basically unable to play its role.
Our aircraft carriers mainly rely on their carrier-based fighters to fight others, and at present, US aircraft carriers mainly use the F/A-18E/F Super Hornet. The combat radius of this Super Hornet is less than 800 kilometers, and in actual combat, due to the requirements of various tactics, it may be low-altitude, high-altitude, and ultra-low-altitude, and it will have to do various maneuvers. In other words, your flight profile is more complex.
Therefore, the so-called US aircraft carrier cluster to deter China is no longer realistic. But if we really get three aircraft carriers to walk around us, this possibility is really there, after all, it is in peacetime, and we cannot fight it, but the purpose of doing so is more of political significance.