China's strength in building aircraft carriers has amazed the world, and after the successful construction of aircraft carriers in Fujian, according to the official attitude, it is possible to continue to build new aircraft carriers 004 and 005, so China's aircraft carriers have started construction one after another, and the progress is very smooth, and in contrast, the US military, which was far ahead in the field of building aircraft carriers, has had big problems.
The U.S. military has never hidden its ambition to maintain the world's No. 1 aircraft carrier fleet, and even invested heavily in the rapid construction of the USS Ford No. 2 in order to solve the design flaws of the electromagnetic catapult system.
In the face of US nuclear-powered aircraft carriers, there are also some old technical problems that need to be solved, and the United States has made a special allocation of funds in terms of military spending to provide financial guarantees for the upgrading and renewal of aircraft carriers, and has even declared the completion of construction investment in the next two years.
For example, in 2025, the U.S. military will invest nearly $900 billion in military spending, of which the overall amount of special spending on aircraft carriers has declined, and the reduction is very obvious, and it will even affect the delivery time of the USS Ford 2 ship under construction by the US military, as well as the delay in the construction of the No. 3 enterprise aircraft carrier construction plan for a few years.
This has triggered many speculations in the international community: After all, according to the needs of the United States to expand frantically and deploy troops in the western Pacific, the United States still thinks that the total number of aircraft carriers is insufficient, so why is it not in a hurry to complete the construction of aircraft carriers, but instead to reduce expenditures and delay the delivery of aircraft carriers?
According to Western media sources, it seems that the US military has lowered its self-judgment and confidence in terms of the overall combat superiority of aircraft carriers. This is also related to the continuous improvement of the comprehensive level of aircraft carriers of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, which has caused a confrontation and impact on the US aircraft carriers, and has an important impact.
At first, the West was as unimpressed as the US military was to build a conventionally powered aircraft carrier in China. However, when China's Fujian aircraft carrier was built, the electromagnetic catapult system was successfully installed, and after testing, the performance was superior to that of the United States' electronic catapult technology, and the West, including the US military, was obviously shocked and in an uproar.
The continuous improvement of China's aircraft carrier technology and comprehensive level means that it will be difficult for the US aircraft carrier to maintain a crushing advantage, and even after China can build a nuclear power system aircraft carrier, the US military will change from a world leader to a level equal to China's aircraft carrier, which is difficult for the United States to accept.
Therefore, the outside world believes that the reason why the US military has reduced the budget for the construction of aircraft carriers is that it is actually likely to invest in research and development funds in the construction of new aircraft carriers, and all this is carried out in a rare low-key manner. This also shows that the US military, while facing the improvement of China's aircraft carrier level, is also feeling pressure, and even began to learn to be low-key.
This is because the US military, after the analysis of military experts, believes that although China only has conventionally powered aircraft carriers, the overall advanced level of the aircraft carrier's comprehensive ability to deploy weapons and the countermeasure ability to resist the combat strength of the US military far exceed the imagination of the US military, which means that even if China has a conventionally powered aircraft carrier in the coastal battlefield, the US military will not be able to get cheap at all, and will even suffer heavy losses.
In the face of such a grim situation, the US military's original sense of superiority has been dampened, and when the US military analyzes the level of China's aircraft carriers, China's military industry development is still steadily pushing forward, and China's perseverance and comprehensive strength in facing the goal and overcoming difficult problems have made the United States worried.
The United States, which was far ahead in the field of aircraft carrier technology, has dominated the world by virtue of its advanced technology and the number of crushing aircraft carrier fleets, and once this sense of superiority is knocked out of the cracks, the self-doubt of the US military will gradually expand, and the arrogance of the superstitious belief that the US aircraft carrier is invincible in the world will also begin to dissipate.
What is wrong with the US military to slow down the progress of the aircraft carrier construction plan? This involves the core secrets of the US Navy, and the Pentagon is unlikely to answer it positively, but the Western media have made a variety of speculations, even including peeking into the intentions of the US military from some details.
Now the information that the Western media can get has found that the reason why the US Navy wants to delay the aircraft carrier delivery plan is, on the one hand, because it has a desire to improve the superiority of the existing aircraft carrier combat power.
In addition, the more important reason is that the shipyards in the United States are difficult to bear the accumulation of more orders, and even the shipyards have the problem of stagnation in the construction speed, simply put, the US military has disclosed its plans to build ships to the outside world, but the shipyards are still moving forward at the speed of a snail, and they cannot produce the quantity on these orders at all.
This has hit the U.S. military even harder, because compared with China's shipbuilding capabilities, U.S. shipbuilding is already going downhill, and China's shipbuilding capabilities and technology improvement are common development, with obvious advantages, which makes the United States also unable to accept the various problems of American shipyards and the decline in the slow progress of research and development.