Text: Lao Yan Kanshi
Editor|Lao Yan Kanshi
Although China's development speed is very fast, its strength is also very strong. However, the United States still dares to continue to carry out multi-circle provocations against the mainland.
And the reason why the United States has the confidence to bounce so happily in the world is that the United States has a very strong army. Whether it's the Air Force, Army or Navy. The United States has built it perfectly, especially the navy. The total tonnage of the U.S. Navy is the sum of China, Russia, and the United Kingdom combined.
It can be said that the United States was able to quickly occupy the first place in the world after the end of the "empire on which the sun never sets" because of the strength of its navy. And the U.S. Navy's 11 aircraft carrier battle groups are spread all over the world. So, just how strong is the U.S. Navy?
The size of the US Navy
According to the latest data released by the United States, the total number of active duty and reserve personnel in the US Navy is 500,000. The United States also has hundreds of active warships equipped in the Navy. It can be said that the US Navy ranks first in the world in terms of size and sophistication.
So, where is the size of the US Navy? Where is the advanced equipment?
First of all, we need to figure out the organizational structure of the US Navy. The U.S. Navy is not a single force, in order to be able to perfectly fulfill the multi-faceted combat needs, the United States divides the Navy into multiple parts of the combat units, which exist independently of each other in peacetime, and once the war needs arise, then they will immediately and automatically organize into huge combat units.
The U.S. Navy can be divided into naval forces, fleet aviation units, maritime service units, and shore-based forces.
In 2013, the United States created a two-ocean fleet. Responsible for daily cruising in the world's waters.
Under the Interoceanic Fleet, the United States has formed 11 aircraft carrier battle groups, 11 carrier-based aircraft wings, and seven fleets. This means that the United States has eleven naval combat fleets with aircraft carriers. The United States will equip each aircraft carrier battle group with hundreds of ships and aircraft to protect its safety.
In particular, after the official loading and use of the F35 aircraft in the United States, the so-called "one hour to fight all over the world" that the United States had shouted many years ago has basically been realized. ”
I have to say that the United States is really "arrogant", and it can be equipped with such great strength in the navy like the United States, and there is no second country in the world to come out.
Even China does not have such a large-scale assembly of forces for the navy, and there are only 240,000 soldiers in the Chinese People's Liberation Army Navy in active service, and there are more than 300 ships and 600 aircraft.
Although China's data is much worse than that of the United States, the total tonnage of China's navy's active ships ranks second in the world, second only to the United States.
Moreover, since the US Navy is scattered around the globe for cruises. Therefore, in the western Pacific region, the naval forces of the US Navy are not as strong as China's.
But overall, the U.S. Navy is the strongest in the world. Moreover, the United States wants to be able to receive first-hand information whenever and wherever it wants. After the end of World War II, the United States began to build fortifications all over the world.
According to the data, it can be known that after the end of World War II, the United States in order to expand its sphere of influence. Up to 5,000 military bases have been built around the world. And half of them are overseas.
Although the unpredictable international situation at that time gave the United States a reason to frantically build military bases. But as soon as the Cold War ended, this argument of the United States could no longer stand.
As a result, in the face of opposition from countless voices, the United States had no choice but to adjust its military strategy and abandon 80 percent of its overseas bases, but even so, there were still 374 US military bases.
American military bases are located all over the world. On the map of the four continents and seven oceans, you can see the signs of US military bases as far as the eye can see.
In this way, no matter which country has a change, the United States can be the first to receive the news and formulate the next action plan for this purpose.
In October 2023, Hamas suddenly launched an attack on Israel, and as soon as China received the news, the United States had already sent an aircraft carrier. It can be seen from this that the U.S. Navy is indeed ubiquitous.
The White House has always had a tradition that no matter where an armed conflict occurs in the world, the first thing a US president asks his security assistant will always say, "Where is our closest aircraft carrier battle group?"
That's how big the U.S. Navy is. So, how advanced is the equipment of the US Navy?
Advanced equipment
As mentioned above, the United States has 11 aircraft carriers in its two-ocean fleet.
Of all the weapons that the United States has assembled, the most powerful is undoubtedly the 11 aircraft carriers. It is no exaggeration to say that if there are no aircraft carriers in the Navy, then this Navy has no soul.
Aircraft carriers are the core of the Navy. In layman's terms, in the navy, aircraft carriers are the main output, and the rest of the ships can only provide protection and auxiliary roles for aircraft carriers. As long as the aircraft carrier is not damaged, then the Navy will always have a chance to turn around.
In the modern navy, aircraft carriers are an indispensable link. There are so many countries in the world, and there are only 24 aircraft carriers. The United States has 11 ships, which shows how powerful the US Navy is.
Needless to say, the United States ranks first in the world in terms of scientific and technological strength and military strength. Therefore, the capabilities of aircraft carriers produced by the United States are also very strong. Compared with Russian aircraft carriers, the speed of the US aircraft carrier is 16.7% faster than that of the Russian aircraft carrier.
Moreover, the United States also equips its own aircraft carriers with high-intensity strike devices. When the United States attacked Afghanistan before, although Afghanistan carried out a frantic resistance, it eventually had to rely on the United States to send an aircraft carrier battle group to set off.
The huge amount of military supplies and the huge amount of combat weapons brought by the aircraft carrier battle group are unmatched by other ships.
At the same time, in order to cooperate with aircraft carriers and make their naval forces give full play to their might, the United States has also spent a lot of time on nuclear submarines research.
If aircraft carriers are the export weapons that the United States puts on the surface, then nuclear submarines are assassins that cooperate in secret. During World War II, because the technology was not advanced enough, American submarines were basically equipped with traditional fuel and conventional weapons.
But after the end of World War II, the United States worked submarines, and finally at the beginning of the 21st century, the United States updated all its submarines into nuclear submarines.
The most famous submarine in the world is the Seawolf-class submarine of the United States. The Seawolf-class submarine has the title of underwater fighter, not only is it fast and quiet, but the lethality of its weapons is also very terrifying.
When the Seawolf submarine first appeared in the world, the whole world was shocked at that time, and the Soviet Union, which also belonged to the Cold War at that time, even felt that the United States had developed a lethal weapon.
A very important reason why nuclear submarines can have such terrifying strength is because even if all the ships at sea are scrapped, as long as there is still one nuclear submarine, it will be enough to inflict a devastating blow on the coastal coasts of hostile countries.
With the cooperation of such advanced nuclear submarines and aircraft carriers of the United States, the aircraft carrier battle group formed by the US Navy can be said to come and go freely in the earth's oceans. It is not in vain that the United States has the title of "maritime police".
Why, then, is the US Navy so powerful?
U.S. guarantees
As the old saying goes, money isn't everything, but no money is impossible. The fact that the United States can become strong is inseparable from money.
So, how did the United States get rich? As we all know, the time when a country spends the most money is either a major natural disaster or a war.
The reason why New China could not compare with other countries in the early days was because before the founding of New China, China had been in a period of chaos between various forces for a long time. War consumes money and inhibits the economy. Therefore, after the founding of the People's Republic of China, it did not develop immediately, but first recuperated for several years.
In contrast, the United States is not unlucky. Even though the United States was a British colony in the early days, after the outbreak of the Revolutionary War and the establishment of the United States, there were few wars in the United States other than civil wars. The only time it was damaged by the war was during World War II when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor.
And the benefits of not having war are obvious. There is no need to rebuild after the war, there is no need to invest large sums of money on the battlefield, and there is no need to enter the wartime economic system, and the economy will not develop.
As a result, after the end of the two world wars, the United States was the only country in the world that had preserved its strength intact and made a lot of money.
During the two world wars, the United States not only made a large amount of war money through the sale and purchase of military weapons, but also gained a more thorough understanding of the study of military weapons.
After the situation stabilized for the time being, the United States took advantage of the fact that other countries were recuperating and recuperating, and invested a large amount of money in the military field to study it. This has created a situation in which the United States is able to crush the rest of the countries militarily.
There may be many people who say that the United States is now unable to even support its national finances, and is looking for countries everywhere to buy US Treasury bonds in order to survive? How can it continue to lead in military strength?
In fact, this is where the United States is advanced. The United States was not able to become a world hegemon by brute force alone. If the economy can prosper, it can quickly slump.
In economics, the economy is like a cycle, and after a period of extreme prosperity, it leads to a period of withering. The United States anticipated this, so it took advantage of the period when it was the richest to spend money on military strength.
In this way, when the US economy declines in the future, the United States' military strength, which is ahead of the countries of the world, will become another guarantee for the United States. Because the United States has the world's leading military strength, its national status will not decline, and the United States can still influence the whole world by virtue of its hegemony.
It has to be said that the United States was quite right in what it expected. Even though the United States is now in economic difficulties, its powerful military strength still gives the United States the capital to continue to be arrogant and domineering in the world.
Although the United States is very powerful, we should not be arrogant and compare the United States with China. You know, China is not comparable to the United States at all. Whether it is from the aspect of economic construction, military research, and scientific and technological development. Because China and the United States do not invest the same amount of time.
However, although China started much later than the United States. However, with the efforts of generation after generation, China has been able to catch up with and surpass Western countries in just a few decades, closely following the United States. In this respect, China is already remarkable.
China is now ranked second in the world, but that doesn't mean it will always be second. If the youth is strong, the country will be strong, and if the youth is wise, the country will be wise. Thanks to the efforts of China's new generation of young people, the motherland's march forward will never stop! It is certainly only a matter of time before China catches up with and surpasses the United States.