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If you don't change it, it won't work, and if you change it, it's a waste of money, so it's better to use it to build our Henan aircraft carrier! This is the embarrassing situation of the Russian-style warships on the mainland, and netizens have ridiculed and commented: "It is better to give it to Russia as a favor." [Innocent]
With the successful launch of the 003 aircraft carrier, the status of the mainland's "Russian-style warships" has become even more embarrassing, and even the coast guard, which has always been chasing after the state to equip them, feels that it is a pity to abandon them because they are tasteless. What's going on here?
The version iterated so fast!
Beginning in the 21 st century, the development of the mainland's navy can be said to be changing with each passing day, and it has directly leapt to the second place in the world, second only to the United States, the old maritime hegemon. Of course, this is just our more humble statement, after all, a 055 large-drive Nanchang ship can force back a US aircraft carrier group, what a prestige of the mainland!
However, in the early days of the mainland's establishment, it can be said that there was a lack of military strength at sea, and the United States relied on its own warships to swing around the mainland's territorial waters every day, which made us suffer humiliation. In order to make up for the military defense at sea, the mainland can only temporarily replace it by introducing Russian warships.
At present, the four Hyundai-class destroyers currently in service with the mainland Navy, as well as the two 051C and the 2 052B, known as the "Chinese Russian Aegis" and the 2 "China Modern", are all warships with a strong Russian style produced by the mainland in that era, which have helped us survive difficult times and defensive gaps.
A great help in difficult times!
In the 70s of the last century, the struggle for hegemony between the United States and the Soviet Union entered a white-hot stage, because the land and air nuclear strike capabilities of the two sides were equal, so sea power became the key direction of the contest between the two sides! At that time, the United States built a maritime aircraft carrier fleet with the Nimitz aircraft carrier as the core, which can be said to have shocked the world. In order to deal with this problem, the Soviet Union created a surface ship strike group to deal with it.
It's a pity that the Soviet Union lacked ocean-going combat capabilities at that time, in order to fill this gap, the Soviet Union prepared the 956 project, and created a modern-class destroyer with a full load displacement of 7900 tons overnight, which can be matched with 8 hypersonic anti-ship missiles, a speed of Mach 2.8, and a range of up to 120 kilometers! At that time, it was two or three levels ahead of the NATO allies.
Let's put it this way, at that time, the most advanced ships on the mainland were only the 3,670-ton Type 051 destroyer and Type 053 frigate, which were still built in imitation of the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union directly produced three types of destroyers, 956, 956A and 956B, from which it can be seen how embarrassing the position of the continental navy was at that time.
It's a pity that the Soviet Union was forced to disband before it had time to build more advanced and complex aircraft carriers, so that now Russia's maritime power is not so strong, and there are no particularly powerful aircraft carriers.
In 1995, when the Taiwan Strait crisis broke out, the United States unscrupulously dispatched two aircraft carrier battle groups into the mainland's Taiwan Strait area, fueling the arrogance of Taiwan independence and causing the mainland to suffer all kinds of grievances. In the course of the confrontation with the US military, the mainland navy discovered that our long-range anti-ship capability was too weak.
In layman's terms, it is impossible to hit at all, and even if it can be hit, it will be easily stopped by the opponent's defense system, and the Continental Army ships have no means at all to defend against the enemy's carrier-based aircraft and submarine raids, and they are powerless to parry. There is no way, the development of naval strength cannot be achieved overnight, it can only be developed slowly step by step, and in order to allow us enough time to develop, the mainland can only temporarily introduce ships from other countries as temporary combat readiness forces.
In 1996, the mainland and Russia signed a purchase contract to introduce two Russian "modern-class" Type 956E missile destroyers at a price of $800 million, giving the mainland a chance to breathe, and later renamed them Hangzhou and Fuzhou. Later, because of its superior performance, in 2002, the mainland introduced two improved missile destroyers, which later became Taizhou and Ningbo, at a price of $1.4 billion.
Enlightened by Russian destroyers, the mainland also touched the threshold of 8,000 tons of displacement and produced Type 051 destroyers. The mainland was informed of the 8,000-tonnage hull design, the use of air situational awareness and regional air defense systems, situational awareness and sea domination combat systems including anti-ship missiles, and the integrated ramjet engine of anti-ship missiles.
And it is this small step that has laid a solid foundation for the subsequent development of the mainland's naval career! With the efforts of scientific researchers day and night, the mainland's naval strength is thriving, and aircraft carriers have been launched one after another, and even 055 destroyers have been produced, which has made Lao Mei see the strength of the mainland's naval power!
The end of the hero
With the development of the times, how strong the mainland's maritime power is now, I believe that everyone here also knows that the days when our navy was angry are gone forever! However, as a temporary transition ship of that year, not many modern destroyers with Russian style, 051C and 250B, were produced, and now there are only 8 left.
Although the technology of these 8 destroyers is relatively backward, the service age is in the prime of life, which is very embarrassing. Use it, right? There are too many backward technologies, and they still need to be upgraded, and it is better to waste this money than to research them. Don't use it, right? It's a bit of a pity to abandon it.
These modern-class destroyers basically have a full load displacement of more than 8,000 tons, and they haven't even reached 10,000 tons. Moreover, after modification, it can only carry a 32-cell vertical launch device and a 24-cell Haihongqi-0 close-in defense missile. Compared with the mainland's latest 1103 near-defense missile, it is simply one in the sky and one underground, and there is still a lot of money wasted.
Some people may ask, that's all modified, why not install the latest model? In fact, the reason for this embarrassment is because it is an imitation of the design of a Russian-style warship. Because at that time, when this model was designed, it was basically "a carrot and a pit", and many internal spaces were actually completely unusable, and there was not much redundancy for modifications.
If you have to make a hard change, you can only knock down the center of gravity and cabin structure of the ship and start over, and you can produce a 055 with this effort, and the pure gains outweigh the losses. And the Type 052B ship also has this problem, because of the use of Russian air defense, resulting in a large open space in front of the ship can not be used.
The center of gravity, trim, this is the biggest problem when refitting Russian warships, and then there is the inconvenient change of the hull compartment. From the various types of ships newly produced by the mainland navy, we can find that they have abandoned this common problem, so there are many things that can be modified and the compatibility is very strong.
As for these "Russian-style ships" on the mainland, many people say that the meaning of their existence is to increase the number of naval warships, and if someone wants to buy them, the country may finally exert their value. Some netizens said that it is better to give it to Russia as a favor. It was sent to Russia for maintenance, and then Russia seized it for no reason, claiming to pay us compensation, and finally paid us with oil.
Of course, the above sentence is just a joke from netizens, but the editor thinks this attention is also very good, I don't know what you think in front of the screen? Let's discuss in the comment section!
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[1] Published on April 23, 2024 by the National Defense Sector Network Striding forward towards building a world-class navy in all respects - written on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the founding of the People's Navy