China's three aircraft carriers came out at once, and the US aircraft carriers were violent, but they slipped away in disgrace and ran south to the Middle East overnight.
Recently, Chinese and American aircraft carriers have been making big moves, especially in the Western Pacific.
(Illustration: Shandong aircraft carrier arrives near the coast of the Philippines)
According to a report by Hong Kong's English-language media South China Morning Post, a Chinese aircraft carrier was spotted sailing northwest of the Philippine island of Luzon in the South China Sea, and then the European satellite Sentinel 1 also spotted the aircraft carrier on the same day.
Combined with the monitoring of the "Sentinel 2" earth observation satellite, the outside world was able to confirm that another Chinese aircraft carrier had sailed out of Sanya some time ago, and Sanya is the home port of Shandong. Therefore, there is no doubt that the aircraft carrier that appeared in the waters near the Philippines this time is the Shandong ship.
In fact, there is a lot of intelligence that confirms that China's other two aircraft carriers, the Liaoning and the Fujian, are also in the same active state as the Shandong.
The Liaoning, the Chinese Navy's first aircraft carrier, has been tasked with heavy training since 2014, and with the Shandong being commissioned, the Liaoning has had plenty of time to return to the dock for overhauls and upgrades.
It is reported that after the upgrade, more advanced J-15D and J-35 carrier-based aircraft will be on the deck of the Liaoning, which will greatly improve its actual combat capability.
At present, the Liaoning has entered the waters of the Bohai Sea and the Yellow Sea to carry out adaptive training.
(Illustration: The Fujian ship launched its third sea trial, or conducted an electromagnetic catapult test in advance)
At the same time, China's third aircraft carrier, the Fujian, is also actively preparing for the third sea trial.
According to the notice issued by the Shanghai Maritime Safety Administration, temporary control measures have recently been implemented for the export of large ships in the deep-water channel of the Yangtze River Estuary. From the signs of the start of the main engine of the Fujian ship and the smoke coming from the chimney, it can be inferred that this sea trial is not trivial.
Furthermore, the East China Sea has also demarcated the 15-point line of waters to carry out military missions, and this rectangular area layout is extremely rare.
In addition, the exercise time arranged in the notice is only one and a half days, which is too much shortened compared with the second sea trial, and it can be inferred that it can be completed in a short time, and only a small rectangular area can be carried out.
Although it is uncertain what type of carrier-based aircraft will be used in this ejection test, considering that the J-35 carrier-based aircraft model is no longer on the deck, it seems more reasonable to use the mature J-15T ejection version for testing for the first time from the perspective of practicality and logic.
However, the regular patrols and sea trials of China's aircraft carriers have been portrayed as "threats" by foreign media.
(Illustration: The USS Roosevelt will go south to the Middle East at full speed after completing military exercises)
It should be emphasized that for China, the development and maintenance of a strong naval force is an important part of its national security strategy. China has always emphasized a defensive national defense policy, and the fundamental goal of its naval modernization is to safeguard national sovereignty, security, and development interests, rather than to deliberately expand its maritime or threaten other countries, as some international media have claimed.
However, the Taiwan and Philippine sides are still extremely worried, for fear of being surrounded by our troops. Moreover, they all admit that they are indeed inferior to the PLA in terms of strength.
So, they have recently begun to desperately seek help from others. In the past, the United States created a "no man's hell" on the island of Taiwan, and then there was a large-scale joint exercise between the United States and the Philippines.
And all this fully reflects that compared with the movements of China's aircraft carriers, it is the United States that really wants to stir up nerves and arch the flames of conflict.
As the world's most powerful maritime power, the United States has long maintained a strong military presence in the Asia-Pacific region. Recently, after completing a joint military exercise with Japan and South Korea in the East China Sea, the US aircraft carrier USS Roosevelt is planning to rush to the Red Sea region to carry out the "Prosperity Guardian" escort mission.
However, some people have noticed that after the Roosevelt sailed out of the Asia-Pacific region, the US Navy temporarily had no aircraft carriers available in the western Pacific region, resulting in an unprecedented "3:0" situation in the comparison of aircraft carrier forces between China and the United States in the region.