Yesterday CCTV announced the news that a large fleet of our navy went to Russia to conduct a Sino-Russian 2021 maritime joint exercise, which caused heated discussion among netizens at home and abroad, because the extraordinary strength of the fleet dispatched by China this time was led by 1 10,000-ton large-scale drive 055 and 1 052D destroyer, and took 2 054A frigates and two logistics ships to Russia.
Brother Hu believes that the size of the Chinese Navy's fleet is equivalent to 50% of the strength of the entire Royal Navy's main battle fleet, which can be described as a rare large-scale maritime formation. In the past Sino-Russian joint exercise, the number of hulls sent by the Chinese side is very different from this one, which also shows that the strategic mutual trust between China and Russia has reached a new level.
China's naval fleet has also aroused heated discussion among Russian netizens, who have seen that the fleet has a submarine support ship, so they believe that there is a high probability that submarines will accompany the entire fleet to participate in military exercises.
Brother Tiger saw that some Russian netizens expressed great envy, because the entire Russian Navy does not have such a powerful warship, which is only a small number of ships drawn by our army from the three major fleets of the South China Sea, the East China Sea and the North Sea, and its total size is even stronger than the Russian Navy in the Asia-Pacific Region!
Tiger Brother believes that the netizen is not wrong, the current Russian fleet in Asia is only the Navy Pacific Fleet, which is currently equipped with two guided missile cruisers and five destroyers. These capital warships were produced in 1980 at the earliest and produced in the 1990s at the latest, basically old-fashioned ships of the Soviet period, and the performance was acceptable in the 2000s, but now this new type of battlefield environment is relatively backward, and it is undoubtedly a lot behind the ships of the Chinese Navy.
That is to say, the combined combat effectiveness of all the large ships of the Russian Pacific Fleet except nuclear submarines is not as strong as that of this fleet sent by our army this time. Tiger Brother calculated in detail the specific strength of the Russian Pacific Fleet, of which a 25,000-ton Kirov-class guided-missile cruiser is lying in the nest and is currently in a state of lack of maintenance, and financial problems have led to delays in entering the state of combat readiness. Another and only cruiser ready to be deployed is the Glory class guided-missile cruiser, which has 8 SAN6 vertical launchers and can carry 64 S-300 anti-aircraft missile sea-based versions, but it is worth mentioning that this vertical fire has only one launch port, similar to a revolver, which can only be fired one round at a time, which severely limits the fire channel.
The remaining 5 Modern, Dreadnought-class destroyers simply do not have a vertical hair system, using an old-fashioned launcher, which has been eliminated by the world's major powers and successively replaced with vertical hair devices, and Russia is currently the only one.
This is only a matter of weapons, in terms of advanced degree, China's 055 and 052D use active phased array radars to have regional air defense capabilities, and the ordinary radar performance of 054A frigates also exceeds that of the Russian Dreadnought class in the same period. What's even worse is that our combat ships all carry hair-hanging units. As the largest destroyer of the Chinese Navy, the 055 da drive deservedly carried 112 vertical hair units, the 052D could only carry 64 vertical hair units due to its small size limitations, while the two smaller 054A frigates each carried 32 vertical hair units, and the number of vertical hair of these 4 combat ships reached 240, exceeding the total number of ships in the main station of the entire Russian Pacific Fleet.
This is why Russian netizens can be so envious, but Brother Tiger believes that since the strategic mutual trust between China and Russia has reached a new height, Russia can consider considering China's warships, which used to be Purchased by China from Russia's aircraft and warships, but now the situation is reversed. In terms of the main battleships of the Navy, in addition to the nuclear submarines are not as good as Russia, but the technical performance indicators of other ships have completely exceeded the Russian Navy, so the Russian Navy can consider the 052D destroyers or 054A frigates equipped by our Navy, of course, 055 is impossible, and this advanced warship is impossible for any country to sell.
The 052D and 054A have a certain possibility, because these two types of ships have been in service in the Navy for more than 10 years, the performance is close to perfect, but also in a large number of construction work, the production process has long been mature, so it can be built at a very fast speed, allowing Russia to equip the troops at the fastest speed, and more importantly, the control of mass production of Chinese warships in terms of cost leads to the overall price is very affordable, Therefore, advanced performance and suitable prices are good news for Russia, which has suffered economic downturns due to European and American sanctions in recent years.
After all, in another decade or two, most of the old Soviet ships equipped by Russia will be withdrawn from the Navy due to the aging of the ships, which will have a certain impact on the future national strategy of the Russian Navy, so it is a question worth considering where the Russian Navy will go in the future.