What is the purpose of the U.S. Navy's 90,000-ton Miguel Keith Expedition Mobile Base ship to dock in Japan? As a giant warship with a displacement second only to the Nimitz-class nuclear-powered aircraft carriers, how much is the combat effectiveness of nuclear aircraft carriers?
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Known by the U.S. Navy as a mobile landing platform ship, the Miguel Keith was used to transport weapons, officers, supplies, and rest and maintenance services for weary soldiers or damaged warships on the front lines. The U.S. Navy currently has two classes of five warships with similar functions in service, of which Miguel Keith is the third of the second class, and one battleship of the same type is under construction and one is in a state of readiness. The Miguel Keith is 239.3 meters long and 50 meters wide, has a full load displacement of 90,000 tons, has a maximum speed of 15 knots, and costs about $525 million. According to the vision of the United States Navy, the ship mainly performs auxiliary and support tasks, relying mainly on helicopters, tiltrotors, manned and unmanned boats and special forces to carry out anti-mine, anti-piracy, anti-smuggling, maritime security operations, humanitarian assistance and disaster relief, crisis response and logistical support missions. In addition, it can also perform amphibious delivery and maritime transport tasks.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" What is the role of the 90,000-ton giant ship > data-track="7"? </h1>
It can carry 100,000 gallons of drinking water and 380,000 gallons of JP-5 aviation fuel, making it a platform for reloading and refueling helicopters and tiltrotors. Although the tonnage of this battleship is not small, and it can play a pivotal role in wartime, this kind of battleship has no self-defense capability at all, so the hub mentioned above is only based on the fact that the enemy facing the US Navy does not have a long-range strike capability. So what signal did the U.S. Navy's presence near Japan send?
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="8" can Miguel Keith fit the F35B >? </h1>
Let's see how much combat power this battleship has. First of all, although the battleship resembles a semi-submersible ship, it does not use a straight deck, so the U.S. Navy did not think of letting the battleship carry F/A-18 or F35 fighter jets in battle. After all, both ends were blocked, and the fighter jet could not take off at all. So can the F35B VTOL fighter land on her deck? It is reported that the Miguel Keith laid the keel on January 30, 2018, delivered to the U.S. Navy on November 15, 2019, and officially commissioned on May 8, 2021, so the construction cycle of this ship can be considered to be 3 and a half years. The construction cycle of a 100,000-ton nuclear-powered aircraft carrier is generally 5-7 years, so we can assume that the construction standard of the Miguel Keith is not a military standard. So the deck of the Miguel Keith may not be able to withstand the high temperature gases from the tail nozzles of the F35B engine.
Even if the deck can withstand the high temperature, then the F35B will only have a vertical take-off and landing path. However, the impact of vertical take-off on the combat effectiveness of fighters is very large, and the tail nozzle that is deflected downward will cause a large loss of engine power, so when the fighter takes off vertically, it cannot take off with full load, but vertical landing is OK. This is also the fundamental reason why the Royal Navy's two aircraft carriers still use a slip-over deck design on the basis of knowing that they want to purchase F35B vertical take-off and landing carrier aircraft.
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So how many F35Bs can the Miguel Keith fit? The ship is equipped with a flight deck of about 4,830 square meters, and the Izumo-class helicopter destroyer of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (which may now be renamed) has a hangar area of about 4,000 square meters and can carry about 14 F35B fighter jets. So how many Miguel Keiths can fit? Even if it is vertical take-off and landing, in order to avoid the high temperature gas damage of the tail nozzle, the mask is invisible, so there must be enough distance between the fighters, so at most 5-7 aircraft. The F35B, which has a small number and cannot take off with full load, and because it cannot take off with full load, it must be close to the target, and this distance will generally be covered by short-range ballistic missiles, such as China's Dongfeng 15 short-range ballistic missile, which has a range of between 600 and 900 kilometers, so when the Miguel Keith is used as a front-line position, its combat effectiveness can basically be considered 0, which shows that the POSITIONing of this battleship by the US Navy is still relatively accurate. So what does it mean that this battleship appeared in Japan?
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="15" >which did Miguel Keith appear in Japan for? </h1>
Given the relatively wide space of the battleship, the battleship may also be loaded with a U.S. container-bearing unit to launch missiles. At this point, the only advantage of the Miguel Keith compared to a fixed military base was that it could move freely. However, the biggest drawback is that the speed is too slow. As we all know, there is a weapon called anti-ship ballistic missile in the world, and its target is an aircraft carrier with a maneuvering speed of more than 30 knots, so when the target becomes an aircraft carrier about the size of an aircraft carrier, but the speed is twice as slow, do you think there is a possibility that the anti-ship ballistic missile will miss? Therefore, Miguel Keith can not take off and land fighters with combat capabilities, and the possibility of survival after launching missiles is basically zero, so her intention to appear in Japan is more intriguing, is this 90,000-ton giant battleship that has only been in service for 5 months, just for the purpose of sending heads to Japan? In fact, the military division believes that the appearance of this battleship is not to send people's heads, or perhaps just to brush out the sense of existence of "I am here", by the way, the diaphragm should be you. Because while it's easy to sink the ship, you'll have to take the time to stare at her before she doesn't derail. What do you think?