From the perspective of space, our home is a beautiful blue planet, more than 70% of the earth's area is covered by water, giving birth to countless lives. It can be said that the development of world economic powers is closely related to the sea, and the importance of naval power cannot be changed in the next few decades. A strong naval force that not only has the ability to enforce nuclear deterrence, but also addresses maritime threats and protects maritime economic interests. Therefore, building a maritime power and building a maritime military force with both offensive and defensive capabilities has become the unified goal of all countries.
Today, the United States is not only the world's only superpower, but also a maritime power, and the US Navy ranks first in the world in terms of combat effectiveness and scale. But not all countries, like the United States, can easily feed such a powerful maritime force. For most small countries, they can only barely maintain the survival of their own navies, and there is still a long way to go to meet the standards of the "century-old navy".
But Uzbekistan doesn't have to worry about this problem at all, its warships have not been bought and used much, and its main area of activity, the Aral Sea, has shrunk to one-tenth of its original area in the past few decades due to industrial water and environmental pollution problems. Today's Aral Sea has dried up to the point of being divided into two parts, north and south, and according to the current situation, the Aral Sea will completely disappear in less than a decade, and learning "land boating" in advance has become a problem that the Navy forces must solve at the moment. Also a landlocked country, the Mongolian Navy, although it has only 7 personnel, still has at least one lake range.
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Uzbekistan also became independent, as a purely landlocked country in Central Asia, it did not have to worry about building maritime power. But the country is close to the Aral Sea, the world's fourth largest inland lake, and in order to compete for limited water resources, Uzbekistan has used the United States to import a number of warships from Germany and the United Arab Emirates. Including the 58155 Type 58155 "Viper-M" class main armored gunboat, which was very advanced at that time, compared with the surrounding countries such as Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Afghanistan, it also became a veritable regional maritime power, with more than 2,500 navy members at its peak.
It is estimated that the Ukrainian Navy did not expect that the main reason for its own demise was because the sea was gone, and there was a saying that "drought dies of drought, and waterlogging dies of waterlogging." The Democratic Republic of Western Sahara, from Africa, due to its special geographical location, has almost reached the point where it can go to the sea, but the country has not yet established any naval-related armed forces. I am afraid that only the Mongolian Navy can understand Uzbekistan, and even have a little sense of superiority.
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