"Actually, I have a deep relationship with the Navy-" After Chen Guangyi left, Fan Heng said to his son Fan Wubing.

Fan Wubing nodded, and said this to himself without saying anything. In fact, he also has a lot of feelings for the Navy. Needless to say, first of all, the Plain Factory and later Panshi Heavy Industry, the foundation was to provide equipment for the Navy.

If it weren't for the torpedo incident, Fan Heng and Fan Wubing would probably not have had a chance to make a comeback and become an official. So this is a cause and condition. Even though Fan Heng has occupied the ranks of the highest-level leaders, he is still obsessed with military production, especially when he is directly responsible for managing large state-owned enterprises, he is even more unlikely to not know the importance of naval construction.

Both the father and son knew very well that the Chinese navy in the new era would definitely move towards the ocean without hesitation. To effectively carry out ocean operations, whether it has complete air defense capabilities is the decisive factor.

Judging from the experience of various naval powers, if you want to have global naval power, you must have an offensive ocean fleet, including a powerful aircraft carrier battle group. Only in this way can a fleet undertake the navy's original task of defending the national maritime territorial security, truly shoulder the task of ensuring the smooth execution of strategic nuclear counterattack tasks of strategic missile nuclear submarines, and more effectively support maritime law enforcement forces such as maritime surveillance, coast patrol, fishery administration, and coast guard to safeguard marine energy and economic interests. These tasks strongly call on the Navy to establish a powerful offensive ocean fleet with aircraft carriers as the core.

However, the father and son also knew that aircraft carriers were an important national strategic engineering project, involving all aspects of the national defense industry, although relevant parties had already begun planning in the 1980s.

In the more than 80 years since the launch of the aircraft carrier, after many twists and turns, it has finally developed into a multi-spherical offensive and defensive system that combines ships and aircraft, both offense and defense, is maneuverable and flexible, is strong and difficult to damage, and is highly intensive. It is not only a powerful tactical weapon unit, but also the core of the maritime combat system and a strategic deterrent force that can throw nuclear bombs.

China is a large coastal power with more than 3 million square kilometers of maritime territory. With the development of marine development and maritime struggle, the maritime threats it faces are very different from those in the past, and it needs to deal with ballistic missile nuclear submarines and carrier-based aviation with long-range combat capabilities. Faced with this situation, the strength of the Chinese Navy seems a bit stretched. Although the sea boundary is vast, it only has small and medium-sized ships and short-range shore-based aviation. Once a war occurs with you, you can only sigh.

Everyone knows that aircraft carriers must be built, and they must be on conventional attack aircraft carriers from the beginning.

In fact, the relevant parties have been carrying out related work in some important areas. Not only did they first acquire the USS Melbourne aircraft carrier from Australia, but later they purchased the former Soviet Navy Varyag aircraft carrier, which has become a semi-finished product from Ukraine in the name of the private sector. At the same time, in a certain period, the prototype T-10 of the SU-33 carrier-based fighter aircraft was purchased from Ukraine through some channels, providing solid material guarantees for reference and reference by relevant parties.

However, the aircraft carrier itself is only the core part of its combat group, and it also needs to include the construction of ship-based combat and service aviation forces. Underwater also requires attack nuclear submarines to clear underwater obstacles in the route. Of course, it is also inseparable from the destroyer fleet with powerful air defense and anti-submarine functions, so as to undertake air defense and anti-missile tasks within a radius of 200 kilometers around the aircraft carrier battle group, as well as inner submarine driving and anti-submarine tasks.

If necessary, it is also possible to cooperate with multi-purpose attack nuclear submarines and use carrier-based vertical missile launch devices to pour land attack cruise missiles into hostile forces. Now, one of these two equipment has entered the engineering construction stage, and the other has existed for many years and is gradually being improved.

In addition, nuclear submarines are also one of the indispensable and important equipment in the naval equipment system. After years of development, the second-generation attack nuclear submarines and strategic missile nuclear submarines have been put into active service in an established manner, serving as the important task of far-sea assault operations and strategic nuclear counterattack duty. The development of the third-generation underwater nuclear force is also underway.

Judging from the internal relevant information that Fan Wubing can see, the third generation of underwater nuclear forces in the process have fast and quiet maneuverability, agile and flexible performance, and powerful long-range sea-to-land attack capabilities. They can independently complete strategic nuclear counterattack missions and cooperate with aircraft carrier special mixed formations to effectively compete for ocean sea control.

Although the current Chinese Navy has the largest fleet of surface warships, submarines and amphibious warships in Asia, its actual combat power is relatively weak.

The navy has developed slowly in the past twenty years, which is well known. The navy's strategic task is to complete control of the ocean, that is, seize the power of sea control and use the power of sea control. This is something that a submarine lurks underwater can never be completed, so the strength of a surface fleet determines whether a navy is powerful or not.

The former Soviet Union focused too much on the needs of the nuclear war, focused on the development of nuclear submarines, and despised the construction of surface fleets. This was the main reason for the rapid decline of the Russian Navy after the end of the Cold War.

Compared with the Air Force, the Navy has developed relatively slowly in the past twenty years, mainly because of the large investment in naval equipment and the relatively backward naval equipment technology of Russia. The Chinese Navy lacks advanced technology sources, mainly for domestic research and development, and the progress of upgrading new equipment is very slow. Due to the power limitation, the new missile destroyer cannot increase its displacement and has a small number of missiles. The Navy is very dissatisfied, so no new ships of the same level have been launched in recent years.

The number of new surface ships in the Navy has increased very little. Since the two thousand years, the increase in new main ships has been in single digits. The service of these ships has enabled the Chinese Navy to basically form combat formations that have always had regional air defense capabilities, but it is still difficult to do so.

At present, with the maturity of domestic gas turbines, large domestic missile destroyers will also start construction within the year. It can be foreseen that when the Second Artillery and the Air Force have broken through the bottleneck, military resources will definitely be more tilted towards the navy. The next decade will be a decade of great development of the navy.

The topic that cannot be avoided in the development of the Chinese navy is aircraft carriers. Not to mention the further military power delivery, China has a vast exclusive area of ​​marine economy. To safeguard the integrity of national territorial sovereignty, aircraft carriers are all necessary equipment. From the perspective of this, the Varyag aircraft carrier is being modified in Dalian, and it is a foregone conclusion that it has entered the naval service.

Domestic aircraft carriers must also start construction. This is because considering the needs of maintenance and training, at least one aircraft carrier is required to maintain combat readiness, at least three aircraft carriers are needed. But it must be seen that aircraft carriers are the most complex military equipment in the world, with the improvement of operating systems, and the training of carrier-based aircraft pilots and deck operators takes a lot of time to explore.

Referring to the experience of the Russian and French navies, even if domestically produced aircraft carriers can be fully put into service within ten years, it may still take fifteen years for Chinese aircraft carriers to have complete combat effectiveness.

From the concept of active defense in the near-shore, the Second Artillery, the Navy, Army and Air Force have basically had active defense capabilities, and can limit the scope of war to a range of 500 kilometers on the border or outside the border. However, the requirements for the further active defense capabilities required for the required long-shore combat capabilities are not yet met. In particular, the Navy, as a long-sea combat service, lacks aircraft carriers and corresponding large surface warship groups, does not have basic combat capabilities outside the first island chain, and still belongs to the near-shore defensive navy.

This is also a normal situation. Although military expenditure has been growing rapidly in recent years, due to the Cultural Revolution and the endurance period of reform and opening up, China's military power has developed slowly for more than 30 years, and the gap with the world's advanced level is very huge. It is still in a state of compensating for historical debts.

"No matter which country, of course, China, when establishing the development direction of its own military power, it must focus on the core of the country's main security goals and security interests in the future. How to achieve this goal, or other strategic goals related to it, depends on the country's overall scientific research capabilities and industrial level. It is fundamentally a question of whether the economic and talent resources are sufficient under the framework of this scientific research and manufacturing system." Fan Heng frowned and said to his son Fan Wubing, "No matter how many years there will be no major changes in the maritime geographical map of Asia, but energy disputes and national interests transfer.

The adjustment of national development strategic goals will cause obvious changes in the political map between countries, which is inevitable. At that time, the views of the Chinese government, allied governments and even hostile countries on these changes will greatly affect any decisions made by China and indirectly affect the future construction direction and process of the Chinese navy. Therefore, it is necessary to first set a credible framework and use this as a basis to evaluate the various parameter variables in it, the future maritime security issues in Asia, the development direction and goals of the Chinese navy, the overall strength and combat level of the future of the Chinese navy, etc., as appropriate."

Fan Wubing nodded in agreement. In fact, what the navy urgently needs most is the aircraft carrier formation.

For nothing else, just like the investment of Fan Investment Group in Africa now, if there is an aircraft carrier formation in China, there is no need to worry about some small countries that will do anything to domestic companies at that time, and they will not dare to give them ten courage. The reason why Americans' investments in various places are as stable as Mount Tai is because their global strike capabilities are the world's number one.
Chapter completed!