In fact, China's thinking has undergone a fundamental change ―― not to build an aircraft carrier, but to build an aircraft carrier! This includes China vigorously strengthening conventional and nuclear-powered submarines, strengthening advanced surface ships and increasing Russian-made and domestic advanced attack fighters.
Whether China should build an aircraft carrier has always been a concern of military strategists and fans. Some people on the Internet regard the aircraft carrier as a milestone for China's navy to turn from yellow water to blue water, while others fabricate "inside information" about aircraft carriers under construction. Personally, I think, at least at this stage, it is meaningless for China to build an aircraft carrier.
"Know yourself and know yourself, and fight every battle" has always been the way to fight. Speaking of this issue, apart from the army, it is necessary for us to make an objective evaluation of the strength of our air force and navy.
How is the China Air Force now? Apart from some irresponsible remarks, we can easily come to the conclusion that the scale is large, the quality is not too high, and the national defense nature is medium. What about our navy? It can be said that it is large in scale, medium in quality and offshore in nature. If once a war breaks out in the Taiwan Strait, the enemy aircraft carrier battle formation enters the Taiwan Strait to help the Taiwan military fight, can we sink it with the navy and air force? Speaking of this issue, I'm afraid many military experts and fans will come forward, take out a big basket of data and then talk about a lot of tactics. Finally, it is concluded that although the foreign military aircraft carrier formation has excellent air defense capability, it is not invulnerable, and our army has the ability to attack or even sink enemy aircraft carriers. Moreover, when Hainan Island was liberated and crossed Qionghai, our fathers defeated Chiang Kai-shek's armored warships with wooden boats, grenades, mortars and machine guns.
Of course, there is another question, who is our ultimate opponent? Brothers across the strait? Those fucking savages in Southeast Asia? Polar bears in the north who are taking supplements? Or that disgusting Japanese maggot in the East? I'm afraid neither, right? Everyone with discerning eyes knows that it is the so-called "world policeman" who crosses the Pacific Ocean and has deep pockets!
We can assume a war case using an aircraft carrier. If China goes to war with Japan (which some people hope), then our aircraft carrier formation will enter the war zone for air and sea support. What do you think is the probability of our aircraft carrier surviving under the joint attack of the US military stationed in Japan and the Japan Air Self-Defense Force? Our army can use various tactics to drive the American aircraft carrier out of the Taiwan Province Strait with inferior equipment. Then, who can guarantee that these tactics will not be used by the enemy and imposed on themselves? What's more, the equipment used by the US Navy and Air Force is of high quality in the world.
Objectively speaking, Americans can have an aircraft carrier without fear because they have the most powerful air force in the world and we don't! Indians have aircraft carriers because there is no America in the imaginary enemy. When the air strike/interception fails to form a relative advantage and the maritime air defense/underwater anti-submarine fails to have sufficient strength, the built aircraft carrier can only be a high-level target in the face of the dominant air and sea forces. Do you think our aircraft carrier formation has enough ability to defend the aircraft carrier in the face of repeated attacks by dozens of enemy F16/F18/F15 aircraft? Or facing the opponent's submarine, does our army have enough ability to weave anti-submarine nets? Can our army detect the surprise attack of four F22s taking off from Guam from different directions and heights? It is necessary to know that when an aircraft carrier attacks others, it is also a positional war in order to defend the survival of the aircraft carrier itself. Tactically, the best way to save yourself is to effectively destroy the enemy. In short, when we didn't build an aircraft carrier, we always played with others. After we built the aircraft carrier, we waited for others to play with us!
I think the aircraft carrier is different from other ships, and other ships are sunk and lose at most one combat unit; The loss of the aircraft carrier will cause very big problems, including morale and public support. If the United States is sunk by an aircraft carrier, the degree of national grief will not be much better than that after the "911"attack. Jews have a famous saying: "Never put eggs in one basket".
Not building an aircraft carrier at this stage is just like our main force does not expose the main force, so that the enemy has no main target. Once the war breaks out, let all surface warships, underwater submarines and air forces become targets, distract the enemy and attack everywhere. Just like a man with a gun in his hand, he is faced with a group of wasps. You can kill several wasps, but hundreds of thousands of wasps will kill you.
So the aircraft carrier is a good thing, but it is not suitable for us at present. It is necessary to properly study aircraft carriers, accumulate manufacturing technology, and vigorously study advanced fighters and how to effectively defend against underwater attacks. When these technologies are mature, or China's economic strength has made a qualitative leap, it is not too late to build an aircraft carrier.