Compared with the army, the situation of the navy is more complicated, but the difference is generally different.

The most special thing about the navy is its sensitivity to expanding the army! As we all know, the Stockholm Agreement limits the scale of the navy with the total tonnage of warships, which hits the nails of the navy. Without warships, the navy will accomplish nothing. The time required to build a warship is far more than that of the armed ground forces.

For example, according to the standards around the Tiannian period, it takes at least 7 years to build a "Chongqing" class aircraft carrier. Even if it is built at wartime standards and various spare parts are booked in advance, it takes 2 years to complete the platform construction, and then it takes 2 years to form combat effectiveness. Due to factors such as construction processes, except for small ships and auxiliary ships not built according to military standards, the wartime construction cycle of the other warships is about 2 years, the shortest will not be lower than, year, and the maximum will not exceed 3 years. In comparison, if the wartime standards are completely followed, the military factory of the Republic can produce three combat units' main combat equipment within a month, and its total tonnage is equivalent to 10,000 tons, which is more than the "Chongqing class aircraft carrier". It can be seen that the construction cycle of naval equipment far exceeds the manufacturing cycle of army equipment.

This arises two problems: one is that it is difficult to expand the navy, and the other is that it is sensitive to expand the navy.

It is precisely because it is not easy to be sensitive.

In any case, the Republic is a contracted country of the Stockholm Agreement. Conventional arms are under surveillance by other contracting parties. Naval warships cannot be sealed up like army equipment, just like army equipment, so as not to make a statement. In other words, unless the Republic unilaterally tore up the agreement, it will not be able to expand the army in advance like the army. Mu Yong doubts that the cost of unilaterally tore up the agreement is too huge. Not to mention how much impact this will have on the world pattern, the infamy of actively creating war on his back is enough to make the leaders of the Republic think twice. It is precisely this. When the army is expanding its military scale, the Republic's navy has no movement.

From another perspective, this also made the Republic Army successful.

Judging from the situation after 2 and four, even though the Republic's defense expenditure has been rising again and again, the increase has been around for several consecutive years, due to the low impact in the early stage, the actual military expenditure is still not enough. More importantly, expansion of the army is a bottomless pit, and no matter how much military expenditure is, it cannot meet the needs of the army. In other words, if the Navy also expanded its army and threw out the shipbuilding competition, the Republic would have long since arrived due to overdrawing of national strength. It is precisely because the Navy did not expand its army on a large scale that the Army could fully change its clothes before the war broke out and prepare for the war.

The problem is that no one can deny the importance of the navy.

Although after the merger of the Air Force and the Sky Army of the Republic of the Aerospace Force, only the Sky Army was retained and the Air Force was officially withdrawn. After the US merged the Air Force and the Sky Army, the Air Force retained and the Sky Army was popular, the Navy was also very embarrassed. Some people have long proposed the "naval uselessness." They believed that the Navy should be eliminated by history like the Air Force. However, neither of the two superpowers had the idea of ​​naval force, but they only made adjustments in the nature of the military, that is, the combat route.

By the 1900s, the navy had undergone earth-shaking changes.

As early as the year of the year, the Republic mentioned in the Blue Book of Defense that the navy, which led to the Century Niu Ye, was not only responsible for maintaining shipping and dealing with non-traditional security threats, in large-scale wars, the navy mainly provided advance bases and deployment platforms for other offensive arms.

To put it bluntly, the navy no longer takes offensive forces, but supports forces.

It can be said that this is also a development direction that adapts to reality. As we all know, even if there is no Sky Army, as the air force's tactical strike range gradually expands, when the combat radius of tactical fighter jets is equal to that of the blade knives, the existence value of the naval fleet with aircraft carriers as the core will inevitably be greatly reduced.

If the Sky Army, which has almost global combat capabilities, is included, the naval fleet's position in strike missions is even more insecure.

The problem is that both the Air Force and the Sky Army need to build the base on the ground, or in other words, human production and life are inseparable from the earth. In this way, in a comprehensive war, occupying the territory of the enemy is still a necessary means to win. Affected by this, offensive forces have two meanings: one is firepower delivery, and the other is force delivery.

Mu Yong doubted that the advantage of the Aerospace Forces in terms of firepower delivery is unparalleled. Even on the tactical level, the army's long-range artillery is more efficient than the naval fleet. The problem is that neither the United States nor the Republic does not have enough offshore military bases. For example, in the Atlantic Ocean, the Republic only has military bases in Argentina and Nigeria, and the mileage with the local route is close to 20,000 kilometers, making it difficult to ensure its safety during wartime. Similarly, in the Indian Ocean, besides a few military bases in western Australia, the United States has only the Magoggarcia Naval and Air Force Base, which can be used by the United States, and this base is very close to the Republic's life route, and it is definitely a must-fight place for the Republic.

It can be seen from this that the navy has the need to exist, that is, to act as a base for military force delivery.

If you understand this truth, it is not difficult to understand why the Republic and the United States can accept a conventional arms control treaty that has severely restricted naval construction.

To put it bluntly, under the new tactical system, the navy in the sense of the game has lost its value of existence.

More importantly, the Stockholm Agreement only does it for the navy in the sense of

"But the heart did not limit the future navy, the most critical one, Yinhang Dang, the agreement did not limit the auxiliary ships other than the warships, that is, those maritime platforms that have decisive value in future naval warfare.

From another perspective, the Republic and the United States signed the Stockholm Agreement, indicating that both countries have accepted new ideas.

The problem is that the risks taken by the naval tactical thinking change far exceed the army. Historically, there was no naval tactical thinking change carried out without any practical combat. In other words, almost all naval changes were carried out during the war and had practical basis. Take the latest change as an example, aircraft carriers replaced battleships and carrier-based aviation troops replaced strong armored and heavy artillery, which was completed in World War II. Before that, even naval generals from the United States, Japan, Britain and other countries realized that aircraft carriers would be in the next

In the naval battle, the battleships were replaced completely and became the overlord of the sea. However, none of the three maritime powers gave up the battleships. Instead, they first ensured the main fleet, tentatively built the aircraft carrier until the war broke out. The combat effectiveness of the aircraft carrier was confirmed and the focus was only on the aircraft carriers. Even so, by the end of World War II, neither the United States, Japan and Britain gave up the construction of the battleships. Moreover, the last battleship was not officially retired from the US Navy until more than 40 years after the end of World War II.

It can be seen that naval reform was not easy.

In fact, neither the Republic nor the United States made progress in naval reform, but instead steadily advanced reforms on the basis of ensuring the aircraft carrier battle group.

According to the Stockholm Agreement, the Republic can have a navy of the same size as the United States, that is, the total tonnage of warships of the Republic and the United States Navy was 10,000 tons. The initial provision was 10,000 tons. Because the total size of the U.S. Navy has exceeded 10,000 tons, the upper limit was raised to 10,000 tons after many additional negotiations. This standard seems to be very high, but in fact it is nothing.

Taking the Republic's Navy as an example, the standard displacement of the "Chongqing-class aircraft carrier is as high as 10,000 tons. To form an aircraft carrier battle group, at least cruisers, 3 destroyers, attack submarines, fast combat support ships and fast comprehensive supply ships. According to this calculation, the total tonnage of the warships of the lowest standard aircraft carrier battle group is nearly 10,000 tons. In other words, the Republic's Navy can only have an aircraft carrier battle group at most. Because the aircraft carrier battle group is only the core force of the navy, not the entire navy. A powerful navy must also include an amphibious assault fleet and multiple escort fleets. Even if the tonnage of some escort warships can be controlled below 10,000 tons, and it will not be added in normal times.

With the addition of full set of military equipment to avoid constraints, the Republic's Navy can only use half of the total tonnage of the warship to build an aircraft carrier battle group. In other words, the Republic's Navy can only have up to 7 aircraft carrier battle groups with the "Chongqing Class as the core. Affected by this, the "Chongqing" class aircraft carrier, like the first two-class aircraft carriers, has only built three. It is precisely because of this that the Republic's Navy retained three "Shanghai" class and "Beijing Class aircraft carriers" and maintained the number of aircraft carrier battle groups in the support. Of course, with the three "Chongqing" class aircraft carrier battle groups in service, and the modernization improvement of the "Shanghai" class and "Beijing Class", compared with the United Nations! Year-on-year, the Republic's Navy's combat effectiveness has increased by nearly twice.

Relatively speaking, the U.S. Navy is in a more difficult situation.

Based on the actual situation, the United States' demand for maritime rights far exceeds that of the Republic. From the overall strategy, the Republic's maritime strategy is basically "attacking the west and defending the east", that is, to strive to ensure the hegemony of the Indian Ocean, and is mainly defense in the Western Pacific. The reason is very simple. The main allies of the Republic are all located in the surrounding areas of the Indian Ocean, concentrated in Southeast Asia, South Asia, the Gulf, the Middle East and East Africa. More importantly, among the main resources required by the Republic, the nearest cloud needs to be passed through India.

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Even if you enter the South Atlantic Ocean, you can take the Indian Ocean route instead of the Pacific route. Therefore, the primary task of the Republic's Navy is to ensure the maritime rights of the Indian Ocean. In the Western Pacific, it is enough to only defend the outer line of defense composed of the Ryukyu Islands and ensure that the local area is not subject to direct attack. Under actual conditions, the US Navy must draw its bow on both sides. To the west, the US Navy must make every effort to advance to the Western Pacific to protect Japan, the Philippines and Australia, especially to ensure the security of the Philippines. To the east, the US Navy cannot relax, except to make every effort to ensure the connection between the north of the UK.

In addition to the Atlantic route, we also need to prepare for the march of the Middle Sea, landing on the African continent, and sweeping the Southern Atlantic Ocean. More importantly, if the United States wants to defeat the Republic in the World War, it must make full use of Australia's pawn. The best way to use Australia is to use Australia as a base to challenge the Republic's hegemony in the Indian Ocean. In other words, the US Navy needs to use Australia as its base to march into the Indian Ocean. It can be seen that the Republic's navy only needs to fight on one and a half fronts, while the US Navy needs to fight on three fronts. The situation of both sides can be imagined.

That's true, even in extremely difficult times, the United States has not relaxed its naval construction.

From another perspective, the United States needs a stronger navy.

According to the relevant content mentioned in a secret report submitted by the Pentagon to the White House in Japan, if the United States wants to maintain its global hegemony, its naval size must be at least twice that of the Republic.

"Yi has no evidence, and it seems that almost all Americans are responsible for Ganwu. Only a navy that is stronger than the enemy can defend the fundamental interests of the United States.

It is precisely because the Stockholm Agreement's discussion on the material has been delayed for many years.

It can be said that the most difficult part of the entire negotiation was naval arms control. Later, the number of naval warships increased from ten thousand tons to 30,000 tons was also the United States' claim, and it was the result of the threat of the United States' threat to withdraw from the agreement, which caused the third phase of the London Treaty to be cut.

The problem is that there is no reason for the U.S. authorities to allow the Republic to build only 10,000 tons of warships.

In this way, while the Republic continues to maintain the Orbital-branch aircraft carrier battle group, the U.S. Navy needs to maintain at least two aircraft carrier battle groups before explaining to the Chinese people. Although in order to improve the combat effectiveness of the aircraft carrier battle group, the U.S. Navy has repeatedly reduced other ships, such as reducing the number of amphibious assault fleets by half, and reducing the number of auxiliary ships by one third, so that two-thirds of the total tonnage of the ship is used on the aircraft carrier battle group. However, according to the previous calculation, the U.S. Navy can only have at most three new aircraft carriers, and the other portal aircraft carriers are old aircraft carriers built before year. In other words, even if the U.S. Navy retains the Orbital-branch aircraft carrier battle group after years of age, its actual combat effectiveness will still not be much higher than that of the Republican Navy, and both sides are basically on the same starting line.

Of course, the Republic's Navy and the US Navy have not had a good life, and the problems they face are similar.

Such a difficult situation forced the Republic and the US Navy to accelerate the practice of new tactical ideas under appropriate circumstances. To put it bluntly, it is to properly create new maritime forces before the war breaks out.

Over the years, the Republic's naval count has obtained a special procurement fee of RMB 100 million, of which RMB 400 million was added in the defense budget. In addition, RMB 100 million was added at the end of that year to develop and purchase "integrated maritime bases" to make up for the slightly insufficient maritime combat effectiveness and military delivery capabilities.

Because this plan is related to the future development direction of the Navy, its specific content has not been completely exaggerated.

In fact, there is no need to be fully disclosed.

According to the deleted reports, the Republic Navy's "Comprehensive Maritime Base" project was launched in the year of Knife. Although it has been in the development stage, it has not been built according to the arms standards for a long time. However, in the past years, the Republic Navy has obtained a special development fund of no less than RMB 1 in the continent, nearly one-third of which was used on the project, so the project can be converted from development to construction at the fastest speed in previous years.

The so-called "integrated maritime base" is actually an expanded version of the "maritime base".

Compared with the "maritime base" that first showed its glory during the Middle East War, the "comprehensive maritime base. The biggest feature is that its scale is much larger, and the benefit brought by this is that its combat capabilities are more comprehensive. According to the Tao, the "comprehensive maritime base" adopts a flexible design method, that is, in addition to core components, the component scale can be determined according to combat needs and the actual situation of the sea area where it is located, so as to determine the comprehensive capabilities of the base. In the state of maximum combat power, the entire base is composed of hundreds of components, that is, hundreds of modular transport ships, with a total tonnage of more than 10,000 tons. It can not only support aviation forces of any nature, but also provide support for aerospace fighters, and is also for 3 combat units.

60,000 ground troops provide support and become a veritable maritime military base. Under the minimum standard, the base also has more than ten components. The total tonnage exceeds 40,000 tons. In addition to maneuverability, other combat capabilities exceed the "Chongqing" class aircraft carrier. Of course, the "integrated maritime base" is not perfect. The biggest problem is that its survivability is very poor. In order to avoid being restricted by the Stockholm Agreement, in the "integrated maritime base", only the core components that undertake all the power supply are built according to military standards, while other components are built according to civilian standards. With poor mobility, the "integrated maritime base. The survivability of the "integrated maritime base is far inferior to that of warships, and even not as good as some auxiliary ships.

In fact, this is also the fundamental reason why the Republic has been reluctant to turn the "integrated maritime base" from drawings to physical objects.

Similarly, the US Navy's failure to develop similar maritime forces is also directly related to survival issues.

It can be seen from this that the key to the navy's expansion and preparation for war is not how many warships have been built, but how much effort has been made in new tactical ideas. Of course, since it is preparing for war, grassroots mobilization is naturally indispensable. Like other military-industrial enterprises, shipyards with the ability to build military ships have been expanding in size since Litiannian and building large ship platforms in advance. Cultivate technical workers in order to quickly expand production capacity during wartime.

In short, naval military preparations pay more attention to long-term construction rather than temporary utilitarianism.

According to Hu Jing'an's report, the Republic cannot defeat the United States within two years. There is no need to expect the Navy to seize sea control within two years.

Although this is a bit direct, it just explains the problem.
Chapter completed!