Now, the Western Navy led by the United States has changed the name of the aircraft carrier battle group into a Carrier strike group. According to the latest version, an aircraft carrier strike group must include 1 aircraft carrier , 1 carrier-based aircraft aviation wing, 5 surface ships , and 1 attack nuclear submarine, including comprehensive supply ships.
Cold War , the Western Navy's aircraft carrier battle group (Aircraft Carrier Battle Group), referred to as the aircraft carrier battle group. Taking the typical US Navy as an example, an aircraft carrier battle group includes 1 Nimitz class nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, 1 carrier-based aircraft aviation wing, 2 Ticonderoga class cruisers, 2-4 Burke class destroyers, 1 Perry class frigate, 1-2 Los Angeles class attack nuclear submarines, and 1-3 comprehensive supply ships. As an important pillar of military strategy,
aircraft carrier battle group is a very powerful and effective force that demonstrates the country's military strength, supports foreign policy, safeguards national overseas interests, stops crises and conflicts, or intends to create military conflicts.
During the NATO and Warsaw Pact competition, as the boss of NATO, the aircraft carrier battle group had a very large force configuration. You can spy on the escort ships mentioned above. It has combat skills independent of the army and the air force. Its own aircraft carrier battle group, carrier-based aircraft , water and underwater combat ships, including the Marines carried on aircraft carrier , are equivalent to a collection of the three armed forces of the army, navy and air force. The aircraft carrier battle group is a powerful platform for great powers to send troops to the world along the marine channels in peacetime.
After the end of the Cold War , the huge Soviet empire that once scared the West collapsed, and the Warsaw Pact, which was confronted with NATO, immediately fell down. The US Navy lost its competitors in the ocean, and gradually the lineup of aircraft carrier battle group escort ships continued to shrink. The "Perry" class frigate, which was an indispensable escort ship, was also withdrawn from active service by the US Navy.
The Western Navy's aircraft carrier battle group has also become history. Now, the aircraft carrier battle group has been replaced by the so-called "aircraft carrier strike group". The troop configuration of the aircraft carrier strike group, see the beginning of this article. Compared with the former aircraft carrier battle group, the scale of escort ships has been reduced by at least 50% or even more than 50%.
, the Western Navy represented by the United States, renamed the aircraft carrier battle group to the aircraft carrier strike group. The change in name also brought about changes in the aircraft carrier group. From the Warsaw Pact navy led by the Soviet Union during the Cold War, it gradually changed to the "from sea to land" strike, reflecting the change in the combat thinking of the Western Navy led by the United States.
Therefore, Guoping's military history believes that the Western Navy's renamed the aircraft carrier battle group to the aircraft carrier strike group is the result of the navy's strategic transformation. The US Navy's "from sea to land" strike seems to have been recognized by the Pentagon . The 3,000-ton "free" and "independent" class littoral combat ships and the DDG-1000 "Zumwalter" class destroyers are typical surface ships born under the "from sea to land" strike theory, although the US Navy publicly admitted that the development of these two types of surface ships failed.
renamed the aircraft carrier battle group to the aircraft carrier strike group, which also means that the US Navy, which had had aircraft carrier wars in history, believes that fighting between large-scale maritime clusters such as Midway Naval Battle , Coral Sea Naval Battle , etc., is difficult to reappear at the moment, especially in the context of the huge Soviet Red Navy no longer exists. It should be said that this perception is in line with the objective laws of the current naval development.
With the end of the Cold War, the popularization of ship-based weapons such as the "Aegis" Aegis air defense destroyers, including the large number of air defense frigates, MK-41 carrier-based vertical launch devices, "1 pit 4 bombs" medium-range air defense missiles, MK-15 "intensive array" near-defense gun system, 21 joint "Helam" short-range air defense missiles and other ship-based weapons, the improvement of communication command and network capabilities, and the single-ship anti-ship, air defense, anti-submarine , land attacks and even anti-missile are no problem.
is precisely because of the significant improvement in the comprehensive combat performance of the single-ship escort aircraft carrier , which objectively reduces the high dependence of aircraft carriers on escort ships. One carrier-based aircraft wing is not a vegetarian, and the number of escort ships has dropped significantly. In addition, there are not many powerful opponents in Shanghai. It is natural to interpret the aircraft carrier combat group into an aircraft carrier strike group, and it can be said to let the flow.
At present, in addition to going to hot spots to carry out so-called "freedom of navigation" to deter other countries, patrolling major maritime channels around the world has become a place that demonstrates the status of a major country and rarely participates in combat against other countries. Sometimes, the implementation of humanitarian aid and disaster relief has become an extension of the aircraft carrier strike group.
