In today's era, submarine is the absolute protagonist of the underwater battlefield, but the mine that has made great efforts to achieve miracles has never fallen behind. Due to the limited underwater detection ability, once triggered, even the anchor mine at the level of in the battle of can blow up a 1,000-ton destroyer . The People's Liberation Army, which has always advocated frugality, will naturally not let go of such cheap and easy-to-use weapons and equipment. It is reported that the People's Liberation Army has prepared 100,000 sea frog happy thunders.
However, the US media "1945" proposed a very vicious countermeasure. US Navy officer Victor Duno said that after the conflict broke out, the United States could carry out offensives and mines along the Yellow Sea coast and the Pearl River Delta, thereby obstructing China's military and civilian shipping, attacking China's economy, and giving the United States more time and a win in the Taiwan Strait conflict.
cheap mines are still an indispensable part of war
mines are a very ancient but very useful weapon and equipment. During World War I, the British and German Navy lost a group of main battleships because of mines. More than 100 years later, the minesweeping technology has developed greatly. The old-fashioned mines in front of military anti-submarine ships have almost no chance of escaping from the sky. Only mines without magnetic properties can survive, but not at all, the minesweeping is available. Therefore, when warship appears in an area where mines may be arranged, it must lower its speed and slowly clear the mines to pass, and this low-speed target is the best target. Civilian ships with thin skin and large fillings can hit and hit each mine at 1860.
Due to the low-cost advantages of mines, US media speculated that the PLA might have prepared 100,000 mines. The 1945 website quoted the view of Yuhiro Kawakami, a senior researcher at the Sagawa Peace Foundation in Japan, saying that after the outbreak of the Unification War, the PLA may lay mines in the western and northern parts of Taiwan to prevent Taiwanese ships from leaving Taiwan and prevent US, Japanese and Australian ships from approaching Taiwan. Thus trapped. And because the US Navy has always ignored the construction of minesweeping capacity and the minesweeping capacity is seriously insufficient, mines can also be used for regional denial, reducing the threat of the US Navy's surface ship .
Subsequently, the 1945 website quoted the view of US Navy officer Victor Duno, saying that if the United States decides to intervene in the conflict in the Taiwan Strait, the United States can carry out an offensive and mine laying along the Yellow Sea coast and the Pearl River Delta, thereby attacking China's economy, delaying the pace of war, and gaining enough time for the United States' intervention.
mines are indeed difficult to deal with, but the United States is sure to compare production capacity with China?
minesweeper sweeping ships are indeed accurate in sweeping each other, but the difficulty of mine sweeping is far higher than the difficulty of mine laying. Minesweeping requires professional mine sweeping ships, and mine-bracing, bomber can be used to build mines, mine-bracing ships can be used to build mines, and temporary modified merchant ships can also be used to build mines. When clearing mines, you need to scan one by one. When setting up mines, you can use baskets of cloth. The scanning is definitely not as fast as the cloth. What's more, the production of mines is really not very difficult, so 1945 directly stated that China has prepared 100,000 mines for the conflict in the Taiwan Strait.
This era is an era where mines are quite neglected. No ship, , can withstand a mine, but the range of anti-ship missiles, and cruise missiles, , are often hundreds of kilometers. How can mines affect surface ships hundreds of kilometers away from the shore? Therefore, in this era, countries have quite neglected mine-sweeping capabilities.
The most powerful US Navy in the world has only 10 Avenger-class minesweepers (14 are built in total, 4 have been transferred to reserve) and 8 coastal combat ships equipped with minesweeping mission packages have minesweeping capabilities. According to one-third of the on-board rate, the US Navy may not have only 6 minesweepers that can move by then. 1945 said that China has 100,000 mines, and 6 minesweepers faced 100,000 mines. This may be an almost impossible event like a chicken eating rice mountain and a dog licking black mountain.
What's more, once the United States attacks the Yellow Sea coast and the Pearl River Delta, it means that the United States officially intervenes in the war, which is a declaration of war. Can Americans fight for Taiwan Island ? If the Americans could really intervene in the war for their younger brother, the former Afghan government and the Ukrainian Zelensky would not have fallen to this way.
In addition, the difficulty of mine laying is far lower than that of mine clearing. The difficulty of mine production is not very high. China is the world's largest industrial country. Combining these three points together, wouldn't it mean that under the conditions of war, China's daily mine production of more than 10,000 yuan is the same as playing? It is true that we have to spend a lot of time dealing with the United States' offensive and mine laying, but after the United States' offensive and mine laying against China, China, which has reserved a large amount of mines, is afraid that it will not be able to prepare thousands of mines for all US ports. The number of U.S. ports is far more than the number of minesweepers. After large-scale mine laying, many U.S. military ports are probably scrapped as soon as possible...
This suggests that the U.S. Navy's officers who attack China at the doorstep of China are afraid that they have any deep hatred with the U.S. Navy. It is impossible to make any suggestions, and it is suggested that the United States challenge China in an area where the United States does not dominate but China clearly has the advantage. Finally, the United States’ dependence on sea transportation in Japan is higher than that of China. Is the United States sure that it wants to hurt the enemy for eighty or so and hurt one thousand of itself?
