From the dilemma of warships being crushed by Japanese joint fleet after attacks to the late stage of Pacific War , has reached 616 warships of various types of , and the amazing industrial strength of erupted after the American war machine started with full force, is still talked about today.
"Weekly aircraft carrier" defeated Japan
In the early days of the war, US Navy 's combat strength in the Pacific direction was not as good as that of the Japanese Joint Fleet . As a veteran maritime power in the West, the US Navy had just entered the period of replacement of main combat equipment. Most of the main battleships of the Pacific Fleet are basically old ships produced during the Battle 1 period.
And Japan has been preparing for many years in order to seize the hegemony of Asia-Pacific region as soon as possible. joint fleet has invested a lot of effort as its core force on the road to hegemony. The ship is strong and the cannon is powerful, and the quality of the military source has reached its peak. This is also why until Midway Naval Battle , Pacific battlefield has always been on 3 attacking the United States and defending the United States on .
But after the industrial production in the United States entered a wartime state, the balance of power between the two sides changed drastically. During the entire World War II period, the United States produced a total of 6,771 various types of combat ships . This number does not include the more than 60,000 landing craft that contributed hugely to the island capture operation, while Japan produced only 238. This number is really pitiful compared to the United States.
Industrial capacity also destined to end the defeat of the Japanese army in the Pacific War. Especially in the late period of the war, the Japanese army suffered heavy casualties and finally sank a US aircraft carrier , a new aircraft carrier will be replenished into the fleet next week. In order to further attack the Japanese army's combat confidence, the US Navy will also use the name of the sunken aircraft carrier , which can be said to be a killing person.
It was precisely with the launch speed of the warship " dumplings " that the US military won the victory of the Pacific War and finally made the fearless Japanese surrender to their feet.
The glorious US Navy is no longer
is deterred by the strong strength of the US Navy in World War II. Some netizens have proposed that if the war with the US military in the future, the United States can still " dumplings " and produce hundreds of aircraft carrier warships in minutes. In fact, it's not necessarily true.
After the end of World War II, the speed of shipbuilding of the US Navy has been slowing down. The main reason is that modern warship Compared with warship during World War II, the difficulty of construction has increased geometrically by .
In terms of ship tonnage, the US military escort aircraft carrier was only about 10,000 tons during World War II. Note that this is an aircraft carrier, and it was the main ship of the US Navy's ocean-going combat at that time.
Currently, the third aircraft carrier of the Chinese Navy , the Fujian, has a full load displacement of as high as 80,000 tons of , which is 8 times that of the US escort aircraft carrier during World War II.
The US Navy's current nuclear-powered super aircraft carrier is larger, with displacements of more than 100,000 tons. is 10 times that of World War II aircraft carriers.
Even if you compare it with destroyer , the smaller ship in the naval combat sequence, the "Fletcher" class destroyer , which made great achievements in the US military during World War II, had a full load displacement of 3,500 tons. Now the "Burke" 3 missile destroyer that the US Navy is building has reached 9,300 tons, and is nearly three times that of " Fletcher ".
In addition to the different sizes, the technical gap between between World War II ships and modern warships is even more exaggerated. If a modern warship is compared to a car, then World War II ship is like a toy in a child's hand. This gap will also increase the manufacturing time of exponentially.
Similarly, the "Fletcher" mentioned in the previous article is an example. This ship is also called , the most advanced destroyer of the US Navy in World War II, . It was equipped with the MK12 series Gaoping dual-purpose 127MM naval gun, which had the best performance at that time. This naval gun uses many cutting-edge technologies at that time, such as electric gun mounts, follow-up ammunition lifters, hydraulic recoils, etc.
In addition to the advanced naval gun system, "Fletcher"'s radar is also the absolute cutting-edge technology of the past. It not only is it equipped with SC air radar that can detect typical aerial targets at a distance of 120 kilometers, but also installed the first sea search radar of the US Navy, which is an epoch-making invention.
But compared with the current Burke Type 3 destroyer, " simple ". The SPY-6 phased array radar equipped by the "Burke" 3 has a maximum detection distance of low detectable targets such as the 5th generation stealth fighter, and is as high as 400 kilometers and . Compared with "Fletcher", it is completely different from the telescope and the blind.
To achieve such technological progress, the change in the technical complexity of the entire warship will naturally be completely overturned. This is also why "Fletcher" was able to reach 175 ships in in the two years he participated in the war. The first ship of "Burke" 3 began to be built in the 1990s and was not successfully launched in June 2021. began to test at sea.
The complexity of modern warships, has destined that the US Navy will no longer be able to produce hundreds of aircraft carrier warships in a short period of time, just like during World War II.
The lean camel is bigger than a horse
Although the US Navy can no longer build new warships like in World War II to quickly enhance its strength, it is after all, the world's first navy , with an extraordinary foundation. Once the war begins, the US Navy can still quickly increase the number of warships in its hands by recovering the and .
At present, the U.S. Navy can quickly restore from the sealed state to the combat state of warship , which includes 2 Kitty Hawk-class conventional-powered aircraft carriers, 3 Tarava-class amphibious assault ships , and 11 Tikonrodgar-class missile cruisers. The total displacement of is as high as more than 400,000 tons of .
It is worth mentioning that the above ships can not only be put into combat immediately, but also upgrade and modify through a series of , and obtain the combat capability of no less than the active-service model warship .
For example, "Tarawa" only needs to replace the deck using heat-resistant materials to have the ability to take off and land the F35B stealth fighter . "Kitty Hawk" as a standard modern aircraft carrier can take off and land the F35C stealth carrier-based aircraft, and "Tikon Rodgar" can also obtain stronger regional air defense capabilities by replacing the new SPY6 radar. is an extremely threatening force .
As the saying goes, a lean camel is bigger than a horse. Although the US military now has no longer the strength to build the ship of "-week aircraft carrier ", the war potential of its huge sealed fleet still cannot be underestimated.
