Prediction of China's ambitions in the Ocean
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| A soldier walked through the Chinese navy missile ship which was in dock Varyag Port of Qingdao, Shandong Province, China, April 20, 2010. In the near future, China will launch its mother ship that was built from half-finished aircraft carrier ex Ukraine. |
2011 will be a historic year for China. If there is no change of plans again, Bamboo Curtain country will launch its first aircraft carrier, a year earlier than expected.A Chinese central government official told Reuters, China's first aircraft carrier to be launched in early July. "The period around the 1st of July, in conjunction with the celebration of the birthday of the Communist Party, is one possible time (the launch of the ship) that," said the official who asked not to be named this.
China will become the third country in Asia, after India and Thailand, which has a fleet of aircraft carriers. However, do not compare this with the new aircraft carrier INS Viraat (weighing 28 700 tons in full load condition; length of 226.5 meters) owned by India or HTMS Chakri Naruebet (11 486 tons; 182.65 meters) owned by the Kingdom of Thailand.China's aircraft carrier-which, according to Jane's Fighting Ships will be named Shi Lang, the Chinese admiral name of the Qing Dynasty in the 17th century, weighs 67,500 tons with a length of 300 meters. Compared to the super aircraft carriers (supercarrier) Nimitz class of United States Navy, Shi Lang 32 meters shorter.This ship was built from the former Soviet Union aircraft carrier, Varyag, which construction stopped in the early 1990s as the demise of the communist superpower. The ship was a classmate of Admiral Kuznetsov aircraft carrier, which is still the only carrier that operated the Russian navy to this day.
In 1998, a private company bought the ship semi-finished Macau was worth 20 million dollars from the Government of Ukraine. Information originally, this vessel will be used as a floating casino in Macau harbor.However, in its development, ships that do not have the engine, steering, navigation and communication equipment and this was drawn to a Chinese government-owned shipyard in the port of Dalian, northeast China.Which started rusting hulk was later cleaned and painted with colors typical of Navy ships of the Chinese People's Liberation Army. Allegedly, the Chinese build their own ship to ship operations, as part of the exercise prior to manufacture aircraft carriers that are 100 percent made in China.
If equated with the Admiral Kuznetsov, Shi Lang will be able to carry 41 aircraft, consisting of 17 fixed wing aircraft (fixed-wing) class Sukhoi Su-33 and Sukhoi Su-25, and 24 helicopters (rotary wing) Kamov Ka-27 class.China reportedly has ordered 50 aircraft Su-33, with a specification able to take off from aircraft carriers, to Russia.This ship has not used nuclear power sources and do not have a steam catapult system to launch aircraft, such as major carriers U.S.. Instead, at the end of the deck of a ship equipped with a ski-jump, or foundation angled upward, helping the plane "jump" to the air.Previously, the U.S. Navy Intelligence Agency estimates, the ex Varyag ship would be used as a training base in 2012, before China launched its own homemade aircraft carrier after 2015. According to Michael Mazza, a senior researcher from the Center for Defense Studies (www.defensestudies.org), China plans to build four aircraft carriers, two nuclear-powered ships and two conventional ship-in 15 years.
Launching a full-powered aircraft carrier marks a new era of China's military strategy and prove the country's long ambition to build a naval force "Sea Blue" (blue-water navy), the AL is capable of operating far into the ocean, projecting Chinese military power far from home.
Terms of excellenceThis ambition, according to an article written by Ian Storey and You Ji at GlobalSecurity.org, has existed since the era of Admiral Liu Huaqing, China's Navy Commander and Vice Chairman of Central Military Commission of the era of the 1980s.According to Liu, the Chinese master the strategy of "Sea Green", (a naval force to defend the territorial sea and shoreline), China must master the strategy of "Blue Sea", with the aim capable of projecting power to the western Pacific Ocean region.
Liu believes the only way to run a strategy of "Blue Sea" is to have a fleet of aircraft carriers capable of carrying aircraft, for excellence in the sea can only be achieved through the superiority of the air. While the idea of a plane that took off from the Chinese mainland and continued with refueling in the air is considered too vulnerable to enemy attack that is able to fly fighter planes from their mother ship.However, Liu's ambition can not be directly done at that time because in the era of the 1980s, the Chinese People's Liberation Army is still holding the concentration of the Soviet threat. Only after the communist giant broke up (1991), China can divert attention to the region of South China Sea and Taiwan.China needs a powerful naval forces to deal with conflict in the region south and southeast of this. The idea to build Navy "Blue Sea" which reinforced the aircraft carrier got up again.To realize his ambitions, China has purchased no fewer than four aircraft carriers used, the HMAS Melbourne from Australia (purchased in 1985) and three-vessel former Soviet Union / Russia, the Minsk (1998), Varyag (1998), and Kiev (2000) . China intends to build its own ships by studying the design of its mother-ship carrier. Bids sales contract carriers from Spain and France rejected by China.
Previously, military observers to assess, Chinese aircraft carrier project is too ambitious and will not be able to do much to counter U.S. aircraft carrier fleet, the only potential enemy of China's major if conflict erupts in Taiwan, Korea, and South China Sea. Rather than try to emulate the U.S. Navy fleet, analysts predict that China will run a strategy of asymmetric warfare, namely by developing missiles (missiles) paralytic mother ship.The latest generation of China's anti-ballistic missile, Dong Feng (East Wind) DF 21d, capable of racing at speeds of Mach 10 and defenseless cruise 3,000 kilometers, is expected to begin to be tested this year and be operational within the next 3-5 years.
Changing the East Asia
However, news that China will also launch its first aircraft carrier this year to prove it has not lost the old ambitions and missile development killer mother ship is just one part of China's grand strategy in the ocean. Although China is always argued its military development program is for peaceful purposes and self defense, operating a fleet of aircraft carriers by China can not will not change the map of power in East Asia-Southeast Asia.
Mazza reminded, aircraft carriers represent the ability to project power, namely carrying out military forces from the territory of that country to the point where whatever he wanted. So it's not always the strength to survive a country.With China's territorial claims to the Spratly and Paracel Islands in the South China Sea and Taiwan, its support for North Korea, and heat territorial conflicts with Japan some time ago, operating a fleet of aircraft carriers in China will further strengthen the allegations so far that China will not hesitate to use "gunboat diplomacy" to impose his will as the dominant power in the region.
Storey and You added that the ASEAN member countries, particularly the dispute directly with China in the Spratly and Paracel affairs, will strengthen cooperation with the U.S. military. While Japan will almost certainly revive its mother ship program, which has proven very scary in the era of World War II.
China will become the third country in Asia, after India and Thailand, which has a fleet of aircraft carriers. However, do not compare this with the new aircraft carrier INS Viraat (weighing 28 700 tons in full load condition; length of 226.5 meters) owned by India or HTMS Chakri Naruebet (11 486 tons; 182.65 meters) owned by the Kingdom of Thailand.China's aircraft carrier-which, according to Jane's Fighting Ships will be named Shi Lang, the Chinese admiral name of the Qing Dynasty in the 17th century, weighs 67,500 tons with a length of 300 meters. Compared to the super aircraft carriers (supercarrier) Nimitz class of United States Navy, Shi Lang 32 meters shorter.
This ship was built from the former Soviet Union aircraft carrier, Varyag, which construction stopped in the early 1990s as the demise of the communist superpower. The ship was a classmate of Admiral Kuznetsov aircraft carrier, which is still the only carrier that operated the Russian navy to this day. In 1998, a private company bought the ship semi-finished Macau was worth 20 million dollars from the Government of Ukraine. Information originally, this vessel will be used as a floating casino in Macau harbor.However, in its development, ships that do not have the engine, steering, navigation and communication equipment and this was drawn to a Chinese government-owned shipyard in the port of Dalian, northeast China.
Which started rusting hulk was later cleaned and painted with colors typical of Navy ships of the Chinese People's Liberation Army. Allegedly, the Chinese build their own ship to ship operations, as part of the exercise prior to manufacture aircraft carriers that are 100 percent made in China.If equated with the Admiral Kuznetsov, Shi Lang will be able to carry 41 aircraft, consisting of 17 fixed wing aircraft (fixed-wing) class Sukhoi Su-33 and Sukhoi Su-25, and 24 helicopters (rotary wing) Kamov Ka-27 class.China reportedly has ordered 50 aircraft Su-33, with a specification able to take off from aircraft carriers, to Russia.
This ship has not used nuclear power sources and do not have a steam catapult system to launch aircraft, such as major carriers U.S.. Instead, at the end of the deck of a ship equipped with a ski-jump, or foundation angled upward, helping the plane "jump" to the air.Previously, the U.S. Navy Intelligence Agency estimates, the ex Varyag ship would be used as a training base in 2012, before China launched its own homemade aircraft carrier after 2015. According to Michael Mazza, a senior researcher from the Center for Defense Studies (www.defensestudies.org), China plans to build four aircraft carriers, two nuclear-powered ships and two conventional ship-in 15 years.
Launching a full-powered aircraft carrier marks a new era of China's military strategy and prove the country's long ambition to build a naval force "Sea Blue" (blue-water navy), the AL is capable of operating far into the ocean, projecting Chinese military power far from home.Terms of excellence
This ambition, according to an article written by Ian Storey and You Ji at GlobalSecurity.org, has existed since the era of Admiral Liu Huaqing, China's Navy Commander and Vice Chairman of Central Military Commission of the era of the 1980s.According to Liu, the Chinese master the strategy of "Sea Green", (a naval force to defend the territorial sea and shoreline), China must master the strategy of "Blue Sea", with the aim capable of projecting power to the western Pacific Ocean region.Liu believes the only way to run a strategy of "Blue Sea" is to have a fleet of aircraft carriers capable of carrying aircraft, for excellence in the sea can only be achieved through the superiority of the air. While the idea of a plane that took off from the Chinese mainland and continued with refueling in the air is considered too vulnerable to enemy attack that is able to fly fighter planes from their mother ship.However, Liu's ambition can not be directly done at that time because in the era of the 1980s, the Chinese People's Liberation Army is still holding the concentration of the Soviet threat. Only after the communist giant broke up (1991), China can divert attention to the region of South China Sea and Taiwan.
China needs a powerful naval forces to deal with conflict in the region south and southeast of this. The idea to build Navy "Blue Sea" which reinforced the aircraft carrier got up again.To realize his ambitions, China has purchased no fewer than four aircraft carriers used, the HMAS Melbourne from Australia (purchased in 1985) and three-vessel former Soviet Union / Russia, the Minsk (1998), Varyag (1998), and Kiev (2000) . China intends to build its own ships by studying the design of its mother-ship carrier. Bids sales contract carriers from Spain and France rejected by China.
Previously, military observers to assess, Chinese aircraft carrier project is too ambitious and will not be able to do much to counter U.S. aircraft carrier fleet, the only potential enemy of China's major if conflict erupts in Taiwan, Korea, and South China Sea. Rather than try to emulate the U.S. Navy fleet, analysts predict that China will run a strategy of asymmetric warfare, namely by developing missiles (missiles) paralytic mother ship.The latest generation of China's anti-ballistic missile, Dong Feng (East Wind) DF 21d, capable of racing at speeds of Mach 10 and defenseless cruise 3,000 kilometers, is expected to begin to be tested this year and be operational within the next 3-5 years.
Changing the far East Asia
However, news that China will also launch its first aircraft carrier this year to prove it has not lost the old ambitions and missile development killer mother ship is just one part of China's grand strategy in the ocean.Although China is always argued its military development program is for peaceful purposes and self defense, operating a fleet of aircraft carriers by China can not will not change the map of power in East Asia-Southeast Asia.Mazza reminded, aircraft carriers represent the ability to project power, namely carrying out military forces from the territory of that country to the point where whatever he wanted. So it's not always the strength to survive a country.
With China's territorial claims to the Spratly and Paracel Islands in the South China Sea and Taiwan, its support for North Korea, and heat territorial conflicts with Japan some time ago, operating a fleet of aircraft carriers in China will further strengthen the allegations so far that China will not hesitate to use "gunboat diplomacy" to impose his will as the dominant power in the region.
Storey and You added that the ASEAN member countries, particularly the dispute directly with China in the Spratly and Paracel affairs, will strengthen cooperation with the U.S. military. While Japan will almost certainly revive its mother ship program, which has proven very scary in the era of World War II.
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