Xijinping sent giant PLA fleet to petrol Straits of Taiwan size 50 = 3X carrier battle groups

[Tony Tan]

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台湾军方：近50艘解放军舰艇密集通过台湾海峡(图)

台湾军方：近50艘解放军舰艇密集通过台湾海峡(图)



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原标题：台防务部门：近50艘解放军舰艇密集通过台湾海峡

图源：联合报
海外网7月22日电 据台媒报道，台防务部门消息人士指出，日前解放军海军舰艇密集通过台湾海峡，两天内通过台湾海峡的舰艇总数将近50艘，其中包括“中华神盾”驱逐舰。
据《联合报》援引台防务部门消息人士的话指出，日前解放军海军舰艇，突然大举由台湾海峡南下，高速通过台湾海峡，在20日与21日两天内，通过台湾海峡的舰艇，总数将近50艘。
报道称，其中包括解放军东海舰队的大型舰艇，如052C/052D“中华神盾”驱逐舰，以及其它各型号的大吨位补给舰，几乎全部南下。舰队通过台湾海峡时，也在白天以密集纵队行进。有旅客从台湾往来金门、马祖的民航飞机上拍到相关照片。

图源：联合报
台媒猜测，解放军舰队大举南下的原因是“防台风”。南海舰队舰艇先前北上，与东海舰队在东海实施联合操演，但因台风“安比”通过琉球岛链进入东海，并且路径直奔东海舰队最重要的基地舟山群岛，因此不但原本北上参加军演的南海舰队舰艇南下，东海舰队舰艇也大举离开母港南下。
对此，有台湾网友评论称，“新闻说是防台风，不如说是保护台海安全更恰当”“原来是防台风，不是抓‘台独’啊”。

早前，浙江海事局16日发布航行警告称，2018年7月18日8时至7月23日18时，将在象山至温州以东海域组织实际使用武器训练。其中注意事项提及：“实施单位应配备足够的现场警戒船艇，做好实际使用武器区域训练前清场、训练期间现场警戒及训练结束后的清障核查与保障工作，确保训练结束后训练水域的安全畅通。”

浙江海事局官网截图
对此，有专家分析称，这是一次在传统区域下进行的常态化年度例行演习。但一个不可忽略的事实是，“未来一旦发生战争，东海海域将是主战场，这里是解决台湾问题和其他海上有争议岛礁问题的关键所在。”据报道，上述人士称，“如果将当前传统演习区域整体平行向前移动，基本上会整体覆盖台湾。”
解放军此次军演信息一经发布，立即引起各大台媒关注，台媒在报道中均特别提到，此次演习禁航区面积非常大，相当于台湾岛的面积。而台防务部门17日则低调回应称，该演习只是解放军年度例行性演训，而对于台湾周边解放军各项动态，台军“都能严密掌握与应处”。
继今年4月解放军空军组织多机型战机开展绕岛巡航之后，6月，解放军“济南”号驱逐舰、“黄冈”号护卫舰经台湾东部海域南下，由巴士海峡向西，并且在台湾西南海域逗留。媒体称，这是解放军首次派出有“中华神盾”之称的052C型驱逐舰执行此类任务。而台湾防务部门却“闷不吭声”没有声张。
对此，国防部发言人吴谦6月28日回应此问题时谈到三点：第一，台湾是中国的一部分，捍卫国家主权和领土完整是解放军的神圣使命。第二，我们采取的一系列行动，针对的是岛内的“台独”分裂势力，为的是防止台湾民众的福祉因“台独”图谋而受损害。第三，我们将根据台海两岸形势的发展变化，按照计划组织实施相关训练行动。（海外网 杨佳）


Taiwan military: nearly 50 PLA ships intensively pass through the Taiwan Strait (Photos)
Taiwan military: nearly 50 PLA ships intensively pass through the Taiwan Strait (Photos)
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Original title: Taiwan Defense Department: Nearly 50 PLA ships intensively pass through the Taiwan Strait
Source: Joint Report Source: United Daily News

Overseas network July 22nd According to Taiwan media reports, Taiwan Defense Department sources pointed out that a few days ago, the PLA Navy ships intensively passed through the Taiwan Strait. The total number of ships passing through the Taiwan Strait in two days was nearly 50, including the "Chinese Aegis" destroyer.

According to the "United Daily News" quoted from the Taiwan Defense Department as a source, the PLA Navy ships suddenly moved south from the Taiwan Strait and passed through the Taiwan Strait at high speed. In the two days on the 20th and 21st, the total number of ships passing through the Taiwan Strait was nearly 50. .

According to reports, large ships such as the liberation of the East China Sea Fleet, such as the 052C/052D "China Aegis" destroyer, and other models of large tonnage supply ships, almost all south. When the fleet passed the Taiwan Strait, it also traveled in a dense column during the day. Some passengers took photos from Taiwan's civil aviation planes coming to Kinmen and Matsu.

Source: United Daily News

Taiwanese media speculated that the reason for the PLA's fleet to go south was "anti-typhoon." The South China Sea Fleet ship went northward and carried out joint exercises with the East China Sea Fleet in the East China Sea. However, because the typhoon "Abe" entered the East China Sea through the Ryukyu Island chain, and the path went straight to the Zhoushan Islands, the most important base of the East China Sea Fleet, it was not only the South China Sea that participated in the military exercise. The fleet ships southward, and the East China Sea Fleet ships also left the mother port south.

In this regard, some Taiwanese netizens commented that "the news says it is against typhoon, it is better to protect the security of the Taiwan Strait." "It was originally a typhoon, not a "Taiwan independence."

Earlier, the Zhejiang Maritime Safety Administration issued a navigation warning on the 16th that from 8:00 on July 18, 2018 to 18:00 on July 23, 2018, the actual use of weapons training will be organized in the seas from Xiangshan to Wenzhou. The precautions mentioned: "The implementation unit should be equipped with sufficient on-site warning boats, clear the field before the actual use of the weapons area training, on-site vigilance during the training and the clearance check and guarantee work after the training, to ensure the training of the waters after the training. Safe and unimpeded."

Zhejiang Maritime Bureau official website screenshot

In this regard, some experts analyzed that this is a normalized annual routine exercise under the traditional region. But one fact that cannot be ignored is that "in the event of a war in the future, the East China Sea will be the main battlefield. This is the key to resolving the Taiwan issue and other disputed island reefs at sea." According to reports, the above-mentioned person said, "If the current The traditional exercise area moves forward in parallel and basically covers Taiwan as a whole."

Once the PLA's military exercise information was released, it immediately attracted the attention of major Taiwanese media. The Taiwan media specifically mentioned in the report that the restricted area of the exercise is very large, equivalent to the area of Taiwan Island. On the 17th, the Taiwan Defense Department responded in a low-key manner. The exercise was only the annual routine exercise of the People's Liberation Army. The Taiwan military "can be closely controlled and responsive" for the various movements of the PLA around Taiwan.

After the People’s Liberation Army Air Force organized a multi-type aircraft to cruise around the island in April this year, in June, the “Jinan” destroyer and the “Huanggang” frigate of the People’s Liberation Army went south through the eastern seas of Taiwan, west by the bus strait, and stayed in the southwestern Taiwan. . According to the media, this is the first time the People's Liberation Army has dispatched the 052C destroyer known as the "China Aegis" to perform such tasks. The Taiwan Defense Department is not screaming.

In response, Ministry of Defense spokesperson Wu Qian said three points when he responded to this question on June 28. First, Taiwan is part of China. Defending national sovereignty and territorial integrity is the sacred mission of the People's Liberation Army. Second, the series of actions we have taken are aimed at the "Taiwan independence" separatist forces on the island in order to prevent the well-being of the Taiwanese people from being harmed by the "Taiwan independence" plot. Third, we will organize and implement relevant training actions in accordance with the development of the situation on both sides of the Taiwan Strait. (Overseas network Yang Jia)


中国军事势态紧张! 昨天大批战机挂弹冲南中国海, 今天50艘大舰队巡台海! 习近平南海阅兵规模历来最大也才40艘. 这次非阅兵,是实力宣扬武力与展现决心! http://mil.news.sina.com.cn/2018-07-22/doc-ihfqtahi8326882.shtml
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[Hypocrite-The]

Pass through still never invade..where have I heard that b4? Same old song n dance...yawn....

 

[eatshitndie]

lol! your satire is laughable. 4 ships and considered a "giant" fleet?

this was the real giant fleet that (already) existed back in ww2.

this is just one carrier battle group in the usn fleet today.

 

[Tony Tan]

Pass through still never invade..where have I heard that b4? Same old song n dance...yawn....

Stupid Xijinping want bloodless surrender at gun (missile) point.

That is very wrong in my view. The deads will speak for your strength MOST LOUDLY from their graves. Best prove of strength. Just like Hiroshima & Nagasaki speaks for USA to make them superpower. You are weak when you don't KILL regardless how much arms & nukes you displayed at NDP.

DEATH TOLL = STRENGTH simple maths!

The living will give you trouble for whole life until death so you better put them to death from day 1, in fact for enemies, kill them from their very fucking ancestors so they are never born. There is still 35% of rebels separatists in Taiwan if not killed will only cause long term trouble to rule Taiwan, and you have to waste resources to deal with them fight them or pamper (worst hopeless solution) them?

Unification by war solves the problem totally, KILL the separatists and Pro-West / Pro-Japs Taitors. Kill ALL! I guarantee much less troubles than that CB 50年不变 HK or 一国两制 rubbish.

Tian An Men got many rolled over by tanks, so nice and quiet for decades, that is the prove! If not rolled over and killed, until now may DAILY PROTEST and DEMAND SHITS. Blood cleans up everything PERFECTLY, that is the only good ways from ancestors thousands of years of experience. Xijinping want to eat Ang Moh Sai?!

 

[Tony Tan]

Ah Tiong Media, my DF-21D 10X more lethally effective than all western missiles, proven last week at Pacific War Games!



http://mil.news.sina.com.cn/jssd/2018-07-22/doc-ihfqtahi7275672.shtml

美日10发导弹命中靶舰未沉 中国东风21D却可一击致命

美日10发导弹命中靶舰未沉 中国东风21D却可一击致命



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被击中的靶船
在进行海面反舰训练和演习时，大多数情况下，反舰导弹并没有发射，也没有目标大型水面舰艇作为靶舰，毕竟这样的成本太高。
不过，在重大的武器装备服役之前，以及重大的演习中，还是会使用退役的军舰用作靶舰，这样更能检验新型武器装备的效果以及检验演习的成色。



中国最有名的一次实弹海上打实船靶，同反舰弹道导弹试射有关，靶船就是著名的远望4号航天远洋测控船，这艘船长156米，满载排水量12700吨，在2007年遭遇一场火灾后退役，2010年到2011年间，被改造成1号靶船，用于东风-21D海上打靶，消息称，一枚东风-21D精确击中远望4号，随后沉没。该船2011年被一家船厂打捞回来拆解，完成了它的使命。

东风-21D
也正是这次著名的打靶试射，一举奠定了东风-21D成为“航母杀手”杀手锏地位。在这次打靶之前，美国媒体分析称东风-21D是战略忽悠局的作品，并不相信中国能够拥有1枚即可击沉航母的利器，这次打靶之后，相当于一举划定了我海岸线直径1500公里范围为美军航母“死亡禁区”。
相对来说，中国海军一直都不太富足，退役的军舰也有限，部分用于建造爱国军事科普基地，部分直接拆解，只有小部分直接用来作为海军反舰演习的实体靶船。反观美军，他们的演习就奢侈的多，不管是新武器测试还是演习，经常就使用退役的实体军舰用作靶船。
美国媒体披露，在一周之前，环太平洋军演上美军又奢侈了一把，一艘大型退役军舰用做靶船被直接击沉。这艘退役的拉辛号登陆舰长160米，满载排水量9000吨，这种演习中实弹打击这种大型的靶船的机会并不是很多，这也见美军此次演习也算下了血本。

拉辛号登陆舰被击中
不过，并不是所有参加这次演习的国家都有机会发射反舰导弹攻击这艘靶船，25个参演的国家，仅有美国、日本和澳大利亚的军队获得许可。
美军发射了海马思反舰导弹、鱼叉反舰导弹、MK-48鱼雷以及火箭弹，日本自卫队发射了12式反舰导弹，澳大利亚军队用P-8A巡逻机发射了鱼叉反舰导弹，这些火力应该超过10枚反舰导弹以及鱼雷，全部集中发射击向拉辛号靶船，有意思的是，拉辛号登陆舰并没有立马被击沉，而是在海面上挣扎了一个多小时之后才沉入海底。
不过，值得警醒的是，此次参加反舰演习的是日本陆上自卫队，就连美国媒体报道时都认为罕见，毕竟这种攻击性的演习，并不应该让一支不算事军队的专注防卫的武装力量参与。（作者署名：前沿哨所/再言）



US and Japan 10 missile hits the target ship is not sinking China Dongfeng 21D can be a fatal blow
US and Japan 10 missile hits the target ship is not sinking China Dongfeng 21D can be a fatal blow
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Target ship hit

In the case of anti-ship training and exercises on the sea surface, in most cases, anti-ship missiles were not launched, and there was no target large surface ship as a target ship. After all, such costs are too high.

However, before the service of major weapons and equipment, as well as major exercises, retired warships will still be used as target ships, which will better test the effects of new weapons and equipment and verify the quality of the exercises.

China's most famous live-fired sea-going ship target is related to the anti-ship ballistic missile test. The target ship is the famous Yuanwang 4 space ocean-going survey and control ship. This ship is 156 meters long and has a full displacement of 12,700 tons. It was encountered in 2007. After a fire, he retired from 2010 to 2011 and was converted into a No. 1 target ship for Dongfeng-21D sea shooting. According to the news, a Dongfeng-21D accurately hit Yuanwang No. 4 and then sank. The ship was salvaged by a shipyard in 2011 and dismantled and completed its mission.

Dongfeng-21D

It is also this famous shooting test that laid the foundation for the Dongfeng-21D to become the "aircraft killer" killer. Before this target, the US media analyzed that the Dongfeng-21D is a work of the Strategy Fudge Bureau. It does not believe that China can have a weapon that can sink the aircraft carrier. After this target, it is equivalent to delineating the diameter of my coastline. The 1,500-kilometer range is the US military aircraft carrier "death zone."

Relatively speaking, the Chinese navy has not been very rich, and the retired warships are limited. Some of them are used to build patriotic military science bases, and some are directly dismantled. Only a small part is directly used as a physical target ship for naval anti-ship exercises. On the other hand, the US military, their exercises are extravagant, whether it is a new weapon test or exercise, often using decommissioned physical warships as target ships.

The US media revealed that a week ago, the US military in the Pacific Rim military exercise was extravagant, and a large retired warship was directly used as a target ship. The retired Racine landlord is 160 meters long and has a full displacement of 9,000 tons. There are not many opportunities for live ammunition to strike such a large target ship. This is also the case for the US military.

The Racine landing ship was hit

However, not all countries participating in the exercise have the opportunity to launch anti-ship missiles to attack the target ship. In the 25 participating countries, only the US, Japanese and Australian troops are licensed.

The US military launched the Hippocampus anti-ship missile, the Harpoon anti-ship missile, the MK-48 torpedo and the rocket. The Japanese Self-Defense Force launched a 12-type anti-ship missile. The Australian Army launched a Harpoon anti-ship missile with a P-8A patrol aircraft. These firepower should exceed 10 anti-ship missiles and torpedoes, all of which are concentrated on the Racine target ship. Interestingly, the Racine landing ship did not immediately sink, but struggled for more than an hour after the sea. Just sinking into the sea.

However, it is worth noting that the anti-ship exercise was carried out by the Japanese Ground Self-Defense Force. Even the US media reported that it was rare. After all, this aggressive exercise should not make a military that is not a military. Focus on the defense of the armed forces to participate. (Author's signature: Frontier Posts / Again)

 

[Tony Tan]

lol! your satire is laughable. 4 ships and considered a "giant" fleet?

this was the real giant fleet that (already) existed back in ww2.

this is just one carrier battle group in the usn fleet today.

Chinese media laughing at US Navy just today, that their fucking ship DROWNED @ Naval Dockyard just now! US Naval Strength and Yard Capabilities are down to India's level!

US Naval veterans are very sad about their forces decaying.

http://mil.news.sina.com.cn/jssd/2018-07-22/doc-ihfqtahi7241611.shtml


美退役军官刚指出美海军11大问题 美舰就在船坞被淹

2018年07月22日 11:23 新浪军事



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美国海军
随着中国的稳步崛起，稳坐“海上霸主”位置的美国，感到了前所未有的压力。虽然中国同美国相比仍有不少距离，但从一名退役海军军官痛斥美国海军存在的11个问题上，我们可以发现美国海军似乎正将自己推向了死路，而这时它还遭受到“神”的补刀。



前段时间，我国055型万吨大驱两艘同时下水的新闻，就刷爆了网络。美国媒体就是事后评论道，“中国海军正以任何国家都无法比拟的速度变得更庞大、更强”，美国媒体在文章中表示，“055型驱逐舰比美国的同类型舰艇更大、更强，最重要是的，两艘舰艇同时下水也将中国造船厂的巨大能力展露无遗。”
或许是有感美国的不争气，作为一名在多艘舰艇上任职过的，美国海军退役军官约翰·拜伦，近日在美国媒体上接连指出美国海军存在的11个问题。他表示，在过去的一年多时间里，美国海军经历了一个非常糟糕的时刻，碰撞、管理不善，船员技术缺乏等，都将美国海军拖入了一个可怕、危险的境地。

美国海军
拜伦称，导致美国海军变成现在这样状况的原因，多达11种以上。我们总结以后可以归结于这几点。首先是对于所有船员的评估系统，士兵和军官们都不知道其标准是什么，这也就到导致了训练等内容上的滞后。
然后就是沟通问题，其上下沟通的程序堪称愚蠢，这也导致其人员的分配上出现了重大的问题，不能人尽其用。而最重要的问题就是极为臃肿军官构成。一艘只有21个工作职位的舰艇上，被安排了32个军官，这才是最大的弊端。
因此拜伦认为，如果要改变美国海军这种现状，必须要彻底的打破现在美国海军的战略，建更少的船，将钱用在船员的身上。或许是这一观点说的太正确，得到了“神”的认可，在近日，“神”给美国海军补了一刀，又或者说是一个启示。

事故现场
据新闻报道称，美国通用动力造船公司的一个船坞的坞们突然倒塌，致使大量海水涌入坞内，一艘在建的米格尔基思好远征基地舰被淹。虽然此次事件没有造成人员的伤亡，但从公布的图片来看，此次美国方面受到的损失可不小。
由于中国近几年各类军舰呈“下饺子”之势，美国提出了“355计划”，旨在2050年之前，让美国拥有355艘各类舰艇，以超越中国。不过现在，包括退役军官乃至“神”，似乎都对这一计划不太看好，所以美国还是参考下“神”的意见才好。（作者署名：前沿哨所/智忠）


US retired military officers just pointed out the 11 major problems of the US Navy. The US ship was flooded at the dock.
July 22, 2018 11:23 Sina Military
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US Navy

With the steady rise of China, the United States, which is firmly positioned as the "maritime hegemon", feels unprecedented pressure. Although China still has a long way to go compared with the United States, from the 11 issues that a retired naval officer denounced the US Navy, we can see that the US Navy seems to be pushing itself to a dead end, and at this time it has also suffered The "soul" of the knife.

Some time ago, the news that China's 055-type 10,000-ton large-drive two ships were launched at the same time, it broke the network. The US media commented afterwards that "the Chinese navy is becoming bigger and stronger at a speed unmatched by any country." The US media said in the article that "the 055 destroyer is bigger and stronger than the same type of US ship." And most importantly, the simultaneous launch of two ships also reveals the tremendous capabilities of the Chinese shipyard."

Perhaps it is the United States' disappointment. As a US ship retired, John Byron, a retired US Navy officer, recently pointed out 11 problems in the US Navy. He said that in the past year or so, the US Navy has experienced a very bad moment, collision, poor management, lack of crew skills, etc., have dragged the US Navy into a terrible and dangerous situation.

US Navy

Byron said that the cause of the US Navy has become such a situation, as many as 11 or more. After we summarize it, we can attribute it to these points. The first is that for all crew assessment systems, soldiers and officers do not know what the standard is, which leads to lag in training and other content.

Then there is the communication problem, and the process of communicating up and down is stupid, which also leads to major problems in the distribution of its personnel, and can not be used to the best of its ability. The most important issue is the formation of extremely bloated officers. A ship with only 21 jobs has been assigned 32 officers, which is the biggest drawback.

Therefore, Byron believes that if we want to change the status quo of the US Navy, we must completely break the current US Navy strategy, build fewer ships, and use the money on the crew. Perhaps this view is too correct and has been recognized by the "God". In recent days, "God" has given the US Navy a knife, or a revelation.

accident scene

According to news reports, the docks of a dock at the General Dynamics Shipbuilding Company of the United States suddenly collapsed, causing a large amount of seawater to flood into the dock, and a Miguel Keith expedition base ship under construction was flooded. Although the incident did not cause casualties, but from the published pictures, the loss suffered by the United States is not small.

Since China's various warships have been "dumpling dumplings" in recent years, the United States has proposed the "355 Plan", which aims to allow the United States to have 355 ships of various types to surpass China before 2050. But now, including retired military officers and even "God", seems to be less optimistic about this plan, so the United States still refers to the "God" opinion. (Author's signature: Frontier Post / Zhizhong)

 

[Tony Tan]

http://www.oldsaltblog.com/2018/07/...usns-miguel-keith-at-general-dynamics-nassco/

Graving Dock Flooding Damages USNS Miguel Keith at General Dynamics NASSCO

Posted on July 14, 2018 by Rick Spilman

Oops. Last Wednesday, the graving dock at the General Dynamics NASSCO yard in San Diego, CA flooded after the dock gate at least partially collapsed. The ship under construction in the graving dock, the USNS Miguel Keith, floated off the docking blocks while also flooding the ship through cuts in its hull. No one was injured and there is no estimate of damage to the ship which was expected to be delivered in August of 2019.
A graving dock is a type of drydock built as a narrow basin closed by gates or by a caisson, into which a vessel may be floated and the water pumped out, leaving the vessel supported on blocks. The graving dock at the NASSCO yard is the 1,000-foot long and 174-foot wide.
The USNS Miguel Keith is the third Expeditionary Sea Base built for the US Navy. The two Navy Expeditionary Sea Bases now in service are the USNS Lewis B. Puller (T-ESB 3) and the Hershel “Woody” Williams (ESB 4).

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[Tony Tan]

http://www.oldsaltblog.com/2018/07/...usns-miguel-keith-at-general-dynamics-nassco/

Graving Dock Flooding Damages USNS Miguel Keith at General Dynamics NASSCO

Posted on July 14, 2018 by Rick Spilman

Oops. Last Wednesday, the graving dock at the General Dynamics NASSCO yard in San Diego, CA flooded after the dock gate at least partially collapsed. The ship under construction in the graving dock, the USNS Miguel Keith, floated off the docking blocks while also flooding the ship through cuts in its hull. No one was injured and there is no estimate of damage to the ship which was expected to be delivered in August of 2019.
A graving dock is a type of drydock built as a narrow basin closed by gates or by a caisson, into which a vessel may be floated and the water pumped out, leaving the vessel supported on blocks. The graving dock at the NASSCO yard is the 1,000-foot long and 174-foot wide.
The USNS Miguel Keith is the third Expeditionary Sea Base built for the US Navy. The two Navy Expeditionary Sea Bases now in service are the USNS Lewis B. Puller (T-ESB 3) and the Hershel “Woody” Williams (ESB 4).

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This I tot will only happen to ABNN Modi's Ah Neh Navy, but not! California San Diego, @ the CENTER OF US NAVY HEART! NASSCO YARD!

 

[Tony Tan]

US Navy made Gerald Ford Carrier @ US$1.3 Trillion enough fund for 1 year of Canadian Military budget! And sailed only 81 days, back in dockyard for 1~2 yrs repair costing at least US$120M at current figure, delays and enlarged sum expected. Their FUCKING TOILETS don't even work! Worst than ABNN Ah Neh Navy!

https://www.popularmechanics.com/mi...-newest-aircraft-carrier-suffers-a-breakdown/



America’s Newest Aircraft Carrier Suffers a Breakdown

It’s the second breakdown in a year for the USS Ford’s propulsion system.

By Kyle Mizokami

May 9, 2018


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The U.S. Navy’s newest aircraft carrier suffered a propulsion issue in January 2018 that forced it to return to port early from sea trials. The USS Gerald R. Ford experienced an issue with the main thrust bearing that was the result of a manufacturing defect. Both the U.S. Navy and shipbuilder Huntington Ingalls Industries are looking into the problem.
The USS Ford was on a shakedown cruise designed to detect issues in the brand-new ship. According to a Navy memo obtained by Bloomberg News, while the ship was underway the crew and engineers observed a temperature of "92 degrees Fahrenheit above the bearing temperature setpoint."
The main thrust bearings on ships are designed to take thrust generated by the propellers and move the ship in the opposite direction of the thrust. A carrier such as the USS Ford, which has four propellers, in turn has four main thrust bearings. As one might expect with a 90,000 ton, nuclear-powered vessel, this is a juncture of machinery that must safely transfer enormous levels of energy, and heat buildup was detected before something dangerous could happen.
According to the memo, “after securing the equipment to prevent damage, the ship safely returned to port." Another problem involving main thrust bearings took place in April 2017.
Huntington Ingalls declined to state which contractor was at fault for the defective parts, but Bloomberg noted that General Electric was responsible for the Ford’s propulsion system. Bloomberg also noted that an inspection of the parts involved in the January 2018 incident revealed improperly machined gears at GE’s facility in Lynn, Massachusetts as the “root cause."
A spokesperson for GE said that the company no longer produces gears for the USS Ford, which begs the question of when the problem could be fixed. The parts are reportedly "out of spec," and would either need to be repaired and brought back into spec or replaced with properly machined parts.
The USS Ford is the most expensive warship in history, costing $12.6 billion in construction and another $4.7 billion in research and development. The Ford was built with a number of new technologies onboard, including an electromagnetic aircraft launch system, advanced aircraft landing system, and new radar.
All new ships undergo problems, and Ford’s shakedown period is doing exactly what it is supposed to. A first in class ship using new technology, Ford has had more than its share of issues. According to a spokesman for Navy Sea Systems Command, the organization overseeing the shakedown cruise, the problems will be fixed during the “post-shakedown availability” phase, during which improvements are made while the ship is in drydock.






https://pilotonline.com/news/military/local/article_a9153332-7463-59c2-a348-017b9fa7db4b.html


Costs soar for new USS Ford, an aircraft carrier hobbled by flaws in launching, landing planes

• By Tony Capaccio
  Bloomberg
• Jun 15, 2017

U.S. Navy photo credit Petty Officer 2nd Class Ridge Leoni
The future USS Gerald R. Ford underway during a first round of sea trials in April. The first-of-class ship cost $12.9 billion.

The newest and costliest U.S. aircraft carrier, praised by President Donald Trump and delivered to the Navy on May 31 with fanfare, has been dogged by trouble with fundamentals: launching jets from its deck and catching them when they land.
Now it turns out that the system used to capture jets landing on the USS Gerald R. Ford ballooned in cost, tripling to $961 million from $301 million, according to Navy documents obtained by Bloomberg News.
While the Navy says the landing system has been fixed, the next-generation carrier built by Huntington Ingalls Industries still hasn't been cleared to launch F/A-18 jets carrying a full complement of fuel tanks under their wings, a handicap that could limit their effectiveness in combat.

The twin issues underscore the technical and cost challenges for the planned three-ship, $42 billion Ford class of carriers that is drawing increased congressional scrutiny. The Navy and Trump want to increase the carrier fleet from 11 authorized by law to 12.
Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman John McCain, R-Arizona, has long criticized the Navy's management of the Ford program and joined a congressional effort that capped funding for the Ford at $12.9 billion and for a second ship under construction, the John F. Kennedy, at $11.4 billion. He's likely to grill Navy officials about the newly disclosed landing system costs and troubled launch system during a hearing Thursday on the Navy budget.
The surge in costs for the development phase of the advanced arresting gear -- built by General Atomics to catch planes landing -- was borne by the Navy under terms of that contract. In addition, the program acquisition costs of the three systems built so far more than doubled to $532 million each from $226 million, an increase that must be paid by closely held General Atomics.
General Atomics spokeswoman Meghan Ehlke referred all questions to the Navy "per our contract." Capt. Thurraya Kent, a Navy spokeswoman, said the contractor forfeited all bonus fees it could have made during the 2009-2016 development phase and the service is reviewing the company's master schedule for the John F. Kennedy weekly. The Navy also has placed personnel at the company's facility in Rancho Bernardo, California, to monitor progress.
The Navy reported the cost increase to Congress last month because it breached thresholds established under a 1982 law for major weapons systems. It's separate from the 22 percent increase since 2010 for construction of the carrier, which resulted in Congress imposing the $12.9 billion cost cap.



Trump, who has repeatedly complained about the high cost of major weapons systems -- and then taken credit for reining them in -- did that in a Coast Guard commencement address on May 17. The Ford "had a little bit of an overrun problem before I got here, you know that. Still going to have an overrun problem; we came in when it was finished, but we're going to save some good money."
Trump said "when we build the new aircraft carriers, they're going to be built under budget and ahead of schedule, just remember that." Still, the Government Accountability Office said in a new report Tuesday that the John F. Kennedy's cost estimate "is not reliable and does not address lessons learned" from the Ford's performance.

Trump scoffed at the carrier's troubled electromagnetic launch system in a Time magazine interview last month, saying it doesn't work and "you have to be Albert Einstein to figure it out." Saying the Navy should stick with an old-fashioned, steam-driven catapult, he added, "The digital costs hundreds of millions of dollars more money and it's no good."
Until the catapult problem, discovered in 2014, is resolved, it limits how much combat fuel can be carried in planes being launched from the carrier's deck.
That "would preclude normal employment" of the F/A-18E/F Super Hornet and the radar-jamming Growler version because "the aircraft are limited in the types of missions that they can accomplish" without added under-wing fuel tanks, Army Lieutenant Colonel Roger Cabiness, spokesman for the Pentagon's testing office, said in an email. He said the Navy asserts that testing on the ground has solved a software flaw that caused excessive vibrations of those fuel tanks.
"The Navy estimates the software problem will be resolved and software updates incorporated" on the carrier for testing at sea during the vessel's post-shakedown phase between May and November of 2018, Michael Land, spokesman for the Naval Air Systems Command, said in an email. He said actual launches of jets with wing tanks will follow in 2019.
The Navy still has time to fix the catapult issue. Though the Ford has been delivered, the ship is not scheduled to be declared ready for operations until 2020, with first actual deployment planned for about 2022, according to spokeswoman Kent.





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The Navy’s Urinal-Free Brand New Supercarrier Is A Big Fat Mess



By Jared Keller
on February 13, 2018

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The Department of Defense’s fiscal year 2019 budget includes a hefty chunk of cash for a fourth Ford-class aircraft carrier, but the Navy may have to wait a little bit longer to see its dreams of an 11-carrier fleet truly realized.
Among the slew of vessels included in the Navy portion of President Donald Trump’s planned boost to the U.S. armed forces budget are three Arleigh Burke-class destroyers, two Virginia-class submarines, and the “first year of full funding” for the now-unnamed CVN 81 aircraft carrier, a younger sibling to the brand-new $13 billion USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78), which the Navy (and Trump) commissioned last July.
But as it turns out, the Pentagon’s latest technical assessment of the next-generation (and urinal-less) supercarrier reveals a warship currently incapable of performing basic functions during routine operations; the service on Feb. 7 reportedly appealed to Secretary of Defense James Mattis to delay critical shock testing of the new carriers until the second Ford-class hull, USS John F. Kennedy, comes available in 2024 — the same stress-testing for which lawmakers let the Navy off the hook in June 2017.

The DoD’s intensive assessment of the Ford, conducted by the Office of the Director of Operational Test and Evaluation and published last month, along with its other 2017 technical analyses, reveals “poor or unknown reliability” among many of the Ford’s essential systems, including newly designed catapults, arresting gear, weapons elevators, and radar.”


These systems aren’t just high-profile (see: that steamless catapult) but critical for the vessel’s roles in counterterrorism and great-power deterrence. “[The limitations] could affect the ability of CVN 78 to generate sorties, make the ship more vulnerable to attack, or create limitations during routine operations,” the report states. “The poor or unknown reliability of these critical subsystems is the most significant risk to CVN 78.”

Among the most glaring problems facing the vessel: those “goddamned” electromagnetic catapults. While the Boeing F/A-18F Super Hornet and EA-18G Growler aircraft experienced “excessive airframe stress” on launches, according to the DoD report, the Navy also “identified an inability to readily electrically isolate Electromagnetic Aircraft Launching System (EMALS) and Advanced Arresting Gear (AAG) components to perform maintenance” — a complication that means sailors could find themselves unable to perform underway maintenance or repairs on one of the ship’s most critical systems.


This isn’t just real pain in the ass when something goes wrong during a sustained bombing campaign against, say, forces hostile to U.S personnel downrange in Syria: It renders the whole system functionally useless. At the current reliability, Ford’s cats only have “a 9 percent chance of completing the 4-day surge and a 70 percent chance of completing a day of sustained operations as defined in the design reference mission without a critical failure.” That’s on a good day, with a deck full of trained-up sailors; the Ford class was designed to reduce manning requirements but is “sensitive to manpower fluctuations” simply because the next-generation technologies it embraces “are not well understood,” the report states
More concerning are the shock tests the Navy is delaying on the Ford, in which light charges would be set off in the water around the ship to test its systems’ reliance under stress. In recent years, DoD regulations stipulated that Full Ship Shock Trials, designed to test hull resiliency, are should be conducted at “two-thirds of the shock level that ships are required to survive”; the service’s push to delay even such nominal tests raises questions about officials’ confidence in their new supercarrier.
On the upside, Trump’s 2019 defense budget request contains around $1.8 billion for the “continued development” of Ford-class carrier technologies, as Defense News put it on Feb. 13. A few billion here, a few billion there — pretty soon, we’ll be talking about a working aircraft carrier.
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[Tony Tan]

Xijinping learned this week after Putin Dotard Summit @Helsinki that Nuke Speaks! Putin's country is financially weak but NUKE STRONG, and Dotard respects WAR HEAD COUNTS. So soon, you will hear PLA announce their highly increased new War Head Counts.

My say is counts by war head still not good, it is the number of COMBAT DETONATIONS that REALLY COUNTS, Hiroshima & Nagasaki speaks for American Superpower Status. China must nuke USA to register score. Number of Mushroom Clouds & Mega Ton figures & DEATH TOLL spells clearly how long you can last as a Superpower. NOTHING WILL REPLACE THIS.



http://mil.news.sina.com.cn/china/2018-07-22/doc-ihfqtahi6820963.shtml

特朗普敬重超级核大国俄罗斯启示：中国核武远不够用

2018年07月22日 10:04 环球时报



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原标题：社评：特朗普敬重超级核大国俄罗斯的启示
美国舆论对赫尔辛基美俄峰会的余怒未消，白宫又公布了特朗普邀请普京访问华盛顿的消息。在改善美俄关系的问题上，特朗普的态度十分坚决，堪称力排众议。尽管他的对俄政策受到诸多牵制，但美俄关系在其任期内停止下滑，呈一个大致缓和的势头，应是大概率事件。
特朗普不止一次强调，俄罗斯与美国是世界上两个最大的核国家，两国核武器占到全球的90%，美国必须与俄罗斯融洽相处。应当说，在发展美俄关系的问题上，特朗普是清醒的。
俄罗斯的经济目前相当弱，GDP排在世界前十之后，然而军事力量，尤其是核力量支持了它作为世界上最有影响力大国之一的地位。俄美在中东和欧洲都存在严重地缘政治冲突，但是特朗普突然扭转美国对俄强硬政策，向普京展现低姿态，大概的确如他所说，这首先是因为俄罗斯是个核大国。
我们知道，美俄改善关系不是一朝一夕之功，由于两国很难实现在欧洲和中东的战略妥协，即使双方关系改善了，新的摩擦还会发生，导致两国关系新的溃疡。
然而特朗普对俄罗斯的特殊尊重还是值得我们玩味的。他是位只重实力的人，而军事力量，首先是核力量尤其被他看重。其实这也是传统地缘政治学的典型思维，所有博弈到头来都可能带动终极力量的博弈，尽管这种博弈有可能是潜在的，但它会很大程度上影响一方对另一方的态度。
美国已将中国定位为战略对手，其对中国的施压会逐步展开，贸易战或许只是个开头，两国紧张有向更多领域扩散的风险。我们相信，在这个过程中，白宫会做很多评估，包括不时盘算一下中国有多少核弹头这个与中美现实摩擦看上去相当遥远的问题。
中国与俄罗斯不同，我国经济实力强大，博弈手段多样，这是我们的优势。然而中国军事力量相对弱，又是我方的短板。其中中国核力量与美国有着悬殊差距，是中国的重大战略短板。
在中国战略界流行着一种看法，核武器只要够用就行了，持有太多核武器既要付出更大成本，还可能诱发外部的警觉，导致额外的战略不确定性。这种观点认为，中国没有必要着力增加战略核武器的件数，而应将重点放在核武器的现代化上，确保第二次核打击能力的真实性。我们认为，这种看法是对大国战略核态势的严重误读。
中国不是小国，只要有几件核武器在关键时刻能够吓唬吓唬战略威逼者就行了。中国已经成长为有全球影响的力量，我们面临的战略风险和博弈压力要比小国大得多，对何为核武器“够用”，我们需要重新思考。
中国的核武器不仅要确保真实的二次打击能力，而且要促进国家形成外部势力不敢对中国进行任何军事恫吓的强大威慑，在这当中扮演基石的作用。大国一旦发生军事摩擦，必然要评估彼此持续对抗的终极意志，而这种意志的最后依托就是核力量。美国之所以用切香肠的方式搞北约东扩，但在乌克兰和叙利亚等具体摩擦中不敢放开手脚与俄对抗，最大的原因大概就是怕拥有超级核力量的俄罗斯跟它来横的。
看看在南海、台海美国不时展现的咄咄逼人姿态，就知道中国的核力量根本就“不够用”。美国对华的战略傲慢有相当一部分来源于它对中国的绝对核优势。我们担心的是，或许有一天美国会把它的这种傲慢付诸更冒险的对华军事挑衅，那将使中国面临非常严峻的考验。
中国一定要加快发展战略核力量，各种先进的导弹应及时亮相。我们不仅要切实拥有强大的核力量，而且要让所有外部势力清楚并相信中国受到这支核力量支持的捍卫国家核心利益的坚定意志。
当然了，我们不认为中国应把加强核力量作为压倒一切的工作，不惜牺牲其他重大发展利益。但是这项工作应当作为最重要的事项之一加以筹划，不断推动落实。我们必须形成加强核力量刻不容缓的认识。



Trump respects the super nuclear power Russia enlightenment: China's nuclear weapons are far from enough
July 22, 2018 10:04 Global Times
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Original Title: Social Review: Trump Respects the Enlightenment of Super Nuclear Power Russia

The resentment of American public opinion on the Helsinki Summit was also unveiled. The White House announced the news that Trump invited Putin to visit Washington. On the issue of improving US-Russian relations, Trump's attitude is very determined and can be called a public debate. Although his policy toward Russia has been subject to many restrictions, the US-Russia relationship has stopped falling during its term of office, showing a generally moderate momentum, which should be a high probability event.

Trump has emphasized more than once that Russia and the United States are the two largest nuclear powers in the world. The nuclear weapons of the two countries account for 90% of the world's total. The United States must live in harmony with Russia. It should be said that Trump is sober on the issue of developing US-Russian relations.

Russia's economy is currently quite weak, with GDP ranking behind the top ten in the world. However, military forces, especially nuclear forces, have supported it as one of the world's most influential countries. Russia and the United States have serious geopolitical conflicts in the Middle East and Europe, but Trump suddenly reversed the US's tough policy toward Russia and showed a low profile to Putin. Probably, as he said, this is because Russia is a nuclear power.

We know that the improvement of relations between the United States and Russia is not a one-off effort. It is difficult for the two countries to achieve strategic compromises in Europe and the Middle East. Even if the relationship between the two sides improves, new frictions will occur, leading to new ulcers in relations between the two countries.

However, Trump's special respect for Russia is still worthy of our taste. He is a person with only strength, and military power, first of all nuclear power, is especially valued by him. In fact, this is also the typical thinking of traditional geopolitics. All games may lead to the ultimate power game. Although this game may be potential, it will greatly affect one party's attitude toward the other.

The United States has positioned China as a strategic opponent, and its pressure on China will gradually start. The trade war may be just the beginning. The tension between the two countries has the risk of spreading to more fields. We believe that in the process, the White House will do a lot of evaluations, including from time to time to figure out how many nuclear warheads in China seem to be quite distant from the Sino-American reality.

China is different from Russia. China's economic strength is strong and its game means are diverse. This is our advantage. However, China’s military strength is relatively weak and it is our shortcoming. Among them, China’s nuclear power and the United States have a wide gap, which is China’s major strategic shortcoming.

There is a popular view in China's strategic world that nuclear weapons can be used as long as they are sufficient. Holding too many nuclear weapons requires more cost, and may also trigger external vigilance, leading to additional strategic uncertainty. This view holds that China does not need to focus on increasing the number of strategic nuclear weapons, but should focus on the modernization of nuclear weapons to ensure the authenticity of the second nuclear strike capability. We believe that this view is a serious misunderstanding of the strategic nuclear posture of big countries.

China is not a small country. As long as there are several nuclear weapons that can scare and threaten strategic intimidators at critical moments. China has grown into a globally influential force. The strategic risks and game pressures we face are much larger than those of small countries. We need to rethink what is a nuclear weapon.

China's nuclear weapons must not only ensure a true second-strike capability, but also promote the country's formation of external forces to dare to exert any military intimidation against China, playing a cornerstone role. Once a military conflict occurs in a big country, it is inevitable to assess the ultimate will of each other's continued confrontation, and the final support of this will is nuclear power. The reason why the United States used NATO to cut the spread of NATO, but in the specific frictions such as Ukraine and Syria, they dared not let go of the confrontation with Russia. The biggest reason is probably that Russia, which has super nuclear power, is going to cross it.

Looking at the aggressive postures that the United States and the Taiwan Strait have shown from time to time, we know that China’s nuclear power is simply "not enough." A considerable part of the strategic arrogance of the United States against China stems from its absolute nuclear superiority to China. What we are worried about is that perhaps one day the United States will put its arrogance into a more adventurous military provocation against China, which will put China on a very severe test.

China must accelerate the development of strategic nuclear forces, and all kinds of advanced missiles should be unveiled in time. We must not only have a strong nuclear force, but also let all external forces know and believe that China is supported by this nuclear force and will firmly defend the core interests of the country.

Of course, we do not think that China should take nuclear power as its overriding work and sacrifice other major development interests. But this work should be planned as one of the most important issues and will continue to be implemented. We must form an urgent understanding of strengthening nuclear power.