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The United States 1 1 aircraft carrier blockade is difficult to deter Russia. What kind of signal is released?

Since the end of World War II, American hegemony has lasted for nearly 80 years. A very important factor is that it has the largest navy in the world, especially the most powerful aircraft carrier and carrier-based aircraft force. However, in recent years, although the US Navy still maintains the number one position in the world on paper, the actual deployment of aircraft carriers seems to be getting more and more tense.

Although there are two-digit active aircraft carriers, the current US Navy is facing the dilemma of "no aircraft carrier available", and it is impossible to guarantee that at least one aircraft carrier attack group will be deployed in the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean at the same time. According to the information published on the website of the United States Naval Academy, 1 1 active nuclear-powered aircraft carriers are distributed in different ports and shipyards. The latest ship is the oldest Nimitz, which has just entered Thailand. At present, there are no American aircraft carriers in the oceans around the world.

Due to the lack of a suitable aircraft carrier, the US military even reluctantly proposed "allowing the Royal Navy Queen Elizabeth to go to the Mediterranean" to "show its deterrent to Russia". In the past, will the United States give up the opportunity to wield hegemonic sticks and turn to other countries? Obviously, there is a rather helpless situation at present.

Although the British aircraft carrier "Queen Elizabeth" is equivalent to China's "Shandong Ship" or Russia's "Kuznetsov" in terms of tonnage and design indicators, if all the aircraft carriers are equipped with standard American F-35B stealth carrier aircraft, their overall combat effectiveness will be stronger than that of the Chinese and Russian active aircraft carriers.

However, Britain's poor financial situation limited the status of "Queen Elizabeth". Not only that, the frequent power system failures and water leakage after service have made many people laugh, which is regarded by the outside world as evidence of the "localization" of British manufacturing industry. At present, "Queen Elizabeth" company 12 F-35B can't meet the minimum requirements, so its deterrent effect on Russia is naturally impossible.

Back in the United States, although there are quite a number of 1 1 aircraft carriers on paper, most of the aircraft carriers built during the Cold War are now difficult to deploy continuously with high intensity and can only be maintained at naval bases for a long time, which is directly related to the lack of shipbuilding capacity, shipyards, docks and labor in the United States.

When the United States built the Eagle conventional aircraft carrier and the Nimitz nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, it was also the best time in the shipbuilding industry in the world. But now, only two military shipyards, Bath Steel Shipyard and Ingles Shipyard, can't accept new American shipbuilding orders and maintenance orders for existing ships.

No wonder the US Navy began to develop a seemingly novel concept of "lightning carrier", that is, to let amphibious assault ship share some functions of the carrier with the F-35B carrier. But this is only a symptom, not the root cause. After all, amphibious assault ship's air combat capability can't be compared with that of an aircraft carrier. In addition, these ships must return to the shipyard regularly for maintenance and overhaul, which also has the pressure of "successors".

My own aircraft carrier is not enough, so I can only ask my "brother" for help. When will Big Murray be so "desperate"? However, looking at the hollowing out of domestic manufacturing in the United States, similar embarrassing scenes will only be staged in the future.