After Chen Guangyi took office, the first thing he had to do was to check his own family.

Of course, he doesn't have much of his own family, but the big navy is not something that can be explained clearly at once.

The world's most powerful naval countries are the most aggressive countries that expand outwardly. European countries in the 19th century all had powerful naval forces, including Britain, Japan, Russia, etc., as well as the rising naval powers.

In recent years, with the need for national defense construction, the domestic navy has also made a qualitative leap compared with the past. Not long ago, an authoritative foreign organization lined up the world navy, and their classification standards were based on the more traditional ten-level classification method.

The first level is a surface combat force mainly composed of large aircraft carriers. The number of nuclear submarines is large, called the global control navy. Only one country can do it, that is the United States.

The second level is mainly cruisers and supplemented by surface combat forces with large aircraft carriers. The number of nuclear submarines is large, called the Global Challenge Navy, and there is only one result, which is Russia.

The third pole is based on aircraft carriers as the core, destroyers escort, nuclear submarines or submarines, called the global existing navy or oceanic navy. The typical countries here are France, Britain, Italy and Spain. France and Britain have two to three aircraft carriers, and nuclear submarines form the previous step in this class.

The fourth level is based on cruisers or large destroyers, and is escorted by general destroyers. There are a considerable number of submarines, called global navies. Typical countries are Japan, Germany and the Netherlands.

The fifth level is based on destroyers as the core, with a large number of frigates and a small number of submarines, typically the Taiwan Navy of China.

According to this standard, India is also ranked in the third pole. Its strength is behind Britain and France, before Italy and Spain, but its equipment level is relatively low. Others such as Brazil, Argentina, and Thailand also have aircraft carriers, but they are better than nothing and have no actual combat capabilities. Although they can rank in the third pole, their strength is not as good as Japan, which ranks fourth level.

The situation in China is mainly frigates, so it is mainly ranked fifth level, but China has nuclear submarines and seems to be ranked third. After comprehensively considering the number of submarines and aviation forces, it is more appropriate to rank fourth level.

Of course, this ranking is not exactly equal to the ranking. Japan's strength is higher than Brazil, Argentina, Thailand, and even India. Therefore, the rankings of the top six should be: the United States, Russia, France, Britain, Japan, and India.

However, the next few are not easy to queue, including Italy, Spain, Germany, the Netherlands, China, Taiwan, and then Thailand, Brazil, and Argentina.

It can be seen that the strength of the Chinese Navy should be ranked seventh, which is basically consistent with the ranking of comprehensive national strength in the world. However, war does not rely entirely on the navy. A strong air force and army are also very necessary. The ten-level classification method only analyzes the ranking of the Chinese Navy from the perspective of weapons, and does not involve important reference conditions such as support, research and development, personnel quality, and strategic policies. Therefore, the above ranking is relatively one-sided.

So what is the current situation of the Chinese navy? Will the navy be ranked seventh in the world? This is also a question that many people are very concerned about.

"China's maritime power goal is very clear." After taking office, Chen Guangyi came back to thank Fan Heng. When talking about this issue, Fan Wubing was also present to listen.

"There are now three fleets from north to south: the North Sea Fleet is responsible for the defense of the Yellow Sea and Bohai Sea, and its main task is to guard Beijing's maritime gateway; the East Sea Fleet is responsible for the East Sea Fleet south of Lianyungang and north of the southern end of the Taiwan Strait, mainly in the direction of the Taiwan Strait; the South Sea Fleet has the largest defense zone, which conceptually includes all the southern Chinese waters south of the Taiwan Strait, which are responsible for safeguarding China's maritime rights and interests in the South China Sea and the defense of islands." Chen Guangyi said, "maintain the security of marine territory, regain the occupied islands, and defeat the enemy's invasion of my country's mainland from the sea and

Unifying Taiwan is the sacred mission of the navy. Judging from the distribution of China's maritime territory, the Diaoyu Islands in the East China Sea, the South China Sea islands and most of the maritime territory are all located in the Western Pacific starting from Kumen Island, through the Japanese archipelago, Ryukyu Islands, Taiwan, Philippine Islands, and even Kalimantan Island, etc., and are connected within the first island chain formed by a series of islands outside our land baseline. In other words, the Chinese Navy is responsible for unifying Taiwan by force when necessary, regaining occupied islands, and defending its own maritime rights and interests. It must have the ability to enter the blue water to fight at the sea inside and outside the first island chain."

As foreign trade becomes increasingly heavy in the national economy, maritime shipping has extraordinary strategic significance for China's economy. Therefore, the long-term goal of the navy should also consider the ability to go to the ocean to escort Chinese merchant ships.

Among the countries in which the first island chain has disputes over maritime rights and interests with China, Japan is probably the only country that has the ability to compete with the Chinese navy.

Japan and the United States are military allies. According to the Japan-US Security Treaty, the United States has an obligation to help Japan defend its territory. On the other hand, when the United States is fighting in the Western Pacific, that is, when the so-called "peripheral situation" occurs, Japan can also provide bases, logistics, intelligence and other military support to the United States.

Therefore, whether China recovers the Diaoyu Islands or unifies Taiwan by force, it must face the U.S. and Japan's navies.

The United States is a country with global interests and naturally will not use all its navy to the Western Pacific. The main force responsible for the defense of the Western Pacific is the US Navy's Seventh Fleet, headquartered in Yokosuka, Japan. Therefore, only if the Chinese Navy has the ability to compete with the US Seventh Fleet, can it have all the maritime rights and interests to defend China, including the naval power required to unify Taiwan by force when necessary.

As for the Navy's existing property, Chen Guangyi knew it. After all, he had been in the Navy for decades and had gone from the grassroots level to the highest commander position, and it was not a waste of time.

The navy uses warships as its combat platform, and the navy's deployment is the deployment of warships. Therefore, when talking about the navy, you must first understand the warships.

The Chinese Navy claims to have the largest warships in the world, with a total of more than 2,500 large and small ships, but among the five permanent members of the UN Security Council, China only has no aircraft carriers.

Overall, the Navy's active military force has a total of 300,000, including 25,000 naval aviation, 25,000 naval coastal defense forces, and 40,000 marines. The navy's combat units are the North Sea Fleet, the East Sea Fleet and the South Sea Fleet, as well as the Navy Aviation and Coast Defense Forces.

The equipment of the Chinese Navy has also been constantly moving towards modernization, especially after the reform and opening up, the navy's foreign exchanges have increased. The most eye-catching one was that in February 1997, two fleets of the Chinese Navy went abroad at the same time and went to the ocean, visiting four American countries and the three Southeast Asian countries with a total voyage of more than 30,000 nautical miles. The leader of the two long-distance ship fleets is the new missile destroyer "Harbin" known as China's first ship and its sister ship "Qingdao".

The "Harbin" and "Qingdao" are the second-generation missile destroyers of the Chinese Navy. They belong to the "Haizhou" class and are currently the latest and most advanced destroyers of the Chinese Navy.

In 1994, the first ship of the "Harbin" class missile destroyer, the Harbin, was completed and put into service, with a full load displacement of 4,200 tons. It uses a combined diesel engine-gas turbine power, a speed of 31 knots, and a cruising capacity of 5,000 nautical miles. It is equipped with the "Eagle Strike-1" anti-ship missile and the "Sea Strike" ship-to-air missile, and is equipped with two carrier-based helicopters.

The internationally popular stealth technology has also been applied on this class of ships, greatly improving its concealment and survivability. In order to give full play to the effectiveness of various advanced weapons and equipment, this class of ships is also equipped with a combat command center that can connect more than a dozen weapon systems into one. The combat system can achieve early warning, timely judgment, centralized command, decentralized control, rapid response, and comprehensive use of soft and hard weapons.

China's conventional submarines have long since entered the stage of self-development and all domestic materials and equipment from the stage of purchasing and imitation. With the rapid advancement of science and technology, missileization and nuclear energy have become the trend of naval equipment development.

As early as the early 1980s, the Navy Long March 3 nuclear submarine passed through the canyon during the months-long deep-sea navigation, walking undercurrents, breaking the record of the maximum self-sufficiency of the US Nautilus nuclear submarine of 84 days, fully demonstrating the advantages of the good maneuverability, concealment, airworthiness and stable and reliable power system operation of China's nuclear submarines.

Currently, the main large combat ships deployed in the North Sea, East China Sea and South China Sea are twenty-three missile destroyers, forty missile frigates, seventy conventional submarines, six large tank landing ships, and six nuclear submarines.

"It sounds good, there are quite a lot of them, and I have created some brilliant records, but the actual situation makes people a little worried." Chen Guangyi first told Fan's father and son about his own family background, and then began to complain.

Fan Wubing listened carefully to Chen Guangyi complaining there with a slight smile on his face, but he still focused on the problems that troubled Chen Guangyi. The equipment was outdated, the funds for technology upgrades were lack of funds, the training methods were old, and the quality of officers and soldiers was low. Of course, a very important issue is that there is not even an aircraft carrier in China at present.

"I don't have anything to show off, so I, the navy commander, are not easy to be a naval commander!" Chen Guangyi said pitifully to Fan Heng, but his eyes were always around Fan Wubing.
Chapter completed!