Why doesn t China build cruisers and littoral combat ships

Now it is actually not necessary to build cruisers, before the main advantages of cruisers were large displacement and large bomb load, but with the development of destroyers, they can gradually replace cruisers. For example, the Burke-class destroyers of the United States have a displacement of 9,200 tons, which is close to the cruiser, and the combat effectiveness is not as bad as that of the cruiser, and the cruiser will slowly withdraw from the stage of history in this context, at least in the US military. And in fact, the cruiser is also made according to the actual needs of its own navy, and a global army like the U.S. military will inevitably need global operations.

The same is true for littoral combat ships, which China does not yet have. But it needs to be said that the Littoral Combat Ship is actually a concept equivalent to a patrol ship, which can be understood as a new generation of patrol ships. China is already building new 056-class patrol ships, which also takes into account the needs of coastal operations, which is also a law of development.

The advantage of destroyers can replace cruisers and littoral combat ships, and now destroyers carry more ammunition and have heavy firepower. Now China is building 056-class cruisers, which may later be used in near-sea operations. And the current national situation does not use such cruisers, it is too expensive.

The tonnage of these warships exceeded 10,000, and they were afraid of attracting controversy from neighboring countries.

<> "Why are cruisers gradually being eliminated by the navies of various countries?"

After the end of World War II, all countries in the world have stopped the development of cruisers, and up to now, there are only five countries with cruisers, which shows that cruisers are indeed withdrawing from the world stage. The main reason why cruisers were eliminated was that with the advent of naval aviation and guide shed segment bombs, the mode of modern naval warfare was completely changed.

First of all, let's talk about the reasons for the emergence of cruisers in modern naval warfare. In modern naval warfare, ships compete in speed, armor, and firepower. Ships come and go, artillery bombards each other, and whoever sinks first loses.

Therefore, when the modern navy was just born, there was no distinction between the types of ships, and people hoped that each ship would be fast, armored, and firepower. By the 17th century, it was discovered that speed, armor, and firepower were mutually restrictive. Equipped with heavy armor and more artillery, the ship's chain will be slow to change, so people began to choose "fish and bear's paws".

Large surface ships that pay attention to armor, artillery, and sacrifice speed are called combat ships; Large surface ships that focus on speed and sacrifice armor and artillery are called cruisers. Battleships without speed were mainly tasked with defending near naval bases or ports, while cruisers with speed were mainly engaged in maritime patrols and ocean-going operations.

However, after the end of World War II, with naval aviation and missiles, modern naval warfare has evolved into a contest between carrier-based aircraft air strikes, missile over-the-horizon strikes, and ship (fleet) protection nets. Therefore, the ship can be bigger, but it is not to install more artillery, but to have more platform take-off and landing aircraft, which is the aircraft carrier. Otherwise, the tonnage will be controlled on a smaller order of magnitude, with missiles as the main **, and take on specific tasks, such as:

Corvettes, destroyers, and much more. Therefore, large ships such as battleships and cruisers, which rely on artillery as the main **, are no longer useful.

Modern warfare does not need the mode of giant ships and cannons (aircraft carriers are a special case, because they are carriers that bear the power of aviation carriers, and cruisers are not a function), the main function of cruisers is powerful attack capabilities and single-ship combat capabilities, but now anti-ship ** is developing so rapidly (anti-ship missiles are very lethal, it is likely that a medium and large anti-ship missile can sink or sink a cruiser, this is by no means a joke), large cruisers generally have a large displacement and slow speed, The survivability is very fragile under the current attack of naval combat missiles and over-the-horizon anti-ship **, and it is better to develop small and medium-sized destroyers or frigates, in contrast, a cruiser of 10,000 tons and two 7,000-ton destroyers or frigates, when attacked, who has a higher survivability.

This is the same reason as why you don't develop knives and guns, it's useless.

In fact, after the end of World War II, the definition of cruiser and destroyer became less and less obvious, and now destroyers and cruisers are completely called whatever you want with one mouth. The tonnage of the 055 destroyer was already considered a heavy cruiser in World War II, and the tonnage was larger than that of the American Ticonderoga-class cruisers.

This is an online report, this may be China's littoral combat ship, this ship has a domestic 76 mm naval gun, a domestic roof radar, a new sea search radar, an Eagle Strike 83 missile, and a 730 close defense gun, as well as a vertical launch system, a new type of close defense missile, etc., it can be said that China's littoral combat ship.

Probably true! Hopefully true!

You mean those ships with low endurance, strong assault capabilities, high speed, and good maneuverability. They tend to be smaller in tonnage, such as missile boats, torpedo boats, and gunboats, which are largely gone. They are characterized by small targets, which are not easily detected by the enemy, and quickly approach large enemy ships in a very short time, which are used for defense and raids on close targets.

In our country, it can be used for frontal combat against Taiwan. In the Russian Far East, it can be used to fight against Japan, and in the Persian Gulf Iran can be used in the Strait of Hormuz.

Go to Iron Blood, West Continent, and I saw a picture yesterday.

No, the last cruiser in service in China was the cruiser Chongqing, originally the British Navy Dawning Goddess, which rebelled on February 25, 1949, was bombed by the Kuomintang on March 4 on the way to Huludao, and sank itself on Huludao on the 20th. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, no cruisers were built.

In the 90s, China purchased two former Soviet decommissioned aircraft carriers Minsk and Kiev, which were defined by the Soviet Union as Type 1143 heavy aircraft-carrying cruisers, but after arriving in China, they were also exhibited as aircraft carrier theme park facilities and were not handed over to the People's Navy.

China's only aircraft carrier in service Liaoning, the original Varyag, was defined by the Soviet Union as a type (Kuznetsov is a heavy aircraft-carrying cruiser, the reason why it is defined as a cruiser is because in addition to carrier-based aircraft, the ship itself has strong combat capabilities, carrier-based aircraft are mainly used for anti-submarine escort, but the Varyag came to China to receive modifications, dismantled the missile vertical silos on the original deck, and is closer to European and American aircraft carriers in terms of function and combat methods, Therefore, the Liaoning was defined by the People's Navy as an aircraft carrier, rather than a "heavy aircraft-carrying cruiser" from the Soviet era.