Military of China, force comment.
Military of China, force comment.

The Figure: China’s aircraft carrier platform for the third sea trial return

Russian Military Review, April 2, United States, France, Britain and Russia in recent years in the reduction of naval forces, China, India and other Asian countries are making great efforts to strengthen the building of the Navy. In contrast, the international community to pay more attention to China’s naval ambitions, rather than attempting to become a naval power, India, and the latter have a greater impact on world politics, as well as regional stability and security will be.

Russia and India once successfully achieve the 15-year naval strategy formulated in 2007 to consolidate the position of naval power, it will be in 2022. The new strategy gives four basic tasks of the Indian Navy, mainly to protect the territory and the coastline to ensure national security and ensure the mastery of the seas in the Indian Ocean, and ensure that their own ship free access to the world’s oceans, to prevent the United States and China to expand its influence in the Indian Ocean. To prevent a large number of potential threat to the protection of marine resources, protection of freedom of the seas trade against non-military threats, piracy, smuggling and drug trafficking. Furthermore, we need to shape a positive image of India in the international arena, the dissemination of India’s political and cultural values. India to Pakistan as the most realistic military threat, while highly wary of naval power from strength to strength to obstruct its expanding influence in the Indian Ocean.

Russia, China is actively expanding naval power, to strengthen the Navy’s modernization, to ensure national security and safeguarding maritime interests. The main focus of the Chinese Navy in the Pacific, and strive to curb the U.S., breaking the chain of islands blockade. The waters in the Indian Ocean, the Chinese navy do not have enough resources to only the protection of energy supplies from Pakistan and India compete for dominance, the main task, to combat piracy, protecting maritime waterway.

Western experts are worried that Chinese warships regularly escort patrols will be the beginning of China to establish Indian hegemony. However, India has been effective in taking action to obstruct China’s expanding influence in the Indian Ocean, resulting in so far unable to consolidate its position in the Maldives, the submarine base construction plan delay can not be achieved. Sino-Indian naval confrontation in the South China Sea is even more acute. India has been actively strengthening the military-technical cooperation with Vietnam to improve the newspaper that the MiG-21, supply warships parts, joint exercises, joint exploitation of oil, so that China is extremely dissatisfied.

Russia, said, In contrast, the strength of the Indian Navy as a strong China. Indian Navy construction depends entirely on imported equipment from Russia, France, without a strong national shipbuilding industry, the Indian Army is also actively building domestic ships, including aircraft carriers, nuclear submarines. Indian Navy to 2020, has three conventional aircraft carrier, about 70 corvettes, frigates and destroyers, 6 ,15-20 nuclear submarines, conventional submarines, to become a modern navy. Chinese navy currently has about 200 modern ships, the plan to 2020, construction of two conventionally-powered aircraft carrier, and then start building nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, vigorously develop the F -15 aircraft carrier, actively developing domestic straight -8 early warning helicopters, and resembles -2 early warning aircraft, the continued development of the submarine force and missile forces. (Compiled: woodlands)

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