U.S. Defense Minister Mark Esper said a speech saying that the United States is building a future fleet, and driverless technology, artificial intelligence and remote precision weapons will play a leading role in them.
According to VOA, Esper delivered a speech on September 16 that China intends to build a world -class army to dominate Asia, but China's navy power cannot match the United States.He said that the US Department of Defense is building a future fleet, and driverless technology, artificial intelligence and remote precision weapons will play a leading role in it.
He said: Today, in the era of competition in this great country, the Ministry of Defense took China, and then Russia, preferred as our primary strategic competitors.
For example, Esper said that China is impacting through the Belt and Road Initiative, so that the weak countries bear heavy debt and forced them to obtain economic assistance at the expense of sovereignty.He believes that Beijing's behavior in the South China Sea and the East China Sea is an example of China trying to reshape international order.
He said that China plans to complete the modernization of its army by 2035 and establish a world -class army that can dominate Asia by 2049.He mentioned that in addition to the development of advanced weapon systems, Beijing is also investing in remote, automatic, and unmanned submarines, thinking that this can become a weapon against the high cost of US Navy.However, Esper said that the power of Chinese navy cannot match the United States.
He said: I want to clearly show that when it comes to navy strength, China cannot match the United States.Even if we stop building new warships, China will take many years to catch up with our ability in the public sea.Nevertheless, we must maintain a leading lead; we must maintain our advantages; we will continue to build a modern ship to ensure that we are still the greatest navy in the world.
After President Trump came to power, he increased his investment in the US military.In fiscal 2020, the US military's budget was US $ 738 billion (S $ 15.5 billion).
Esper, who served as Minister of Defense in July last year, said that earlier this year, the U.S. Navy signed a contract of $ 795 million to buy the first ship of the new type of guided missile frigates, and you can choose to buy nine.Value is nearly $ 5.6 billion.This is the first new large -scale shipbuilding plan for the U.S. Navy for more than ten years.
He said that the U.S. Navy is making solid progress in the development of unmanned surface ships and unmanned submarine vehicles, laying a foundation for the establishment of a future U.S. future fleet.
Esper said: These efforts are the next step of our future fleet. Among them, unmanned systems can perform a variety of combat functions, from projected fatal firepower and Bayi, to equipment supply or monitoring the enemy.This will be a major change in the way we will be in the next few years and decades.
He added that the future navy and the Marine Corps will adopt novel concepts such as distributed maritime combat and expeditionary base combat to modernize the United States' combat methods, because they can provide new joint combat concepts and eventually become the 21st century operations in the 21st century.theory.
