Chinese Military Expert: Chinese Air Ship has the ability

(Beijing Comprehensive News) The Shandong ship carrier formation has completed the training of the long sea combat reserve training and returned to the mother port.Military experts believe that the ship's formation can conduct the long sea training from the first island chain, showing that China's domestic ships have the ability to perform military mission in the sea.

According to the CCTV military last Saturday (May 6), it posted on the official micro -newspaper that the Shandong ship carrier formation went to the East China Sea Airspace in Taiwan to conduct training. The exercise lasted for nearly month and returned to the mother port.

For this training, military expert Cao Weidong Sunday (May 7) said in an interview with "CCTV Military" that the aircraft carrier went out for a single fight, but for the formation.It is much greater than the formation of formation of several destroyers.

He believes that the island chain of the Shandong ship and aircraft carrier formation is in line with China's current naval strategy, and the completion of the distant sea training shows that it already has the ability to defense with offshore defense and the defense of the sea.

It is reported that the Shandong Ship Aircraft Team has become a system for the first time in this training, and has gone to the Western Pacific Sea for the first time.Flight training, and conduct joint drills with Rockets, land -based aviation and other surface combat groups outside the island chain.

The Shandong ship carriers officially entered in December 2019 are China's first domestic aircraft carriers, but their functions and power in the battlefield have been questioned by Western countries.

Reuters last Friday (May 5th) quoted several military and defense analysts in an analysis report that the role of Chinese aircraft carriers in conflict is doubtful, and it is currently more like a propaganda material.Analysis also said that Chinese aircraft carriers may take more than ten years in order to play substantial threats in places far away from the Chinese coast.