既然中国能以廉价的方式摧毁航母，为什么美国还在建造超级航母？ [美国媒体]

Why is the U.S. still building supercarriers? China has the technology to destroy it very cheaply.

既然中国能以廉价的方式摧毁航母，为什么美国还在建造超级航母？



Mas Miwa, former Engineer at Hughes Space and Communications
That’s what happens in bureaucracies. Institutional beliefs get cast in stone, especially one that has a rigid chain of command. No country is immune, nor any department or agency of a government. When driven by budgets, the only way to get more is to spend what you’ve been allocated and say the job isn’t done because you didn’t get enough. The US military does an excellent job of this, hence in 2018, Trump gave them more than the forecasted budget. Carriers are big-ticket items. Not only the cost of the carrier itself but the aircraft and support ships needed for an aircraft carrier to be useful as a ‘battle group’. At least one or two submarines, a couple of destroyers or cruisers, and a supply ship are requisites for a battle group. Not only that, for every two carriers, there needs to be one more that is undergoing maintenance, upgrades, and repairs.

这就是官僚政治所会发生的事情。制度信仰被固定下来，尤其是拥有刚性指令的那些信念。没有国家可以免疫，也没有哪个政府的哪个部门或者机构可以免疫。当被预算驱动时，获得更多预算的唯一方式就是花掉自己所获得那部分预算后说事情还没完成，因为预算不够。美国军队在这方面很擅长，因此在2018年，川普给军队拨了更多预算。航母是昂贵的东西，不仅航母本身昂贵，还有形成航母战斗群所需要的飞机和舰艇也是很昂贵的。至少一两艘潜艇，几艘驱逐舰和巡航舰，还有补给舰。不仅如此，每两艘航母还得有额外一艘在维修保养和升级。



Peter Webb
And some people believe the US is the home of fake news.
The Chinese and Russians have claimed that their new super-weapons render aircraft carriers obsolete.
Why would they make such a claim? The only strategic benefit for China is convincing the US population and military to not continue building new super-carriers. Or to put the existing ones at risk in a war zone.
But if China actually had the capability to destroy super-carriers very cheaply, they wouldn’t be sending messages about how vulnerable supercarriers are; they would happily let the US build as many useless weapons as they could.
In short, if these weapons actually existed, or were likely to exist any time soon, the Chinese would totally shut up about their capability to easily and cheaply destroy supercarriers.
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有些人认为美国是假新闻大本营。中国和俄罗斯都宣称自己新的超级武器可以打败航母。为什么他们要这么说？唯一的战略好处就是说服美国人和美国军队停止建造新的超级航母。也不要让现存的航母看到战区去冒险。
但如果中国真的可以以廉价方式摧毁美国的超级航母，中国就会默不作声，不会说美国航母多么脆弱；而是让美国尽可能建造更多的无用航母。
总之，如果这些武器真的存在，或者很快就会研发出来，中国肯定默不作声。



Alex Lei, lived in Fuzhou, Fujian, China
Chinese missiles are defensive weapons, no matter how powerful they could be.
Carriers are still the best offensive weapon human beings have for now.

中国导弹是防御性的，不论多么强大都是如此。航母依然人类所拥有的最好的进攻武器。