CHINA - SEA MINE WARFARE - (3 Clips) - China’s Mine Arsenal: What the U.S. Navy Needs to Know - Analysts are right to speculate on - Beijing’s potential use of naval mines, considering recent exercises the PLAN has carried out involving these weapons. The Chinese military has conducted mine-laying drills in the South China Sea since at least 2021. The Global Times reported that Beijing used its H-6J bomber to carry out an island-bombing exercise that involved the use of sea mines and explosive aerial bombs to destroy adversarial warships. - https://lnkd.in/epVzMdUD
2. Get Serious About Countering China’s Mine Warfare Advantage
In the event of conflict over Taiwan, the U.S. Navy would face a significant offensive mine threat from the People’s Liberation Army Navy. - In 2023, the PLAN operates a variety of ships and craft capable of laying minefields in China’s near seas. Moreover, the PLAN can augment its mine-laying capacity with the People’s Armed Forces Maritime Militia, the China Coast Guard, or requisitioned civilian vessels.12 To rapidly establish a blockade and thereby limit potential interference by Taiwan or the United States, China could supplement surface-laid mines with ones delivered by air. Given China’s near-daily violation of Taiwan’s air-defense identification zone, it is likely China could lay hundreds of mines in one successful wave with little warning.13
- These mining operations could also be conducted under the guise of a naval drill, as China regularly conducts mining exercises in the Taiwan Straits and South China Sea and operates surface groups north, east, and south of the island.14
- China’s submarine force is a possible solution to maintain the mine blockade, as submarines are well suited to lay a small number of mines in contested situations.15 Submarines are also ideal for clandestinely laying mines in the approaches to any U.S. Navy forward-operating port within the first and second island chains. - the PLAN has developed submarine mine belts—external containers that greatly increase submarines’ capacity to lay mines.16
- In addition to PLA Navy ships and submarines, it is important to remember that the China Coast Guard is now the world’s largest fleet of “white hull” ships, and the People’s Armed Forces Maritime Militia numbers in the thousands. Both non-navy fleets can deploy mines as well. - https://lnkd.in/eJAHSt3T
3. China Has 100,000 Naval Mines to 'Sink' the U.S. Navy - China's use of undersea mines is a key component of its "Assassin’s Mace" strategy, aiming to deter and disrupt U.S. Navy operations in the Indo-Pacific.
- https://lnkd.in/e5TibYcH
Hasil Adalah Penting
1moI'm from Indonesia, how can I work at BHP, please, I've tried several times, but haven't succeeded🥲🙏