The rise of a great power: starting with military industry

Chapter 1097 Collapse of Strategic Defense

As June begins, China begins to welcome the hot summer weather.

As the greenhouse effect intensifies, summers around the world are getting hotter.

The Los Angeles Lakers defeated the New Jersey Nets 4-2. This year, because both teams have Chinese players, it is also known as the NBA Finals Chinese Derby. Liu Jingming plays for the Lakers and Yao Ming plays for the New Jersey Nets.

Liu Jingming has progressed to the All-Star level, forming the Lakers' Big Three with O'Neal and Kobe, winning the most regular season games and sweeping opponents in the playoffs to advance to the finals.

After Yao Ming joined the NBA, he made rapid progress and became a star player this year. The Nets are also promoting the Nets Big Three.

However, there was obviously a gap in strength between the two sides, and in the end the Lakers won the championship.

The Lakers, who won three consecutive championships, finally completed their three-peat and became a dynasty team.

What's more frightening is that although O'Neal will be one year older in the new season, Kobe is already a superstar and is still improving. In this year's playoffs, he was able to score repeatedly after O'Neal was fouled, and he turned the tide many times and won this year's FMVP. The younger Liu Jingming is also improving. The new season will be the last year of Liu Jingming's rookie contract.

The Lakers won three consecutive championships and became a dynasty team, which had a great impact in China.

In recent years, because of Liu Jingming, CCTV and Hong Kong Satellite TV have been increasing the live broadcast and rebroadcast of NBA games, and the Lakers have become the main team of China. And because the Nets selected Yao Ming with the first pick, Yao Ming became the first Chinese to join the NBA as the No. 1 pick, and the Nets also became half of the main team of China.

This season, in addition to Liu Jingming and Yao Ming, there are also Hu Weidong, Wang Zhizhi and Battelle playing in the NBA. There are a total of six Chinese players playing in the NBA, which has further expanded the influence of the NBA in China.

Basketball also replaced football and became the number one ball sport in China.

In China, the influence of basketball has far surpassed that of football. Even though this year's World Cup was held in Japan and South Korea, it failed to shake the status of basketball in China.

Most schools have basketball courts, and many cities have public basketball courts.

Ordinary people, especially students, pay attention to the NBA and talk about the Lakers winning the championship and achieving three consecutive championships. However, people who study international politics and military affairs are focusing on one major event.

That is the United States announcing its formal withdrawal from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty signed between the United States and the Soviet Union in 1972!
The Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, also known as the Treaty on the Limitation of Anti-Ballistic Missile Systems, is a bilateral treaty signed by the Soviet Union and the United States in 1972. The treaty is regarded as the cornerstone of global strategic stability. There are 32 international treaties on disarmament and nuclear non-proliferation linked to this treaty.

However, over the years, the United States, which possesses the world's largest nuclear arsenal and the most advanced conventional arsenal, has continuously invited Russia to agree to amend the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, and has disregarded the relevant provisions of the treaty and accelerated the research, development and preparation for the deployment of a national missile defense system, seeking to further occupy relative strategic advantages on the ground and in space. It has even now announced its formal withdrawal from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty!
It can be said that this is the first time in modern history that the United States has withdrawn from a major international treaty, which will set off a series of chain reactions.

After all, this can be said to be a major setback to the international arms control process!
Now that the United States has officially announced its withdrawal from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty and is actively developing and deploying national missile defense systems and theater missile defense systems, the changes in the U.S. nuclear strategic principles and the failure of the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty indicate that international strategic security in the 21st century will be in serious crisis.

This is not only the first time that the United States has withdrawn from an important international agreement since the end of World War II in 1945, but also means that the international rules prohibiting "strategic defense" that have lasted for 30 years will collapse from now on.

Liu Tao returned to Beijing to attend an important security meeting, which discussed the feasibility and necessity of deploying more 'Aegis-5'.

China's missile defense system is composed of various Aegis air defense missile systems.

Aegis-0 is a land-based short-range air defense missile system with a maximum range of 20 kilometers and a maximum altitude of 10000 meters; Aegis-1 is a land-based medium-range air defense missile system, and Aegis-2 is a ship-based air defense missile system with a maximum range of 148.2 kilometers and a maximum altitude of 2.4 meters. If the range is extended, the maximum range can reach 185.2 kilometers; Aegis-3 is also divided into land-based and ship-based, with a minimum range of 150 kilometers and a maximum range of 300 kilometers; Aegis-4 is divided into land-based and ship-based, with a minimum range of 200 kilometers and a maximum range of 400 kilometers.

As for the 'Aegis-5' long-range air defense missile system, it is the latest achievement of the Aegis air defense missile system. It is currently only equipped on the Type 055 destroyer. The maximum range of this long-range air defense missile system is up to 600 kilometers.

The longer the range and the faster the speed of the air defense missile system, the stronger the defense capability. Regardless of Aegis 3, Aegis 4, or Aegis 5, they can all intercept ballistic missiles, even intercontinental ballistic missiles.

The current meeting is discussing whether to increase the deployment of the Aegis 4 land-based long-range air defense missile system, or to increase the deployment of the Aegis-5 land-based long-range air defense missile system!

The importance of building an anti-missile system is self-evident. It is a strategic weapon.

So far, Panshan Group has not even exported the Aegis-3 long-range air defense missile system for the sake of confidentiality, thereby retaining defense capabilities to the maximum extent.

This is even more true for the Aegis-4 long-range air defense missile system, which is kept highly confidential and has not been announced to the public even after so many years.

The Aegis-5 long-range air defense missile system is currently only equipped on the Type 055 destroyer, and the report did not even mention it.

These long-range air defense missile systems are designed to destroy electronic jamming aircraft, early warning aircraft, reconnaissance aircraft, bombers, tactical and campaign-tactical ballistic missiles, medium-range ballistic missiles, and hypersonic targets!
A long-range air defense missile system like the Aegis-5 can even intercept intercontinental missiles. After all, its range reaches 600 kilometers and its speed is extremely fast.

Deploying more Aegis-5 land-based long-range air defense missile systems will undoubtedly enhance air defense capabilities, and everyone can sleep more peacefully.

China's air defense force is now relatively strong. Its air defense missiles consist of long-range air defense missiles, medium-range air defense missiles, and short-range air defense missiles. Short-range ones also include anti-aircraft machine guns, anti-aircraft guns, and individual air defense missiles. In addition, air interception can be carried out by J-10 and J-11 fighter jets.

However, no one has ever complained about air defense capabilities being too strong, only that they are not enough.

This is probably a common trait among all human beings.

Moreover, this meeting not only discussed the deployment of long-range air defense missiles, but also explored the deployment of more advanced ballistic missiles.

Missiles and anti-missiles are like a spear and a shield, and the two are in a spiral upward trend.

If the other side strengthens its anti-missile capability, then the other side will inevitably improve the performance of its missiles, making them more difficult to intercept!
(End of this chapter)