【英文】美国传统基金会报告：为了威慑中国，美国海军必须以更快的速度建立一支互联舰队（20页）

英文研究报告 2022年07月27日 08:43 管理员

Determining the appropriate feet design—the numbers of ships and the balance of classes of warships—requires an appreciation of the engineering challenges, the military threat, and the trajectory of technological advances for the life of a warship (at least 30 years). The Navy’s 2020 Future Naval Force Study (FNFS), Future Surface Combatant Force (FSCF), and 2022 amphibious ship study are intended to address this question but are not publicly available. Based on its public statements, the Navy is planning a future feet of larger surface combatants capable of employing larger long-range missiles (hyper-sonic missiles), directed-energy systems, and integrated-power systems that incorporate electric-drive propulsion and distributed-power generation. Furthermore, in an era of heightened tension with China and Russia, the ability to pace competitors’ shipbuilding will also be an important consideration, especially in a long war with China.

To get the balance right, the Navy will need to align its missions with the class of warship that has the capabilities required to execute them. The Navy must ensure that the ship designs include adequate margins to build in future capabilities to stay ahead of evolving Chinese and Russian threats. Specifcally, the Navy will need next-generation command-and-control capabilities, as it relies on networked platforms distributed over great distances, employing its Distributed Maritime Operations (DMO) feet-operating concept. The Navy’s efort to achieve next-generation command and control is Project Overmatch, now part of the Joint All-Domain Command and Control (JADC2), which will be a critical element in actualizing the DMO. Finally, the Navy must advance a sustained long-term expansion of its shipbuilding and industrial base capacity with the goal of being able to scale up and diversify quickly in wartime. Budgetary constraints—while unavoidable—given the threats today, should not preclude needed investments in expanding the Navy to the size and capability that the nation needs to deter and, if needed, win, a war with China or Russia. Heritage Foundation experts have determined possibilities for savings in the defense budget and elsewhere to allow the nation to build the feet it needs to counter China and other adversaries.