New giant ships cut straight through the South China Sea? U.S. Army Admiral: Fighting the Chinese Communist threat

According to “Military.com” reported on the 10th, the U.S. Navy 8 in San Diego, California, North Island Naval Air Station, held a ceremony for the commissioning of the USS Miguel Keith, will depart this summer to the Western Pacific region to carry out tasks. U.S. Southern Command, Admiral Faller (Craig Faller) pointed out that the “Miguel Keith” may be sent to the South China Sea, to fight the “Chinese (Communist) threat”!

Admiral Faller pointed out that the USS Miguel Keith may be sent to the South China Sea to counter the “Chinese Communist threat” (Photo/reproduced from the official website of the U.S. Navy)

USNS Miguel Keith (T-ESB-5), the world’s largest conventionally-powered ship and the U.S. Navy’s 90,000-ton displacement expeditionary mobile base ship, was officially commissioned recently. Overseas, its first operational base will be on Saipan. The ship will carry about 100 Navy soldiers and 44 civilian crew members, and its massive hull allows it to deploy a wide flight deck that can accommodate the U.S. Navy’s largest heavy-lift MH-53 helicopter as well as the Marine Corps’ F-35B fighter aircraft.

Admiral Farrer said the Miguel Keith can travel around the world during her service, such as the Caribbean, the South China Sea and the Homuz Strait. He also asserted that the ship’s officers and men will travel to the forefront of global conflicts to counter threats to the United States, particularly the Chinese Communist Party.

“At 90,000 tons, the USS Miguel Keith is second only to the U.S. Ford and Nimitz class aircraft carriers and already displaces more than any other nation’s aircraft carrier. For example, the British carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth, which is about to embark on an Indo-Pacific deployment, has a displacement of only about 70,000 tons. Russia’s only aircraft carrier, Admiral Kuznetsov, displaces more than 60,000 tons, while the world’s smallest nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, the French Charles de Gaulle R91, displaces more than 60,000 tons. (Gaulle R91), the world’s smallest nuclear-powered aircraft ship, the French Charles de Gaulle (35,000 tons).