川皇妙施空城计：美国《防务新闻》称三支航母打击群其...

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川皇妙施空城计：美国《防务新闻》称三支航母打击群其实并没有开赴朝鲜海域


今天（18日）美国《防务新闻》报道传说中早已开赴朝鲜海域的三支航母打击群其实哪儿都没去，卡尔·文森号至今还在距离朝鲜6000公里之外的巽他海峡和澳大利亚海军搞例行演习，罗纳德·里根号预定维修到5月底在日本根本没出港，尼米兹号更是远在南加利福尼亚休整。

《防务新闻》的标题是，和韩国

联合演习的航母打击大队？那边根本啥都没有好么

《防务新闻》在报道中称，在一个多星期以前美国媒体和亚洲媒体还在蜂拥报道卡尔·文森号航母逼近朝鲜半岛时期，卡尔·文森号在4月8日离开新加坡南下，4月15日通过巽他海峡前去澳大利亚参加“西太平洋”联合演习。

卡尔·文森号已经跑到了巽他海峡，那么中俄军舰为了追踪它到底是跑了多远？

从东北亚一路追到赤道，中俄的军舰都是怪物么！

　　面对各种媒体的爆料，15日出来宣布“你们都错了的”美国海军方面，无论是珍珠港太平洋司令部的官员，还是华盛顿海军部官员都一脸无辜的表示惊奇，美国海军官员直接表示，“我们并没有发表类似的说法。”

说的跟真的一样，我差点都信了

　并且海军官员断然否认了所谓三个航母打击群即将聚集朝鲜半岛海域施压的情况，美国海军军官宣称，此前宣称已经从横须贺消失的“里根”号航空母舰还不可能出港，里根号战斗群的检修预定到五月完成。而且，起码还需要一个最低的时限来船员熟悉工作状态和让舰载机航空联队恢复行动能力。

　　而所谓的“尼米兹”号航空母舰，现在还在加利福尼亚南部，完成部署之前的准备工作。虽然尼米兹号今年春季确实会前往西太平洋，但是那是为了填补卡尔文森号参加美澳“西太平洋”联合军演的空白。虽然有可能有提前出动的可能。无论是海军部还是五角大楼的官员都表示，抱歉，不管是上周五还是这周一，我们都还没做这种计划。尼米兹号还在距离朝鲜半岛海域有5700英里远的船坞里面。

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Nothing to see here: US carrier still thousands of miles from Korea

By: Christopher P. Cavas, April 17, 2017 (Photo Credit: MC2 Sean Castellano, US Navy)

WASHINGTON – For more than a week, media reports in the U.S. and around Asia routinely have mentioned the approach of the USS Carl Vinson carrier strike group, seemingly implying an attack on North Korea could be imminent. But a week after the U.S. announced the carrier and its escorts would leave Singapore, forego port calls in Australia and instead return to Korean waters, the carrier and its group had yet to head north.

Rather, the ships were actually operating several hundred miles south of Singapore, taking part in scheduled exercises with Australian forces in the Indian Ocean.

On Saturday – according to photographs released by the U.S. Navy – the carrier passed north through the Sunda Strait, the passage between the Indonesian islands of Sumatra and Java. It’s about 3,500 miles from Korea.

U.S. Navy officials in Pearl Harbor and Washington declined to comment on the ship’s movements, other than to confirm the April 15 movement through the Sunda Strait. Off the record, several officials expressed wonderment at the persistent reports that the Vinson was already nearing Korea. “We’ve made no such statement,” said one official.

Those same officials did not push back on reports that the Vinson would return to Korean waters, where the strike group operated for much of March as part of the annual U.S.-Korean Foal Eagle exercises. While declining to confirm a specific date, they did not dispute speculative media reports from South Korea that the strike group could be in the region by April 25 or so.

Officials did, however, flatly deny reports that three U.S. carrier strike groups were being directed to mass off the Korean peninsula in a few weeks.

Speculation has been rising that the Ronald Reagan and Nimitz strike groups could join with the Vinson. The Japan-based carrier Reagan, however, is in a maintenance period at Yokosuka scheduled to complete in May. The Bremerton, Washington-based Nimitz and her strike group is off Southern California, nearing the completion of its major pre-deployment exercise. The ship is scheduled to deploy this spring to relieve the Vinson in the Western Pacific.

The Vinson’s return to Korea was ordered on April 8 by Adm. Harry Harris, commander of U.S. Pacific Command. On April 11, Defense Secretary James Mattis – having just met with Harris in Washington – noted that no specific incident prompted the order to curtail the exercise program and head north.

“She’s stationed there in the western Pacific for a reason,” Mattis told reporters at the Pentagon. “She operates freely up and down the Pacific, and she’s just on her way up there because that’s where we thought it was most prudent to have her at this time. There’s not a specific demand signal or specific reason why we’re sending her up there.”

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兵不厌诈？ 美军卡尔文森号航母行踪成谜


近日，媒体纷纷报导美国卡尔文森号航母逼近朝鲜，三航母集结的消息。但据美国海军官网信息，卡尔文森号15日仍在印尼活动。专家分析，美国似为缓和朝鲜情势留下伏笔。美媒报导，川普对朝政策暂限定在制裁和外交，不会动用武力。

包括美国在内的各方国际媒体近来不断报导有关卡尔文森号逼近朝鲜的消息，并称美军〝卡尔文森号〞、〝里根号〞与〝尼米兹号〞三大航母打击群下周将齐聚朝鲜半岛。

但根据美国〝海军时报〞（Navy Times）报导，美国海军官网15日公布卡尔文森号（USS Carl Vinson CVN70）通过印尼巽他海峡（Sunda Strait）北端的图片。卡尔文森号通过的海域，大约靠近苏门答腊（Sumatra）与爪哇岛（Java）附近，距离韩国大约3500哩。看起来该航母还在印尼海域活动，而非驶向朝鲜半岛。

据悉，华府与美军太平洋司令部的官员，都不愿评论卡尔文森号的动向，也不愿证实有关15日通过巽他海峡的航行。

韩国媒体报导说，卡尔文森号打击群将在25日左右重返朝鲜半岛区域，官员们拒绝证实，但也没有表达异议。他们还否认有关数周内，美军3个航母打击群将在此大规模集结的消息。

有外界分析称，卡尔文森号如果以最快航速来行驶，大约4~5天可以抵达朝鲜半岛，所以赶在25日前与其他两艘航母会师也并非不可能。

台湾《亚太防务杂志》总编辑郑继文对自由亚洲电台表示，卡尔文森号如果确定会参加集结的话，它现在应该快速航向朝鲜半岛，而不是还周游在西太平洋与印度洋之间。

郑继文分析，美国事实上已经留有一手，就是为未来逐渐缓和朝鲜半岛紧张形势，为理性的美、韩和朝鲜对话解决核问题留下一个伏笔。

《华盛顿邮报》日前报导，美国国家安全委员会已经同意这一名为〝极限施压〞的新政策。该政策旨在通过经济制裁和外交手段让朝鲜停止导弹和核活动，并不寻求〝政权更迭〞。如果朝鲜改变其行为，美国将与朝鲜〝接触〞。

接受《华盛顿邮报》采访的白宫高官说，川普对朝鲜政策的目标是无核化，而不仅仅是让朝鲜暂停或冻结一部分核和导弹活动。

一名不愿公开姓名的美军官员告诉美联社记者，美国并不打算用武力回应朝鲜核试验或弹道导弹试射。但如果朝鲜发射的导弹瞄准韩国、日本或美国领土，美方可能会改变计划，但朝鲜做出这种举动可能性很低。