Is tonnage still used to describe the number of military ships?

1, the total tonnage said:

The total tonnage to measure the power of a country's naval force is the Western tradition, but also the current world common practice.

At present, the U.S. Navy's total tonnage of about 3.88 million tons, the Russian Navy about 1.85 million tons, the British Navy about 860,000 tons ......

At the same time, in addition to the total tonnage and the number of warships, both the total number of various types of warships, for example, China's 1999 Navy's total tonnage of about 370,000 tons, but the number of warships is as high as 2000 ships ......

This means that the average tonnage of our navy's single warships to be small. Does not have the ability to fight in the ocean.

2, single warship tonnage problem

Single warship simply compare tonnage is meaningless, for example, destroyers and landing ships due to the different uses, simply compare the tonnage, there is no way to illustrate in the end the destroyer "great", or landing ship "great! "

But between the same type of warships, the comparison of tonnage is still effective, thought the same type of warships, large tonnage means that you can add more ammunition, fuel or with large electronic equipment, so that the combat capability of the natural powerful. For example, the U.S. "Arleigh Burke" destroyer displacement of about 8600 tons; and our 052B destroyer displacement of about 6600 tons, so the U.S. Navy destroyers than ours to be "powerful!