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According to the adjusted battle plan, before the war begins, the Air Force must commit 600 combat aircraft, including 120 F-22A, 120 F-15E, 240 F-16, 80 A-10, and 40 F-16 "wild weasel" carrying electronic warfare pods. In addition, 320 support aircraft had to be committed, including 120 KC-10 and KC-135, 18 E-3C, 26 EC-135, 12 E-8, 40 EC-130, and more than 100 C-17 and C-5.

Such a huge investment is a very serious problem in itself.

Even if the United States temporarily abandons other strategic points and draws troops from other regions, it will take a month to gather so many air forces.

And more importantly, where to deploy so many combat aircraft?

Although there are many military bases in South Korea, and the South Korean air base can accommodate at least 2,000 combat planes, while the South Korean Air Force has only more than 1,000 aircraft, including about 800 combat planes, and there is a place to accommodate US combat planes, it is a very troublesome matter to organize logistical support, and all air bases within 40 kilometers of the 38th parallel are within the strike range of the DPRK's long-range artillery, and cannot be deployed in real combat. As a result, the US military can only deploy a maximum of 400 combat planes in South Korea, and the rest of the planes have to be deployed elsewhere.

Nearby, the only thing that can be used by the US military to deploy combat aircraft is the book.

Although according to the alliance treaty between the United States and the United States, when the United States fights, it is obliged to open air bases to provide support to the US military, there is a precondition that the United States must declare war on its opponent and officially enter a state of war, otherwise the US military can only use the military bases it has already rented.

In fact, it is impossible for the United States to declare war on North Korea.

If combat aircraft are deployed only at rented military bases, which can accommodate up to 200 aircraft, there will still be no place for about 200 combat aircraft to be deployed.

As a result, the U.S. authorities had to approach him in the hope of renting more airfields and air bases.

Compared to the Air Force, the problems of the Navy are the most prominent.

In the absence of the Air Force to deploy more combat aircraft, the task burden of the Navy is even heavier. When arranging strike forces, let alone four aircraft carrier battle groups, even if all six aircraft carrier battle groups participate in the battle at the first time, there is no guarantee that the tasks assigned to the navy will be completed during the air strike phase.

As a matter of fact, because the sustained combat capability of the aircraft carrier battle group is limited, even the "Roosevelt" and "Bush," which are in relatively good condition, can only continue to operate for half a month at most when carrying out high-intensity ground strike missions, and then they have to withdraw to replenish ammunition and aviation fuel. As a result, even if six aircraft carrier battle groups are put in, only four can really fight on the front line all the time.

Obviously, the intensity of this strike is difficult to ensure that the US military will destroy all strategic targets in the DPRK in the first week of the war.

More importantly, in the first three days of the war, the US Navy would not be able to complete all the strike missions even if it deployed all six aircraft carrier battle groups.

For this reason, the US Navy has no choice but to find another way.

The only thing that can replace the carrier-based fighters on the aircraft carrier and carry out strategic strike missions is the cruise missiles carried on the warship. The problem is that the warships in the aircraft carrier battle group, especially destroyers and cruisers, undertake escort missions, and no one can guarantee whether the mainland will send air power to participate in the war in the form of volunteers. If this is the case, the escort warships will have to focus on the air defense of the fleet, so as to carry more anti-aircraft missiles instead of loading more cruise missiles in the vertical launch system, which greatly limits the long-range strike capabilities of the escort warships.

Fortunately, the US Navy still has a sharp weapon: cruise missile nuclear submarines.

Although the United States has never built specialized cruise missile nuclear submarines as the Soviet Union and Russia did, after the United States and Russia signed the Strategic Nuclear Arms Reduction Treaty, the United States will reduce four strategic missile nuclear submarines as promised, that is, the first four of the "Ohio" class.

In order to allow these four nuclear submarines to make full use of their spare energy, the US Navy has improved them by installing a launch system for launching "Tomahawk" cruise missiles in 22 vertical launchers used to launch "Trident" submarine-launched ballistic missiles, so that each nuclear submarine can carry 154 cruise missiles.

That's a lot, it's definitely a lot.

You know, a Ticonderoga-class cruiser has a total of only one hundred and twenty-two vertical generators, and at most only a third of them are used to load cruise missiles. In this way, about four cruisers carry cruise missiles as well as one cruise missile nuclear submarine.

Within an aircraft carrier battle group, there are at most two Ticonderoga-class cruisers.

Even if you count the three Burke-class destroyers in the battle group, there are only more than 100 cruise missiles at most. If all four cruise missile nuclear submarines are dispatched, the number of cruise missiles launched at one time is equivalent to six aircraft carrier battle groups, which can hit more than 600 targets at the same time.

With this powerful striking force, the problem is much easier to solve.

In addition, the strike force of the strategic air force can be used to make up for the lack of troops in the first round of assault and increase the intensity of the strike in the first three days.

You know, the US military still has more than 100 strategic bombers.

Although these bombers cannot be deployed in advance, and even if they are deployed to Guam, there are many problems, but these bombers have a strong transoceanic flight ability, and can take off from the continental United States, launch cruise missiles over the Pacific Ocean, and then return to the continental United States or Hawaii.

Take the B-52H as an example, one can project 32 cruise missiles in a bombing operation, and even if it needs to ensure sufficient range, it can carry 16 cruise missiles, while eight bombers of a squadron can project 148 missiles in one sortie, which is not much worse than a cruise missile nuclear submarine.

Combining these forces, the U.S. military finally mustered all the forces to launch the first round of strikes.

We have to admit that the United States' military strength is absolutely the first in the world, more than twice as powerful as any other country, especially its powerful strategic strike strength.

You know, apart from the United States, only Russia has strategic bombers, and there are pitifully few of them.

If we look at the speed of investment in strike forces, especially in the first round of strikes, the US military is even higher than the other four permanent members of the Security Council combined.

Judging from the current investment, even excluding the US Army, the US Air Force and the US Navy have invested at least 1,500 combat planes and more than 500 support planes, and counting the Navy's six aircraft carrier battle groups and six amphibious fleets, they can put in 1,200 combat planes, 1,000 cruise missiles, and dozens of warships in the first round of attack, and the total amount of ammunition dropped will exceed 50,000 tons.

It is self-evident how shocking the striking effect of concentrating such a large number of striking forces on the DPRK, which covers an area of less than 130,000 square kilometers.

In fact, in the first round of strikes, the US military will certainly concentrate its forces on bombing strategic targets in North Korea, mainly in Pyongyang on the west side of the peninsula and near Wonsan in the east. If there is sufficient tactical strength, the US military will also focus on attacking North Korean forces near the 38th parallel.

If the US military uses a large number of precision-guided weapons, especially cruise missiles and JDAM bombs, it will certainly be able to deal a devastating blow to the DPRK military.

This military deployment, or combat plan, very fully reflects the powerful strength of the US military.

However, before it can be implemented, the US military still has to solve many problems.

Among them, the most prominent is the lack of ammunition reserves.

Perhaps, this is a problem that many people do not expect.

Compared with combat platforms, that is, aircraft, warships, etc., the storage and replacement cycle of ammunition is much shorter, even if it is very advanced ammunition, it is very good to be able to not go out of date after ten years, and an advanced combat platform can be used for at least 25 years, and some can even serve for 50 years. More importantly, after the combat platform is backward, the US military will hand it over to the allies in the form of gifts, etc., and the ammunition can only be scrapped.

Affected by this, the US military will not have too much ammunition in stock.

In fact, no country will have a large stockpile of ammunition for the army in peacetime.

More importantly, due to the impact of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the US military has always been relatively tight in military spending, so it has not stockpiled too many strategic strike weapons, and even the reserves of precision-guided munitions that are used in conventional warfare are seriously insufficient.

When the U.S. military was preparing for war, the ammunition depot contained less than 2,000 air-launched cruise missiles.

If according to the battle plan of the US military, these ammunition will be used up within a week!

In addition, the US Navy has only a little more than a thousand cruise missiles in reserve, which simply cannot hold out for a week.

Fortunately, the production cycle of ammunition is also much shorter than that of combat platforms. Even cruise missiles can be rolled off the assembly line within a month, while JDAM bombs with guidance components installed with ordinary bombs have a production cycle of only one week, so the US military has the ability to quickly replenish the consumed ammunition.

When planning an offensive, the most the U.S. military did was to urgently procure ammunition from arms dealers.

Within a month, US arms dealers produced 3,000 cruise missiles for the US military, modified 15,000 JDAM bombs, and produced an additional batch of naval artillery shells with a range of up to 180 kilometers.

These efforts finally paid off a month later.

With the timely arrival of a large amount of ammunition in South Korea and Japan, the US military's operational deployment was also in place within the specified time, and more than 1,000 combat planes and hundreds of warships gathered in the surrounding areas of the Korean Peninsula.

In order to achieve the greatest suddenness, the US military also made one last diplomatic effort through Russia 24 hours before the attack, that is, to demand that the North Korean authorities hand over the murderers of the attack on Manhattan and the bombing of "Air Force One," as well as the masterminds behind it.

Obviously, this is just for show.

(To be continued)