Chapter 555: Beach-Rushing Landing Exercise III
"Conventional aircraft carriers can be bought, missile cruisers can also be bought, there is no need to buy nuclear submarines, these are all models that the US Navy is going to disassemble, what use are we doing it? When it comes to scrapping, it will cost a lot of money just to dismantle them, and there is no place to put those reactors and nuclear materials, so the gains outweigh the losses! Wu Chen shook his head and said. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
Dismantling a nuclear submarine is very cumbersome, and it takes nearly 50 million US dollars, these old nuclear submarines add up to more than 60 units, and the dismantling fee of more than 3 billion US dollars, Wu Chen feels a toothache when he thinks about it, the key is that it is useless at all, the mercenary corps now needs new equipment, and second-hand goods can not be bought without buying, and the Americans have never allowed nuclear submarines to fall into the hands of other countries, and they cannot be rented or sold, which is a burden.
"Boss, of course I know what you mean, the US military hinted to me that these nuclear submarines are not not allowed to be leased to the outside world, but to ensure that they must not be leased to hostile countries and potentially threatening countries of the United States, to put it bluntly, they are customers like China, Cuba, North Korea or Iran, and the rest are no problem."
"Operating in the name of the mercenary corps' own company is a purpose to protect the safety of cooperative customers and the company's resources, and it is nothing more than a reason to give the congressional grandmasters a reason to approve. The manufacturing technology of the United States is somewhat higher than that of the former Soviet Union, and after upgrading and upgrading, these nuclear submarines can be used for at least 20 years, which is a large amount of income. Marcus said with a smile.
"If that's the case, this thing can be operated, the last time we leased the Delta-class ballistic missile nuclear submarine, we made a lot of money, you go talk to the US military and strive for more support." Wu Chen's spirits were greatly lifted.
With the members of the battlefield assessment team returning to the exercise headquarters, the Kunashir Island military exercise entered the second phase, that is, airborne and counter-airborne, beach-grabbing landing, and barrage warfare. The artillery divisions and airborne divisions attached to the blue side immediately began to set out for the predetermined positions, the artillery divisions were responsible for the defense of the coastline, and the airborne divisions were responsible for anti-airborne operations.
When the armies of the two divisions were marching, suddenly, a large number of transport planes flew over the exercise area, including tactical transport planes such as the Il-76 and C-141, as well as strategic transport planes such as C-5 and C-17.
The Il-76 tactical transport aircraft can carry 186 heavily armed paratroopers, the C-141 tactical transport aircraft can carry 168 heavily armed paratroopers, the C-5 strategic transport aircraft can drop 10 BMD-3 paratrooper fighting vehicles or 120 tons of cargo, and the C-17 strategic transport aircraft can airdrop 4 BMD-3 paratrooper fighting vehicles or 77 tons of cargo.
The Whitbay-class, Anchorage-class, and Austin-class dock landing ships also opened the rear gates, and two Whitbay-class four-class and two Anchorage-class six LCAC air-cushion landing craft, loaded with Abrams main battle tanks and Tyrannosaurus Rex 1 main battle tanks, began to drive towards the coast, and the Austin-class LCM-6 mechanized landing craft, each carrying 120 marines, followed closely behind.
The Russian troops, who were deploying defenses, were suddenly shocked, and immediately shouted and cursed, this group of generals in the exercise director group is too lacking in morality, and we have not yet entered the position and set it up, so you have begun to carry out airborne landing, isn't this a cold attack on us?
"Paralyzed, these directors are all bastards who don't have a son, this is done with the intention of making us embarrassed, one side is in a hurry to fight, and the other side is ready to fight, how can this battle be fought?" The commander of an airborne division scolded.
"You have time to talk here, it's better to enter the position as soon as possible to face the battle, the situation on the battlefield is changing rapidly, anything can happen, what should you do if you really encounter this situation, are you still waiting to surrender? Get out, hurry up and command the troops to organize a counterattack! The division commander was also angry.
"The Storm Airborne Division was prepared last night, and this morning it completed its pre-battle mobilization to carry out a surprise attack when the blue side was unprepared, which is unfair to the blue side." Thompson looked at the screen on the monitor, turned to Park Kim in the back row, and said.
"There is no absolute fairness in this world, I think this arrangement is very good, and you may encounter various situations in the future, can you not fight when you encounter such a situation?" Park Kim shook his head and said.
The Storm Airborne Division is one of the six most elite American-made weapons division-level combat teams of the mercenary corps, and its establishment is in accordance with the equipment of the 82nd Airborne Division of the United States, and its firepower is very strong, and the current exercise area is equivalent to a blank space, and the large-scale airborne landing is very smooth, and it is a cluster of divisions at a time, which is also the characteristic of the Airborne Division, maintaining absolute superiority in strength.
Thirty C-5 and twenty C-17 strategic transport planes, 300 paratrooper fighting vehicles, 24 M167 20-mm six-barreled Vulcan anti-aircraft guns, 54 towed 155-mm howitzers, 72 Avenger anti-aircraft missile systems, 188 Tao anti-tank missile launchers and 122 Javelin anti-tank missile launchers, more than 100 Humvee off-road vehicles, as well as a large number of mortars, recoilless guns, heavy machine guns and ammunition.
"The whole airborne process is fast and efficient and the level is clear, the large airborne landing of more than 10,000 people actually has no signs of panic at all, after landing, quickly organize the team, arrange the action steps, according to the terrain first send off-road vehicles to occupy the high ground, arrange defense and fire suppression, artillery quickly assemble the formation, choose a suitable place to expand the formation, artillery support at any time, paratrooper combat vehicles loaded paratroopers quickly interspersed, the opponent is divided and surrounded, the air defense missile system and anti-tank missile system as a barrier, what a strong airborne troops!" The deputy secretary of the US Air Force said in admiration.
The more than 10,000 people in the Storm Airborne Division are mercenaries with an annual salary, and when there is no war, it is just a vigorous training and exercise, and after a few years, they can't even hold up this scene, so they just get out of the way collectively.
The Russian army, which had not yet fully entered the position, was forcibly divided into several sections, unable to take care of the beginning and the end, and could only defend and build positions on the spot. The airborne troops were attack troops, they did not carry many tools themselves, and they needed to find dangerous terrain to hold on, but fortunately during the saturation bombing, there was no shortage of stones on the ground, and these Russian soldiers used stones and soil to form temporary fortifications in a short time, and President Park Kim and the military generals expressed satisfaction with their performance.