Chapter 1650: Air Force Superiority
No weapon can be applied alone, no matter how powerful the weapon, the single weapon is strong, it is easy to find how to form, the unity is the easiest to be guarded against, a strategic bomber, although powerful, can be avoided in various ways, if the other party hides in the city, it can not directly bomb the city. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
In the future, after the start of the Sino-US war, the United States is very likely to use this method to guard against China, because China has no desire to possess the land of the United States, and this will not be able to extend the war to the coast of the United States, so there must be no strategic bombers, there must be other aircraft, so as to form a comprehensive force, which can play a role.
Zhou Shuzheng's anti-submarine aircraft are part of this comprehensive effect, and some long-range dive bombers and torpedo planes have become the most important attack weapons, which are aimed at ships, and in order to explore ships and better defend Hawaii, Hawaii has also established a huge radar station.
China's radar, is still difficult to do research on the aircraft, at present, can be installed, only heavy strategic aircraft, the future will be 20 in Hawaii, but these aircraft have not yet been finalized, the current production is only laboratory products, in this case, only the formation is compiled, and there is no real dispatch of aircraft, if in a short period of time, after the medium-sized aircraft are finalized, there will be another 120 to ensure the safety of Hawaii.
Fortunately, Hawaii is not a very small island, and there is no problem at all in building a large-scale radar station on 500 square kilometers of land
China's latest sea radar, the detection range is very huge, the whole radar is larger, the antenna is also quite long, in Guam and Hawaii, are not flat, with a certain height of the mountains, the radar has been loaded with Guam and Hawaii's highest peak, up to 250 meters of radar antenna, on hundreds of meters of mountain peaks, plus other functions, the radar coverage area is quite powerful, basically the air can reach 650 kilometers, the sea can also reach more than 500 kilometers, Even in bad weather, the warning range of more than 200 kilometers can be guaranteed.
What does this mean, it means 500 kilometers around the island, it is basically an extremely safe area, this security is for the Hawaiian side, for the hostile forces, this is a forbidden area, any hostile forces that enter this area, will be discovered, and the next thing is a concentrated attack.
This is also the area where aircraft carriers fought during World War II, after all, most of the aircraft carriers are loaded with light fighters and bombers, and the combat radius can exceed 300 kilometers, which is very rare, and 500 kilometers is the limit. With the means of ranging and communication in this era, more than 300 kilometers is just a matter of getting lost, and it is enough to restrain most of them, let alone others. In the case of launch vehicle and satellite technology, to a certain extent, it is almost impossible to have a reliable, means of communication, let alone an orderly attack.
At present, China can guide an attack of more than 500 kilometers, it is a large-scale aircraft group, relying on radio guidance, and there must also be guidance targets on the sea and land, otherwise it will not be able to attack from a long distance, that is, it has built a large-scale command base in Hawaii to help within 500 kilometers, and no matter how far it is, it must rely on other means.
As for the mistakes made by the US military at Pearl Harbor in World War II, it is not possible here in China, the technology of large-scale integrated circuits is used, and the judgment of objects is quite accurate, and the aircraft and aircraft are on the radar, there is a unique display, and it is impossible to appear like the US military in Pearl Harbor.
As for their own fleet, there is a unique identification method, which can be easily solved by using some small software in the radar, which further strengthens the accuracy of the radar.
In addition to land-based radar, there are also a series of radar systems, for example, radar ships sailing in the area, antennas on some uninhabited islands, these are huge, with multiple, even systematic radars, forming a grid-like form, building a whole system, around Hawaii, not too obvious, Wake Island, Midway, and some other small islands, as long as they can set up air bases, they will be equipped with radars, and these radars are combined to form a huge network. Turning the entire Southwest Pacific region into a Chinese-controlled area, within 500 kilometers of the islands, will become a Jedi, this point, the Americans do not know, and only after suffering huge losses, will they remember it for a long time.
No matter what happened here, a large number of runways and infrastructure have been established, and even in order to ensure command, a separate Hawaii theater was established, with Cai Yi as the commander of the theater, and three generals of the Navy Air Force and the Army to form a joint command, and in 1916, another major event related to China's military development was born, and the Chinese Air Force was officially established.
In the previous history, China attached the most importance to the army, when China was still weak, only when the army was strong, it could maintain its own security, the reason why China chose the special time of World War I to suddenly attack, the reason is that the unique environment of World War I, foreign forces could not interfere with China.
In the process of development, the strength of the army ensured the security of the country very well, and under the condition of maintaining the unity of Mongolia, it resisted the attack of Russia, which is also the fundamental reason why China took back its rights and unified China without much interference.
After the army is strong, it has its own security, and when it can expand outward, it is natural to choose the navy, on the one hand, to maintain China's longer and longer coastline, and on the other hand, it is also waiting for an opportunity to attack, after the army and navy have developed to a certain extent, and even after the navy has developed to an aircraft carrier, the independence of the air force is imperative.
After the continuous progress in the field of engines, when strategic bombers appeared, and even large-scale clusters could threaten an armored group army, the air force already had an independent foundation, but the Chinese army was too strong, the navy could not do it, it belonged to the ocean, and the army could not interfere, but the air force was subordinate to the army, and it had a huge supporting role in the army's actions, because during the exercise, a strategic air force had a great threat to the armored forces, and when the armor was marching, It is necessary to carry prevention and control and, as far as possible, to be escorted by fighter jets to ensure safety.
If the Air Force goes out alone, it will be inconvenient, for this reason, the whole lawsuit to Yang Yuanzhao here, Yang Yuanzhao of course knows that the Air Force plays an important role for the Army, but the independence of the Air Force is inevitable, an independent Air Force, can cope with all aspects of the challenge, in order to be able to better move forward, China's Air Force is already very large, for now, just the strategic bomber is more than 60,000, all kinds of fighters, transport aircraft, and even seaplanes, together, More than 200,000 aircraft, even if an average of about 10 people are used in an aircraft, it has 2 million combatants, and even more than 3 million attached personnel, and has grown into an independent and very powerful force, if it is still subordinate to the army, it is not conducive to its development.
The lawsuit has been fought several rounds, and the two sides are almost in a fierce confrontation, especially the army, which has put forward a lot of conditions, such as the air force must be covered when the army's armored troops are marching, and there are many detailed rules such as this, so as to promote the independence of the air force.
However, it takes time to determine the independence to the official listing, so wait, just wait for 1 year, from the sequence of the army, come out alone, belong to the army, return to the army, belong to the air force officially enter the air force, to now, with the navy a level, more personnel, the current addition to the air force sequence of various fighters, almost reached 300,000, according to the average of 7-12 personnel per fighter, the number of the Chinese air force is almost 3 million, just the pilots must have 900,000, And even expanding.
Take the strategic bomber, the current number of aircraft is 60,000, fly an aircraft at least two pilots, under normal circumstances, an airplane, need two or three crews, which requires six pilots, which means that the strategic air force alone has 300,000 pilots, accounting for almost one-third of the total number of pilots in the entire air force.
This is a huge number, the strategic air force has so many, and the fighters and transport planes also have so many, among them, there must be an exception, naval aviation, because of the unique role of aircraft carriers, under the premise that aircraft carriers have almost become the most powerful part of China's maritime forces, forcibly attributed naval aviation to the air force, this is out of place, it is equivalent to the navy's most powerful force is in the hands of the air force, which is not conducive to management, and is also prone to friction and strife.
In the separate division of naval aviation, which is subordinate to the Admiralty, the Air Force needs to support and guide him, and this problem can be regarded as a solution to this problem, and the navy, which is more systematically and perfectly improved in the future, will have the most powerful combat effectiveness.
The army has seen this situation and has also proposed the formation of an army to support the air force, which is responsible for covering the battlefield at close range and providing some protection, and even has aircraft that specifically attack the defense line, and this kind of aircraft does not need too powerful airfields and does not need high combat effectiveness, as long as the army can attack the ground when it attacks the position.
This is the strong attack aircraft of later generations, which does not provide combat ability, and even the ability to maneuver is not high, but it has a strong protective force, which can withstand anti-aircraft machine guns, dive bombing strong fortresses and fixed positions, and the fortress may be very protective in terms of level, but the top of the head has always been a weak link, even if it has an anti-aircraft machine gun, it is impossible to completely protect the top of the head, and such an aircraft came into being.
In this way, the army is taking advantage of the fire to loot, but what they said makes sense, they can follow the army to carry out activities without relying on airfields, and after entering the battlefield and laying a simple runway, they can attack, and they really do not need the support of the air force.
Considering the unique performance of these aircraft, in addition to ground support, there is no other role, and even when it encounters a fighter, it is very likely to be shot down, and finally, after coordination, the army aviation was also established, and now it is only a strong attack aircraft to support the army attack, but in the future, with the development of helicopters, it has become a special force to deal with armored forces.
In the winter of 1916, the focus of the Allies and the Entente was still in Europe, even if the United States was preparing to carry out a counteroffensive in the Pacific, but based on the lack of warships, they still gritted their teeth and waited, because China's forces for Hawaii were somewhat in place, and they were rarely able to get information about Hawaii.
On December 1, 1916, Hawaii had 1,900 planes and 94,000 air force personnel, because heavy bombers needed the most personnel, requiring two crews, more than 30 crews, and a large number of ground crews, which accounted for almost a quarter of the entire Hawaiian garrison and became an important force in Hawaii
The heavy armor of the entire Hawaiian Army, currently stored in the combat readiness warehouse, is only a part of the personnel in place, they came to familiarize themselves with the situation, make battlefield rehearsals, and the rest are still staying in Southeast Asia for training, because if it cannot be proven, the US army will land on a large scale, and they will come up in vain, Hawaii as an island, Oahu has an area of more than 500 square kilometers, and in the entire Pacific Ocean, it is already relatively large, but it is really relative to the army, especially the armored force of the army, It's really a bit cramped, at most it can only be trained in the barracks and on a small scale, these training grounds, for ordinary infantry firearms training is okay, just forget about the armor, you can't move even if you move a little.
The chariot starts a little, and travels at a speed of 50 kilometers per hour, which exceeds the maximum length of Hawaii, and there are really hundreds of chariots, and if you train every day, the whole Hawaii will not have to do anything else, although the prospect may be stationed on the island's army, the number is relatively large, but the real Hawaii will not be too much, they are mainly on duty in the fixed fortress of the island's land-based batteries, and the navy and air force are the most important forces, especially the air force, island operations, The Air Force is the most decisive force, and if the Air Force is done well, even if the US military spends thousands of troops to come over, don't think about taking a step beyond the minepool. (To be continued.) )