This red-blue confrontation exercise is actually a simple battle between the Tang Navy and itself. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 info How lonely it is to be invincible in real life. There is no navy in the world that has a powerful surface formation of 8 battleships like the Red Side, nor does it exist an aircraft carrier formation of 4 aircraft carriers capable of carrying four or five hundred aircraft. If the drill is really based on the drill that is close to reality, then the Datang Navy will have nothing to play with.

However, if there is any practical significance in such high-intensity and high-difficulty training, of course, there is. For such formations as battleships and cruisers, it is of real combat value to confront the enemy's aviation forces in the event of a disadvantage. After all, in the future, Datang's battleships and cruisers may face the enemy's aircraft carriers, and of course they will not be as strong as the Datang Navy's own aircraft carriers. And for the Datang Navy's aircraft carrier strike group formation, it is also a good learning to effectively attack the enemy and protect itself.

Wei Changzhi, the captain of the aircraft carrier Tengzhou, served as the commander of the blue side, and even if the blue side had a considerable advantage, he did not take it lightly.

His political commissar Liu Jing said with a smile: "The red side must not have thought that the captain of the ship you put our aircraft carrier in the waters west of the Strait of Magellan, they must have thought that since it was an interception operation, then the opponent must be directly ahead, and they never thought that we were behind them." ”

As early as a few days ago, the Great White Fleet began to divide its forces for the exercise, and the Blue Fleet broke away from the main fleet at high speed and sailed in the direction of Cape Horn. So the red and blue sides don't know where they are. However, Red has to pass through the Strait of Magellan, so it actually gives Blue the advantage of holding the rabbit. The Red Fleet never found out where the Blue Fleet was.

The strike radius of the Datang Navy's aircraft carrier aircraft is about 500 kilometers, but this is the maximum distance, and generally speaking, in order to strike the red fleet in more batches, the blue aircraft carrier should not be too far away from the Strait of Magellan. The main reconnaissance range of the red plane's reconnaissance aircraft is around Tierra del Fuego, where the islands are so numerous that it is easy to hide. The Red side also sent cruisers, frigates and other ships to search for traces of the Blue aircraft carriers in the vicinity, but the surface ships were so large that they still found nothing.

Wei Changzhi took advantage of a blind spot of the Red Side, and placed his fleet in the waters southwest of the Strait of Magellan, although it was only about 200 nautical miles away from the main channel of the Strait of Magellan, but it was not the focus of the Red Fleet's search.

Wei Changzhi said: "The carrier-based aircraft of our four aircraft carriers are not satisfied, and the director department also judged that we have lost 11 fighters in the wave of strikes just now, which shows that the air defense level of the red side is still good." There is no absolute winner in this exercise itself, we can't stop the red side from leaving the Strait of Magellan, they must have ships that can rush out, because our fleet is not enough to blow up and sink all their ships, so we lose in this way. However, even if the Red side had a ship to get out, the losses would have been particularly heavy, and if it was a real naval battle, then it would have been annihilated by the other enemies. ”

Liu Jing said: "This is a battle where it is impossible for both sides to win a complete victory, and it is really a bit aggrieved." ”

Wei Changzhi said: "It seems that the deployment of the forces of the red and blue fleets is uneven, and even very unscientific, but when it really starts, any strange situation may occur, and all our military cadets often listen to the instructors in the school, and there are all kinds of fuck things on the battlefield, and soldiers must have extremely thick nerves." In many cases, when we fight, we cannot achieve all the results in one battle, and we can only drag the tide of the war to a situation that is as favorable to our side as possible. Moreover, it is not important whether the exercise itself wins or loses, but what matters is to test our results. ”

The Blue Fleet was almost invincible in this exercise, Wei Changzhi sent carrier-based aircraft to carry out continuous patrol alert around the aircraft carrier, and the radar detection range on the Texas-class aircraft carrier was the farthest of all ships in the Great White Fleet. Before the advent of long-range warning aircraft, reconnaissance satellites, and other combat tools, aircraft carriers were the most difficult targets to be eliminated unless they took the initiative to appear on the battlefield.

The Red side obviously knows this, so the tactical focus of the Red commander's strategy is not to discover the location of the Blue aircraft carrier and launch an attack on it, but to use the tactic of confusion to take as many ships as possible out of the Strait of Magellan, where the archipelago is scattered.

On the afternoon of the day of the exercise, the carrier-based aircraft unit of the Blue Fleet led by Wei Changzhi spotted a formation led by the Dalmatia and the Donghui somewhere in the southern part of the Tierra del Fuego Islands in the Strait of Magellan. The Blue side immediately sent as many as 68 carrier-based attack aircraft and 24 carrier-based torpedo planes, escorted by 12 fighters, to attack the Red formation.

With the blue side's aircraft carrier lineup, it is stronger than the Japanese and American aircraft carrier formations during the Midway Battle of the Pacific War in World War II. After all, Datang's industrial technology level surpassed that of the United States during World War II, coupled with various shipbuilding experiences and achievements in later generations, so Datang's Texas-class aircraft carrier at this time was about the same level as the Midway-class aircraft carrier that the United States had served for 40 years after World War II, and the carrying capacity was very large.

However, even though the blue side used nearly 100 fighters to attack the red battleships, the resistance of the red formation was still very strong. This is a confrontation between real soldiers and non-live ammunition, so the results of the battle are simulated by the director department with algorithms. The blue side repeatedly attacked the two battleships, but the director calculated that the 40,260-ton Dalmatia sank after taking 21 rounds of 500-kilogram aerial bombs and 9 torpedoes, and the Donghui was also sunk after being hit by 6 torpedoes and several aerial bombs in a row. During the whole process, the red formation shot down 28 aircraft of the blue side, and the losses of the blue side were not small.

And in the process of this entanglement, the red side made up its mind to abandon this formation and break through the Strait of Magellan with all its might. Wei Changzhi didn't have much to do about it. After the blue side completely sank the decoy formation, the red side also completed the passage of the strait. The Red side lost a total of 2 battleships, 5 cruisers and 3 frigates, and the battleships saved 6 ships, which can be regarded as maintaining considerable combat power. The blue side lost one-fifth of its planes before and after, but it did not lose any of its own ships, sank a number of enemy ships, and the results were also very good.

This exercise showed that the attack of aircraft carrier-based aircraft was still a bit difficult against the battleships designed by Datang that were quite thick, and the air defense capability of the battleships of the Datang Navy with cruisers was also quite not weak. In this exercise, the Navy came to two conclusions: the weapons of aircraft carriers and carrier-based aircraft need to be strengthened, and the Datang battleships are not completely outdated. (To be continued.) )