Jiaran Russia's Benshi air defense network can be regarded as the most powerful and healthy in the world. The detection distance of the strategic warning radar alone is more than 1,000 kilometers in the joint mouth, and it has passed through the United States and the Republic and is the world's first, but local air defense operations have long been more than just a matter of air defense networks. Rather, it is a comprehensive combat capability based on the strategic defense system and based on the country's overall military strength.

As we all know, a military satellite network is the neural network of the entire defense system.

Looking back, it is not difficult to understand why the republic took the Russian military satellite system. Because after proper adjustments. Most civilian satellites can be converted into military use, for example, commercial remote sensing satellites can be used as low-resolution military reconnaissance satellites, and commercial communication satellites can also be used as military communication satellites, so before dawn, that is, after intercepting the submarine-launched ballistic missiles launched by Russian strategic submarines, the national strategic defense system of the republic is not idle, but under the control of a central computer, it has swept away Russian civilian satellites one by one. Let Russia lose all space equipment except for manned orbital space stations.

As a well-known military historian later commented, Russia was defeated in the early morning of the day of the Kouyueyu.

The problem is that substantive defeat is not the same thing as admitting defeat.

Although at the time of strategic bombing, the territorial air defense system of Russia was largely intact, but in the face of a strategic strike by the Celestial Forces of the Republic. The Russian air defense forces, which are fighting on their own, have almost no chance of winning.

It is undeniable that Russia does have a very powerful homeland air defense system.

According to the intelligence of the Military Intelligence Agency, the Russian Air Force has its old air defense zone in the Urals alone, and like most countries, Russia's territorial air defense forces are subordinate to the Air Force, not the Army, and are divided into border air defense zones and strategic air defense zones. From west to east, the border air defense zones are Chelyabinsk, Ishim, Omsk, Barnaul, Abakan, Irkutsk, Chita, Tenda, Selemkinsk, Komsomolsk, Dalnegorsk, and Vladivitstok, which are mainly equipped with long-range air defense systems with a range of within a kilometer. In addition, some important air defense areas are equipped with theater air defense systems with a range of 1,000 kilometers. Because all border air defense zones are deployed in the front, the air defense zones extend into the territory of neighboring countries, which is a typical offensive air defense deployment. Behind the border air defense zone are six strategic air defense zones: Nevteyugansk, Achinsk, Ust-Kut, Nelyunengr, Nikolaevsk and Kholmsk. The distance between the strategic air defense zone and the border air defense zone is kept between 1 and 2 kilometers, and each strategic air defense zone has a long-range strategic warning radar with a detection range of more than 4 kilometers and a theater warning radar with a detection range of about 1 kilometer. It is mainly equipped with theater air defense systems with a range of 1,000 kilometers, and some strategic air defense zones also have a varying number of heavy air defense fighters.

It can be seen from the distribution of the air defense zone of the Russian army that its territorial air defense is divided into three levels. The outermost interception zone is pulled up by heavy air defense fighters, that is, it actively enters the enemy's airspace to intercept strategic bombers and prevent the enemy's strategic bombers from firing missiles. In the middle is a border air defense network composed of border air defense zones, that is, after the failure of interdiction, the border air defense network intercepts the enemy's bombers, strategic cruise missiles, and tactical ballistic missiles. Finally, there is the last protective barrier provided by the strategic air defense zone, which is primarily to intercept the enemy's strategic missiles.

This kind of building territorial air defense equipment according to the performance of weapons and at different levels is also an inevitable choice for the vast majority of countries. In any case, among the many countries and regions in the world, only the Republic and the United States have the capability to build a strategic defense system that covers the whole country and reaches the whole world, and uses the strategic defense system to undertake the vast majority of territorial air defense tasks, thus drastically reducing the local air defense forces and retaining only the air defense forces at the theater level.

Speaking realistically, if Russia's air defense zones can coordinate and cooperate with each other, even if the Republican Space Force has one of the world's largest strategic strike forces, it may not be able to easily break through Russia's territorial air defense network and complete the strategic strike mission at a slight cost.

The key lies in the fact that without the support of military satellite systems, it is difficult for Russia's air defense zones to cooperate with each other.

It is not that the Russian authorities are unaware of the importance of military satellite systems in the homeland air defense network, but that the Russian authorities have always firmly believed in a strategic law, that is, military satellite systems are strategic facilities, and attacking military satellite systems is tantamount to carrying out a strategic strike against Russia, which is tantamount to being subjected to strategic retaliation by Russia. The so-called "strategic retaliation." "It is a strategic counterattack with the use of strategic nuclear weapons, and the Russian authorities firmly believe that they have the ability to tear apart the national defense system of the republic and carry out a devastating blow to the republic, so the republic will not take the initiative to attack the Russian military satellite system, and there is no need for Russia to worry about the territorial air defense network being paralyzed by the military satellite system

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In the eyes of the Russian authorities, even a war with the republic would be a large-scale local war. At best, it will be an all-out war dominated by conventional weapons, or at least it will not quickly turn into a nuclear war in which strategic strikes against each other will be carried out.

It is on the basis of this strategic judgment that the Russian authorities did not separate the construction of the territorial air defense network from the military satellite system.

It is clear that Russia has too much on its own strength

Although at the time of the construction of the territorial air defense network, the Russian Air Force used the excuse of facing a strong opponent. Increased density of air defense zones, i.e. most of them overlap each other, even if one or more of the non-adjacent air zones are hit. The homeland air defense network is also functioning normally. However, in the absence of the exchange of tactical information, which can only be communicated through the wired telephone, the various air defense zones cannot cover each other at all, and the meaning of overlapping coverage naturally does not exist.

It is precisely in this way that the strategic bomber group of the Celestial Forces of the Republic has an opportunity.

If we exclude superficial factors such as the war against Russia and the astonishing scale of investment, we can only look at the essence of this strategic bombing, that is, the tactics adopted. In fact, there is not much to be desired. As in the early stage of previous wars, strategic bombing. The first to strike at the enemy's homeland air defense system was the enemy's air defense system. That is, air defense command centers, communications centers, air bases, long-range warning radars, theater warning radars, and air defense missile positions, and so on, and the strikes are basically all carried out by out-of-zone ammunition, and the bombers fired missiles before entering the interception area of the enemy's air defense system, and then turned to return home. Although all Russian air defense forces, especially important strategic facilities, have forced electromagnetic interference systems, which are controlled by computers and will be activated automatically after the failure of peripheral interception, most of the strategic facilities are fixed targets, and the cruise missiles launched by the bombers of the Republic cut off all guidance systems before they enter the range of action of the forced electromagnetic interference system, and fly to the last kilometer with a fixed trajectory, so they will not be affected much.

Of course, compared with the previous two rounds of strategic strikes, the third round of strategic strikes was much less effective.

First of all, we have to admit that as a major country with global influence, Russia has a strong army, and the Russian army also has several brushes. The second is the recognition. As the country with the most extensive territory. More than three-quarters of the country is in Asia east of the Ural Mountains, and the dispersion of targets has had a great impact on strategic bombing. Finally, we have to admit that we have worked closely with the United States for more than 10 years. It has indeed brought a lot of benefits to Russia.

Long before Pei Chengyi declared war on Russia, the Russian Air Force completed combat mobilization.

That is, by the time the strategic bombers of the Celestial Forces of the Republic received the order to take off, the air defense fighters of the Russian Air Force had already taken off and, in accordance with the filing of emergency actions, were massing in the direction of the republic. Although according to the information obtained after the war, at this time Russian President Cheryakov did not issue an order for a full-scale counterattack, the commander of the Air Force, Krachev, only ordered the troops to raise the alert level and strengthen the air defense patrol force in the border area. However, with the strength of the Russian Air Force, when the strategic bombers of the Celestial Forces of the Republic flew north, at least young air defense fighters were waiting in the sky over the Far East, and about one more than one more air defense fighter was already in the sky over Siberia. According to the operational report of the Celestial Army of the Republic. Soon after the start of the third round of strategic bombing, some Russian fighters crossed the main channel of the Ussuri River and entered the territory of the republic, intercepting the strategic bomber groups preparing to attack Dalnegorsk and Vlažvostok.

It was this "unexpected" interception that caused the baton and the ** team to suffer their first losses since the start of the war.

According to the operational records of the Celestial Forces of the Republic. A bomber was hit by a long-range missile fired by a Russian fighter jet, and crashed about 10,000 kilometers south of Qiqihar in the upper reaches of the Nenjiang River on its way back. There are also Ru bombers that were hit by Russian missiles and eventually returned to the base with injuries, among them, the co-pilot of the bomber was hit by shrapnel from the missile explosion. Slightly injured.

Among several other abandonments, the Russian Air Force's air defense fighters also adopted proactive offensive air defense tactics.

In fact, this is precisely the main tactic of the air defense fighters of the Russian Air Force.

As mentioned earlier, the border air defense zone of the Russian Air Force is deployed in the front, and the air defense fighters in charge of the outermost air defense task can only take the initiative to attack, otherwise they will be stunned to fight above the heads of their own air defense forces. Even if accidental damage is not taken into account, the mixing of enemy and enemy forces will have an impact on the air defense system and reduce the combat efficiency of the air defense system.

Some people may find it strange that Russia has a vast strategic depth, why should such risky tactics be resorted?

You must know that letting fighter planes go to the enemy's territory to intercept the enemy's bombers, because the early warning planes that are the support force are unlikely to follow into the enemy's territory, and the long-range warning radar can only provide very limited information, so it is tantamount to letting the fighters fight alone, and the results can be imagined.

The reason is actually very simple. The theoretical value of Russia's enormous strategic depth is higher than its practical significance.

As a typical high-altitude country, the severe cold has greatly reduced the practical significance of Russia's vast territory. Geographically, the impact of the cold on the European part of Russia is not very prominent. In any case, the Ural Mountains block the cold current from Siberia, and the warm North Atlantic current makes Murmansk the only ice-free port in the Arctic Ocean, and the warm winds blowing from the Mediterranean Sea make the summer temperatures in Russia and Europe high. Winters are very cold, making the cold climate the main force to protect Russia from the invaders. In contrast, Russia's Asian region has not been so lucky. Because of the hinterland of the region. There are the Ural Mountains in the west, the Alborz Mountains on the south coast of the Caspian Sea to the Pamir Plateau in the south, the Hengduan Mountains and the Pasteaming Ancient Plateau in the southwest, the Adan Plateau and the Verkhyansk Mountains in the east, and the cold Arctic Ocean in the north, so Siberia has become the "cold pole" of the Eurasian continent. It is also the place where the northern cold snap is generated. Back in Tsarist Russia, Siberia was the best place to exile prisoners, even in the Soviet Union. It is also a natural prison for political prisoners.

Although there are staggering resources in Asia, which occupies three-quarters of the country, about two-thirds of the world's undiscovered rare metal deposits are in Russia, and eight percent of them in Siberia, according to a survey conducted by a private American company using remote sensing satellites. That is, almost half of the unproven deposits of rare metals are in Siberia. But such abundant resources do not mean that they are hugely attractive. As we all know, Russia is a vast and sparsely populated country, with about 70% of the population concentrated in Europe and only 30% of the population in Asia. As a result, the main towns in Asia are concentrated in the south, and the national infrastructure such as railways, roads, and power grids is based on population and urban distribution. Therefore, the infrastructure of Russia and Asia is concentrated in a narrow strip of land with a width of four to ten kilometers. This is very similar to Canada on the North American continent.

Knowing this, it is not difficult to understand why the Russian Air Force is so active in the deployment of air defense.

In the words of the Russian president when he was mobilized for war, even if there are thousands of kilometers of frozen snowfields behind it, Russia has no way to retreat!

You can't retreat, you can only advance. In this case, the Celestial Army of the Republic must have been prepared for a long time.

According to the battle report submitted by the Celestial Army to the Yuanfu and the General Staff, in the battle to cover the third round of strategic bombing, the air defense of the Celestial Army shot down 3 or four Russian air defense fighters, and the exact number counted afterwards was Newer, and most of them fell on the territory of the Republic. Become an ironclad fact of Russia's "invasion" of the republic.

Of course, whether this is an invasion or not, the views of the international community are not entirely unanimous.

In any case, in the third round of strategic bombing, the combat effectiveness displayed by the air defense forces of the Space Forces, as the latest branch of the armed forces, is enough to reassure people. According to operational records, less than 20 percent of the Russian fighters shot down were the results of the ground air defense system, and most of them were the results of the air defense fighters, and about half of them were the results of the new fighters with air and space combat capabilities.

Because territorial air defense operations have never been the main task of the Republic's air forces, still less are they the number one task of those heavy fighters that cost tens of billions of yuan, it has to be said that it is a great pity that the Celestial Forces did not mention these battles in their war reports.

With the defeat of Russian air defense fighters; At the beginning of the strategic strike, it was necessary to face only the ground-based air defense systems of the Russian army.

One side has the absolute initiative, and the other side is completely passive, so the result naturally goes without saying.

Although the Russian authorities later announced that during this round of air defense operations, they shot down a number of cruise missiles and thwarted the strategic strikes of the republic. Let's not talk about whether the claims of the Russian authorities are reliable or not, whether there is moisture or not. One thing that no one can deny, and that is after this round of bombing. The border air defense zones of Tenda, Selemkinsk, Komsomolsk, Dalnegorsk and Vlažvostok, as well as the three strategic air defense zones of Nelyunegri, Nikolaevsk and Kholmsk, are either completely incapacitated or completely paralyzed. That is to say, after the strategic strike is over, not to mention the strategic strike force of the Republican Aerospace Army, even the tactical aircraft groups of the Republic's Army Aviation and Naval Aviation can swagger in and out of Russian airspace to strike at Russian ground targets.

Whether a battle is won or lost is not based on how much results have been achieved, but whether or not the purpose of defense and attack has been achieved.

It can be said that with the complete collapse of the territorial air defense network in the Far East, the Russian Air Force lost very completely.

Of course, it cannot be said from this that the Celestial Army of the Republic won a complete victory, at least in the Siberian direction. The strategic strike operation of the Celestial Forces of the Republic did not achieve complete results and failed to tear apart the air defense network of the Russian army. It is not difficult to understand that strategic bombardment in the Siberian direction is mainly aimed at the command facilities and air bases of the Russian army, and not at air defense facilities. You must know that all the Russian strategic bombers are deployed in Siberia, and if the Russian strategic bomber units cannot be paralyzed as soon as possible, the mainland will be threatened.

It can also be seen from this arrangement of strikes, which is different in severity and priority, that the authorities of the Republic must have other plans.

It is well known that it is necessary to bring down Russia. It is necessary to cross the Urals and capture the European regions of Russia, and if only the Asian regions of Russia are occupied, it will be difficult for the Russian authorities to admit defeat in the short term. In this way, the republican ** team should use Central Asia and Siberia as the main battlefield, not the Far East as the main battlefield. Although there is a lack of adequate infrastructure in the Central Asian-Siberian direction, especially integrated military bases, these problems can be solved with the long-range assault capability and independent combat capability of the Republican Army, especially the Republican Army.

At the critical juncture after the start of the war, the Republic does not play its cards according to common sense, and does the opposite, there must be other schemes!