Thirsty for 7 years? Moonknife day night. 【Full text reading】The air battle that lasted for 7 days was talked about**, as if even God didn't want to spoil the good show at night. On this full moon night, the Cape Verde Islands are cloudless, and the bright moonlight maximizes the pilot's field of vision. In fact, with the help of various advanced equipment. The impact of meteorological conditions on air combat is minimal, and unless there is extremely bad weather such as thunderstorms and strong storms, there is basically no need to consider meteorological factors.

In terms of scale, from this night to 3 a.m. on the day of the flight in February, the air battle that lasted for a full five hours is very likely to be the largest air battle in human history, whether in terms of input, losses, and duration.

In these 5 hours, the warring sides have successively invested more than one combat aircraft!

What is this concept? Zu Dangyu was on this battlefield with an area of less than 10,000 square kilometers. On average, there is one combat aircraft per square kilometer, and this is equivalent to the distance between combat planes is only many kilometers.

If the high density of input, it has a lot to do with changes in air combat tactics.

Whether it is of the Navy of the Republic. It is still the US military's air supremacy fighters, which have basically given up air combat outside the visual range, and all of them have taken combat as the main means of victory. Even if the main air combat weapons are no longer combat missiles and machine guns, but energy weapons such as laser cannons, particle beam cannons, and electromagnetic machine guns. The combat distance of combat air combat is also within the visual range, at most the detection range of photoelectric sensors. In general. The distance of combat air combat is within the force kilometer, and most of the combat is concentrated within the old kilometer, and in many cases even within 5 kilometers.

Because in dogfight, the chances of winning alone, so most of the time it is necessary for several fighters to work together, and the ideal tactic is to rumor the wingman to cover the long plane. In order to enhance the survivability of the formation, and to extend the continuous combat capability of the formation by rotating as a long aircraft. Affected by this, the density of troops in combat air combat is very large, and in some cases, in order to achieve absolute air supremacy, hundreds of fighters can be put into the airspace within a radius of tens of kilometers. And new fighters continue to be put into combat to replenish combat losses.

In addition to the tactics of air combat itself, the greatest impact on air combat is the astonishing productivity of warfare. Compared with the Second World War more than a hundred years ago, the essence of war in World War III has not changed much, and seizing the commanding heights of the battlefield is still the key to victory, and the war itself revolves around this key. The biggest difference is in the productivity of war.

In World War II, the United States unleashed its staggering war potential. By the third year of the war, the Year of Mom, the United States had more than half of the Allied bloc's war production capacity, producing 50,000 aircraft, 10,000 tanks, and tens of millions of tons of ships. Compare to the Third World War more than a hundred years later. The war potential of the United States in World War II is nothing.

As mentioned earlier, the following year the republic met the standards of military production established before the war. The United States also met the standards set before the war. That is, by adulthood, neither the republic nor the United States lacks potential. There is no shortage of weapons and equipment. Because neither side has carried out large-scale strategic operations in the second half of the year and the end of the year, especially throughout the year, the two sides have not carried out large-scale strategic actions, so by the beginning of the year, the two sides did not lack weapons, equipment, ammunition and materials, but had inexhaustible weapons, equipment, and ammunition materials.

According to the data published after the war, to. Early. The "surplus" fighters of the republic have as many as concave knife mounts, and among them, Xiaofei alone has as many blade frames. Because the war is far from over. The authorities of the republic have also not massively adjusted their plans for military production, so the surplus of military materiel will not gradually decrease, but will continue to increase. The massive surplus of military materiel corresponds to a serious standard of armed personnel. Taking fighter pilots as an example, by the beginning of the year, the number of active fighter pilots in the Navy of the Republic was the number of active fighters, and there were more pilots than fighters.

Similar to the situation in the republic, the United States also has a large surplus of military supplies, as well as a large number of military personnel.

All this provides a solid foundation for both sides to fight a large-scale war of attrition.

The air battle of 10,000 days and nights is a direct manifestation of the concentrated explosion of such a large number of concentrated war forces.

According to the recollections of some pilots who took part in this air battle, it was not an air battle with a purpose, but an air battle for the sake of the air battle. From the very beginning, both sides focused their forces on seizing air supremacy, rather than taking the initiative, as if only air supremacy achieved through air combat was air supremacy. And air supremacy obtained by striking the opponent's sea bases, air fleets, and ground airfields is not air supremacy.

Extreme tactics naturally bring extreme consequences.

In this air battle, which lasted only five hours, both sides lost a total of more than one combat aircraft, accounting for the loss of the participating aircraft.

Because the losses of support combat aircraft are much lower. Therefore, the proportion of losses of air supremacy fighters invested by both sides is above the skin.

It can be said that this is also the most brutal air battle in human history.

In the words of some veterans, it is already considered lucky to be able to survive.

Of course, this is definitely not an air battle for the sake of an air battle.

Large-scale Yi Xun book dry fine notch mixed Shan) different body clams. The most direct impact is to make the large-capacity tactical information system of both sides and the data exchange system of the gang be clogged with a tidal wave of air combat information. As a result, it will be difficult for both warring parties to take care of the more important direction of operations, that is, the battle on the sea.

This is because both sides have very advanced tactical communication systems and battlefield data exchange systems, and both have been designed for serious electromagnetic interference and commonly used forced electrical collision interference. It is difficult to paralyze it by jamming, so the only way to attack the opponent's information system is to crush the entire system with enough tactical information, and the most direct way is to fight an air battle of sufficient scale.

It can be said that this reflects the shortcomings of the tactical communication system from one side.

Under the new tactical command system, that is, by using an advanced communications system, senior generals can bypass several intermediate command links and directly issue combat orders to officers and men on the front line, and officers and men fighting on the front line can also directly respond battlefield information to decision-makers in the rear through advanced communication systems. This "flat." There are advantages and disadvantages to the Jiang Hui system, and the biggest disadvantage is that it needs a large enough data exchange capability to establish enough communication channels and to reflect the information held by all front-line troops to higher-level commanders.

Theoretically, as long as the communication channel is wide enough, the problem can be solved.

The problem is that in a large-scale war in which tens or hundreds of thousands of officers and soldiers are thrown into it at every turn. No matter how advanced the communication system is, it cannot meet the requirements of real combat.

What's more, only in extreme cases will all terminals feed back information upwards, and in most cases, only a few terminals will need to feed back information to the upper decision-makers. In other words, even if a communication system is built to the highest standards, it is often unacceptably inefficient to use, and it costs a lot of money to build a high-standard communication system. In the eyes of the Department of Defense officials and members of the Military Council, who oversee the budget, it is unthinkable to spend huge sums of money on powerful communications systems that are simply not needed in normal times. Because in the wars of previous years, it was rare for tactical communication systems to be limited by the lack of wide channels. In the end, it affected the combat operation, and even led to the complete failure of the combat operation, so during the war, this issue did not attract the attention of both sides. In fact, even at the beginning of the grain year, the Republic had problems with the tactical communication system of the United States.

By the standards of the Navy of the Republic, the tactical communications system can support at best the old % of front-line combat units with simultaneous feedback of operational information to the rear. If this quota is exceeded, the number of terminals connected at the same time can only be increased by using time-sharing technology, frequency hopping technology, etc., at the cost of reducing the average information exchange capacity. Theoretically. When the average degree of information exchange is reduced to one-tenth of what is normal, it is possible to send information to the rear of all terminals. Because the time-sharing technology, frequency hopping technology and other methods will reduce the information exchange efficiency of the communication system, so when all terminals exchange data with the rear, the information exchange capacity is only the gills under normal conditions.

In this case, only the most basic communication can be guaranteed.

Comparatively speaking, the situation of the US Navy is slightly better, but not much better.

Imagine when there are thousands of combat aircraft on the battlefield. In addition, the rear support forces, which are 10 times equivalent to combat aircraft, need to be connected to the battlefield data exchange system, and when exchanging tactical information with friendly forces or the rear, the communication systems of both sides will definitely have problems.

Crushing the opponent's communications system is only to create favorable conditions for naval warfare.

Obviously, with both sides saturating their air power inputs, naval battles are more advantageous to the Republican Navy, which has a larger and more powerful main fleet.

Thanks to the sailing degree of the Gundam Festival (the US Navy's "Long Island" class capital ships use a power system and propulsion system with higher output power, and the maximum sailing degree has been increased from the "Long Beach" class calcium knot to the blade knot), without any secrets, the main fleets of the two sides are moving in unison, shortening the distance by about 1,000 kilometers per hour on average, and it only takes about 4 hours to enter the range of engagement.

Relatively speaking, there really are no secrets in this naval battle.

Although both sides did their best to put pressure and burden on each other's communications systems, it was not much of a challenge to grasp the specific whereabouts of the other side's main fleet when both sides attached great importance to naval warfare. More importantly, the Navy of the Republic has only two main fleets, while the US Navy, which has a numerical superiority, has no superiority in performance, and the combat effectiveness of the three main fleets is not as good as that of the two main fleets of the Navy of the Republic. Judging by the situation at that time, the main fleet of the Navy of the Republic was followed by the main forces of the army that had reached the West African region. As well as several large sea bases, as well as the South Atlantic route that has just been established, and behind the main fleet of the US Navy is the Cape Verde Islands, sea base groups, and air fleets. and the wider North Atlantic.

Both sides had no way out but to fight to the death.

According to the operational record of the Navy of the Republic. The battle started at 2 o'clock in the morning, and the first to enter the battle was the first main fleet dominated by eight "Han" class capital ships, and the combat distance was as high as 1,000 kilometers! According to the U.S. Navy's combat records, the time of the exchange of fire was 2 o'clock, and the main fleets of the two sides at that time were not the same clams

Because it is certain that the maximum range of the main guns of the eight capital ships in the other main fleet will not exceed a kilometer, and the naval guns on the escort warships that match it are difficult to project the "reconnaissance shells" to a distance of thousands of kilometers, it is an ideal choice to let the first main fleet fire first.

What's more, at this distance. The large-caliber electromagnetic guns on the capital ships of the US Navy are just ornaments.

In this battle. The maximum effective range became the key factor in victory.

Although there is reason to believe that the large-caliber electromagnetic guns of the "Long Island" class capital ships can project shells to a distance of 1,000 kilometers, due to other factors, especially the maximum effective range of the supporting "reconnaissance shells," it is very difficult for the "Long Island" class capital ships to deal with them, and it is unlikely that they will be able to use the range advantage of their main guns if they open fire on enemy ships 1,000 kilometers away. To put it bluntly, playing far is not the most important thing. You have to be accurate! It can be said that this is why the Navy of the Republic is developing auxiliary warships for the capital ships.

In a sense, if the performance of the supporting warship, especially the performance of the ship's guns, is sufficiently advanced. Being able to complete some secondary tasks that do not need to be completed by the capital ship in naval battles, or even become the main force in naval battles, can maximize the combat capability of capital ships.

In a naval battle in a one-hit kill, who fires first. And if you fire accurately, whoever takes the initiative.

Although the new capital ships of the US military are also equipped with a powerful defense system, they are also aimed at the "Long Beach." Serious problems exposed by the capital ships of the class in battle. The protection capability has been enhanced, but in the face of armor-piercing shells used by large-caliber electric transverse guns, any passive protection is useless. Theoretically. No need to be like ah kilogram with a knife. Pound-level electromagnetic guns, even kilogram and four-pound electromagnetic guns. It can penetrate the armor of any warship with armor-piercing shells. On the premise of not reducing the other combat qualities of the battleship, in order to block the kilogram-class or four-pound armor-piercing projectiles, it is necessary to at least increase the displacement of the battleship to more than 10,000 tons. Obviously, this is very unrealistic.

In fact, in this naval battle, auxiliary ships of the Navy of the Republic also took part in the battle.

Although according to the war report published by the authorities of the republic. In the battle that night, only the capital ships took part in the battle, and the cruisers and destroyers in the fleet participated only in defensive battles and did not fire at the American fleet, but judging from some combat records of the American Navy, there must have been some cruisers and destroyers in the fleet of the Republic Navy at that time. And the wreckage of the American warship found in the warring sea area was hit by the kilogram-level armor-piercing projectile. Indeed, quite a few kilogram-class armor-piercing shells hit US warships. One could even say. The direct cause of the sinking of more than a number of US warships was not caused by the sacrificial kilogram-class armor-piercing shells, but by the young kilogram-class armor-piercing shells.

This proves from one side that with the advancement of technology, capital ships have encountered unprecedented challenges.

To put it bluntly, are those large warships with a capacity of more than 100,000 tons as effective on the battlefield as those ordinary warships that are several times smaller and have a displacement of only a few tens of tons?

Purely from the point of view of combat use, if the problem of firing range can be solved, without considering the survivability of the battleship on the battlefield, the range of combat use of the capital ship accounting for 10,000 tons will not be much larger than that of the cruiser of the Choukoutun class, and it can be said that the target that the capital ship can deal with, the cruiser can deal with.

That's the point, is it necessary to build so many capital ships?

Although in actual combat, the status of capital ships is still irreplaceable, and a fleet led by cruisers is certainly not an opponent of the main fleet, but in most cases, there are not many opportunities for capital ships to shoot, so the combat effectiveness of the fleet can be improved by strengthening auxiliary warships.

In a sense, the capital ship is just a kind of symbolic warship that can come in handy in Ni's time.

The battles in the second half of this naval battle just proved this problem.

After the first fleet, which rushed to the front, suffered heavy losses. The U.S. forces immediately realized that the firepower of the Republic Fleet was far greater than they expected, and even if they concentrated the full firepower of the First Fleet and the Diwang Fleet, they would not necessarily be able to gain an advantage, not to mention that there was still a main fleet of the Republic Navy that did not participate in the battle.

In the event that you can't beat the out-of-time hand, the only option is to retreat.

At this time, the air fleet of the US Navy, which remained behind, came in handy