Volume 14 The Smoke of Gunpowder Chapter 56 From Sea to Land
In the eyes of many people, the "Haibu Base" is a modular design of the idea of a pole like a mule. But this sentence is not Jiang Che, to be precise, the modular design idea is the basis of the "sea base".
Theoretically, there would be no sea base without the idea of modular design. Take a ship with a total length of persuasion meters, which can be used for tactical transport aircraft to take off and land. Or at the same time for the blade frame vertical take-off and landing transport aircraft take-off and landing of the sea base, if the modular design method is not adopted, it is difficult to solve the structural strength problem of the hull alone, the only feasible way is to use high-strength alloy to manufacture the frame, and the secondary parts are all made of composite materials to reduce the weight of the structure. Putting aside the cost for the time being, even if such a long hull can be built, and the floating connection technology, attitude control system, segmented propulsion technology and other methods are used to make the hull able to sail normally. Nor can it ensure its survivability on the battlefield. To put it simply, it is certainly much easier to attack a sea base with a length of meters from the old mouth than it is to attack an aircraft carrier with a length of persuasion. Arguably. If you can't quickly disperse into several to dozens of fast ships when threatened, evacuate the dangerous sea area. The real combat survivability of the sea base is almost zero. In fact, even with a modular design, the viability of sea bases is in question.
Since it is a "modular ship", there are multiple sets of assembly methods for the offshore base.
It can be said that the Navy of the Republic abandoned the second-generation sea bases and directly built the third, except that the design ideas of the second-generation were out of date. A very important reason is that the second generation is assembled in a very limited way, and its combat use is greatly limited.
In the case of a module formation, the third-generation sea base has hundreds of assembly methods.
At that time, there were only a few commonly used ones.
In accordance with the Code of Operational Use established by the Navy of the Republic, according to the different purposes of combat use. The third-generation sea base is mainly assembled in three ways, one is the sea control mode, the second is the platform mode, and the third is the support mode. There are several different modes of tactical assembly under these three methods, and which one should be used in addition to operating in accordance with the provisions of the Code of Operations. It can also be decided by a commander with relevant qualifications according to the situation on the battlefield.
In the sea domination mode, according to the battlefield threat level and combat intensity, the offshore platform has a total of assembly methods. For example, under the condition that the threat level is low and the combat intensity is not high, the two sets of "large sea-dominance platforms" assembled into two sets of "large sea-dominance platforms" with each strip length and a wide meter-wide runway can be rotated into battle, so as to reduce the operational intensity of officers and men and ensure that the system equipment is adequately maintained and maintained. In the case of a high threat level and low combat intensity, four sets of "tactical sea control platforms" with each possession, strip length, persuasion rice, and wide flying rice will be formed to take turns in pairs to ensure that they are in the field. set of platform in case of damage. still possess sea dominance; Under the circumstance that the threat level is low and the combat intensity is very high, the "strategic sea domination platform" composed of a "strategic sea domination platform" with a long licking length, persuading meters, and a wide runway will enhance the sea and air supremacy combat capability of the platform itself to the maximum; In the case of a high threat level and great combat intensity, eight sets of "mobile sea control platforms" with runways with a length of 10,000 meters and a width of 10,000 meters are composed of eight sets of "mobile sea control platforms" that only provide support for tactical fighters, and thus obtain the best tactical maneuverability.
The so-called "platform model" is to provide support to combat troops outside the battlefield, such as receiving the wounded, hoarding war supplies, and so on. To put it bluntly, in the platform mode, the sea base does not directly participate in combat operations and does not provide tactical support for combat units, but is only a mobile sea base, which is the rear of the combat units and the support point for the combat units to carry out strategic tasks. In this case, after ensuring basic air transport capabilities, the offshore base will focus on enhancing functionality, i.e., half of the modules will be used to improve the operational efficiency of the platform.
As mentioned earlier, sea bases are not suitable for naval operations. Although as a strategic support point. The role of sea bases in the "platform mode" is very prominent, especially in the vast Pacific Ocean, a floating sea base is often more effective than a powerful fleet, but in most cases, especially in the western and southwest Pacific, the Republic of Marine Corps would prefer to seize an unsinkable island as a support point for a strategic offensive, and will not deploy tens of thousands of ground troops in steel ships floating on the sea.
It can be seen from this that the "support mode" is the main aspect of the sea base.
To put it bluntly, the support mode is the mode that supports the Marines on the battlefield. From the perspective of tactical performance, the support mode is between the sea domination mode and the platform mode, that is, on the basis of maximizing the support function of the base itself, the survivability of the base is improved as much as possible. In this way, the main assembly method of the support mode is composed of stall modules, and the "large support platform" with strip length, concave meter, and width is composed of another 6 modules to improve the work efficiency of the platform, especially in the work efficiency of sea transportation.
"Changxing Island" is the third-generation offshore platform system.
Because the air power deployed by Russia in the Far East is not strong, plus before that. The Celestial Forces and naval aviation have already carried out focused bombing of Russian air and naval bases. Therefore, when "Changxing Island" went to the battlefield, only a few escort warships of the amphibious assault fleet in the western Pacific and a few attack submarines deployed in advance were responsible for escorting the heavy responsibility. In any case, the most important thing to beware of is that Yi Xunshu is not the same as the body clams... The fighters and bombers of the Russian army in Liaoning, but in the Russian Pacific Fleet, hated attack submarines, especially the whip attack submarines that left port within a month before the outbreak of the war.
In fact, the best security measure for "Changxing Island" is still its mysterious identity.
Although many years ago, the US intelligence agencies received information that the Republic Navy had designed and built a larger sea base, and that the command of the sea base might have been scraped to the Marine Corps, but as with the US Navy, the modules that make up the sea base are built according to the standard of fast transport ships, and this type of transport ship can not only be used for military purposes, but also the main ship type in the civilian shipping market, so it is impossible to judge the size and nature of the sea base from how many fast transport ships the Republic has built. Conversely, the intelligence agencies of the Republic, including the Military Intelligence Agency, are only aware of the many sea bases built by the US Navy, but they do not know the exact size of them. Because the offshore base can be assembled flexibly and freely. For example, Changxing Island can be assembled into four offshore bases if necessary, so it is difficult to clearly define the number of offshore bases. According to the method of identification of the intelligence community, the main indicator of judging a sea base is its displacement. Of course, this is not a very accurate indicator either.
Although the identity of "Choheung Island" is mysterious to US intelligence agencies, the express transport ship that makes up "Choheung Island", as well as a number of landing ships of the Western Pacific Amphibious Assault Fleet that went north with it, several warships that are serving as escorts, and Hakodate and Mutsu are located in the northern part of Japan's Honshu Road, north of Mutsu Bay, and are one of the naval bases forcibly leased by the Republic of Japan after the Japanese War. There is no secret that the Gulf of Michichi is the largest fleet of the Republic of Korea in Northeast Asia, and there is no secret that a large number of transport ships are assembled in the season.
That night, the alarm was raised on the fourth, and the relevant information was sent to the Russian National Security Service as agreed.
Face the menacing fleet of the Republic. Even knowing that the Republican Marines would go ashore on the Kamchatka Peninsula, the Russian authorities could only sigh.
As mentioned earlier, only those submarines can threaten the amphibious assault fleet of the republic.
It was also on this night that the Navy of the Republic and the Russian Navy engaged in a head-on battle, but the main force of the engagement was the attack submarines of both sides, so the outside world did not know the process of the engagement. According to the war report published by the Navy of the Republic a few months later. In the submarine battle between the night and the early morning of the day, the three attack submarines involved in the battle sank at least four Russian submarines, and the expulsion order was to move another Russian submarine. At least one fled to the United States. And entered the Seward naval base in Alaska, where none of the Republic's attack submarines were damaged. Although Russia later released relevant war reports, it was determined that at least three submarine and three surface warships were sunk during the battle. But the credibility is not high, because even the American news organizations believe that before the dawn of the day. The fleet of the republics, which went north from the east of the Kuril Islands, did not suffer losses, not even a single battleship was damaged, let alone sunk.
In fact, it was one of the few engagements between the Navy of the Republic and the Russian Navy.
It is known that back at the end of the decade, the Russian authorities made a comprehensive adjustment of the deployment of the Navy. All the main forces, including strategic submarines, were transferred to the Northern Fleet, and only a small number of surface warships were retained in the Pacific Fleet, mainly to weaken the naval supremacy of the Republic Navy by attacking submarines. To put it bluntly, before that, the Russian authorities wanted to compete with the Navy of the Republic for sea supremacy, at least in the Sea of Japan, the Sea of Okhotsk and the North Pacific with the Navy of the Republic, and after that, the Russian authorities completely abandoned the idea of competing with the Navy of the Republic for sea supremacy, and the main value of the existence of the Pacific Fleet was changed to the destruction of the sea supremacy of the Navy of the Republic. Obviously, from the day of its birth, submarines have been a weapon for destroying sea supremacy, not seizing and controlling sea supremacy.
On the day of the outbreak of the war, to be precise. It was within the time of the start of the war that the surface warships of the Russian Pacific Fleet were almost completely wiped out under the all-round attack of the Republic's naval aviation and the strategic bombers of the Space Army, and only a few warships operating in the Sea of Okhotsk took advantage of the chaos to advance eastward, entered the North Pacific Ocean on the last day of the year, and escaped to the protection of the US Navy and naval aviation, and all of these warships later went to US naval bases, and were forcibly requisitioned by the US Navy one after another.
As mentioned earlier, there is a real threat. Just those few submarines.
If, before this naval battle, the Russian Navy had some confidence in its submarines, then after this naval battle, the Russian Navy was completely hopeless. Actual combat has proved that Russia is no longer a submarine power, not only is it far inferior to the Republic and the United States in terms of the number of submarines, but it is also far behind in submarine performance. Regardless of whether the results announced by the Navy of the Republic are watery or not, at least after that, the threat of Russian submarines is negligible, and the amphibious assault fleet and the fleet of sea bases that went to the battlefield have not suffered any losses.
As soon as the sky dawned, the attack on the Kamchatka Peninsula began
Finish.
It was not the "Changxing Island" sea base that appeared first, but the two amphibious assault ships of the Western Pacific Amphibious Assault Fleet and nearly 100 low-altitude attack planes of the two groups carried by them. If calculated according to the arrival time of the fire projection, the first to enter the battle is the state... In the current team? The multi-purpose Tu drive air attack aircraft group is bad in the flight attention to this; The shells fired by the destroyers landed on the Russian shore positions south of Petropavlovsk. The two coastal defense missile battalions, a number of missile vehicles, and the two coastal defense artillery battalions' electromagnetic cannon systems became victims of this battle before they had time to participate in the battle.
There is no doubt that the artillery fire of moving multipurpose destroyers is indeed a little thinner.
In fact, even if you count the low-altitude attack aircraft of 2 brigades. The firepower investment is not very strong.
Fortunately, Petropavlovsk was originally a small town, and even if it was one of the main bases of the Russian Pacific Fleet, the defense facilities were not complete.
What's more, Petropavlovsk is just a naval base that simply provides support for submarines, with the exception of a set of long-range air defense systems. The nearest air defense force is the naval aviation base deployed on the western shore of Shelikhov Bay in the northern part of the Sea of Okhotsk, and this base usually has only four fighter planes and is not capable of supporting the activities of large aircraft groups.
By the standards of the Marine Corps of the Republic, after the end of the fire strike of the amphibious assault fleet. The landing operation can begin. According to the normal tactical arrangement, the officers and men of the Marine Corps will go ashore by vertical take-off and landing transport planes, and the heavy equipment will be sent ashore by landing craft and hovercraft. It only takes 2 hours for the Marine Corps to complete the assault mission. Open up a landing ground that is many kilometers wide and several kilometers deep, and then wait for the arrival of the follow-up troops. Then go and capture Petropavlovsk.
Because of the support from the sea base, the landing tactics have also changed a lot. Considering that the threat of the Russian army is not very great. Moreover, the traffic situation on the Kamchatka Peninsula was very bad, not only the quality of the roads was poor, but also many places were not connected to roads at all, so when the landing operation plan was formulated, the marines completely abandoned the traditional tactics and decided to rely entirely on air transportation to go ashore. As a result, the amphibious assault fleet's airlift support capabilities are far from meeting the demand. Even if most of the combat materials are sent ashore by landing craft and hovercraft, only the personnel and main combat equipment are delivered by air, and hundreds of vertical take-off and landing transport planes need to be put in, and under the condition of ensuring that there are enough low-altitude attack planes, the amphibious assault fleet can only carry less than bladed vertical take-off and landing transport planes at most, and more than half of them have to be deployed on integrated landing ships, thus greatly affecting the combat efficiency of the aircraft group.
More importantly, the Kamchatka Peninsula has a long mouth of about 10,000 square kilometers from north to south and a wide area of about 10,000 square kilometers. In other words, the difficulty of sending troops is more difficult than firepower projection, and how to ensure that the landing force can obtain combat materials in a timely manner. It is much more difficult than sending combat troops ashore. Because the nearest military base is far away, a few kilometers away, even within the delivery range of tactical transport aircraft, it is necessary to establish an forward base before the delivery of troops, and it is a forward base that can provide sufficient support for the landing force, considering the delivery efficiency.
This is the value of the existence of "Changxing Island".
In order to ensure the successful completion of the landing operation, and the threat of the Russian army is indeed not large, "Changxingji, in accordance with the standard support mode of assembly, both the fast transport ships are put into use, the flag forms a platform, and 6 ships are used to improve the operational efficiency of the platform." In fact, this arrangement had been decided before the outbreak of the war, otherwise the Navy of the Republic would not have amassed a large number of transport ships to Mutsu Bay, which carried a large number of engineering supplies in addition to ammunition for combat troops. According to the operational deployment of the Navy, landing on the Kamchatka Peninsula is only a means. And not the purpose. The real aim is to force the United States to maintain a fleet of no small size in the North Pacific Ocean with the help of Kamchatka, thereby dispersing the US Navy and creating favorable conditions for combat operations in other directions.
It was this that the preparation of fire before the landing lasted from dawn until noon.
The timing of the battlefield was cut down, and the first batch of landing troops took vertical take-off and landing transport planes from the "Changxing Island" sea base.
I have to admit that it is a rather troublesome thing to set up a sea base, especially in the North Taiping.
You must know that the North Pacific Ocean is one of the most windy and rough seas in the world, or one of the most harsh natural conditions, with an average annual wave height and wind comparable to that of the North Atlantic. Exactly. More than four years ago, in the Second World War. After the Japanese landed in the Aleutian Islands, the US military did not worry too much, because the US military believed. It was impossible for the Japanese army to overcome the harsh natural environment and land in Alaska.
It is precisely for this reason that when "Changxing Island" was put into actual combat, the US authorities were also taken aback.
The establishment of a sea base in a sea area where it is difficult for warships to navigate normally is definitely not a joke. Be aware that most of the time, the sea bases are the number one enemy in bad weather, and not anti-ship missiles with heavy torpedoes. In fact, the Republic Navy did not invest in fourth-generation sea bases, but used much smaller third-generation sea bases, which were related to the extremely bad weather in the North Pacific.
Regardless of the suddenness of the landing operation. The appearance of "Changxing Island" must have made the opponent feel very sudden.