Chapter 194: Naval Exercises
The second Minsk, which is on sea trials, will be put into service next year, and the third Novorossiysk, which has already started in 75 years, and now refitted, it must be too late, and only the fourth Baku, will be able to start construction next year, if the top management changes their minds now, then next year when the Novorossiysk gets off the slipway, it will be enough to build a newly designed aircraft carrier!
And now, pushing the top to change their concepts and determine the direction of the transition to Western aircraft carriers is being carried out under Andrei's planning!
On June 5, 77, just three days after the Kiev aircraft carrier was stationed in the port of Biaojin, the new base of the Red Navy in the Far East, the first combat cruise finally began!
The aircraft carrier Kiev, which departed from the port, was no longer a single warship, but from Vladivostok 16 warships of the Red Navy, large and small, crossed the Zongu Strait and the Sea of Okhotsk, joined the aircraft carrier Kiev, and then crossed the Nemuro Strait, and came to the Pacific Ocean in a mighty way. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
The passage has been opened, and the Pacific Fleet can finally freely enter and exit the Pacific Ocean at any time!
In this operation, the Red Navy claimed that it was conducting a Hongqi 77 naval exercise, but everyone knew that this time it was obviously a provocation against the battle group composed of two aircraft carriers of the US Navy.
The planned area of the exercise is 1,000 kilometers southeast of Hokkaido, and it is only 800 kilometers from Tokyo. The U.S. aircraft carrier group has always been roaming in the waters of this area, and at the same time waiting for an opportunity to sail north at any time to support the battle over Hokkaido.
The Soviet Navy, still dare to take the initiative to come and provoke, don't you know that the Pacific Ocean is American? Soviets. Do you think that with such a nondescript aircraft carrier, you will be able to dominate the oceans?
Amusing! What kind of vertical take-off and landing fighters are you doing! This aircraft carrier came all the way. The United States is constantly watching, although an EP-3 was intercepted by the Yak-36M and almost crashed. However, the United States has also accurately collected the data of this carrier-based aircraft, which is almost the same as the British Sea Harrier, which is the same existence as chicken ribs!
Under the deception of the United States and the continuous decline of the British economy, even the British could not afford to build large aircraft carriers, and began to build small and medium-sized aircraft carriers, and the Sea Harrier was selected as a carrier-based aircraft.
And now, the Soviets have also fallen for the trick and have also come up with vertical take-off and landing fighters. Equip their aircraft carriers with such fighters, just like that, they can't compete with the American aircraft carriers at all, think about using their own Tomcat fighters to abuse those poor Yak planes, the American aircraft carrier formation, up and down are full of confidence.
Inside the tall bridge, Colonel Steve, the captain of the aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk, looked through the glass at the Enterprise sailing on the other side. The battle group composed of two aircraft carriers is an invincible existence in this sea area!
At this time, on board the aircraft carrier Enterprise, an E-2 AWACS aircraft. It is catapulting off from the runway, the steam is filling, and the personnel at all levels are working in a tense and orderly manner.
"Captain Steve. The latest images came from the satellite. Just as Colonel Steve turned around, he saw Colonel Ted, the commander of the Flying Wing, holding a document in his hand.
After the sorties of the Soviet Navy. The U.S. Navy's battle group was put on high alert at the same time, almost at the same time. Reconnaissance satellites are also beginning to pick up the fleet's tracks.
Although it is said that the aircraft carrier formation is mighty and the movement is very large, when it reaches the sea, it is as small as an embroidery needle, and it is difficult for reconnaissance satellites to discover the movements of the aircraft carrier formation.
These photos were captured by the Soviets' aircraft carrier group when they were in the Mine Strait out of the Nemuro Strait, and the picture is very clear.
"Look at the aircraft carrier formations of the Soviets." Steve took the papers with a cigar in his mouth.
Suddenly, his hand stopped, and the cigar kept smoking in his mouth, choking his eyes so hard that he couldn't open it, he poked the cigar into the ashtray and extinguished it, and muttered to Colonel Ted: "What are the Soviets doing here?" ”
The photos taken by the satellite are from a top view, looking down from a high altitude, only professional people can see the clues, but as the captain of the aircraft carrier, Steve has looked at the satellite photos of the aircraft carrier Kiev many times, and when this photo is in his hand, Colonel Steve can find the difference.
This is an overhead view of the aircraft carrier Kyiv, with stout anti-ship missiles visible in the front of the warship, as well as the huge bridge on the right and the flight deck on the left.
On the flight deck, too, the most common brick-red paint of the Soviet Navy, was painted, but the front of the deck, what was that?
"CIA experts have done an analysis, this aircraft carrier of the Soviets, the beveled deck can be upturned." Colonel Ted said: "The Soviets are really crazy, can their aircraft carrier still glide and take off?" ”
The front end of the beveled flight deck is arched together, just like the British Invincible-class aircraft carrier, which is also the take-off fighter technology of the small aircraft carrier invented by the British, the leaping deck that glides and takes off!
God knows how the Soviets did it! Once the warship is built, the bow can be changed! Is there a hydraulic cylinder underneath?
Seeing this photo for the first time, Steve was of course extremely shocked: "The aircraft carrier of the Soviets, what are they doing like this?" For a short take-off their blacksmith? ”
Vertical take-off and landing aircraft, take-off is very restricted, so, after the British invented the sea harrier, began to engage in short take-off, the use of short-distance taxi, but can greatly save fuel, while increasing the take-off weight, this is a last resort.
Although the short take-off of carrier-based aircraft on the Kiev-class aircraft carriers of the Soviets has not yet been observed, in theory, this is still possible.
"Not necessarily, look at the next picture." Colonel Ted continued.
The next photo is even more rare, just in time to shoot the opposing sideboard elevator extracting the plane from the hangar, and you can see that this plane is very large, almost twice the length of the Yak-36! The rear of the fuselage is all suspended.
"MiG-25! Damn, this is the MiG-25! When will the Soviets be able to place such aircraft on warships? No way, it's absolutely impossible! Colonel Steve was even more surprised.
It can be said that the biggest headache for the US air force now is to fight against this kind of high-altitude and high-speed heavy fighter, the opponent flies fast and high, and in the battle, the other side occupies all the initiative and launches missiles to attack itself at any time, and its own missiles cannot reach the other side at all!
Although the United States tried its best to obtain various performance data of this fighter, many attempts failed, and until now, this fighter is also a fan. (To be continued.) )