Sailing in front of the two aircraft carriers is also a warship with a displacement of tens of thousands of tons, which is another pride of the Red Navy, the Kirov-class nuclear-powered cruiser!

After Gorshkov became the commander of the Navy, he began to vigorously develop the Red Navy, trying to build an aircraft carrier group that could compete with the US Navy in the open ocean. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

The originally scheduled displacement rose again and again, and when it was officially finalized, the displacement of such a cruiser was up to 25 thousand tons, second only to the aircraft carrier! After the battleship left the sea stage, such a cruiser was a giant of the sea!

The combination of nuclear power and conventional power gives this cruiser a speed of up to 32 knots and an almost unlimited endurance, and as a powerful cruiser, this warship is all-encompassing and incomparably powerful in terms of anti-submarine, anti-ship and air defense.

The pride of the Red Navy is its anti-ship capabilities! This Kirov-class is equipped with twenty SS-N-19 Granite anti-ship missiles, which are large supersonic anti-ship missiles propelled by rocket ramjet engines, with a total length of 10.5 meters and a weight of 6.98 tons, launched by vertical launchers, with a maximum range of 500-550 kilometers and a maximum flight speed of Mach 1.6, which can be equipped with a 500kt equivalent nuclear warhead or a 750 kg high-explosive warhead. It can be said that this is the nemesis of the Red Navy specially tailored for the American aircraft carrier formation!

It can be said that the Kirov cruiser is a Soviet version of an arsenal ship! In addition to anti-ship missiles, anti-aircraft missiles are even denser.

The air defense system consists of three lines of defense, mainly consisting of anti-aircraft missiles and close defense systems. Among them, the SA-N-6 anti-aircraft missile serves as the first line of defense, the SA-N-9 anti-aircraft missile serves as the second line of defense, and the SA-N-4 is used as an auxiliary. Plus rapid-fire guns for close defense. It can be said that any enemy aircraft that comes close to a target within a hundred kilometers of the Kirov class is quite dangerous!

Because there is no Aegis system like the United States, the air defense of the Soviet aircraft carrier formation has always been the focus, and this Kirov class, historically, was originally completed at the end of 80, and then delivered to the Northern Fleet, but with the steady progress of the Soviet aircraft carrier formation plan, the need for professional air defense ships to escort is also urgent. After completing sea trials at the beginning of this year, he came to the Indian Ocean all the way in the name of sea trials, temporarily joined the aircraft carrier group, and will not return to the base of the Northern Fleet until the end of this operation.

The Kirov-class MP-800 early warning radar can detect air targets at a distance of 500 kilometers, and with the long-range anti-aircraft missiles modified from the land-based S-300, it has built an impregnable wall for the aircraft carrier formation!

As for anti-submarine capabilities, not to mention, an effective three-tier anti-submarine network is formed with the help of two Ka-27 helicopters, SS-N-14 anti-ship / anti-submarine dual-purpose missile systems, as well as 1 10-tube RBU12000 and 2 6-tube RBU1000 rocket depth launchers.

In addition to this Kirov-class, the other warships of the entire formation were also bathed in the morning light. Two Kara-class cruisers, one modern-class destroyer and one Dreadnought-class destroyer, as well as several somewhat old destroyers and frigates, with a total tonnage of nearly 180,000 and fourteen warships of all sizes, continued to sail in the direction of the Gulf of Oman.

On the Minsk, in the operational command room, Admiral Durt-Sbilidnov, commander of the Pacific Fleet, as the commander-in-chief of this formation, was looking at the huge nautical chart, just last night, our own airborne troops had landed in southern Iran, and our own responsibility was to provide air support to the landed airborne troops with carrier-based aviation forces in the next few days when the large ground forces had not arrived!

The Airborne Forces have very few heavy weapons, and once they are surrounded by superior ground forces, the consequences will be very disastrous, so air support is a must! At the same time, another responsibility of our side is to resolutely fight back if the United States intends to intervene!

Yes, it's a counterattack! This is the Soviet Union's punitive war against Iran, no one else can be allowed to interfere, if the United States wants to intervene, then taste the power of the Soviet navy!

Now there are not many American air forces stationed in Pakistan, that is, a fighter wing. The number of planes is about 60, among them, the main ground attack force, after all, the United States has disabled Iran's air power, the main task of the fighters, the same ground support, there is an A-10 squadron and an F-16 squadron, and the F-15 used to seize air supremacy has only one squadron and 20 aircraft.

Now, the most important task of your aircraft carrier is to attack the ground and support your airborne troops! Of course, this is not an ideal situation, if the airborne troops of their own side should successfully defeat the border forces of the Iranians, reach the border of Iran and Pakistan, plant the flag with a sickle and hammer there, and declare to the Americans that it is temporarily under Soviet control!

"Report, received a request from the 105th Airborne Division, hoping to provide ground support!" At this moment, Lieutenant Colonel Andreyev, the first mate on the Minsk, said.

"Take off four MiG-23Ks, ground attack mounts!" Admiral Durt said.

Take off four! For each aircraft carrier, just take off two! Colonel Viktor Alexander Gokinaev, the captain of the Minsk aircraft carrier on the side, immediately gave an order to his warship: "Take off two MiG-23Ks and mount them for ground attack!" ”

In the parking area on the side of the bridge, two MiG-23Ks, which had long been ready to go, were towed to the take-off position, and although they took off by their own power, they still took off with the maximum bomb load!

One of the MiG-23s, under the wing jacket pylons and belly, was all full of bombs, a total of 16 100-kilogram bombs, which had reached its maximum capacity, and at the same time, it also carried two R-60s in close combat for self-defense.

And the other MiG-23 is equipped with four rocket launch nests, as well as four Kh-25 air-to-surface missiles, plus two self-defense R-60 missiles, these two MiG-23s are enough to relieve their own airborne troops, not to mention the other aircraft carrier Kiev, there are also two MiG-23s on the same mount! (To be continued.) )