The ground battle on the island of Iban ends. [No pop-up novel network] does not mean that the battle on the ocean is over"

Judging from the overall situation of the war, with the fall of Saipan into the hands of the Republic, the situation in the Mariana Group has become clearer, that is, the Republic will gradually occupy the islands north of Saipan, and the United States will make every effort to hold Tinian, Rota, and Guam to the south of Saipan. For the warring parties, there will be no significant change in the battle line until the Republican Marines have organized enough offensive forces or the U.S. forces have organized enough to counterattack Saipan, and the battle for the islands will enter a stalemate, during which the two sides will fight for sea supremacy and prevent the other side from using it. In other words, the main battlefield of contention between the two sides has shifted from the islands to the sea.

By the end of August. Both the U.S. Navy and the U.S. Navy have made adjustments to their troop deployments.

First, the Navy of the Republic mixed the First Fleet with the Third Fleet and established the Theater Fleet, with the commander of the First Fleet serving as the commander of the Theater Fleet. Subsequently, the US Navy also carried out a similar reorganization, merging the Fifth Fleet with the Seventh Fleet, and transferring three aircraft carrier battle groups from the Third Fleet to form the Western Pacific Fleet with aircraft carriers as the core. Although in terms of combat efficiency, whether it is the theater fleet with aircraft carriers as the core, or the Western Pacific Fleet with aircraft carriers as the core. It is impossible to fully exploit the combat efficiency of aircraft carriers, after all, if hundreds of warships are grouped together, they will certainly influence and interfere with each other, so that the combat efficiency of each warship will be reduced. Not to mention anything else, dozens or hundreds of warships activate air defense radars at the same time, and the mutual interference between radars alone will have a serious impact on air defense operations. But in the case of low efficiency of sea dominance of the aviation forces, and there are no suitable alternatives. Increase the size of the fleet in order to increase the sortie rate of aviation. Making up for quality with quantity has become the only option.

Of course, the actions of the Navy of the Republic against the US Navy. The first thing that comes to mind is that the decisive battle at sea is about to begin.

At the beginning of the month, the U.S. Navy launched a campaign offensive operation codenamed "Storm Caterina", which led to a hurricane that hit the city of New Orleans at the beginning of the century. Although the posture of the US military is to counterattack Saipan. To drive the Republican Marines out of the Mariana Islands, the U.S. Navy not only dispatched the Western Pacific Fleet, but also deployed a third sea base in Micronesia to the south, and dispatched three Marine Divisions to the Western Pacific Theater, all of which were reserve divisions and hundreds of thousands of tons of combat materiel. By this time, however, the Republic had replaced its Marine Brigade, which had suffered heavy casualties. Replaced with 3 fully combat-ready Marine Brigades, the US military wants to take Saipan. 3 Marine Divisions is definitely not enough. To know. In order to capture Saipan, which is defended by more than 30,000 American troops. With the mobilization of four Marine brigades, thousands of fighter planes, and three and a half months of precious time, the U.S. military will definitely need to devote more troops to capture Saipan, which is guarded by more than 20,000 Republican Marines. Spend more time. Leaving aside for the time being whether the US military has enough troops, from the point of view of time, it will take another three and a half months to fight back. It won't make much sense either.

There is no doubt that the purpose of the campaign of "Catalina Storm" was not a counteroffensive on Saipan, but the annihilation of the fleet of the Republic.

To be precise, it is to seize absolute supremacy over the sea.

It is also easy to understand that if the US Navy can seize sea supremacy, even if it cannot fight back to Saipan, it can trap more than 20,000 Republican Marine officers and soldiers on Saipan.

In the face of the challenge of the US military, the Navy of the Republic of China took a-for-tat combat operation codenamed "Plug".

I have to admit that the officer who chose the name of the campaign must have no imagination. Although, according to some, the name "bucket" comes from the typhoon that swept through Southeast Asia in the year of Likou and wreaked havoc on Taiwan, so it is a-for-tat-for-tat with the American campaign codename, who can remember the storm a year ago, and who can associate the name of a fruit with the storm?

Of course, the scale of the "Nanzi" combat operation is not as planned, and not only the theater fleet will be dispatched. It will also allow the three sea bases in the western Pacific to operate together, that is, "Taiwan Island" and "Hainan Island" will go hand in hand and face the Mariana Islands together, and "Changxing Island" will be transferred behind the two "Big Macs" to play the role of an aviation transit station and provide air cover for the two sea bases. And so it goes. The Navy of the Republic will be able to throw near red in the direction of the Mariana Islands. fighter planes to make up for the disadvantage of the lack of strength of the fleet.

More importantly, this time the Republic Navy used all new combat aircraft.

Among them is the air supremacy fighter specially designed for naval aviation.

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It is no secret that in those days, the most talked about tactical fighters were definitely the old Yingmu of the republic. That is, the legendary Xiao Couple heavy air control fighting machine.

Affected by disarmament and other factors, it became a legend, and even this code name became history, and was not adopted by the Air Force and the Navy. By the time of the day, HNA had named the new generation of heavy air supremacy fighters used to replace the old fighters in the old series, rather than the old ones. Because at this time, the Air Force had "disbanded" the heavy fighter units, all of which belonged to the HNA, so the Knife became the only heavy fighter in the Republic. Of course, the regiment is not an aerospace fighter in the true sense of the word, so it is not taken seriously by the space army. It can be seen from this that Xiaoli is actually a product of emergency response in the arms race. Anyway. The small 6 that was finalized before the kicking year has fallen behind, and it will definitely not be able to meet the operational needs by the time of the previous year. The Navy of the Republic is in dire need of an alternative model.

According to common sense, after Xiaoli, the Navy of the Republic should cooperate with the Space Force and make every effort to develop a navy-type aerospace fighter.

Of course, this is just common sense in peacetime.

Before the outbreak of the war, it was probably too much military spending to spend on the development of the next generation of fighters. The Navy and the Space Force are responsible for developing fighter planes for combat use in the atmosphere, while the Space Force is responsible for developing fighters for combat use outside the atmosphere. Of course, according to the agreement between the Navy and the Space Forces, the fighter planes operated by both sides must be open to each other, that is, the combat needs of the whole army should be taken into account when designing. and not the operational needs of a particular branch of the military.

It was in this way that the knife was born.

As a new type of fighter that was established in a short period of time, it can be qualitatively established at the beginning of the year. And to complete the mass production preparation at the end of the year, it is definitely more than a trace. To know. In the past years, the design cycle of any fighter with air supremacy as the mission of "Gong Gong" was more than the old year. The average design cycle is even longer than any other year. The design is completed in the mussel. It can only be said that it is indeed a very purposeful fighter.

In the words of the Navy, it is a purely air-supremacy fighter.

More importantly, this is a fighter designed exactly in accordance with the tactics of air combat in the middle of the century

Because the normal take-off mass is only a ton of mouth, and the maximum take-off mass is less than an ugly ton, the Joker is not even a heavy fighter, only a little larger than a light fighter between blunt and stewed, and according to the mass, it should belong to the ranks of multi-role fighters. The problem is that the blade is indeed a fighter with extremely strong air combat capabilities, and when conducting tactical performance tests, it confronted Xiao Lao and achieved an amazing record of 2 to 2, and the average simulated air combat confrontation record was also in the competition

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There's only one thing that makes air combat so good, and that's that it's all designed for air combat.

In the case of the power system, the normal thrust of the spiral magnetic induction thruster is up to blade tons. Therefore, it can obtain a thrust-to-weight ratio of more than 4 during normal takeoff. And the thruster's air combat thrust is even higher than the old. Tun, so that the thrust-to-weight ratio of air combat is close to 6. Such a high thrust-to-weight ratio means that the flight increase can freely control the thrust direction and reduce the aircraft in the way of full thrust, so the increase also includes the reduction of the state is more than twice that of a small injury, and can replenish the lost energy in air combat with a faster degree, so that the pilot can choose air combat tactics more flexibly and freely.

Of course, such a powerful power performance. It also made a big "price".

If it is said that Xiao Lao breaks the tradition and makes it difficult to associate it with "airplane", then the tooth does not look like an airplane at all. Fortunately, the chief designer of 22 must have a high level of appreciation, at least the aesthetic is in line with the public, so the phago, which is known as the "diamond dart", gives people a very concise, and even smooth, feeling from the appearance alone. As with the metaphor, the knife is like a dart magnified hundreds of times, with a long epsom rice, a wide mouth, and less than a meter at its thickest point. Because the observation window, communication antenna, radar antenna, and cabin door of all electronic equipment are designed in strict accordance with the type preservation method, there is no protrusion on the outer surface of the whole aircraft. There aren't even many obvious openings, and the first impression is that it's very neat. There is no superfluous part. What's more, this smooth outer surface is actually a layer of smart skin. To put it more bluntly, the skin is able to adjust its morphological structure according to temperature and pressure. It provides the most ideal aerodynamic efficiency for fighters. So as to maximize the maneuverability of the fighter.

If the exterior is passable. Then the internal design makes people feel incredible.

In terms of space occupancy, the power system dominated by spiral magnetic induction thrusters accounts for 2 percent, electronic equipment and fire control systems account for half of them, life support systems and human-machine exchange systems account for half of them, power supply systems account for 3 and a half percent, self-defense interception systems account for 2 percent, and structural and temperature control systems account for 2 percent, so the attack weapon system is only half a percent longer! This has also become the most criticized part of the clown. To know. The small old attack weapon system occupies 2 percent of the space of the whole machine, and even the attack weapon system of the same surface that focuses on air supremacy also occupies the space of the whole machine. According to the traditional theory of air combat, in order to obtain sufficient long-range interception firepower, this proportion cannot be lower than that.

It can be seen that the knife basically gave up long-range interception firepower, that is, gave up the line-of-sight banquet battle.

In its place, there is a strong fighting ability and self-defense interception ability. The Xiao 6 is capable of intercepting 8 air-to-air missiles in an air battle, raising this number to the old one, while Xiao Ying's "interception index" means that it can intercept at least concave air-to-air missiles in an air battle. More importantly, the power system of the clown uses a step-out composite battery, which can work in parallel with the interception system, so without considering the combat radius, the interception capability of the air-to-air missile is almost infinite. In order to wield the interception capability, the knife set up an ugly interception window around the fuselage, and passed through a central optical separator. Capable of delivering high-energy lasers to up to 8 windows simultaneously. In addition, the optical prism on each window can direct the laser beam to 2 targets, so it can intercept old incoming missiles at the same time. According to this calculation, no matter how powerful a fighter with long-range interception capability is, there is no way to get it. You must know that even if Xiaoli adds an external pylon, it can only carry ugly interceptor missiles at most at a time, and only when the bomb is hung in the bomb bay, it can only carry old interceptor missiles. Other words. From a purely theoretical point of view, it is impossible to shoot down the clown with an interceptor missile.

It has already been mentioned. The maneuverability of the knife in air combat is almost 4 times that of the old one, and 2 times that of the out, and according to the more general method of air combat calculation. In the melee phase, if the difference in mobility between the two sides is reached, it will be difficult for the weaker side to win, such as in the fight against the ugly. The mobility gap is about to be small. In this way, as long as they enter the stage of combat air combat, Xiao Jiu and Izuku will not even have a chance to fight back.

From this, it can be seen that the Joker is a fighter designed for combat air combat.

Of course, this is also in line with the trend of air combat. The performance of interception systems in self-defense is becoming more and more powerful. In the absence of an unlimited increase in the number of interceptor missiles carried by fighter jets, combat air combat has become the main means, or even the only means, for air supremacy.

In order to improve the ability of combat air combat, Xiao Ying's weapon combination is also very special, the main battle weapon is 2 energy weapons, generally a pulse laser cannon and, a particle beam weapon, can also be replaced, an electromagnetic machine gun. Although the Joker also has a bomb bay, the bomb bay has a very limited volume, and the main game is used to carry towed decoys, or decoy missiles specifically designed to interfere with interceptor missiles. And not a dogfight missile. In fact, in dogfighting, the significance of corpse fighting missiles is not great, and the Bi Fang interception system can easily succeed missiles from the fall.

Compared to the control system, the weapon configuration of the knife is not quite terrifying.

As we all know, the 4 times thrust-to-weight ratio, coupled with the aerodynamic efficiency provided by the intelligent skin, the limit overload and edge of the edge even reached 3 times in a dive during the test. What is this concept? One is the gravitational increase of the object at the equatorial sea level, that is, the degree of the object is increased from rest to every second in seconds, then it is equivalent to the force times the gravity of the meter. Satoshi is ugly and gravity is added. Under normal circumstances, the human body can withstand the overload of the mouth at most, and at this time, even the trained pilots will have nausea, black vision and other physiological reactions, mainly the heart can not send blood to the brain, so that the brain is deprived of oxygen and the physiological phenomenon, in the case, the pilot may die suddenly. Exactly. At the beginning of the century, the maximum overload of almost all fighters was only Goo, and the maximum overload of some fighters was even only 7 Even from the beginning of the blade era, with the advent of the new anti-load suit, it is mainly lighter, and it will not affect the normal behavior of the pilot after wearing, and the emergence of drugs to improve the anti-overload capacity in a short period of time, the maximum overload of the fighter has climbed all the way to the time of the blade. It has been reached, ugly. The problem is that neither anti-load clothing nor anti-load drugs can improve the pilot's own physical fitness, which brings a new problem, that is, at a certain limit. A huge overload can immobilize the pilot. For example, under the old overload, the pilot raised his hand, and this action machine was equivalent to lifting four kilograms of objects. This limit is, Lun, if you increase it further. The fitness of the pilots is a problem. Of course, someone thought about using the Army's exoskeleton system to improve the physical fitness of pilots, that is, to replace the human body with a machine. The problem is that the control accuracy of the exoskeleton system has not yet reached the level of precise control of a fighter, so it will not come in handy.

In response to this problem, the most direct method was chosen, that is, to remove the body movements and directly use the signals from the pilot's brain to control the fighter. This is the human-machine switching system. That is, it is often referred to as the man-machine control interface. Because similar systems have long been used on home computers and have already achieved significant results in helping disabled people acquire normal behavioral capacity, their use in fighter jets is not very problematic. Of course, from a safety point of view, a set of manual control systems was retained so that in the event of a failure of the man-machine exchange system, the pilot was able to control the fighter by hand to fly back to base.

In a sense, the significance of the human-machine exchange system is more than just raising the maximum overload of the fighter.

Because there is no need to control the aircraft by limbs. Wherever the pilot thinks, the fighter can do it, so the response of the fighter is greatly accelerated, plus the auxiliary control of the intelligent computer. Its agility, especially in air combat, is far superior to that of unmanned aircraft.

Arguably, agility is the number one factor in winning in combat air combat.

When pulsed laser cannons and particle beam weapons become sharp weapons in air combat, even if it is a millisecond difference. It can also decide victory or defeat. You must know that for a laser with a degree of 10,000 kilometers per second, milliseconds can fly kilometers, while the distance of combat air combat will not exceed 1000 kilometers, and the duration of a pulse is only 100 milliseconds. Even for a slightly slower particle beam, "milliseconds can fly, four to ten thousand kilometers, and the duration of a particle beam pulse is only about four milliseconds."

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All in all, in an age when energy weapons dominate the skies, reactivity is everything.

For the Navy of the Republic, there is only one biggest doubt before sending the blade into battle. That is, in the heat of battle, whether the assassin with only the dagger can rush to the enemy

Affected by this, before the mouth month, the navy sent a batch of blades to the mainland battlefield to experience actual combat tests.

Although the Navy did not announce the battles on the mainland battlefield, and did not even admit that he had participated in the battles on the mainland battlefield in the year of the 22, it can be seen from some combat records of the Russian Air Force that the performance of the clown is completely worthy of hundreds of billions of dollars. Among other things, although the Russian Air Force believes that the republic has used an extremely advanced fighter jet. Moreover, in the report to the US Air Force, the appearance and air combat performance of this fighter were very comprehensively described, but the Russian Air Force was not able to produce any evidence, and even found the fragments of missiles used by the fighter in air combat. In other words, the Devouring Fighter has not been shot down on the battlefield of the Continent!

With such a record. The Navy naturally has no reason to keep away from the Pacific Ocean.

According to the combat records of the Navy of the Republic, in the "Nanzi" combat operation, a total of witch cake blades were used, of which! The knife frame is deployed on the "Taiwan Island", the "out of the rack" is deployed on the "Hainan Island", and the ghost frame is deployed on the "Changxing Island". number. That is, it was not deployed on the aircraft carrier. According to the explanation given by the Navy, the main thing is that the Xiaogong is the first fighter equipped with a knife-level composite storage battery, and the charging equipment on the aircraft carrier is prepared for the old-level composite battery, which is not matched with the Joker, only the sea base has a cool set of charging modules. It can also be used to swing with all his might. From the actual situation, the Navy does not deploy on aircraft carriers. It's not that the charging equipment is not matched, after all, "Chongqing." The aircraft carrier is designed to provide support for fighters equipped with out-of-class or even out-of-class composite batteries, so it can improve the support capability by replacing the charging module, but there are two other reasons, one is that the output is not large, and the total output at the beginning of the month must not have been locked, and the other is that the navy does not let this kind of fighter follow the fleet to adventure.

From this, it follows that the top brass of the Navy is not counting on the theater fleet very much.

On the other hand, the U.S. Navy will not expect the Western Pacific Fleet to seize sea supremacy.

After the previous battles, the top brass of the Republic Navy and the US Navy have realized that the aircraft carrier is no longer the main operational force for seizing sea supremacy.

Strategically, of course, there is no retreat for the US Navy.

If you wait until the new warship is put into service, you will not start a counterattack. I'm afraid that the Republican Marines have already occupied the entire Maria Islands, and the counterattack of the American troops is not only meaningless, but will have to pay a much greater price. Politically speaking, not to mention that the top brass of the US Navy will not risk their black hats because of this, and Dudgway will not risk the morale of the military because of this. Objectively speaking, even if the counterattack fails, it is much better than not doing anything at all.

There is no way back for the US Navy, and there is no way for the Navy of the Republic to retreat.

To put it bluntly, the U.S. Navy came to the door. The Navy of the Republic must not leave behind the tens of thousands of Marines on Saipan and return to the East China Sea alone. The same problems faced by the US Navy. Before the new style of warfare comes out, the Navy of the Republic can only let the aircraft carriers continue to take the lead and assume the heavy responsibility of competing for sea supremacy.

To be honest, previous battles have proven that aircraft carriers are no longer the ideal weapon for sea supremacy. But as a maritime combat platform, aircraft carriers still have a place to play. In particular, in assisting landing operations, because they are more mobile and flexible, coupled with higher aviation combat efficiency, the role of aircraft carriers will not be lower than that of sea bases, and the support capability of an aircraft carrier battle group with three aircraft carriers as the core is absolutely not below that of a large sea base, and in certain high-risk sea areas, especially when threatened by enemy submarines, aircraft carrier battle groups are still a more reliable support force.

In other words, the warring parties have every reason to protect the aircraft carrier as much as possible.

The problem is that when there is no other choice, the aircraft carrier can only take risks.

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Similar situations have occurred in history. For example, during World War II, especially in the early days of the war, the U.S. Navy and the Japanese Navy repeatedly let battleships take risks because there were too few aircraft carriers. During the battle for Guadalcanalu, the battleships, cruisers, and destroyers of the two sides fought dozens of times, and in the Battle of Surigao, there was a very rare scene of battleship bombardment.

Of course, this also proves that any weaponry is only a tool to achieve the purpose of war.

From the above analysis, it can be seen that the "Battle of the Marianas", known as the "swan song of aircraft carriers", was not actually a decisive naval battle. Although in this battle, both warring sides paid a very heavy price, the Republic Navy lost 4 aircraft carriers and escort warships, and also lost a number of combat aircraft, the US Navy lost an aircraft carrier and an escort warship, and. There were many combat planes, but neither of the warring sides was able to gain substantial benefits from them, the US military was not able to obtain the coveted sea supremacy, and the Republic Navy was not able to drive the US Navy out of the western Pacific as it wished. According to the comments of war historians, this was a naval battle that did not mean anything other than the consumption of a large number of naval officers and elite pilots. Later, the "Battle of the Marianas" was rated as one of the top ten most worthless wars of attrition in World War III, and it was ranked very highly.

Objectively speaking, there is always a reason for what exists.

In any case, the top brass of the Republic Navy and the US Navy are not stupid, and Pei Chengyi and Du Qiwei are not the kind of commanders who fight for the sake of war without a clear purpose for war.

Strictly speaking, "attrition" itself is the meaning of this naval battle, or rather the goal of both sides.

Looking at all the battles in the first year of the war, including the ground battles on the continental battlefield, the belligerents were often fighting with the aim of attritioning their opponents. It is also easy to understand that World War III can be said to be the longest prepared world war in human history. Although there are many people who believe that the republic is preparing from the beginning of the sword, even if it is a little farther. It was also from the beginning of the 42nd year of the republic, but from the perspective of the overall strategy of the republic, especially from the relationship between the leaders of the republic, the republican authorities were preparing for the third world war long before the year of the republic. Don't talk about other people, just look at Wang Yuanqing, you can understand the meaning of this sentence. Even from the standpoint of the United States, it can be traced back to the Korean Peninsula War at the beginning of the blade era.

For a war that has been prepared for more than a blade year. The war will not end without depleting the capital of the other side.

It can be said that this is the cruelty of the Third World War.

If "attrition" is regarded as the goal of the war between the two sides, it is not difficult to understand the great significance of the "Battle of the Marianas".

It can be said that after this naval battle, both the Republic Navy and the US Navy lost their old capital. After the end of the naval battle, the Republic Navy only had the Second Fleet and the theater fleet had complete combat effectiveness, and most of the battleships that were not sunk were also wounded, while the US Navy only had the Third Fleet and the Second Fleet in the Atlantic, and these two fleets had only four aircraft carrier battle groups in total, and they could not bear the heavy task of fighting in one direction at all.

Because a large number of battleships built before the war were damaged, both sides could only pin their hopes on newly built warships.

Exactly, in the next few months. The largest tonnage that the navies of both sides can dispatch are anti-submarine destroyers, and both of them are mainly anti-submarine warfare ships. As a result, around the Mariana Islands, the navies of the two sides fought dozens of large-scale naval battles dominated by destroyers, and the main purpose of the naval battles was to prevent the other side from projecting combat forces to the forward islands.

Objectively speaking, it is not the fleet that will have the greatest impact, but aviation.

Like other branches of the armed forces, both the Republic Navy and the US Navy had a large number of qualified personnel in reserve before the war, and the officers and men of the fleet in the reserve forces of the National Navy were as large as the old ones, which were enough to form a fleet of more than the old ones, while the officers and men of the reserve fleet of the US Navy did not account for 10,000 but also had 10,000 people, and they would not be much less than the Republic Navy. In addition, in the Battle of the Marianas, the casualty rate of officers and men on both sides was not large, so the officers and men of the fleet were not a big problem.

Because in the Saipan landing operation, both sides lost nearly 4 four pilots. Plus the famous pilots of the close blade who lost in the Battle of the Marianas. In total, the pilots killed on both sides were close to Wang. Person. It is equivalent to 3% of the total number of pilots on both sides before the outbreak of the war. If you count by the number of fighter pilots, then in two battles. It is equivalent to half of the pre-war pilots of both sides!

Undoubtedly, this is definitely not

work in a negligible proportion.

To know. The cultivation of excellent pilots is definitely not based on the annual divination time and the vigorous hours of assault training. According to the standards of the Republic's naval aviation, a pilot who has graduated from an aviation school can only become a captain after at least three years, and after another three years can he be qualified to become a major.

The standards for U.S. naval aviation are similar, and a pilot needs a mussel to be recognized after graduating from aviation school. Although the fierce battle can make the pilot "mature" faster, and the veteran combat experience can also be used by novices. But by the standards of the Second World War, a novice needs to survive on the battlefield at least for years. to become an old bird.

For the Navy of the Republic and the Navy of the United States, the provision of pilots is not a problem, because there are sufficient reserves.

The point is, the huge death rate makes it more difficult to train good pilots. There are not enough good pilots. The combat efficiency of the air force will certainly be greatly reduced, and the battle loss rate will increase, thus forming a vicious circle, which will eventually lead to the air force becoming an ornament. You know, at the end of World War II, Germany and Japan both had thousands of fighter jets on display because of a lack of good pilots.

From another point of view, the staggering consumption of aviation is also one of the factors in the elimination of aircraft carriers

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In any case, the cost of training a pilot is certainly much higher than training a seafarer.

Of course, this does not mean that aviation leaves the battlefield permanently.

Throughout the Third World War, the importance of aviation was not affected by huge losses, especially until the middle and late stages of the war. With the introduction of various fighters designed according to the new tactics into battle, the status of the aviation force has been comprehensively enhanced. Become the most important combat force. From the perspective of the maritime battlefield, the aircraft carrier is only a carrying platform for the aviation force, and it does not have uniqueness. As an offensive platform, there is no doubt that the aircraft carrier will be eliminated, but as a support platform, the sea base has ushered in the second spring of the aviation force. Judging by the prevalence of sea bases in the middle and late stages of the war, aviation is not only not a bystander on the ocean battlefield, but also a major participant.

In fact, until the Battle of the Marianas. Both the Republic Navy and the US Navy are groping

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This kind of groping also exists on the ground battlefield. It's just that the performance is not as prominent as the ocean battlefield.

For the warring parties, the Battle of the Mariana was certainly not a sign of rest, but a sign of pause. Although the two sides temporarily suspended large-scale offensive operations after this naval battle, and the Republic Navy even withdrew its fleet to the East China Sea to the west of the Ryukyu Islands for a time, everyone knows that the battle for the Ryiana group is not over. And it certainly won't end until a result is clear enough that there is no controversy. Both sides died down, not scared or retreating, but preparing for the next battle.

Of course, these preparations are not out of sight, nor are they untouchable.

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In the case of the Navy of the Republic, from the end of the month. After the Marines consolidated Saipan's defenses, they began to assist the Marines in sweeping the islands north of Saipan, especially those where American troops were stationed. And the area is relatively large. At the same time, the Marine Corps also sent a sizable engineering unit to Saipan and began repairing military installations, not defensive ones, but mainly offensive ones, such as the airport in Saipan. In order to speed up the construction progress, the Marine Corps also requisitioned dozens of fast freighters, formed two fleets dedicated to transporting engineering materials and equipment, and requisitioned several sets of terminal handling equipment, increasing the throughput capacity of the port of Saipan several times. According to the Marine Corps' plan, before the completion of the northward sweeping operation, Saipan will become the central base of the Marine Corps in the western Pacific, not only from the exit from the attack island, but also from the future to the Hawaiian Islands.

In this regard, the US military will certainly not let it go.

Most of the dozens of small-scale naval battles fought by the navies of the two sides in the waters of the Mariana Group were actively defended by the US Navy attacking Saipan and the Republic Navy. Of course, while attacking Saipan, the U.S. Navy was also desperately trying to deliver war supplies to Guam and Tinian Islands. If it weren't for the frighteningly high density of troops on these two islands, and the fact that it would not make sense to continue to send more combat troops, I am afraid that more American GIs would have landed on these two islands. Similarly, in order to prevent the U.S. military from strengthening the defenses of Guam and Tinian Islands, the Republic Navy retaliated. The attack was carried out by a small fleet, and the Marines on Saipan were also bombarded regularly.

All in all, in a couple of months. Both sides are tired of expending excess energy. As well as expensive ammunition.

Needless to say, these are all superficial

From the perspective of the overall situation, the battle between the two sides in the Mariana Islands is actually for one purpose, that is, to buy time for another attack. To be precise, it is to build a new naval fleet and buy time to win the battlefield and sea supremacy in one fell swoop.

It can be said that when the officers and men of both sides were fighting in a state of confusion on the front line, the decision-making of both sides was not confused at all.

What's more, the shipbuilders on both sides were not overwhelmed, but overwhelmed by the heavy task of construction.

Similarly, during these months, the intelligence agencies of both sides, especially those who had been in each other's pre-war and had been lurking, were also on the move for critical information.

Everything is moving towards the same thing. Aim forward. That is, the advance of the navies of the two classes of great powers in the Pacific, and even the first decisive naval battle in the entire Third World War.

At the end of the month, the Pacific Ocean, which had been quiet for several months, boiled again as a huge fleet that could not be connected with the "fleet" sailed out of the Hwangzeyang and sailed to the port of Naha across the East China Sea.

Just a few days later, on the 2nd of the fourth month. An equally peculiar fleet passed through the Panama Canal and into the vast Pacific Ocean.

By this time, everyone knew. The Navy of the Republic and the US Navy will collide again in the Pacific Ocean!