Like the battle in outer space that night, the naval battle in the north of the Gangshinsberg Ridge in North India is also particularly mysterious. Until the end of the war, apart from announcing the final results, the warring parties did not release the details of the battle. In the words of one war historian, this is the most mysterious naval battle since mankind entered the information age.

Objectively speaking, this sea battle is not mysterious.

First of all, we can confirm two points: first, the strategic bombers of both sides did not participate in the battle, as the outside world predicted, and second, neither side used sea forces outside the fleet.

As early as the day and day, many news organizations predicted that nearly 100 strategic bombers of the Republic's Celestial Forces did not appear on the northern battlefield and did not bomb strategic targets in Russia according to the predetermined plan, which was closely related to the imminent Sino-US war.

This speculation is not unreasonable, but very reasonable.

It is well known that the Indian Ocean and its surroundings are of great significance to the Republic. Although long before the year of Tian. In the name of strengthening common defense, the Republic has carried out infrastructure construction within the intensive group, not only improving the transportation capacity of the China-Pakistan strategic railway, but also building a strategic railway that enters Afghanistan through the Wakhan Corridor, crosses the Hindu Kush Mountains from the Eskan Valley, passes through the world's longest plateau road in Nuristan Province, and finally connects to the main line of the Afghanistan-Pakistan Railway at Jalalabad, and builds the Eastern Strategic Railway from southern Tibet to Bangladesh through northeastern India and finally to Dhaka. It has brought the Republic closer to its neighbors, but the shipping routes in the Indian Ocean, especially in the northern Indian Ocean, remain of strategic importance in terms of transport efficiency. It can be said that if the republic wants to win this war, it must make full use of the strategic resources of South Asia, the Middle East, North Africa, and East Africa. It is necessary to ensure that the strategic shipping lanes in the Indian Ocean are not threatened. This is precisely the fundamental reason why the Navy of the Republic will deploy all the "Chongqing" class aircraft carriers in the Indian Ocean and equip the Indian Ocean fleet with escort warships.

All in all, in order to ensure the safety of the Indian Ocean shipping routes, the Navy of the Republic can do anything.

The problem is that the Indian Ocean is not the Indian Ocean of the Republic.

Although, after the defeat of India, the Republic has no real rival in the Indian Ocean Rim.

Even Australia is a country bordering the Indian Ocean because its population is mainly located in the southeast. And not the western region, so Australia's influence in the direction of the Indian Ocean is not great. Considering that Australia is in the eastern part of the Indian Ocean and Indonesia to the north, its threat to the strategic shipping lanes of the Northern Indian Ocean is even more minimal. But this does not mean that the republic can rest easy, because there is also a US military base in the Indian Ocean. And it is an integrated military base, namely the island of Zengo Garcia in the Chagos archipelago. Although Diego Garcia Island was legally the property of the British Crown, after the end of World War II, the island, which could deploy hundreds of bombers or hundreds of fighter planes and support an entire fleet, was leased to the United States in the form of payment of wartime debts.

It is not an exaggeration to describe Diego Garcia's influence on the Republic as "like a man on his back".

Strategically, Garcia is worth more than Iwo Jima in the western Pacific Ocean and the Malvinas Islands in the South Atlantic.

According to some information disclosed after the war, as early as the Hunan year, that is, at the beginning of the all-out arms race, the republic made it clear in its first war plan that it was necessary to occupy or make Diego Garcia useless after the war, so as to ensure the absolute security of the strategic route in the northern Indian Ocean.

It can be seen from this that even if the republic uses strategic bombers, it is not a strange thing.

The question is. In the current situation, that is, the United States was about to enter the war, strategic attack and strategic defense were the most important tasks. Although the performance of the national strategic defense system of the Republic of China surpasses that of the United States, and the strategic strike capability of the Republic is not below that of the United States, even if the leaders of the Republic do not expect to defeat the United States with a single strategic strike, even if the shield is stronger than the spear. We will also be prepared to the fullest. To put it bluntly, if the interception of the national strategic defense system fails, even if only one nuclear warhead explodes on the territory of the republic, even if the explosion site is in a desert with no people, the republic must return the color and ensure that at least one warhead falls on the mainland of the United States, otherwise it will not be able to explain it to the people, let alone make the people believe that it can win the victory.

There is no doubt that the nearly 100 strategic bombers have returned to their true colors during the day, that is, they have carried out strategic alert missions.

If nothing else, "day and night, at the latest on the 2nd of March, the strategic bomber group of the Republican Celestial Army followed the established route through the Japanese archipelago to a specific area over the North Pacific Ocean, and the exact location should be over the eastern part of the Emperor Sea in the southern part of the Aleutian Islands, which is about 4,000 to 1,000 kilometers away, and fired 1,000 strategic cruise missiles at Seattle, Portland, Sacramento, San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego, and other large cities with populations of more than one million on the west coast of the United States." Although it is not possible for the United States to come up with a "regional laser interception system."

In any case, before the outbreak of the war, Maxim's composite batteries were only about 40,000 tons, even if half of them had reached the nominal life limit, and half of them were recycled by the government, the United States only had about 10,000 tons of composite batteries below level 8 that could be used, and this could only be intercepted by mouth at most. For this reason, the US authorities have to invest trillions of dollars in infrastructure costs, which is obviously very unreasonable.

However, no one can deny that the United States has the most unique strategic geographical position and any military action to attack the west coast of the United States. The breadth of the city is equivalent to the vast sea area of the US mainland, so it has to be exposed to the US sea-based interception system.

In fact, the United States has always attached great importance to defense construction to the west of its homeland and also in the northeastern Pacific Ocean.

Although, theoretically, if the strategic bombers of the Republic want to attack the continental United States, the most ideal route is to fly over Russia and launch missiles over the Arctic Ocean, but at the time of actual combat deployment. The Celestial Forces of the Republic must take into account the real situation, and if Russia does not enter the war, the strategic bombers of the Republic cannot enter Russian airspace. It is not possible to launch missiles over the Arctic Ocean. As everyone knows, strategic bombers are standard strategic counterattack forces, and under normal circumstances, they carry out strategic counterattacks against enemy countries in accordance with pre-formulated tactics when the mainland is attacked or is about to be attacked. In this way, the counterattack routes of the strategic bombers have long been laid out, and during the war, only one command is needed to make the bomber group act according to the pre-determined plan. Rather than improvising a new counterattack plan. Affected by this, the bomber group of the Republic's Celestial Army could only use Japan to launch missiles over the North Pacific.

In response to this situation, the United States has been building construction projects in the Northeast Pacific Ocean since the beginning of the field.

According to the U.S. authorities, the drilling platforms in the Northeast Pacific are commercial and scientific in nature, and have little to do with military deployment, and the London Treaty has clear requirements for sea-based interception systems, that is, they can only be deployed on warships or naturally formed islands, and cannot be deployed on artificial platforms. In fact, these platforms are part of the U.S. National Defense System, and in times of war, they can be deployed in real combat within hours. By the time the war broke out, the "interception platforms" deployed by the United States in the northeastern Pacific Ocean had already been installed. Stretching from the Queen Charlotte Islands in the west of Canada to the Baja California Peninsula in the west of Mexico, it is divided into two lines of defense. The outer line of defense is 4,000 kilometers away from the North American continent, and the inner line of defense is located at a distance of 4,000 meters from the North American continent. In front of the force, the average distance between the platforms inside the defense line is less than a kilometer. Theoretically, two lines of defense are capable of intercepting about ugly at the same time. cruise missiles, even at a certain defense point, four adjacent platforms can intercept cruise missiles in a single defense.

Although this interception capability does not meet the requirements of actual combat, because it only needs a strategic bomber to project at least one strategic cruise missile in one attack, so at least a curved cruise can break through the outer defense line, while the interception capability of the theater air defense system deployed near major cities on the west coast of the United States is less than oo. However, in actual combat, the United States can also mobilize ships with missile defense capabilities to strengthen its interception capability in a certain direction, or dispatch specially built airships. Increase the combat efficiency of interception systems.

Here it is necessary to mention how American sea-based interception platforms work.

As everyone knows, the defense systems deployed on the ground or on the sea have very limited combat distances when intercepting low-flying cruise missiles, which are far inferior to air-based and space-based interception systems. Addressing this. At the time of the problem, American engineers came up with a very simple solution, that is, to deploy a mirror thousands of kilometers or even tens of kilometers above the platform, so as to increase the interception distance by several times to dozens of times. The so-called mirror is actually a high-altitude balloon filled with cyanide, with a hexagonal or octagonal cross-section, a specially treated surface, and a precise positioning system and attitude control system. The high-energy laser launched from the platform is first illuminated on these balloons, and then the direction of reflection is controlled by adjusting the attitude of the balloon, so that the high-energy laser is projected onto the target. One might think that the deployment of mirrors does not make much sense for strategic cruise missiles that fly at an altitude of more than a kilometer and fly at an altitude of more than a thousand meters. In fact, the significance of deploying mirrors is still significant. Because mirrors can be deployed above the platform, the high-energy laser beam travels the shortest distance at the bottom of the atmosphere. As everyone knows. The density at the bottom of the atmosphere is the greatest, and the clouds are the most, and the laser attenuation during transmission is also the greatest. If it is possible to shorten the transmission distance of this range. It can increase the interception distance, or shorten the irradiation time and improve the interception efficiency under the same interception distance.

In fact, almost all ground-based and sea-based interception systems designed to deal with targets in the atmosphere work in a reflex mode.

More importantly, if we can try to improve the transmission efficiency of laser energy, or intercept multiple targets at the same time, the interception capability of the system can be greatly improved. For this reason, US engineers have developed a special high-altitude airship, that is, using the principle of in-phase enhancement of light waves, so that the energy utilization efficiency of the interception system can be more than doubled. What's more, through the intelligent skin on the surface of the airship, a laser beam can be projected at two targets, that is, the interception effect is not the same as the body of the clam, and the high-altitude airship with special skills is definitely valuable and difficult to maintain, and cannot be deployed on the forward defense line for a long time like an ordinary reflection system, and can only be deployed when necessary.

After doubling the interception efficiency. Coupled with the interception capabilities provided by the ships, the defense system deployed by the United States in the Northeast Pacific is capable of simultaneously intercepting strategic cruise missiles at any point. If we include the air-based interception systems that are urgently deployed, as well as the theater air defense systems in coastal areas, it will not be much more difficult to intercept strategic cruise missiles at one time, and if we ensure that some important cities are secured, we will even be able to intercept cruise missiles at one time.

There is no doubt that this is quite capable of neutralizing the threat of strategic bombers of the republic.

Because the round-trip voyage is more than a kilometer. Therefore, when the strategic bombers of the Republic attack targets in the continental United States, they can only carry strategic cruise missiles. In other words, even if nearly 100 bombers are all dispatched, they can only project cruise missiles about a certain number of objects. In fact, after all the years, the republic retained only a strong number of strategic cruise missiles, so of the nearly a thousand missiles delivered, about 7-four were equipped with conventional, and not nuclear warheads.

Obviously, such an attack will not have much effect. It's more like a show of determination.

In fact, the strategic bombers of the US Air Force also carried out a strategic counterattack against the Republic at the same time.

The difference is that the strategic bombers of the US Air Force launch missiles not over the North Pacific Ocean, but over the Arctic Ocean. For the US Air Force. Because Russia's air defense facilities in the Far East, especially in the Far Northeast, are very backward, as long as bombers do not enter Russian airspace, even if Russia does not participate in the war. Nor will it declare war on the United States because the missiles fired by American bombers violated its airspace.

There is no doubt that it is much more difficult to intercept cruise missiles over land than cruise missiles over the ocean.

Among other things, it is impossible for the Republic to deploy a line of interception lines specifically for cruise missiles outside the territory in the best possible way, as the United States has done, let alone two lines of defense.

It can be said that this is one of the main reasons why the Republic is devoting itself to the exhibition of the "regional laser interception system".

According to some European news media reports, during the night and early morning of the 2nd, eight more sites in the Russian Far East were devastated by high-energy weapons, and these eight sites were all north of the Trans-Khingan Mountains, that is, in the deserted ice fields, and did not cause much casualties.

This report not only proves that the European news media have not yet figured out the use of the republic's high-energy laser weapons, but also proves that the republic's use of "mass destruction" in order to intercept the strategic cruise missiles launched by US bombers has once again been carried out eight interception operations in a row.

In accordance with the provisions of the London Treaty, the United States will retain less than a small number of strategic cruise missiles after the calendar year.

Although there is reason to believe that the United States will also use the same approach, that is, to increase the size of the missile fleet with cruise missiles equipped with some conventional warheads. In this way, the penetration efficiency of strategic cruise missiles will be improved. However, the strategic bombers that the United States can mobilize will not crash, and they can go to air bases in Canada or Alaska when they return home after a round-trip voyage of 1,000 kilometers, so each bomber can only carry 8 cruise missiles, and the number of cruise missiles dropped at one time will not exceed the number of cruise missiles, and 8 interceptions can at least shoot down and move the missiles to the mouth. Together with the air-based interception systems deployed in the front and the ground-based interception systems deployed in the border areas, it is not very difficult to shoot down all cruise missiles.

In fact, neither the Republic nor the continental United States had been subjected to a nuclear attack at that time.

For a naval battle without strategic bombers, it is almost impossible to achieve valuable results with only carrier-based fighters of an aircraft carrier battle group.

It will be a naval battle dominated by electromagnetic cannons, one might say.

The problem was that the Indian Ocean Fleet of the Republic Navy was still operating in the waters west of the Lakshadweep Islands at the time of the battle, the Fourth Fleet of the United States Navy had just entered the Gulf of Aden through the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, and the Eighth Fleet was sailing north of Diego Garcia in a northwesterly direction to join the Fourth Fleet. In other words, the distance between the Republic fleet and the 2 American fleets is more than a kilometer, not to mention the electromagnetic guns of the US Navy, even the electric shock guns of the Republic Navy are useless.

It is clear that this is still a naval battle of a traditional nature.

After the fighting, the United States urgently dispatched about a large number of carrier-based fighters to Djibouti, and the Republic also sent more than four additional fighters to Gwadar.

More importantly, the meeting place of the US Fourth Fleet and the Eighth Fleet was changed to the Gulf of Aden. Instead of the Arabian Sea, the fleet of the republic returned to Gwadar. From this, it can be roughly concluded that in the day and night battles, both sides lost a lot of carrier-based fighters.

In general, the first battle between the navies of the two sides was certainly not exciting, or even lackluster.

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