Jiang considers from the point of view of tactical innovation. 【】This was born in the year, the moon, the bow, day and night, and the noon. The naval campaign known as the "Battle of the Maldives" has at least three major significances: First, the era of air forces dominating victory and defeat has ended, and the era of naval warfare of "multi-arms and all-side coordinated strikes" is coming; Second, naval warfare is no longer a battle between warships and fleets, but a stage for the performance of various war forces; Third, the main indicator of the intensity of naval warfare is no longer firepower, that is, the ability to deliver ammunition. It's energy, the total amount of energy to attack and defend.

Influenced by this, the "Battle of the Maldives" brought the war of the sea into the age of energy.

Of course, in terms of specific tactical implementation, this naval battle is not so simple.

On the 4th of the month, when the Republic Navy was dispatched. The U.S. Navy is also active in action, with its Sixth Fleet advancing to the Cape of Good Hope in the South Atlantic at the fastest pace, and the newly formed Third Fleet departing from Brisbane, Australia, after joining a large convoy of convoys in Bass Strait, north of Tasmania. He also sailed westward at the degree of the Qin Festival and entered the Indian Ocean that night.

Judging by the timing of fleet transfers, the US Navy made strategic adjustments before the Republic Navy.

That is, it was the US Navy, and not the Navy of the Republic, that made a fuss in the direction of the Indian Ocean first. Although, judging by the situation at the time. Because of the lack of maritime surveillance satellites, the Republic Navy can only rely on sporadic spy ships and attack submarines in the South and Southwest Pacific to gather intelligence, and it is difficult for the Republic Navy to grasp the specific whereabouts of the US fleet. It is also impossible to respond on the basis of the deployment and movement of the Sixth and Third Fleets, so it can be roughly concluded that the strategic decision of the Republic Navy to increase troops in the Indian Ocean has little to do with the transfer of the US Navy, but from the perspective of the strategic situation. It is impossible for Pei Chengyi not to see the importance of the Indian Ocean battlefield, and he should have expected that Dooch would increase his troops in the Indian Ocean, so the increase in naval forces in the Indian Ocean on the 4th of April can also be seen as a functional response to the threat to the US Navy.

The question is, what is the significance of the US Navy only increasing its forces in the Indian Ocean at this time?

In terms of time, if the South China Sea Fleet of the Republic Navy turns westward immediately after entering the Indian Ocean, it will be able to reach the waters west of the Jiudu Ridge in Tokyo in the morning, that is, it will reach the sea area where Diego Garcia can be attacked, as long as the Indian Ocean Fleet operating in the north turns south before the ugly point on the night of the 4th, and will be able to reach the waters east of the Maldives Archipelago before 2 noon on the day, that is, it will enter the range of attacking Biango Garcia and assist the South China Sea Fleet in its operations. Because the Indian Ocean Fleet can complete the replenishment after day and night at the earliest, and the Fourth Fleet operating in the Gulf of Aden and the Eighth Fleet rushing to rendezvous have not gone north, the Indian Ocean Fleet will definitely be able to go south before the 4th mutual point; It also has the ability to cooperate with the South China Sea Fleet.

With both fleets dispatched together, Diego Garcia is sure to be devastated.

More importantly, even if the U.S. Navy is unable to grasp the exact whereabouts of the Indian Ocean Fleet and the South China Sea Fleet, U.S. intelligence agencies will monitor the movement of the Republican Navy's carrier-based aviation. It was learned that the Navy of the Republic replaced the multi-role fighter with a heavy air superiority fighter. It is no secret that a heavy air supremacy fighter is actually a multi-role fighter, except that its main task is fleet defense. That is to say, when carrying out strike missions, heavy air supremacy fighters have a longer range, as well as a larger bomb load, except for the lack of individual combat capabilities in some cases, they are more threatening than multi-role fighters in other aspects, especially when attacking fixed targets.

Based on this information, the U.S. Navy has 100 percent reason to believe that the adversary's target is Diego Garcia.

In other words, the U.S. Navy must first hold Diego Garcia, or at least ensure that Diego Garcia is not devastated.

There is no doubt that after the Fourth Fleet and the Eighth Fleet converge, they will definitely go south from the Gulf of Aden. Strive to reach the sea west of Diego Garcia before the opponent attacks. That's the only way. to be able to dispatch carrier-based fighters to strengthen the air defense of Diego Garcia.

The problem is that the effectiveness of passive defense is very limited.

More importantly, the commander of the U.S. fleet must consider another possibility, that is, the adversary forces the U.S. fleet to go to Diego Garcia by attacking Diego Garcia, while the adversary's real purpose is to strike the U.S. fleet.

In fact, it's a bit more likely. After all, the key to seizing sea supremacy is not to destroy the opponent's naval bases, but to destroy the opponent's fleet. From another point of view, if the US fleet in the Indian Ocean can be wiped out in one fell swoop, it will be easy to destroy Garcia, and it will not even be necessary to use the fleet, it will be enough to dispatch a few gunboats.

Affected by this, the U.S. fleet not only had to sail covertly, but also had to call for support.

This is precisely the key purpose of the Sixth Fleet's rush to the Indian Ocean. The problem is that, in terms of time, the Sixth Fleet, which has the aircraft carrier Zhang, can only reach about a kilometer south of Diego Garcia in the early morning of the 6th at the earliest, and then enter the sea area to cover Diego Garcia. In this way, the Fourth Fleet and the Eighth Fleet had to take the initiative to move south, that is, to approach the Sixth Fleet on their own initiative if they wanted to avoid "fighting alone." In other words, when the Makusai Fourth Fleet and the Eighth Fleet reached the waters east of the Seychelles, they had to turn south to avoid premature contact with the Republic Fleet. In this case. The U.S. Navy had little to do to cover Diego Garcia, that is, it could only sacrifice Diego Garcia.

At this time, one might think that the Third Fleet would arrive earlier.

Theoretically, the Third Fleet was indeed able to reach the waters southeast of Diego Garcia on the night of the 3rd. The problem is that the Third Fleet is a fleet that has just been created, that is, it is a fleet without aircraft carriers, the main force of which is to move cruisers with 4 destroyers. More importantly, the Third Fleet's mission was to cover the fleet of not many fast transport ships heading to Diego Garcia. And not to participate in naval battles. Exactly. After entering the Indian Ocean, the Third Fleet, in addition to sailing directly to Diego Garcia, had to reduce the degree of sailing to below the junjie, because only in this way could the sonar on the escort ships be able to work properly.

Obviously, the Third Fleet has nothing to count on.

It was precisely because of this that the world's focus was on the US Fourth Fleet and the Eighth Fleet at that time

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, as well as the Indian Ocean Fleet and the South China Sea Fleet of the Navy of the Republic. Extrapolated from the Oka stop. The Republic Navy will preemptively concentrate the forces needed for the attack, so it is tactically inferred that the Republic Navy will attack first, that is, by attacking Diego Garcia to force the U.S. fleet to appear in battle, then attack the U.S. Navy's Fourth Fleet and Eighth Fleet, and then concentrate on intercepting the Sixth Fleet that arrives on the battlefield. Tactically. The South China Sea Fleet should attack Garcia, while the Indian Ocean Fleet is ambushed in the waters of the Maldives archipelago. Because the Republic has several integrated naval bases in the Maldives archipelago and the southern tip of the Indian peninsula, capable of deploying not only heavy fighters but also hundreds of long-range patrol aircraft, the United States fleet has little way to ambush the Indian Ocean Fleet in the waters off the Maldives archipelago. That is, as long as the Fourth and Eighth Fleets turned eastward after Diego Garcia was attacked. will enter the ambush circle of the Indian Ocean Fleet, and thus suffer a devastating blow.

Very simple. It's also a reasonable tactic.

Objectively speaking, unless the U.S. Navy abandons Diego Garcia, that is, to preserve the two fleets at the expense of Diego Garcia, it will not be able to escape from the ambush circle of the Republic Navy. Although looking at this naval battle rationally, the US Navy has enough reasons to abandon Diego Garcia, one way or another. Preserving the fleet is more important than preserving the base, but the purpose of the US Navy's increase in troops in the Indian Ocean is to protect Diego Garcia, and only by preserving Diego Garcia can the port of Darwin in the east of the Indian Ocean be linked with Djibouti in the northwest of the Indian Ocean, and only then will it be qualified to compete with the Republic for sea supremacy in the Indian Ocean, so that the Republic will have to keep heavy troops in the Indian Ocean. If Diego Garcia were to be lost, even if Diego Garcia was to lose its ability to serve as a naval base, Djibouti would be vulnerable to attack, and the port of Darwin would be left alone, so that the U.S. Navy would be completely driven out of the North Indian Ocean and would no longer be able to pose a threat to the Republic's North Indian Ocean routes.

To put it bluntly, if Diego Garcia could be dumped, the U.S. Navy would not have sent two of the most powerful fleets in the Atlantic Fleet. You must know that before the outbreak of the war, the US Navy had just used the name of "security inspection" to secretly use three mothballed aircraft carriers, which were scattered in the Atlantic Fleet, so that the number of aircraft carriers in the Atlantic Fleet increased to seven, and the other ship was planned to be allocated to the Pacific Fleet, which is expected to arrive at Pearl Harbor around the end of the month, and the number of aircraft carriers of the Pacific Fleet will also increase to spiders. Other words. In addition to the aircraft carriers of the Eighth Fleet, which are subordinate to the Atlantic Fleet, the other six aircraft carriers are all in the Fourth Fleet and the Sixth Fleet, while the Second Fleet operating in the North Atlantic does not have aircraft carriers. Although according to the mobilization plan of the US Navy. By the end of the day, there will be an unblockade of the aircraft carriers, and 2 or 3 of them will remain in the Atlantic Fleet. But before that, the US Navy sent all the aircraft carriers of the Atlantic Fleet to the Indian Ocean, which is enough to prove how seriously the US military attaches to the Indian Ocean theater.

Counting the Third Fleet, which is subordinate to the Pacific Fleet, there is even more reason to believe that the US military will not easily abandon Diego Garcia.

After the start of the battle, the reality was not much different.

Day and night, carrier-based fighters of the Navy of the Republic bombed Diego Garcia. According to the U.S. military's engagement records, hundreds of cruise missiles fired by warships or bombers landed on Diego Garcia Island that night, and the carrier-based fighters involved in the bombing operation should have been around the fight. Taking into account the fact that the "Shanghai" class aircraft carrier carries all heavy fighters, the maximum aircraft carrying capacity will not exceed four. Because the South China Sea Fleet is operating in the waters east of Diego Garcia, it must consider the threat posed by the bombers deployed by the US Air Force in Australia, so it is impossible to dispatch all carrier-based fighters, and it is necessary to leave part of the fleet to carry out the air defense mission and dispatch fighter planes to attack Gorgo, which is basically the maximum attack capability of the South China Sea Fleet. It is a pity that the long-range warning radar on the island of Diego Garcia was destroyed during the bombing, and the attack aircraft group used low-flying penetration means when it entered. So at the end of the bombing, the U.S. military couldn't tell where the fighters came from the north. Still from the east.

In Anjin's considerations, the Fourth Fleet and the Eighth Fleet confined to each other.

Coincidentally, at this time, the Fourth and Eighth Fleets were just east of the Seychelles. That is, when Diego Garcia was bombed, the fleet was sailing in a southeasterly direction, and when the news was received, the two fleets immediately turned south.

Around the flying point, about an hour after the bombing of Diego Garcia, the Third Fleet, which had reached about a kilometer south of the Cocos Islands, came under surprise attack.

According to the US military's combat records, the attack came very suddenly, and before nearly 1,000 anti-ship and pop-up bombs appeared on the radar screens of the air defense warships, the fleet's detection system and the vertical take-off and landing early warning planes temporarily assigned to the air defense warships did not show any suspicious targets. From this, it can be concluded that the attack on the Third Fleet must be a heavy anti-ship missile with a range of more than 1,000 kilometers. Because among the anti-ship missiles of the Navy of the Republic, except for those with a range of less than a kilometer. There are only heavy anti-ship missiles with a range of kilometers or more, and none of these anti-ship missiles can be carried by tactical fighters, so it can be concluded that the Third Fleet will be attacked either by strategic bombers or large surface ships. Large surface ships can be ruled out for the first time, because the South China Sea Fleet can only reach about a kilometer north of the Cocos Islands at most. The distance from the Third Fleet is certainly more than a kilometer, and the range of heavy anti-ship missiles carried by most surface warships is only four kilometers. More importantly, several fireships of the Republic Navy are in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, and even if they all arrive, it is impossible to participate in combat operations in the Indian Ocean at this time.

Influenced by this, the US commander immediately concluded that he had been attacked by strategic bombers of the Republic.

For the U.S. military, the blessing of misfortune is this. Before nightfall, the Third Fleet separated from the convoy and voluntarily moved its course northward by about kilometres.

Other words. When the Third Fleet was attacked and annihilated, the convoy was sailing westward about a kilometre to the south, and was not attacked, or even harassed.

Logically speaking, the U.S. Navy should remain cautious at this time and wait for the Fourth Fleet, the Eighth Fleet, and the Sixth Fleet to converge before looking for it

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The problem was that, given the situation at the time, the US commanders thought that they had been stunned by a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

This opportunity is that the South China Sea Fleet has just attacked Biango Garcia, and the bombers fighting with it have attacked the Third Fleet, so the Republic Navy has no way to pose a threat to the US fleet in the Indian Ocean, especially in the East Indian Ocean, and even has no way to cover the South China Sea Fleet that is lone in depth. If we can seize this opportunity to take out the South China Sea Fleet, we can prevent the two major fleets of the Republic Navy from meeting north of Gogarcia, so that after the arrival of the Sixth Fleet, we can concentrate the forces of the two north to encircle and annihilate the Indian Ocean Fleet.

Faced with this opportunity, it is simply impossible for the US commander to refuse.

The reason is very simple, the Indian Ocean Fleet has the best aircraft carriers in the world, and the US military intelligence agencies have confirmed that the Indian Ocean Fleet is not only equipped with heavy air supremacy fighters, but also has about the number of fighters in each air wing, which is far more powerful than any US fleet. Taking into account the performance advantages of heavy fighters. The combat strength is equivalent to the sum of the Fourth and Sixth Fleets. Although the U.S. military still has the Eighth Fleet, no one can expect a fleet with only one aircraft carrier to turn things around. If Diego Garcia hadn't been bombed, the U.S. military would have relied on it. With Diego Garcia in ruins, the U.S. fleet was left to fight on its own, while the Republic fleet was able to rely on the massive base complex behind it. Arguably. Without taking into account other factors, it is unlikely that the US military will win in a head-on battle.

Not to mention the commander of the U.S. fleet, if Du Qiwei is replaced, he will also seize this opportunity.

It was precisely in this way that the US transport fleet, which was advancing high, suddenly turned around.

Obviously, this is not a transport fleet, but a "sea base".

It is not surprising that, like the Republican Navy, the US Navy has taken advantage of the loopholes of the Stockholm Treaty to vigorously develop various "paramilitary ships" in the category of "sea bases" when it is unable to build enough warships, especially large aircraft carriers. Because in the Pacific direction, the U.S. Navy only maintains seven aircraft carriers in peacetime, and San Diego and Long Beach, which are deployed on the west coast of the mainland, are located in the southwest of Washington State, instead of Long Beach in New York, Pearl Harbor in the Hawaiian Islands, Apra Harbor in Guam, and Brisbane in Australia are respectively subordinate to the Seventh Fleet and the Fifth Fleet, resulting in the US Navy's strength in the southwest Pacific is very weak, and there is only one aircraft carrier battle group belonging to the Fifth Fleet, which is difficult to shoulder heavy responsibilities. The U.S. Navy deployed a sea base composed of ugly modules in Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide in Australia in the name of a prefabricated fleet. Because before the outbreak of the war, sea bases were strategic weapons, and their degree of secrecy was no less than that of strategic submarines, so before that, the outside world did not know about it, and even the supporting aviation units returned to China for training, rather than training in Australia.

The problem is that the sea base is not untraceable, and there are not many secrets in front of the intelligence agencies

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In any case, the U.S. Navy has deployed a number of fast transport ships in Australia, although these ships often carry out various transport missions in peacetime. They didn't stay together all the time, but in the eyes of the MIA, the multiple warships were a huge sea base. You know, it was not the US Navy that first came up with the concept of "sea bases" and turned it into reality, but the Navy of the Republic. Don't say anything else. Mutual module ship. Only Kankan has a complete power system. That is, the shipboard controllable fusion reactor, and the rest of the ships only have composite batteries. What's more. From the full load displacement and maximum load capacity of this fast transport ship, it can be roughly calculated that it does not carry many composite batteries, so it must obtain electrical energy from the outside world, otherwise its endurance will be very limited. In the intermittent period after deployment, the ugly fast transport ship has always operated in formation, that is, it has always been a "core ship" equipped with a controllable fusion reactor. Lead the activities of other transport ships. From this alone it can be concluded that this is a system of sea bases.

Of course, there is another force method that can judge the identity of the sea base, and that is the supporting aviation.

Although from the perspective of actual use, in most cases, the sea-based ones play the role of a force projection platform, that is, as a mobile field airfield, serving other forces. And so it goes. Not all sea bases need to have supporting aviation, and in many cases, it is not even necessary to have supporting aviation, but when it comes to combat, aviation is deployed according to actual needs. In fact, because the sea base mainly supports vertical take-off and landing transport aircraft, it can provide a runway of up to a meter long when supporting fighter jets and other aircraft that need to taxi for take-off and landing. It can even provide runways up to a meter long to support large strategic transport aircraft, so there is no difficulty in taking off and landing, and the vast majority of pilots do not need special training. However, in some cases, especially when using sea bases to replace aircraft carriers and carry out combat missions of seizing sea and air supremacy in sea areas far from the mainland, it is necessary to provide supporting air forces for them. As mentioned earlier, when carrying out naval combat missions, sea bases are often broken down into several sets of active sea airfields to avoid losing their ability to maneuver due to their excessive size. Other words. In this case, the space that can be provided to the aviation is very limited, and most tactical fighters have to take off and land in conventional ways if they want to ensure the combat radius, so there are high requirements for the pilot's ability, especially the ability to take off on a short runway.

There is no doubt that the U.S. naval aviation deployed in Australia has received special training.

According to the information obtained by the Military Intelligence Agency, the pilots of the US Naval Air Force stationed in Australia are required to return to China every year for a three-month special training, during which they will also undergo adaptation training in Hawaii and Guam, and if the conditions are ripe, they will also be deployed to aircraft carriers for adaptation training.

In comparison, the 6th Tactical Air Group, deployed in the Philippines, was not treated so well.

Taken together, the MIA had enough reason to believe that it was a sea base.

In other words, at the time of rendezvous with the Third Fleet in the Bass Strait, the whereabouts of the US naval bases attracted the attention of the Navy of the Republic.

In fact, when the US commander decided to use the sea base, he also made a mistake

At 4:3o a.m. Western Australia time on the 6th, about two hours after the U.S. commander ordered the formation of a sea base, many fighters of the U.S. 4th Tactical Air Group stationed in Geraldton in Western Australia and Perth in the southwest took off one after another.

Although the fighters are deployed at the Knife Seat airport, two of them are exclusive military bases occupied by the US military, and the other two are shared by the US military and the Royal Australian Air Force. But if multiple fighters want to take off all of them, it will take some time. Based on the average number of warplanes taking off from the airport every minute, each batch is counted. An airfield takes off young fighter jets. You also have to use force for minutes before and after.

At the same time, more than 2 other fighters of the 4th Tactical Air Group deployed in eastern and northeastern Australia also began to take off.

Although all the republic's reconnaissance satellites have been scrapped, the republic's spies lurking in Australia are not blind.

The dispatch of so many fighters at once is definitely not a trivial matter.

About the end of the day, the Republic of China, the MIA issued the highest level of tactical alert.

At 2 o'clock in the battlefield time, the command of the Navy of the Republic of Feng Branch issued a tactical alert through a long-wave radio.

In fact, before that, the Navy of the Republic had already increased its vigilance and sent reconnaissance aircraft. In the eastern Indian Ocean, the U.S. Navy's fast transport fleet is in full swing.

Of course, the US commanders did not know that it was not the South China Sea Fleet that attacked Diego Garcia. Rather, the Indian Ocean Fleet.

After the battle began, carrier-based fighters were dispatched by the Indian Ocean Fleet, and heavy cruise missiles were fired by escort warships to carry out a comprehensive attack on Diego Garcia. In order to convince the adversary that the attack was initiated by the South China Sea Fleet, not only did it carefully deploy the attack routes of fighter planes, but it also designed a more tortuous attack route for cruise missiles. Of course, judging by the previously mentioned situation. Because the early warning system of the US military in Garcia is not very perfect, it did not appear in advance of the attacking aircraft group. So the significance of these arrangements is not obvious.

Contrary to what was expected, the South China Sea Fleet did not rush to Zingo Garcia.

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From another point of view, knowing that the Sixth Fleet would not arrive in time, the Fourth Fleet and the Eighth Fleet would not risk a surprise attack to rush to the aid of Diego Garcia, and there was no reason for the Republic Navy to waste the precious combat power of the South China Sea Fleet and invest too many troops in forcing Garcia. More importantly, as the initiator of the sea base, the Navy of the Republic is well aware of the great significance of the sea base in battle. If you count the number of fighters of the 1st Tactical Aviation Group of the US Navy. I am afraid that no one dares to underestimate the potential threat of a sea base. In this case, the tactic of attacking the east and attacking the west was adopted, and the US military sea base was lured out of the hole through Diego Garcia and intercepted it halfway. Naturally, this is a normal tactic. Objectively speaking, if the US Navy wants to hold Diego Garcia and ensure that combat operations in other directions will not be affected, it should not pin its hopes on the fleet, but should try to deploy a sea base in the southern recess of Diego Garcia to form a mutually dependent posture with Diego Garcia. In fact. This is also the fundamental purpose of the U.S. Navy's hasty dispatch of the sea base to force Garcia.

The goal is set, but it is not easy to implement it.

It has already been mentioned that in any case, the survivability of sea bases is inferior to that of aircraft carrier battle groups. Because most of the modular ships have adopted the construction standards of civilian ships, the anti-strike ability of the sea base is far less than that of warships. All in all, it is not difficult to strike at sea bases, but it is difficult to find sea bases. In peacetime, this is not a big problem, and the navy of the Republic of China has dozens of large reconnaissance satellites and hundreds of maritime surveillance satellites, which can carry out full-time surveillance of a certain sea area within 10,000 square kilometers. The problem is that after the war with the United States, not only are all military satellites destroyed, but even civilian satellites are also unlucky. By the afternoon of 4 July, there were less than civilian satellites left in the Republic, and the situation in the United States was even worse; even though the Republic's Space Force was intensifying its satellite launch efforts and mainly using small satellites with a limited working life but less difficult to launch, it would have to restore the satellite communications and positioning system first, rather than the satellite reconnaissance system. That is, to find the ugly fast transport ship in the eastern Indian Ocean, or one or more sea bases composed of it. It won't be much easier than looking for a needle in a haystack.

In the case that satellites are unreliable or unreliable, they can only rely on traditional scouts

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To put it bluntly, we will move out of the mobile reconnaissance planes and long-range patrol planes, and on the basis of the navigation capability of the US express transport ships, we will carry out a comprehensive dragnet in the sea areas where they may appear.

In terms of probability, even if all the patrol planes deployed by the Republic in the Indian Ocean Theater and the Southeast Asian Theater are mobilized, all the reconnaissance planes of the South China Sea Fleet in Gab can be retained if necessary, and all other fighters can be dispatched to carry out reconnaissance missions, because the fleet does not have special reconnaissance planes, but fighters carry reconnaissance equipment to carry out reconnaissance missions. Even if it is equivalent to having about two-thirds of the fighter jets carry out reconnaissance missions, it will take an hour to complete the search mission in the waters of the eastern Indian Ocean west of Australia.

There is no doubt that there is certainly not so much time for modern naval warfare.

At this time, the fleet commander of the Navy of the Republic will have to be clever.

With the battlefield not transparent to both sides, two huge fleets operate across the ocean. It is equivalent to two men with sharp daggers searching for and attacking each other in a dark room. Imagine, in this case, is it easier to use a flashlight to probe the opponent, or is it easier to show the opponent from the light of the flashlight?

In fact, both sides understand this.

After the outbreak of war, the naval fleet of the Republic first entered a state of radio silence, and before entering the theater of operations, it was even forbidden to use alert radars. All fleet alert tasks are carried out by passive detection systems. After the entry of the United States into the war. The U.S. Navy fleet has also entered a state of radio silence, and some important orders are sent unilaterally, and if a message needs to be sent to the base, as long as it is not particularly urgent, traffic planes are used instead of radio stations.

The problem is that in some cases, radio stations must be used.

For example, when a number of fighter jets were persuaded to fly to the eastern Indian Ocean. The U.S. express transport fleet, which had been hiding in the depths of the ocean, came up with a radio signal. Let the fighters who do not have enough fuel left to return to mainland Australia find their way forward. Instead of falling into the sea after running out of fuel. Of course. Some advanced fighters do not burn oil, but use electricity. But in any case, when the U.S. military is unable to provide enough tankers and chargers, these fighters must find a place to land before they run out of fuel or use photovoltaic energy.

Affected by this, the US military's sea bases must send out radio signals, and they must send out signals after they are assembled.

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Undoubtedly, this is the opportunity that awaits the South China Sea Fleet.

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Of course, there is also a problem in this, that is, the radiation intensity of the navigation signal from the US military sea base must be very low, and it has a certain directivity, so the detectable range will be very limited, and if it is outside the pointing range, the detectable range will be even more limited. In the case of the radio navigation system on the aircraft carrier of the Navy of the Republic, the detectability under normal conditions is less than a thousand kilometers. If it is operated in full accordance with the wartime manual, its detectability is not even 24 thousand meters. In this case. Even if the signal is gain-processed through the electronic system and compared with the intelligence provided by the Military Intelligence Agency, that is, the signal from the US fleet is found from many weak radio signals, the maximum detection range will not exceed 1,000 kilometers, and the detection range in actual combat is likely to be about 1,000 kilometers.

In other words, the fleet must be placed in a sea area sufficient to detect navigation signals from US naval bases.

When the Third Fleet is attacked, the accurate position of the South China Sea Fleet is not a kilometer north of the Cocos Islands, but about a kilometer southwest of the Cocos Islands, and the distance between it and the Third Fleet will not exceed a kilometer. In other words, it was not the heavy anti-ship missiles projected by the strategic bomber planes that attacked the Third Fleet, but the maximum range of the old escort warships in the South China Sea Fleet! Heavy anti-ship missiles of young kilometers. According to the operational records of the Navy of the Republic, the carrier-based aviation of the South China Sea Fleet was also involved in the attack, to be precise, anti-ship missiles delivered by carrier-based fighters. Because the Third Fleet was completely wiped out in the battle, and air-launched anti-ship missiles generally undertake the second round of attack missions, it is not surprising that the US military has no relevant combat records.

About four hours after the US Third Fleet was attacked, that is, about a minute after the South China Sea Fleet received the combat alert, an electronic reconnaissance plane operating in the southeast direction of the fleet intercepted a set of radio signals, which were quickly determined to be the US Navy's navigation signals, and sent the message back to the fleet through a directional laser communication channel. Because the long-range patrol planes closest to the South China Sea Fleet are out of sight, and contacting the patrol planes by radio will also expose the whereabouts of the South China Sea Fleet, after receiving the report of the electronic reconnaissance plane, the South China Sea Fleet immediately dispatched six tactical reconnaissance planes, which are actually heavy air supremacy fighters, and arranged a licking reconnaissance line in a fan-oriented manner.

We have to admit that the triangulation method can only measure the direction parameters of the target, but not the distance parameters of the target. As a matter of fact, the distance parameter is not important, because according to the previous analysis, the electronic reconnaissance plane is able to intercept electronic signals indicating that the US military sea base is several hundred kilometers away, and the distance between the electronic reconnaissance plane and the South China Sea Fleet is within a small kilometer, so the distance between the US sea base and the South China Sea Fleet will not be too many kilometers, not only within the strike range of the ship's heavy anti-ship missiles, but also within the strike range of the naval guns. More importantly, in the previous battles against the Third Fleet, the South China Sea Fleet had used up most of its ship-borne heavy anti-ship missiles, and the heavy missiles could only be reloaded in the harbor, and most of the warships did not have reloading systems or spare missiles. In other words, only naval guns and carrier-based fighters can be used to attack US naval bases. Because there is a process for the sortie of carrier-based fighters. During this period, a naval gun can deliver dozens or even hundreds of tons of shells, so in extremely close combat, naval artillery is still the most ideal weapon for sea control, but the "extremely close" distance has extended from the force kilometer in the century to the heart. Kilometer.

Of course, before using naval guns to attack the US naval dagger base, it is necessary to confirm the exact location of the US naval base.

To be precise, it is to determine the approximate location of the US military's sea base. In any case, the sea base can also sail, and the degree of sailing is not too slow. What's more, the sea base is equipped with an interception system capable of intercepting incoming missiles and artillery shells. In fact, because most of the shells fired by naval guns are unguided shells, after all, in the face of the forced electromagnetic interference system, the value of guided artillery shells is not great, so the use of naval guns to strike at sea targets is generally based on the dispersion range of artillery shells, and the target's active area is covered by shelling, that is, the use of dense bullet rain to make up for the problems caused by the lack of artillery accuracy and ensure that the target can be hit. Because the spiral electromagnetic cannon has a lower limit on the quality of the shells, the mass of the standard naval gun shells has been increased from the pound to the pound, and no warship in the world can withstand the direct hit of such a huge shell, let alone a sea base built according to the standards of civilian ships, so as long as it can hit. Even one hit ensures the incapacitation of one module of the sea base.

According to the tests conducted by the Navy of the Republic, when dealing with a sea base consisting of a single unit, with the length of Sukemi and Kuanda Rice, and multiple functional units, it only takes a maximum of four shells to make it incapacitated. When the throw reaches four to a hollow, it can be completely destroyed.

For a large fleet with 3 aircraft carriers as the core, 6 cruisers, oh multipurpose destroyers and an anti-submarine destroyer, throw ...... in a short time A kilogram-sized shell is definitely not a difficult task.

As mentioned earlier, the only question of whether you can effectively swing the fire of naval guns is whether you can find the target!

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