Help Germany achieve reunification! , the prime minister of blood "Bismarck said to beg! Peace is not won at the negotiating table, but fought on the battlefield. In the months leading up to World War III, Bismarck's point of view was fully proved by the war mobilization work and the military industrial production capacity of the Republic and the United States.

Although the London Treaty saved humanity from self-destruction in the eyes of peace-lovers, and the Stockholm Accord saved humanity from internecine, it was too idealistic as two international treaties based on might. Contributions to peace certainly do not stand the test.

After the outbreak of World War III, Russia dropped all its strategic nuclear warheads on the republic, and the republic immediately counterattacked Russia's strategic nuclear facilities. These are enough to prove it. The purpose of the London Treaty was not to destroy nuclear weapons, but to render them worthless. Of course. Nuclear weapons are not without value, such as after China and the United States dropped strategic nuclear warheads on each other and intercepted them. Man-made facilities in outer space have been almost completely destroyed. In addition, the two major powers attach great importance to "space control" and make every effort to prevent the other side from grasping space power, so human space activities have been almost completely terminated, although the EU's space launch has not been threatened, but in order to avoid accidental injury, the EU has announced the temporary termination of space launch at the end of the month. I have to admit that the London Treaty was not worthless, one way or another. A nuclear warhead exploding in outer space is much better than a nuclear warhead exploding in the atmosphere, and the loss of astronautics does not pose an existential threat to humanity than a nuclear winter that envelops the globe.

Comparatively speaking, the significance of the Stockholm Accord is very limited.

Although the "Stockholm Accord" has made some positive contributions from the perspective of curbing the proliferation of conventional military forces, in the long run, the agreement not only does not play a positive role in containing the world war, but on the contrary, it has contributed to the world war, making the contradictions between the two major powers uncontrollable, and allowing the two major powers to complete war preparations more calmly. Let's be clear. If there is no Stockholm Accord. That is, if the conventional arms race is not controlled, the economies of the Republic and the United States will be overwhelmed two calendar years ago. Under the threat of a total economic collapse, the authorities of the two countries will certainly not hesitate to break out in the world war 2 years ahead of schedule. As we all know, the president of the republic at that time was Yan Jingyu, and the president of the United States was not Du Qiwei, so the war determination of the two major powers was definitely not as good as after the battle.

Of course, these are only speculations and analyses and cannot be confirmed.

In reality, the impact of the Stockholm Accord on the conventional arms race has been minimal, at least in the absence of any obstruction of the preparations of the two major powers.

One might argue that this argument is problematic, given that the Stockholm Accords have played a positive role in limiting the conventional arms race. Take, for example, the Navy's "shipbuilding race". Without the Stockholm Accords, that is, without a clear limit on the total tonnage of naval vessels of various countries, the total number of warships built by the Republic and the United States would have at least doubled from calendar year to year. Moreover, the displacement of all kinds of warships will be increased a lot, making the navy even larger and more bloated. Make the Third World War even more brutal.

Objectively speaking, there is nothing wrong with this view.

The question is. In other words, if you look at it from another angle, there will be a different appearance.

Again, take the Navy's "shipbuilding race" as an example, influenced by the Stockholm Accord. Both the Republic and the U.S. Navy had to improve their fleets' combat capabilities under strict tonnage restrictions, so they devoted more energy to ship design and research on new weapons and equipment. To put it mildly. Without the Stockholm Accords, the Republic and the U.S. Navy would certainly be willing to build aircraft carriers with larger tonnage and increase the fleet's attack capability by increasing the number of carrier-based aviation. Instead of investing hundreds of billions of dollars in scientific research on spiral electromagnetic guns, it is unlikely that the spiral electromagnetic guns will come out in the O years, and it will be difficult to play such an important role in the Third World War. If we take into account the impact on the ground battlefield, the spiral electromagnetic cannon can definitely be regarded as a revolutionary weapon for the face of the transformation war. Similar. There are also new aviation equipment based on spiral magnetic induction propulsion systems, new submarines based on fluid collision mechanics, and so on.

Even if the impact of new technologies is not taken into account, the Stockholm Accord is of limited use due to changes in the way naval exhibitions are done and the way ships are built.

As we all know, after entering the century, modular technology was first fully applied to naval warships. By the end of the rush era, almost all warships adopted modular design ideas and construction methods. Influenced by this, from the beginning of the decade. The Navy of the Republic and the Navy of the United States took the lead in seeking a change in the way of exhibition, that is, finding ways to solve some of the inherent shortcomings of the Navy and improve the operational and operational efficiency of the Navy. Apparently. The way out lies in modularity. The first to be applied was the sea base first developed by the Navy of the Republic.

Let's not talk about how much significance there is in the sea base. The idea of exhibition alone is of infinite value.

To put it simply, after the modular design principle is fully adopted, there is no need to characterize a warship in a traditional way such as "class type ship", and there is no need to design a warship in a separate way, but to design different functional modules for combat needs, and then assemble these modules into a warship when needed, so as to minimize the construction period of the warship.

In peacetime, no navy would do that.

The reason is simple, even if it is the same operational need, such as the air defense operation of the fleet, because the threats and tactical requirements are not exactly the same. For example, the tactical requirements for intercepting enemy aircraft and intercepting missiles are different, so the specific performance of the module must be very different. And to design a module for a variety of combat environments, the design investment alone is very staggering. For example, the Navy of the Republic is there. Gou Nian made an assessment and divided the combat missions into major categories, such as air defense and anti-missile, sea control, support, anti-submarine and escort, and then looked at the different threat levels to deal with all combat situations. And to maximize the combat efficiency of the battleship. At least a variety of tactical modules need to be designed, plus power, propulsion, communications, etc., and a total of modules need to be designed

, know %, is ... Correct. In a situation where labor costs have become a major expense. Such a huge size is sure to make any kind of warship too expensive for the navy to bear.

The problem is, in some special cases. This is not outrageous.

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For example, if you are threatened by a world war and cannot build too many warships, you need to expand the size of your fleet as quickly as possible during the war.

Obviously, this is the biggest contribution of the Stockholm Accord to the Navy's "shipbuilding race".

To put it more bluntly, it is to let the Navy of the Republic and the US Navy use more power to design Chiang-style warships before the outbreak of war, rather than building new warships.

Of course, this also includes improving the efficiency of modular design and construction.

According to reliable sources, before the outbreak of the war, the Republic Navy had secretly completed nearly seventy percent of the design work. Because as early as the 2nd year, the authorities of the Republic set the tone and spent a huge amount of money to build the most advanced computer system at that time, so when designing the warship module, the Republic Navy must be different in terms of weight and importance, and the modules that contributed the most during the war and had the greatest impact on the war situation were given priority, while some irrelevant modules or modules that the Navy could not use for the time being were put behind, so as to ensure that after the outbreak of the war, the shipyard could be fully operational.

Among the modules that received priority guarantees, the anti-submarine module was definitely included.

In any case, the republic is a typical maritime power. Although in the eyes of many. The Republic is a land civilization country with land power over sea power, not a maritime civilization like the United Kingdom, and the Chinese nation is indeed a typical continental nation, but with the Republic entering the ranks of countries, it has replaced the United States as the world's largest trading country and the largest importer of resources and labor services. The republic has become a typical maritime civilization, and it can no longer do without the sea. To know. Even when the Third World War broke out. There is still no alternative to maritime transport of hundreds of billions of tons of goods and products from one place to another. Exactly. After the Indian War, the Republic ushered in a Chief of General Staff in the uniform of an admiral. The navy has also become a major military spender.

There is no doubt that the navy is a military force that revolves around sea supremacy.

The navy has only two tasks, one is to seize sea supremacy from the enemy or prevent the enemy from using sea supremacy. The second is to provide protection for the use of its own forces to control the sea.

Comparatively speaking, the latter is more significant than the former.

For example, the U.S. Navy in World War II built dozens of fleet aircraft carriers, hundreds of large warships, and hundreds of submarines in order to seize sea supremacy from the enemy and prevent the enemy from using it. However, in order to provide protection for its own forces that use its sea supremacy, the United States has built hundreds of escort aircraft carriers, thousands of escort warships, and tens of millions of tons of transport ships.

In terms of tonnage alone, the latter is many times older than the former.

Judging from the impact, the important task of the Republic Navy is also to protect the sea supremacy.

The reason is very simple, as long as the navy of the republic can maintain the sea supremacy in the sphere of influence and let its own forces effectively use the sea supremacy, the republic can be invincible, only on the basis of invincibility. to think about how to defeat the enemy. Get victorious.

Undoubtedly, the greatest threat to the republic's sea supremacy is the U.S. Navy's submarines.

In fact, from the day of its birth, submarines are not weapons used to seize sea supremacy, nor are they weapons used to protect sea supremacy. Rather, it is a weapon used to undermine the enemy's supremacy of the sea. Whether it was the German submarines in World War I, the "wolf packs" in World War II, and the American submarines operating in the Pacific, their greatest contribution was to render the sea supremacy held by the other side worthless, and all navies that violated this law, that is, let submarines perform tasks that had nothing to do with the destruction of sea supremacy. For example, ambushing the enemy's main fleet, the result is not much better. The most typical, for sure, was the Japanese Navy in World War II. Although the submarines of the Japanese Navy also seized the opportunity and took out several capital ships of the US army, and even sank the fleet aircraft carriers. But compared to the submarines of the US Navy. Japanese submarines, with more advanced performance and greater endurance, were supposed to achieve greater results in the waters east of the Hawaiian Islands.

Obviously, the US Re Navy will definitely not make the mistake of the Japanese Navy.

Although before the outbreak of the war, the US Navy did not have many submarines, even fewer than the Republic Navy, but there is enough intelligence to prove that the US Navy designed several kinds of submarines before the Tian Nian, but due to the limitation of the total tonnage of submarines, the construction of which has not begun. What's more. Before the year of the island. The U.S. Navy is aimed at world wars. A displacement is designed with less than the edge. It is equipped with a small controllable fusion reactor and a composite battery, and has unlimited cruising capabilities. And at the time of attack, it is an attack submarine that can use batteries as silent propulsion. And the biggest advantage of such submarines is that they can be built in large quantities in wartime. To know. Long before the fork. In the case of higher and higher tactical indicators, the average tonnage of attack submarines of the Republic and the United States has exceeded the heart tonnage, to. years. It is already close to 2 stews, and the direct result is that the cost of attack submarines is getting higher and higher, and it is becoming more and more difficult to build in large quantities. If you sacrifice some unnecessary performance, such as sailing with the festival of the sea. And reduce the complexity of weapons, such as building ships with only heavy torpedoes and anti-ship missiles fired through torpedo tubes. The cost of a tonnage attack submarine can be built up to the Blade Stew-class attack submarine. What's more. The construction of such a "simple" attack submarine Zhou Ming is certainly very short, and in a state of war it will not be more than half a year. That is, the US military was able to increase the number of submarines to the fastest degree. Thus posing a mortal threat to the maritime lifeline of the republic.

Of course, the Navy of the Republic has similar plans. After the outbreak of war, the first list of emergency ships submitted by the Navy of the Republic to the State Department was one of the kinds. Stew-class attack submarines, and the first batch of construction is tall and graceful. More importantly, the anti-submarine capabilities of such submarines are very limited, and the main task is to attack unarmed merchant ships. According to the tactics formulated by the navy for breaking diplomatic relations, the goose-stew-class attack submarines will jointly operate with the attack submarines of the Koukou ton class to form a special formation for breaking diplomatic relations, with the former being specifically responsible for dealing with the enemy's convoy and escort vessels, and the latter being responsible for dealing with the enemy's antisubmarine submarines in addition to command and coordination

It is undeniable that the Navy of the Republic also knows the importance of anti-submarine.

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Objectively speaking, the most ideal anti-submarine weapon is a submarine. And not surface warships with anti-submarine aircraft. The question is. Submarines are the most complex warships, and even the most sophisticated weapons. It is important to know that submarines are closed systems, that is, after the dimensional data is determined, they can only be designed under the rated size and tonnage. And not in order to meet performance indicators, as is the case with other weapons. Design indicators can be appropriately relaxed. What's more, submarines are also the most difficult to build. Don't say anything else. There are only six countries that can manufacture pressure-resistant hulls for submarines: the Republic, the United States, Russia, Germany, France and the United Kingdom. No other industrialized country in Darfur has this capability. From the point of view of combat use. The efficiency of submarines in carrying out the task of breaking diplomatic relations is definitely greater than the efficiency of carrying out anti-submarine tasks, and from another point of view. The main purpose of the anti-submarine mission is not to take out the enemy's submarines, but to ensure that one's own ships are not attacked by enemy submarines.

This feature is even more prominent in escort operations to cover transport fleets. The reason is simple. The task of the fleet is to deliver the goods to the destination, and the voyage of modern transport ships is very fast, generally above the knot, and some even over the knot, so the voyage is not a witch. Kilometers, which is the Republic of China, flies a sea lifeline, is the average voyage on the route. The actual sailing time of the fleet is only a few hours. That is, about 3 days. And so it goes. The task of the escort fleet was to ensure that the fleet was not ambushed by submarines in such a short time. As everyone knows. Anti-submarine warfare is a very patient battle. In some cases, anti-submarine ships will even maneuver with submarines for several days, so before taking out enemy submarines. The flotilla arrived at its destination. Thus. In the case of the main purpose considered to be the protection of the transport vessel. The anti-submarine forces should try to deter the enemy's submarines. And not to fight the enemy's submarines. In this way, anti-submarine warships sailing on the surface of the sea and anti-submarine aircraft flying in the air are certainly more suitable for escort operations than submarines. Consider that the submarine will make noticeable noise when sailing at high altitudes. So submarines are also not suitable for performing escort escorts,

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Affected by these factors, the first list of ships built by the Navy of the Republic also included a professional escort warship.

As with all ships specifically aimed at the war environment. With this escort numbered "than four", the battleship was not large. The standard displacement is only strong stew, and the full load displacement is less than the mouth stew. The length of the waterline is more than a meter old. Large warships with catamaran hydrofoils, which are most suitable for navigation, generally use trimaran surfing boats with better survivability. Thus. The main performance of this kind of escort warship will not be very good, the maximum voyage is slower than the old section of the main warship, the maximum endurance is a thousand meters, the main warships have unlimited endurance, only the range of less than a kilometer point air defense system and interception system, the main anti-submarine weapons are vertically launched anti-submarine missiles, light electric anti-submarine fish, and two vertical take-off and landing anti-submarine patrol aircraft. The main means of submarine exploration are retractable variable depth sonar and hanging sonar on anti-submarine patrol aircraft, which are not equipped with towed sonar. In all fairness. "The anti-submarine capabilities of the planer are definitely not very good. Far inferior to the anti-submarine destroyers in the Voyage and Parent Battle Group, and even inferior to multipurpose destroyers. Of course, the biggest advantage of such a battleship is that it is cheap and very easy to build. Not to mention anything else, after the remaining controllable fusion reactor, the construction cost of the four is at least reduced. And its main combat capability has not been greatly affected, that is, when the battery is fully charged, it can sail for 10,000 hours in knots. It was enough for the fleet under its protection to reach its destination.

Comparatively speaking, the characteristics of the defeat four are more prominent and more important to build.

Thanks to the relatively slow maximum sailing degree and optimized hull design, Bi IV does not need to use military-standard high-strength steel, and the main structure can be built using the steel of civilian fast carriers, and even some minor components can be built from non-metallic materials. Because the displacement is limited. Therefore, only a slipway such as a stew-class slipway is required, and the assembly of the entire system can be completed on the slipway. This greatly shortened the construction period and allowed some small and medium-sized shipyards to build them, and later such anti-submarine ships were mainly built in inland shipyards in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River. In accordance with the construction standards established by the Navy. In a large shipyard with strong strength and preliminary preparations. Than four, the construction period is only 3 months. After the workers have mastered the construction skills. It can even shorten the construction period, semi-practically. Later, the construction period was shortened to 1 month, before the shutdown. Yangze-type anti-submarine frigates were built about, four. Even if it is built by a small shipyard in poor condition, the initial construction period will not take more than 6 months, and the construction period after proficiency is about 2 months.

As an escort battleship. Naturally able to serve the amphibious fleet

Although some think. The fourth is a low-performance anti-submarine warfare ship built by the Republic Navy in the early stages of the war for emergency purposes, such as in the later stages of the war. After the advent of alternative anti-submarine frigates. The Navy of the Republic will be about 4. Before that, the battle-damaged brigade of "Feitian" ranked second among all kinds of warships of the Republic Navy, second only to the "Shanghai" class aircraft carriers. Therefore, these people believe that it is precisely because of the serious defects in performance that they ended their service in the Navy of the Republic ahead of schedule. But objectively speaking. In the early days of the war, Ding Si was not lagging behind in terms of performance, at least much better than the anti-submarine ships that had been mothballed and sent to the allies. From the point of view of combat use, the main reason for the high rate of battle losses is not that the performance is not good. Rather, it was involved in too many key naval battles, that is, it was used incorrectly. To know. This is a type of battleship designed for the escort of merchant ships, and not for fleet operations, and in the initial period of the war. Because the number of warships that can be mobilized is very limited. Meritorious, often sent on fleet combat missions.

From another point of view, behind the relatively large battle loss rate, there is also an exchange ratio worth paying attention to. According to the data released by the Navy of the Republic after the war, "the exchange ratio between Xinxun and enemy submarines is as high as that of submarines that broke diplomatic relations with the US Navy." From this, it can be seen that "the capabilities of anti-submarine warfare will definitely not be worse than anything" there are ...

As a matter of fact. From the huge number of constructions of Bigong. As can be seen from the construction time that lasted several years, this is a relatively advanced anti-submarine warfare ship. Of course, in the initial period of the war, the main reason for the mass cessation of the Navy of the Republic was the lack of sufficient anti-submarine warfare ships, otherwise. There will be no one-time application for the construction of a strong ship.

As mentioned earlier, peacetime. Due to the limitations of the arms control agreement, it is impossible for the Navy of the Republic to build too many anti-submarine warships, especially specialized anti-submarine warships, with the valuable tonnage of warships. More importantly, the construction period of anti-submarine warfare ships is the shortest among all types of warships, so there is no need to build them in large quantities before the war.

Affected by all these factors, after the outbreak of the war, the Republic Navy lacked anti-submarine warfare ships the most. In particular, it is a special anti-submarine warfare ship with advanced performance, which can communicate with the enemy's advanced attack submarines in the ocean and effectively prevent the enemy's submarines from carrying out sneak attacks.

Not to mention anything else, after the Republic of Korea's Western Pacific Fleet attacked Guam, it hurried back to Naha instead of returning to the volcanic sea, for fear of being ambushed by a US submarine.

This is not the case with the main fleet, not to mention the amphibious fleet.

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Since the start of the war with the United States, the amphibious fleet of the Republic Navy has not been to the waters east of the Ryukyu Islands, and even the ships carrying supplies to Naha have been protected by anti-submarine patrol aircraft.

All in all, the Navy of the Republic has repeatedly delayed the operation of landing on the Mariana Islands, mainly because the anti-submarine forces have not been in place.

It was not until the end of March, when the second batch of tunsi was completed, that the problem was slightly alleviated.

Because the number of warships built is too large, and such warships are not included in the Navy's list of capital ships, but auxiliary ships used to perform limited combat missions, "the Hiksha class has only a number, no name." The number of the former Chin ship is... In the material and electricity number, the first "represents the escort, and the second" is the opening code of the Navy, so the number of the next generation of anti-submarine frigates should be the four openings.

Of course, with battleships. There have to be enough and good enough naval officers and men.

It has to be admitted that in terms of war preparations. The Navy of the Republic has indeed done a very good job.

As we all know, the Navy is a very specialized branch of the military. Especially after the introduction of a large number of automated equipment, the number of officers and men on the cruisers of the Republic Navy has been reduced from many people in the regiment to people, and the requirements for the quality of the officers and men of the fleet are getting higher and higher, so the navy is a country without soldiers! There are only officers and non-commissioned officers. If there is no threat of war, the Navy will certainly want to retire after reaching the maximum service limit, because this will minimize the cost of personnel training. Of course, the immediate disadvantage of this is that the talent pool is too small. Affected by this, from the beginning of the field. The Navy of the Republic began to systematically "lay off personnel", first retiring officers and men who had reached the minimum length of service, and then transferring officers and men who had mastered military skills to the reserve, and then on a monthly basis. Train more skilled soldiers. By the time the war broke out, the reserves of the Republican Navy were already three times the size of the army. In a sense, if it weren't for having such a strong reserve of talents. Nor could the Republican Navy expand its fleet quickly after the outbreak of war. In any case, the republic is not a seafaring state. Moreover, maritime culture has not yet penetrated into the people. It does not have the same strong foundation as the US Navy. This shortcoming can only be compensated for by relying on a rational and effective military system and perfect and adequate pre-war preparations. Thus having a sufficiently strong contingent of naval talents.

Of course, it's not enough to just nurture talent.

In order to be able to make the newly built battleship form combat effectiveness as soon as possible, when placing an order for construction. The Navy has adjusted some tactical indicators. It is clearly required that the first batch of worms adopt a mature command and control system, and even the operating platform of the anti-submarine system must be common with the anti-submarine destroyer. The best thing about doing this. It is to enable those conscripted veterans, as well as mobilized reserve officers and soldiers, to quickly master warships. and sailed out to sea.

Thanks to modular design and construction technology. This change did not have much impact on the construction work

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According to the mobilization report submitted by the command of the Navy of the Republic to the General Staff, the most honored month. The addition of anti-submarine frigates can form combat effectiveness.

Of course, "the performance of the fat shabu is really limited, and when it comes to carrying out fleet combat missions, there must be problems."

To this end, the Navy has proposed a set of feasible solutions, that is, an anti-submarine destroyer with the ability to command in formation, an anti-submarine formation with several anti-submarine frigates, and an anti-submarine fleet composed of one or several anti-submarine formations, or accompanying other fleets in combat, so as to form a comprehensive and effective anti-submarine force. Because the displacement of anti-submarine destroyers is relatively large, it is relatively convenient to add a formation command system, so as to obtain the ability to command other warships, so this plan can be quickly put into practice, and the results can be obtained. Later, all the executions carried out anti-submarine missions in formation, because the degree of construction of anti-submarine destroyers did not keep up with the requirements of the operation. Moreover, in the escort operations in the rear, the anti-submarine destroyer with a heart of more than four tons was simply overused, so the Navy of the Republic later improved several batches of fattening and added a formation command system, making it a frigate leader.

According to the Navy's calculations, "by the end of April, seven anti-submarine destroyers of Chin formed seven anti-submarine formations and followed the amphibious fleet to participate in combat operations against the Mariana Islands. Because of this? The anti-submarine destroyers are all from the amphibious fleet, so they only need to improve and add a command system, and there is no need to deploy warships from other fleets. There is also a clear benefit to this, even in terms of command and coordination.

No matter how you look at it, 7 escort fleets consisting of four warships are not to be underestimated.

Although after the Second World War; No other war has such high requirements for anti-submarine warfare. There is no war that requires the formation of a special anti-submarine escort fleet, so there is no anti-submarine combat experience that can be used for reference, but according to the conclusion drawn from the analysis of computer simulations, there is no essential improvement in the tactical performance of submarines. The operational tactics of the anti-submarine escort fleet have also not changed substantially. "Accurate" is a non-essential change in the tactical requirements of the anti-submarine escort fleet, and the "Ran Knock" follows the existing experience.

Theoretically speaking, the struggle between submarines and anti-submarine warfare ships is a struggle of degrees. The reason is simple. At any time, as long as the submarine is targeted by an anti-submarine warfare ship, the probability of escape is very high, and the probability of turning defeat into victory is even more minimal. According to the US military's statistical summary of anti-submarine warfare in the North Atlantic in World War II, as long as it is targeted by anti-submarine warfare ships, the overly inferior submarine will be defeated. About the submarine of Ki will be sunk by anti-submarine warfare ships. More importantly, if the submarine can attack smoothly. Anti-submarine warfare ships will become worthless. It follows from this that the submarine wants to survive. You have to get away before you get caught up with the anti-submarine warfare ship. In the same way, if an anti-submarine warship wants to win, it must show up before the submarine attacks. It can be seen that this is a degree race. See who's coming first.

As a result of this, the efficiency of anti-submarine warfare is directly proportional to the combat distance.

It can be seen from this that the protection range of anti-submarine warfare ships is directly proportional to the square of the distance, so theoretically, the number of anti-submarine warfare ships and the size of the fleet are not linearly related, but relatively decrease with the expansion of the size of the fleet. Because the cover range of escort warships is limited, even if carrier-based anti-submarine patrol aircraft are counted, the cover range of patrol aircraft must be considered. So it's not that the bigger the fleet, the better, but that there is an optimal ratio. According to the conclusions of the Navy of the Republic with computer simulation analysis. Covering a fleet of downturned merchant ships with an overhead anti-submarine frigate maximizes the combat effectiveness of an anti-submarine warfare ship. Of course, this is the standard in a low-intensity combat environment, and in a high-intensity combat environment, if the number of anti-submarine warfare ships remains the same, the anti-submarine zone is reduced, that is, the size of the fleet is reduced.

Of course, this theory does not apply to the amphibious fleet.

The reason is simple, the amphibious fleet is a fleet. And not the fleet. In addition to having other anti-submarine ships, such as multi-purpose destroyers and cruisers with anti-submarine warfare capabilities. Amphibious assault ships and amphibious landing ships with large flight decks are ideal anti-submarine warfare platforms. If necessary, amphibious assault ships are even capable of carrying dozens of anti-submarine patrol aircraft on anti-submarine combat missions in the middle and late stages of the war, with the advance of attack submarines of the Republic Navy into the North Atlantic. Many amphibious assault ships of the US Navy have played the role of escort aircraft carriers, so in the amphibious fleet, the task pressure of the anti-submarine escort fleet is not great.

According to the estimates of the Navy of the Republic, "an amphibious fleet needs a maximum of 2 anti-submarine escort fleets." Because at least 2 amphibious fleets are needed to ensure that the landing operation will not be affected in the case of any boat. Therefore, it is necessary to arrange 4 anti-submarine escort fleets to accompany the amphibious fleet in combat. The remaining three anti-submarine convoys will accompany the transport fleet, that is, the flotilla that transports supplies and equipment to the beachhead after the marines have come ashore. Although this is not guaranteed to be foolproof. However, the straight-line distance from Naha to Guam is only about 4,000 meters, and if some long-range maritime patrol planes with a patrol radius of more than 3,400 meters are deployed in the Ryukyu Islands, and some patrol planes capable of taking off and landing on the water are deployed to the landing grounds, it will be able to effectively make up for the lack of the antisubmarine escort fleet and minimize the losses on the shipping routes.

In fact, these worries are a bit redundant.

As everyone knows. When the Marines landed. There must be a fleet nearby that is responsible for seizing sea and air supremacy. In fact, the largest number of anti-submarine warfare ships in the fleet is anti-submarine warfare ships, and there are a large number of anti-submarine patrol aircraft on the aircraft carrier, and the anti-submarine cover distance of the fleet is generally hundreds of kilometers, and the anti-submarine cover distance of some large fleets is even more than a concave kilometer, plus the attack submarines that accompany the activities of the fleet, etc., so the anti-submarine power that accompanies the activities of the amphibious fleet and the transport fleet will definitely not be bad. Submarines capable of attacking amphibious fleets with transport fleets. Most of them also have the ability to attack fleets with aircraft carriers as the core. There is no doubt that any dive length will shoot torpedoes at the aircraft carrier, and not at the amphibious warship. From the point of view of actual combat, the Navy of the Republic will certainly draw on the experience of the landing operation on the Kamchatka Peninsula. The deployment of sea bases to the front line, and the anti-submarine capabilities of sea bases should not be underestimated, plus sea bases are more likely to be targets for submarine attacks, so in the vicinity of the landing site, the role of the anti-submarine escort fleet is very limited.

It can be said that the anti-submarine escort fleet is really needed. It is a sea transport line that connects the landing site with the rear port.

From the point of view of preventing the Republican ** team from capturing the Mariana Islands, in addition to desperately fighting with the Republic Navy for sea and air supremacy of the islands, the US military must definitely try to prevent the Marines from going ashore or make it impossible for the Marines to exert their full force after going ashore.

In this way, the US military has enough reason to put the attack submarines on the route of the transport fleet of the Republic Navy, instead of fighting with the Republic Navy at the landing ground.

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It can be said that this is precisely the main reason why the Navy of the Republic has repeatedly postponed landing operations.

You know, while the shipyards of the republic are desperately building anti-submarine warfare ships, American shipyards are working overtime to build new attack submarines. Although the construction period of submarines is much longer, the U.S. military has sent attack submarines left in the Atlantic to the Pacific, opened several submarine docks at Pearl Harbor, and requisitioned several ports in Australia that could support submarines.

It is conservatively estimated that by the end of April, US submarines operating in the Pacific Ocean will pass through Qin, half of which will be concentrated in the Philippine Sea, west of Guam.

In other words, in this sea area that is less than a kilometer wide from east to west, less than a kilometer long from north to south, and has an area of about 10,000 square kilometers, at least powerful US attack submarines are waiting for an opportunity. If you count the same number of attack submarines invested by the Navy of the Republic, as well as the attack submarines that accompany the main fleets of the two navies in battle, the number of submarines in this sea area is more than the blade ships, and the density is frighteningly high! For example, if submarines were to be deployed in the Pacific Ocean at the same density, the two sides would need to invest about one submarine in total, and during the entire war, there were fewer submarines built by the Nose and the United States, and only a few submarines built by the United States.

Anyway, the big war is coming. The Pacific Ocean is no longer peaceful.