The U.S. military took the initiative to meet the battle. [Full text reading] For the fleet of the Republic. Naturally, it couldn't be better."

On the surface, the US Navy can make full use of the superiority of its aviation in terms of combat radius, that is, when carrier-based fighters carry out sea attack missions, the maximum combat radius is basically more than 1,000 kilometers. In addition, long-range anti-ship missiles with a range of more than 1,000 kilometers can attack enemy ships thousands of kilometers away. As a result, in the battle with the capital ship, it has the absolute advantage of taking the lead and attacking unilaterally. The problem is that there are a lot of prerequisites that are required to realize this advantage. Leaving aside the search and reconnaissance work before the attack, as far as how to break through the opponent's air defense line, carrier-based fighters can be used in actual combat, especially when facing an evenly matched opponent. It is difficult to reach the maximum attack range.

As mentioned earlier, the Navy of the Republic made great efforts to prescribe blades specifically for air supremacy before the outbreak of war. Interestingly, the Navy of the Republic did not, as in the past, drive a multi-role fighter that works with the Joker. Judging by the situation at that time, the main thing was that the Logic itself was not a heavy air supremacy fighter, but a "professional air combat aircraft", so there was no need to equip it with a low-grade multi-role fighter. The question is. There is a definite need for a multi-role fighter capable of fighting with it. Otherwise, even if air supremacy is obtained, air supremacy cannot be used. Influenced by this, the Navy of the Republic decided to choose one of the multi-role fighters that could be used with small forces and gravitational forces, and make large-scale improvements to become a multi-role fighter with a combination of small forces and gravitational forces. After weighing the pros and cons, the Republic Navy opted for a smaller force with a larger body and plenty of room for improvement, rather than a cheaper lead. It is in this way that the Navy of the Republic can give priority to the guaranteed production work. Use a knife to carry out ground and sea strike missions.

As a result of this, the combat effectiveness of the US naval aviation has been greatly reduced.

According to the statistics of the US Navy, after the Joker entered service. That is, after the end of the year, the air combat exchange ratio of the US naval aviation in the Pacific theater was reduced from O7 to less than enough, that is, for every fighter lost. The number of enemy fighters that can be shot down has been reduced from blade frame to still frame, which is equivalent to a reduction of sixty percent. More importantly, the attack obstruction rate of the US naval aviation has also been reduced from cooperative to below paste. Reduced by about forty percent. In this way, in order to increase the attack obstruction rate, it is necessary to invest more combat forces and escort forces, and also shorten the attack distance. This. This is very clearly reflected in the establishment of carrier-based aviation in the US Navy. It's time to go to war. In the carrier-based aviation wing of the US Navy. There is only one air supremacy fighter group, which is matched by two multi-role fighter groups; By the beginning of the fourth year, the number of air supremacy fighters had doubled and reached the base, but the number of multi-role fighters had not changed and remained the same; By the end of the year, the number of air supremacy fighters will be increased to the point where the number of fighters must be numbered. The number of multi-purpose stations and multi-aircraft is reduced to the landing frame. If it were not for the fact that it would have been able to compete with the ugly magazine in time, I am afraid that the US Navy would have abolished all carrier-based multirole fighters at the beginning of the year and deployed all heavy air supremacy fighters on aircraft carriers.

Comparatively speaking, the change in air combat tactics brought about by the clown has a greater impact on the combat effectiveness of fighters.

Although many years before the birth of the clown. The proportion of out-of-sight interception in air combat began to decline, and from the beginning of the old, heavy air supremacy fighters paid more attention to combat capabilities, and thus gave birth to a large number of new weapons and equipment, such as airborne tactical defense systems, but before the clown, out-of-sight interception was still effective and indispensable air combat means for fighters. Taking Xiaoli as an example, even if the air combat has accounted for more than 70 percent of the air combat results, when carrying out air supremacy combat missions, it will still carry as many powerful interceptor missiles, and often use up all the interceptor missiles in one or two engagements before entering the fight. Affected by the performance of the airborne tactical defense system, if it is attacked by a large number of interceptor missiles, even the best fighter aircraft will be difficult to escape. Affected by this, neither the Republic nor the United States has given up the air war outside the visual range, and there is no way to ignore the impact of the air war outside the visual range. In other words, in an air battle, not only can the unfavorable side choose to take the initiative to withdraw from the combat airspace after firing an interceptor missile and not engage the other side, but even the advantageous side will try to choose to intercept the enemy at a greater distance. Instead of engaging in grappling with enemies. Under the guidance of this basic idea, there has been no fundamental change in the tactics of air combat, and in the air defense operations of the fleet. Air defense fighters often patrol thousands of kilometers away from the aircraft carrier, intercept the enemy plane, and end the combat operation after the enemy plane retreats. For the attacking side, the most effective way to avoid interception is to send forward escort fighters, entangle the air defense fighters with escort fighters, and then let the fighters on the attack mission fire anti-ship missiles at a distance of kilometers from the target. By the time the air defense fighters had dealt with the escort fighters, the attack was essentially over.

The appearance of the clown completely broke this mode of air combat.

From the design ideas, it can be seen that the Navy of the Republic did not count on the clown to use interceptor missiles against incoming enemy aircraft. Against? 2. The Navy of the Republic has adjusted the air defense tactics of the fleet, that is, the range of the air defense circle of the fleet's periphery has been increased from kilometers to kilometers, and if necessary, it can also be extended to more than kilometers. When intercepting incoming enemy aircraft, the Joker's main task is not to attack escort fighters, but to intercept attack groups. Of course, someone may ask. How to distinguish an escort fighter from an attack fighter? To this end, the Navy of the Republic has developed a very simple tactic, that is, in a certain direction, the Logos are only responsible for intercepting groups of aircraft larger than the blade frame. If the size of the enemy aircraft fleet is less than the blade frame. And if there is no other fleet nearby, there is no need to intercept it. This is also a more reasonable arrangement, because the blade fighter can only project heavy anti-ship missiles at most, and this missile can hardly pose a substantial threat to the fleet.

Of course, the key to being able to use this air defense tactic is performance.

First of all, there are tactical problems that will have a major impact on the efficiency of interception, such as the expansion of the air defense range, the increase in the interception distance, and the shortening of the interception time. You know, the ship ...... The square air area range is proportional to the square of the radius of air defense interception. And the difference is 3 times the radius of the air defense. It can be seen from this that in the case of limited means of detection, especially in the case where active radar cannot be used and can only rely on the fuzzy data provided by the passive detection system, if there is no sufficiently high cruising degree and maximum degree, it will be difficult to intercept the enemy aircraft that suddenly appears in time, and if the enemy aircraft cannot be intercepted in time, no matter how good the other performance of the air defense fighter is, it will not come in handy. It is precisely because the flight degree of Xiaoli is not fast enough, so before its inception, the Republic Navy can only follow the previous tactics and set the air defense interception radius to help kilometers, until it becomes the main force of the fleet's air defense, and only then can the interception radius be increased to more than 4,000 meters.

The impact of this can be imagined.

To put it more bluntly, in addition to expanding the proportion of escort fighters, the US naval aviation also had to shorten the combat radius of escort fighters in order to allow more time for air combat.

Arguably, this is also the key.

In an air battle with a force, the US Navy's escort fighters generally only reserve a few minutes of combat air combat time, as long as the attack group moves fast enough, before the minute time is used up, the escort mission will be over, and the escort fighters can withdraw from the battle with peace of mind. At the time of the air battle with Asia Minor, the escort fighters of the US Navy were not so lucky. Leaving aside for the time being whether the US fighters will deal with the escort fighters, even if they will, because the US fighters do not have a degree of superiority, it will be difficult to take the initiative to withdraw from the battlefield when needed. What's more, most of the time, the Logic directly meets the attacking aircraft group following the escort fighters, forcing the US escort fighters to chase down the faster air defense fighters, or change the escort tactics, both of which require more time for air combat. As we all know, the energy consumption rate in combat air combat is far higher than that of cruising and line-of-sight air combat, with an average of about 3 times. In some extreme cases, it is even doubled. That is, fighting minutes. Equivalent to cruising flight minutes. Thus. Extending the combat time is equivalent to shortening the cruising flight range, which is also equivalent to shortening the combat radius of the escort fighters.

The combat radius of the escort fighters cannot be increased, and the attack range of the attack aircraft group cannot be increased.

It is precisely for this reason that the US Navy has retained a large group of recessed multi-role fighters in the carrier-based aviation wing, because in the case of a limited combat radius, the multi-role fighters can also carry six long-range anti-ship missiles, and their attack capability is no worse than that of heavy fighters.

According to past combat experience, especially the engagement in the Battle of the Marianas, the attack radius of the US Navy's carrier-based air force is generally about 1,000 kilometers when threatened. And this includes the maximum range of long-range anti-ship missiles to persuade kilometers.

From this, it follows that the advantage in the combat radius of the US naval aviation is not obvious.

This is not to say that the US Navy does not have other advantages. If it only needs to attack targets thousands of kilometers away, in addition to carrier-based aviation, the US fleet can also make full use of the heavy anti-ship missiles on escort warships and long-range cruise missiles capable of attacking targets at sea. Of course, the prerequisite is that the US Navy has sufficient confidence in the air defense capabilities of the fleet to reduce the amount of anti-aircraft missiles carried by escort warships and increase attack ammunition.

In any case, it will definitely not be easy for the US Navy to deal with the fleet of the Republic Navy that is operating in the waters north of New Zealand.

If we take into account some unavoidable problems in real combat, the US Navy has no advantage at all.

Not to mention anything else, the dispatch of carrier-based aviation is a process that cannot be accomplished overnight. Under normal circumstances, "if an aircraft carrier dispatches fighter jets, it will take about the old minutes to the force minutes, and it will take minutes to form a formation to attack, that is. It takes at least half an hour to organize an attack. For the capital ship with the maximum voyage of the festival, it can sail in half an hour. That's about a kilometer. In general. When carrier-based aviation attacks a fleet thousands of kilometers away, the arrival time is Feng minutes, while the capital ship can sail about 7 kilometers in Feng minutes, and it will take several minutes for the anti-ship missiles to complete the attack, so the main fleet is before it is attacked. It has sailed, a thousand kilometers west. It can be seen from this that even if the US Navy fleet does not plan to recover the attack group, by the time the attack is completed and the results of the attack are begun to be screened, the main fleet has already shortened the distance to a strong kilometer.

As a result, it is conceivable that the main guns of the "Qin" and "Tang" classes have a devastating strike capability against aircraft carriers at this distance. In fact, this is exactly what the US Navy has been trying to avoid the main fleet of the Republic Navy.

You must know that in the Third Fleet of the Republic Navy, the main force of the four carrier-based aviation wings are all small mutual fighters, that is, each aircraft carrier carries an average of hundreds of clowns "Chongqing" class can carry the force of the blade, "Shanghai." The class can only be equipped with a gantry, and according to the calculation of half of the fighters in a sortie, it can also send out fat-absorbing air defense fighters in a battle, and so many astringent can intercept 3 to 2 times more enemy aircraft in an air battle. According to this calculation, the US Navy needs to invest in the warp to escort fighter planes in order to ensure the smooth attack of the attack group, while the US Navy's Kouzhi Carrier-based Aviation Wing only has heavy fighters at most, and even if the heavy combat planes deployed on Lord Howe Island and the sea base are too far away from the battlefield, the combat efficiency of the heavy fighters deployed on Lord Howe Island and the sea base is very limited, and it is very difficult for the US Navy to guarantee air supremacy during an attack, even if it is temporary.

For the US Navy, which does not have a capital fleet, if it cannot seize air supremacy, it can only avoid the capital ships of the other side.

As a result, the U.S. Navy had no choice but to strike when the capital ships of the Republic Navy were unable to fight, that is, when they ran out of shells in the shelling of New Zealand and had to carry out resupply operations.

Could this be the case?

The navy of the Republic dares to go south to compete for sea supremacy when the shore-based aviation has not yet been deployed, and the key is to have two main fleets. It has the ability to completely annihilate the US fleet in "hand-to-hand combat". In other words, even if the United States threatens to destroy New Zealand before engaging the U.S. fleet, it is really necessary to use carrier-based aviation to say that escort warships are more than weapons. And not to use up decisive combat forces at the very beginning, so as to seize the absolute initiative in a truly decisive naval battle.

The problem is that it was indeed the main fleet that bombarded New Zealand. This can be seen from the explosion at the shelling site, that is, the damage caused by the explosion of the shell, which is the masterpiece of the kilogram-level electromagnetic cannon, and the power of the lock kilogram-level electromagnetic cannon and the dog-kilogram-level electromagnetic cannon is not so great at all. More importantly, this is indeed the work of the two main fleets, and the main ships in the two main fleets have consumed more than sixty percent of their ammunition. This is evident from the scale of the shelling, that is, the number of shells that fell on New Zealand. Anyway. The "Tang" class is only a small-scale improvement of the "Qin" class, and there is not much difference in the amount of ammunition for the main guns of the two.

Of course, there are those who are skeptical.

According to the combat records of the US Third Fleet, before the fleet commander made the decision to meet the fleet of the Republic Navy, some staff officers questioned it. It was not the capital ships that shelled New Zealand, because there was no reason for the Republic Navy to expend the kilogram-class electric contact guns that were fired to deal with sea targets when striking ground targets. In fact. When dealing with ground targets, there are also few opportunities to use yo-kilogram shells, which can be used against almost all ground targets. According to the judgment of this staff officer, the Navy of the Republic must have fired some kind of high-power ammunition, so that the explosive effect of the kilogram-class shells looks not much different from the kilogram-class shells. In other words, it was the escort warships in the main fleet that bombarded New Zealand, not the capital ships. Let's not talk about whether this staff officer's judgment is correct or not. That is, whether the Navy of the Republic has opened new ammunition, at least his tactical point of view is correct. That is, there is no reason for the Navy of the Republic to use ammunition against large warships against ground targets. There was also no need to involve capital ships in combat operations to shell New Zealand.

The problem is that the staff officer's judgment is not supported by the fact that the U.S. Navy does not have the relevant knowledge

Report.

Unfortunately, the U.S. Navy staff officer, who almost turned the tide of the war, was not favored by God and did not survive to the end of the naval battle. He didn't become a big man who rewrote history.

In fact, the U.S. military staff officer guessed not entirely accurately.

Although it is not a problem to open new ammunition. However, due to the influence of the "arms limitation negotiations", the power of ammunition can only be increased by new explosive principles. For the time being, the Navy of the Republic has not been able to make the power of the Yo kilogram shells reach the level of O kilogram shells by means of chemical energy.

In other words, it was not the escort warships that shelled New Zealand, but indeed the warships equipped with kilogram-class electromagnetic guns.

Of course, certainly not the capital ship.

This is the new type of firepower ship that the Republic Navy has invested in to combat Australia. To be precise, a new type of firepower module. Because fireships sail much fuller than battleships. Especially in the case of a full load. The maximum voyage is only Feng Jie, so in order to meet the tactical needs, the Republic Navy has also specially improved 4 fireships, equipped them with a more powerful propulsion system, and through load shedding. Make its maximum navigation reach the Qin Festival. Fortunately, even with reduced load, the fireship carried much more ammunition than the capital ship, and the shells carried by the plated fireship were comparable to those carried by the capital ship. Because it is impossible for the capital ship to carry all the ground attack ammunition when it is on a combat mission, and it is even impossible to use the ground ammunition as the mainstay, throwing the shells equivalent to the old ones and breaking the shells carried by the capital ship in a battle can convince the US military that it is the two main fleets that are bombarding New Zealand, not the main fleet.

It can be said that these 4 firepower ships also determined the timing of the naval fleet to the south.

It was precisely because these four fireships arrived in Vanuatu on the night of the second day of the month that the fleet of the Republic Navy headed south in the early morning of February. In order to avoid startling the snake. The fireships are all disguised as fast supply ships, and the supply ships also adopt a modular design and construction method, so you only need to add a few supply modules to disguise the fireships as supply ships, and all of them are arranged in the supply fleet. More importantly, it is necessary to provide supplies for three battle fleets, so the scale of the supply fleet is very large, and moving more supply ships and four fewer supply ships will not arouse suspicion among the US military.

Interestingly, the bold actions of the US military were not even expected by the Navy of the Republic.

According to the battle plan of the Republic Navy, the purpose of the bombardment of New Zealand was to return the escaped Tyhiro Fleet to the battlefield, that is, to fight the Tyhiro Fleet in the waters near New Zealand. In this way, after shelling New Zealand, it is certain that a certain main fleet will have to stay in the shelled sea area, and even try to go south to intercept the Tibi Fleet returning to New Zealand, while the other main fleet will penetrate in a southwesterly direction under the cover of air forces to intercept the US Third Fleet that has rushed to reinforce it. Although "Qin." class defeated the US Navy in the Battle of Yap "Long Beach." class, with actual combat proved its combat effectiveness, but from the tactical point of view, it should also let the second main fleet, that is, the fleet dominated by 8 "Tang" class capital ships, go south to deal with the first fleet. Let the First Main Fleet intercept the U.S. Third Fleet.

At this time, the Navy of the Republic had not yet encountered the US Navy, so the fleet was acting according to the calculations.

Objectively speaking, there are no major problems with this tactical arrangement. From this tactical arrangement, it can be seen that the navy of the Republic of China has a relatively sober understanding of the combat operations of going south to fight for sea supremacy, and in particular, it has a very clear understanding of the degree of information mastery in the absence of support, that is, there is no way to accurately grasp the battlefield information. We can only make the plan as flexible as possible, so as not to be difficult to deal with when encountering variables. More importantly, in the case of opaque information, the US Navy is also very likely to take a proactive action, that is, to let the Dihong fleet go north and take advantage of the favorable conditions of the complex battlefield environment to fight a surprise attack in the waters near New Zealand. Not to mention the total annihilation of the naval fleet of the republic. As long as it can defeat the main fleet in a battle, the US Navy can regain the initiative. Affected by this, there is no reason why the Navy of the Republic should not put the attack on the Tyhiro fleet in an important position.

Affected by this, when the Republic Navy made its plan, it did not expect that it would not be the Dibi Fleet that would be killed, "the other battle fleets of the Jijia Three Fleet." And so it goes. In the face of the air. At the time of the first time the aircraft carrier battle group was supported, the Republic Navy only sent a main fleet, plus an "aviation support fleet" composed of four aircraft carrier battle groups. Even in the previous operation, the main purpose of striking New Zealand was to paralyze the shore-based air force deployed by the US military in New Zealand, to eliminate the air threat for the second main fleet, and to concentrate carrier-based aviation to cover the first main fleet. In other words, when only the main fleet was used to deal with the US Third Fleet, the air defense intensity was increased by a factor of two. The question is. This is also equivalent to reducing the strike capability by half. In a situation where it is no longer obvious to continue to increase the intensity of air defense. It's not worth it. Nothing helped the combat operations of the fleet.

After the end of the war, there were many people who thought. If the Second Main Fleet had faced the U.S. Third Fleet together, the outcome of the largest naval battle in the Southwest Pacific would have been different, and the results would have likely changed the course of World War III.

It doesn't matter if this statement is broken or not. The general outcome of this naval battle will not change because of this.

The battle began at midnight on 2 February. It was the U.S. Third Fleet that attacked. Because when the US fleet is in high assault, anti-submarine warfare ships cannot effectively monitor the surrounding waters. Moreover, the noise could be heard clearly from a distance of several hundred kilometers, so about a minute before the US Third Fleet dispatched carrier-based fighters, the First Main Fleet advanced in a southwesterly direction after receiving the warning from the submarines. Judging from the combat records of the two sides, the distance between the US Third Fleet and the First Main Fleet of the Republic Navy at that time was not a kilometer, but about a kilometer.

Along with carrier-based aviation, the U.S. Navy classified the aviation deployed on sea bases as shore-based aviation and long-range sea supremacy in the fleet. Although anti-ship missiles fly much faster than fighters. But taking into account the fact that the main fleet of the republic has a forced electromagnetic interference system. And the capital ship has better electromagnetic shielding capabilities. Theoretically, in defensive operations, the capital ship can completely resist the impact of the forced electromagnetic interference system, so the US Navy fleet did not let the escort warships delay the launch of anti-ship missiles, but fired anti-ship missiles at the same time.

As a result, the first to arrive and attack will be the heavy anti-ship missiles launched by US Navy warships.

In fact, when intercepting heavy anti-ship missiles launched by US warships, the First Main Fleet did not use a forced electromagnetic interference system.

According to the operational record of the Navy of the Republic. At that time, it was the new interception system on the eight capital ships that played a key role.

It can be seen from the combat records of the US military that dozens of escort warships in the three fleets of the US military at that time projected a total of quite a number of heavy anti-ship missiles at the No. 1 Main Fleet, and all of them were the latest generation of anti-ship missiles above the Lymakh level, and their power should not be underestimated, and the number was even more astonishing.

with the regional air defense capabilities of the first main fleet. It can only intercept a distilled anti-ship missile in the regional air defense, and with the interception system of each ship, it can deal with four anti-ship missiles, and the anti-ship missile is very good. As a result, the First Main Fleet will be able to counter the remaining anti-ship missiles only with forced electromagnetic interference systems. Because the forced electrical collision jamming system will have a devastating effect on the air defense warships in the fleet, that is, the air defense warships will lose their area air defense capabilities, so when the US Navy's attack aircraft group arrives, it will have to deal with the air defense line formed by ugly fighters. Almost without considering the impact of the fleet's air defense warships, it is possible to maximize the effectiveness of the attack. More importantly, if the First Main Fleet can only resist with the forced electromagnetic interference system, there will definitely be no way to carry out an effective counterattack in the face of the successive attacks of the US military, and it will not be able to let the kilogram-level electromagnetic cannon wield its power.

Obviously, this is the wishful thinking of the US military. Drag down the 1st Main Fleet with continuous blows.

The problem is that the First Main Fleet is certainly not so vulnerable.

It can be said that this battle most directly reflected the main reason why the capital ships were not equipped with regional air defense systems.

Importantly, this battle made the outside world aware of the powerful interception capabilities of the Qin-class capital ships, that is, the new interception system named "Medusha" by the Republic Navy. The use of characters from Greek mythology to name this system shows its particularity.

From this name, it is also possible to roughly guess the principle of its operation. At the heart of the system is an energy distribution and control device called the "Smart Reflector". During the operation, after receiving the air defense alert of the fleet and estimating that the regional air defense system of the fleet cannot intercept all the incoming targets, and the remaining targets exceed the maximum interception capacity of the interception system at the end of the capital ship, the central computer on the capital ship will activate the "Medusha" to shoot the "intelligent reflection ball" to an altitude of about o meters. Because the "intelligent reflector" is equipped with a power system and a high-precision orientation control system, it can accompany the activities of the warship. And stayed over the head of the battleship all the time. After the target enters the interception area, the capital ship activates the central laser generator and throws the laser beam at the "intelligent reflector", which uses a voltage-controlled high-transparency ear lens with a transmittance of up to Mu Yuyu, and the "intelligent reflector" can separate and reflect the laser in all directions. Theoretically, the system is capable of intercepting up to one target at the same time at a distance of 1,000 kilometers. And the number of intercepted targets will increase as the engagement distance decreases. For example, if you are at a blade kilometer, you can intercept a target, and if you shorten it to an old kilometer, you can intercept a powerful target. According to the calculation of an interception period as a small hour, starting from the edge kilometer, it is possible to intercept about a small number of targets before being hit by a missile. Plus the terminal interception system of the battleship itself .! A capital ship can intercept more than one target in a single engagement, and in order to attack a fleet consisting of eight capital ships, an old cruiser, an old multipurpose destroyer, and an antisubmarine destroyer, and to annihilate the fleet, it is necessary to ensure that after breaking through the air defense system in the fleet area, it is necessary to prepare positive anti-ship missiles for the final stage of the attack.

There is no doubt that no fleet has such a powerful ability to dominate the sea.

It is precisely in this way that there is no need for the Navy of the Republic to equip the capital ships with regional air defense systems.

Of course, the "Medusa" is not omnipotent, for example, its "intelligent reflex ball" needs to be fired in advance, so it must be covered by air defense warships with regional air defense capabilities, and the capital ship that operates alone is easily attacked. What's more, Medusa is only capable of defending against targets in the atmosphere, and it is sensitive to energy weapons. To put it bluntly, it can only intercept relatively fragile anti-ship missiles, and does not have the ability to intercept artillery shells that are much faster and less affected by energy weapons. Theoretically, there was no air defense means at that time that could intercept the shells of large-caliber electromagnetic guns very effectively.

As far as the whole battle is concerned, the greatest benefit brought by the "Medusha" system is that after withstanding the first round of attacks that the US forces are determined to win, the First Main Fleet not only does not fall to the point where it can only defend itself with the forced electric jamming system, but also gains a very valuable opportunity to counterattack. It has already been mentioned that in the case of an attack by carrier-based aviation, it will take about hours and minutes from the take-off of the first fighter to the entry of missiles into the range of the attacking warship, and within this time period. The capital ship was able to sail more than four kilometers, shortening the engagement distance to about one kilometer.

The reality is that in the battle against aircraft carriers, there is no need to be so close.

At 6:00,000, that is, about a minute after the battle began, it was about a minute after it was attacked by a U.S. missile, and the 1st Main Fleet was at the forefront of the three battle fleets from the U.S. 1st Economic Fleet. The first fleet was in the rear on the left, and the strongest fleet was a thousand meters behind the right. The counterattack of the 1st Main Fleet began. As in the Battle of Yap, it was not the capital ships that fired first, but the escort ships in the fleet, and they did not fire shells. Rather, it was a "reconnaissance shell".

Although given the situation at that time, the First Main Fleet could ask the Third Fleet, which was following behind, to provide aerial reconnaissance, that is, to send fighter planes to find out the situation of the US fleet. Because the maximum flight degree of the blade is much faster than that of the US fighter plane, and the fact that its bomb bay can carry reconnaissance equipment is small, the main reason why the bomb bay should be retained is to carry reconnaissance equipment, so it has enough ability to carry out tactical reconnaissance missions. However, judging from the situation at that time, we will not consider for the time being whether the reconnaissance planes can break through the US fleet's air defense network. No matter how fast an airplane is, it can't compare to a cannonball.

The problem was that the 1st Main Fleet did not open fire immediately after the projection of reconnaissance shells.

With the situation at that time, the First Main Fleet must have been able to defeat the First Mi Fleet in one fell swoop. The capital ship is against 3 aircraft carriers, and the range is almost 1,000 kilometers from the projection of "reconnaissance shells." There must be an interval of several minutes between the first round of artillery strikes, and two fleets sailing in opposite directions with a force knot can shorten the distance by several tens of kilometers in these few minutes." A salvo can incapacitate three aircraft carriers, and a second salvo can turn three aircraft carriers into iron coffins floating on the sea. At most, it only takes Lin's artillery bombardment to sink 3 aircraft carriers, and even the escort warships in the Dimi fleet can be buried for them.

There was only one reason why the First Main Fleet did not fire, and that was that the Fifth Fleet was too small

To be precise, there is plenty of time.

In the next few minutes, the cruisers and multipurpose destroyers of the 1st Capital Fleet opened fire twice, projecting "reconnaissance shells" at the 1st and 2nd Fleets, respectively, because the 2nd Fleet was stewed at that time from the 2nd Main Fleet. kilometers above, so the disguised confirmation of the "reconnaissance shell." The maximum range of the kilometer.

It wasn't until 6 o'clock that the main ships in the main fleet fired an earth-shattering first salvo.

From this time on, 8 ships "Qin. The capital ships of the class project shells at a rate of force per second per gun, at intervals, in minutes, and at a time when the refueler is cooled down in a way that is necessary. Fired 6 volleys in a row, stopping fire at 6 o'clock. Again transferred to fleet air defense operations.

From the point of view of timing, the timing of the attack of the 1st Main Fleet was very accurate.

Just when the fleet switched to air defense operations. The attack of the carrier-based fighters of the US Navy also came. Because in advance! minutes into air defense. So there is enough time to start "Medusha" again. System. More importantly, the escort warships, which were evaded when the capital ships opened fire, also had enough time to enter the cover range of the "Medusha" system and avoid being attacked by US anti-ship missiles.

With the help of "Medusha. protection of the system. Once again, the First Main Fleet avoided annihilation.

There is no doubt that the Third Fleet of the US Navy was not so lucky.

Although there were only 6 salvos, the projected shells added up, and the total tonnage was less than 44 tons. It is not as good as the anti-ship missiles projected by the US Navy's carrier-based air forces, but the striking effect is not comparable; when the anti-ship missiles projected by US fighters were shot down one after another, the US aircraft carriers in the three combat fleets also suffered a catastrophe, and they did not even have a chance to resist.

In a short period of time, the artillery bombardment condensed the painstaking efforts of the Navy of the Republic for decades.

It can even be said that if the US Navy had not arranged for shore-based aviation to participate in the battle, and the shore-based aviation had not entered the battle together with the carrier-based aviation, the First Main Fleet would not have resisted the attack from the shore-based aviation after resisting the attack of the US carrier-based fighters, and thus would not have been able to carry out supplementary attacks before the US fleet evacuated and retreated, the US Navy's Third Fleet would not have lost a single aircraft carrier. It's all the main battleships!

Imagine what would happen if the second main fleet was also on the top of the battlefield and participated in the battle? Of course, after this battle, the US Third Fleet is already history. If you want to know what will happen next, please log in to the heart, more chapters, support the author. Support genuine reading! Yi Xunshu is a fine concave and said that he shook off a different body clam