Chapter 621: Naval Power Comparison

Sunlight once again appeared on the horizon of the Eastern Hemisphere, from the Japanese islands to the west, the Korean Peninsula, to the ancient city of Hanjing, with the arrival of sunrise, the sun gradually spread over this vast desert land, but when a new day arrived, when people began to get busy for a new day, the Allied intelligence units suddenly entered a state of emergency.

When the Northwest Theater began to launch a large-scale ground offensive against Siberia, China's powerful Pacific Fleet made it difficult for the United States and Japan to sleep.

Both the remaining forces of the Mei agency and the US strategic intelligence department have focused their main efforts on the Chinese Pacific Fleet.

Although the number of ships in this fleet is not large, only one-third of the number of the US-Japan joint fleet, no one in the US-Japan politicians or the high-level commanders of the US-Japan joint fleet can easily come down after reading the information.

A few days ago, in their eyes, the world's largest combat ships were nothing more than the Montana-class battleships of the United States, the famous general-class battleships and the Empire-class aircraft carriers of China, perhaps the Japanese Yamato-class battleships and the Shinano aircraft carriers, and the Midway-class aircraft carriers, the largest aircraft carriers in service in the United States, could be ranked.

But after just a few days, everyone overturned the previous concept. In the past, they did not receive very vague information, and the content of the information said that several supercarriers in China were conducting secret training, and these aircraft carriers had a large displacement. However, there is no detailed data on this information, and there are no photographs of the actual objects.

The Allied top brass simply didn't pay much attention. It's like a popular saying in later generations, no photo is not the truth, and they can't speculate because of a vague piece of information, not even data, because that is very unrealistic.

Today, they all understood that the information that they didn't know where it had gone was true. China really has a supercarrier, and there is more than one, four of them came out at once. This made the Allied top brass. How to be calm.

Originally, the top leaders of the United States and Japan were very confident, because the combined navies of the two countries are an epoch-making force. Inside, there are not only three Japanese super battleships with a displacement of more than 60,000 tons approaching 70,000 tons, but also an aircraft carrier with a displacement of more than 60,000 tons, the Shinano. And the United States, with its strong industrial strength for several years. Restored naval power.

Four Montana-class super-battleships and four Iowa-class battleships alone. It's a force that shocks the world. Not to mention. The main force of aircraft carriers in the fleet consists of four Midway-class aircraft carriers with a displacement of more than 50,000 tons, and eighteen Essex-class aircraft carriers. Four Yorktown-class aircraft carriers make up its main combat power.

Of course, it is impossible to ignore the fact that the real aircraft carrier group in the US fleet constitutes the foundation, and in the event of a major war, the pressure on the Chinese Navy will multiply. The US Navy urgently needs a large number of aircraft carriers to enter service, and the newly built Essex-class cannot quickly meet the needs of the war, so the US Navy began to convert the 25 Cleveland-class light cruisers suitable for aircraft carriers into light aircraft carriers and re-finalize them into the Independence class, and the 25 ships were all built at the New York shipyard.

There is also a Bansai-class aircraft carrier, which is a Cyppan light aircraft carrier modeled after the Independence-class and rebuilt on the Baltimore-class heavy cruiser, which resembles the Independence class in appearance, but has a slightly larger displacement. There are also a lot of them, although they are much less than the twenty-five ships of the Independence class, but they are also one more than the Essex class, reaching twenty.

Although these two converted aircraft carriers are on the small side, with a displacement of between 15,000 and 20,000 tons, their huge number can basically meet the needs of naval warfare. Think about it, there are as many as 45 aircraft carriers, and even if the number of aircraft carried by each aircraft carrier is only 40 or 50, it can't support any number. In the event of a naval battle, these 45 aircraft carriers will be able to quickly dispatch more than 1,000 carrier-based aircraft.

With the addition of the other three main aircraft carriers, the number of combat ships that the United States alone can call aircraft carriers has reached 71, and if we add Japan's more than 30 aircraft carriers, the number will reach more than 100. It is also important to note that this does not include the escort aircraft carriers of the United States that have been converted from merchant ships.

If you count all the escort aircraft carriers of the United States, then you can reach an unsurpassable number, more than 200 aircraft carriers.

In addition, in terms of battleships, the United States not only has Montana-class battleships and Iowa-class battleships, but also two battleships that are only slightly weaker than Iowa-class battleships. The displacement of these two battleships also reached about 44,000 tons.

South Dakota-class battleships, North Carolina-class battleships.

Of these two battleships, four were built each. Not counting aircraft carriers, the United States alone has 16 super-needless battleships with a displacement of more than 40,000 tons. Moreover, these sixteen super senseless battleships, their main guns have reached 406 mm, and their lethality can be said to be terrifying.

If you also count the battleships before World War II, then the battleship forces of the United States can really be called unsurpassed. Nevada-class battleships, Tennessee-class battleships, New Mexico-class battleships, Pennsylvania-class battleships, Colorado-class battleships. According to the tradition of American shipbuilding, these super-useless battleships with a displacement of more than 30,000 tons or close to 40,000 tons after modification are all four ships of one class.

In total, the United States today has 33 battleships (three of which were sunk at Pearl Harbor) with a displacement of no less than 30,000 tons. If it weren't for the sudden rise of aircraft carriers, which led to the gradual expiration of the battleship era, the combat effectiveness of these 33 battleships would have been enough to compete with the combined strength of the British Royal Fleet and the German High Seas Fleet in the Atlantic Naval War.

Together with the three Yamato-class battleships in active service in Japan, two Nagato-class battleships, two Ise-class battleships, and two Fuso-class battleships, these nine battleships all belong to Japan's "super crossbow class" battleships, that is, super senseless battleships.

When the U.S. and Japanese fleets unite to form the most powerful fighting force of the Allies at the moment. With forty-two ultra-senseless battleships and hundreds of aircraft carriers. and supporting battle cruisers, light and heavy cruisers, destroyers, supply ships, submarine carriers and other ships, the number reached a staggering 1,500 ships.

Ten detachments and more than fifty warbands were formed, and in the eastern Pacific, they formed a super fleet group spanning hundreds of nautical miles in depth.

But it is the Allies who have the largest fleet in the history of human development. I didn't feel any sense of security at the moment.

China is too mysterious for any country in the world.

Black Hawk fighters and Intruder fighters that were exposed very early. At present, countless scientists in the Allied forces still know nothing about the data performance of these two fighters, and they simply do not understand how China made such an epoch-making fighter.

The Sabre jet fighter, which had high hopes, turned out to be disappointing, except for the achievement of the first purpose. After being able to entangle with the Chinese Warhawk-3. Sabres are under Black Hawks. There is simply no room to fight back. Even with the numerical superiority, it also made the Sabre fighter lose face.

Perhaps the only thing that could comfort the Allies was that China's two advanced fighters looked huge. After many verifications by Allied air force experts, these two fighters could not board the aircraft carrier, and as long as they were far away from the Chinese land airfield, they would not encounter these two fighters.

The recent appearance of the Apocalypse Tank and the Rhino Tank has put a lot of pressure on the Allies. Whether it is the Soviet T-34/85 or the Sherman, the latest American Sherman with an increased main gun caliber, these two tanks cannot be helped. As soon as these two tanks came out, like the Black Hawk fighters of the Chinese Air Force, they proved that the main weapons and equipment of various countries can be eliminated.

It's like before World War II, when Britain created a needless-class battleship and let the battleships of the whole world pass through. This made the Allies extremely sad, from the inside out, the tormented outside was crispy and tender on the inside.

Now it is not long before the Apocalypse tank comes out, and the same is true on the naval side.

Although many countries are already somewhat immune to China's endless new weapons, when the Chinese Pacific Fleet looks in front of them with four huge aircraft carriers. No matter how strong your immunity is, you can't keep your composure.

When they repeatedly deduced from TV footage and photos, after comparing it with the Imperial-class aircraft carrier next to them, the results obtained stirred up a thousand waves with one stone.

This is an aircraft carrier estimated to reach 100,000 tons, and it is also the largest war weapon built in the history of human development. Even though two of them look a little smaller, no one cares about that anymore.

There is also the fact that neither the technicians nor the scientists on the Allied side have found the chimney on the aircraft carrier. What does this mean?

Another terrible inference.

When a warship comes out, power is a very important determining factor in judging the strength of the warship. But what they saw, there was no chimney. In order to drive a 100,000-ton warship, and to reach the world's mainstream speed of more than 28 knots, its horsepower must be infinitely close to 200,000.

Just like the Montana-class battleship, with a displacement of nearly 80,000 tons, its horsepower has reached 170,000 in four axles, which makes the maximum speed of this battleship reach 28 knots.

The absence of chimneys is the most bewildering point in the world, and no one has ever thought about what kind of power plant China uses (there was no such thing as nuclear power at this time). Even if the whole world wants to gray hair, it can't think of why.

However, this is not the main concern of the Allied military, what really puzzles them is that these four aircraft carriers are too clean, not only do they have no chimneys, but even the world's mainstream aircraft carriers, the dense anti-aircraft guns around the deck are not seen. It's kind of that huge "box" that they don't understand what it does.

And in their opinion, these four aircraft carriers and the previous Empire-class aircraft carriers are all straight-through decks, and they do not have the beveled flight decks of the previous Emperor-class aircraft carriers. However, whether the huge supercarrier can carry China's latest fighter jets also makes the Allied top brass a little uncertain.

Although China's Pacific Fleet has only eight super battleships and 24 aircraft carriers, the pressure on the combined fleet of Japan and the United States is unprecedentedly strong. Without the appearance of these four super aircraft carriers, they may be full of confidence. The unexpected appearance of the four super aircraft carriers is also covered with an extremely mysterious veil, which has greatly increased the pressure on the Japan-US alliance.

In the face of a known enemy, no matter how strong you are, there will always be a way to deal with it. But facing an opponent with unknown strength is not a very comfortable thing.

No matter how strong the number and combat effectiveness of the Japanese-US combined fleet is, China is not a soft persimmon.

What's more, modern naval warfare has entered the era of aircraft carriers, and China's air force is firmly in the top position in the world.

Another important point is that the current navy has become the most crucial to whether the Allies can win the war. In the face of losing land wars one after another, the only battle to turn the tables depends on the results of the navy.

If the navy is defeated, then the war will be basically no suspense. This is not only Japan's last sustenance, but also the greatest hope of the United States. (To be continued......)