Volume 12 Prelude to the Great War Chapter 137 Spear and Shield

Lun's naval strength and naval combat experience. The U.S. Navy is definitely the first in the world? …

Peacetime. The U.S. Navy fleet is mainly composed of "aircraft carrier battle groups" and "amphibious fleets." forms of activity. According to the National Defense Blue Book released by the US Department of Defense at the end of the year, the US Navy has a total of aircraft carriers, except for the USS "George Bush," which is named after President Bush Sr. In addition, eight of the old aircraft carriers are deployed at Apra Naval Base in Guam, Subic Naval Base in the Philippines, Darwin Port in Australia, Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, two in Bremerton, Washington, and San Diego, California, six in the Atlantic Fleet, Aberdeen, Nablus in the United Kingdom, Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean, and three Norfolk, Virginia.

Under normal circumstances, "one aircraft carrier and one fighter air defense cruiser, two multipurpose destroyers" or two aircraft carrier battle groups deployed in the western Pacific, the southwest Pacific and the Indian Ocean are equipped with two anti-submarine destroyers. Aircraft carrier battle groups deployed in other regions have only one carrier battle group. In peacetime, the duration of the continuous overseas activity of the aircraft carrier battle group is between 3 and 4 months. In the case of combat missions, it will be extended to more than 6 months. During the Iran War, the USS Gerald Ford was only a post-World War II record, because during the Pacific War, the USS Enterprise had set an astonishing record for one month of continuous activity at sea, and this record has never been broken.

Of course, the American aircraft carrier will be "alone" only when performing low-intensity combat missions

Move.

When carrying out medium-intensity combat missions, the US Navy will take the moving of aircraft carriers as the core, form a larger aircraft carrier battle group, and flexibly arrange escort forces according to the threat situation on the battlefield. For example, if the enemy has a strong underwater force, it is necessary to strengthen the anti-submarine power of the battle group, and if the enemy has a strong air force, it is necessary to strengthen the air defense of the battle group. In the Gulf War at the beginning of the Gulf War, the US Navy's aircraft carrier battle groups that participated in combat operations basically moved aircraft carriers. The new address of this site has been changed to summer: Sishan Cave plus 8 four, please log in to read

In the event of a high-intensity war, three aircraft carriers will be the core.

Because as the number of aircraft carriers increases, so will the number of escort warships, and dozens of warships acting together will not only become a problem for command, but will also make the fleet's operational tactics extremely complicated, thereby weakening the fleet's combat capability. Therefore, the US Navy has never grouped more than three aircraft carriers into the same battle group. If it is necessary to devote more aviation combat forces, more wars should also be formed

Group.

Of course, the formation of the aircraft carrier battle group with the 3 aircraft carriers as the core is also not static.

In the Iran War, because the strength of the Iranian Air Force was not too strong, and the US military was able to make full use of the air bases of Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and other countries, the threat to the US Navy fleet was not very great, and the main figure was to fill the loopholes in the strike force of the Air Force, so the US Army's 3 air force fighter mother battle group will escort the escort, and the strength will be reduced to a minimum, that is, only the air defense cruiser, 3 multi-purpose destroyers and whip anti-submarine destroyers, thus providing more support for the amphibious fleet. It has excellent performance in coastal combat operations.

During the Peninsula War, the U.S. Navy had to deal with the powerful Republic Air Force, as well as the Republic Naval Air Force, which assisted the Republic Air Force, and the elusive Republic Navy submarines. As a result, the U.S. Navy's 3 aircraft carrier battle groups have reached their maximum level of escort strength, that is, they have air defense cruisers, 6 multipurpose destroyers, and 3 overhead attack submarines under the water. Exactly. In the Peninsula War, the US Navy's aircraft carrier battle group did not suffer serious losses despite the very low combat efficiency of carrier-based aviation.

The war in the Middle East has the characteristics of the war in the Middle East, and it is difficult to compare it with the first two wars.

Because it directly faces Syria and the US military has long planned to invade Syria, the US Navy attaches great importance to the USS Maine aircraft carrier battle group operating in the eastern Mediterranean, and the USS Maine is a new flagship designed and built by the US Navy to replace the "Blue Ridge" class, and its sister ship is the USS Orenet. The names of these two battleships are the names of the states of the United States, and they are also in honor of the air defense forces that moved the battleship of the same name in the Spanish-American War at the end of the old century, and equipped them with six air defense cruisers, a multipurpose destroyer, and an anti-submarine destroyer. It can also be seen from this establishment that the US Navy does not attach much importance to fleet anti-submarine because the Syrian Navy is very small, does not have decent underwater combat forces, and it is difficult for attack submarines of the Republic Navy to enter the Mediterranean.

Compare it to. The escort force of the USS Orenet aircraft carrier battle group, operating in the Red Sea, is much worse.

Because the US Navy controls the Bab el-Mandeb Strait south of the Red Sea, it has set up the world's most advanced submarine anti-submarine sonar network in the strait, and after the outbreak of war in the Middle East, it has deployed attack submarines here, and has also deployed hundreds of bottom-sinking intelligent mines in the strait by naval aviation deployed in Djibouti.

Therefore, when the US Navy sent the USS Orenet aircraft carrier battle group into the Red Sea, it was not worried about being threatened from below the surface of the sea. More importantly, it is due to the backward basic conditions of Sudan

The scale of the military bases of the Kou State in Sudan is not very large. In addition to supporting the "small and billion" rush operation, the main thing is to monitor the US military bases in Djibouti and Eritrea, and block the exits from the north and south ends of the Red Sea in the event of a large-scale war.

Obviously, the war in the Middle East is not a large-scale war in the true sense of the word.

After the outbreak of war. The Republic has also not strengthened its military presence in the Sudan. Both sides know that if the republic takes action in Sudan, it will be tantamount to provoking the United States and taking the initiative to expand the scope of the war. Even if the United States does not intend to fight a full-scale war with the republic, it will take the opportunity to overthrow the Sudanese regime. Because Egypt is uncertain and the republic does not have enough military bases in the surrounding region to support a large-scale war, it is unlikely that it will risk losing Sudan to compete with the United States in the Red Sea region. Given the position of the Sultan in the Republic's African strategy, there is all the more reason for the authorities of the Republic to put the Sultan on the table at this time.

Affected by this. The US Navy did not even strengthen the air defense of the USS Orenet.

In fact, the U.S. Navy is not capable of doing so.

In the US Navy. There is no separate Indian Ocean fleet. According to the U.S. military system, the Indian Ocean belongs to the Central Theater Command, which mainly obtains naval combat forces from the Pacific Fleet. The question is. The fleet deployed in Diego Garcia, in turn, belonged to the Atlantic Fleet.

From this, it can be seen that the formation of the USS Orenet aircraft carrier battle group is very complicated. In addition to Diego Garcia, the USS Bill Clinton aircraft carrier battle group includes the USS Bunker Hill, USS Foster and Fletcher. In addition to the multipurpose destroyers, the USS Kidd and USS Lynch, and the USS Charlotte attack submarine, other warships, including the flagship of the USS Oregon, came from the Pacific Fleet.

And so it goes. When this aircraft carrier battle group was formed, the US Navy did not have time to equip it with enough escort warships.

When entering the theater of operations, the USS Orenet aircraft carrier battle group was only covered by air defense cruisers, multipurpose destroyers, 3 anti-submarine destroyers and 2 attack submarines, and 3 anti-submarine destroyers. An attack submarine was sent to cover the fast integrated support fleet from Diego Garcia to Djibouti. What is even worse is that starting on 3 July, after receiving the news that the Republic Navy would send additional submarines to the Indian Ocean, the US Navy sent its antisubmarine destroyers and attack submarines to the Bab el-Mandeb Strait south of the Red Sea. Although the whip submarine does not play any role in the air defense operations of the fleet, the three anti-submarine destroyers have dozens of medium- and short-range anti-aircraft missiles with a range of 1,000 meters, which can provide some protection for the aircraft carrier.

Thus. The air defense of the USS Orenet aircraft carrier battle group is very weak.

According to theoretical data published by the United States, the third batch of anti-aircraft cruisers of the Hitter-type "Bunker Hill" was borne. It is the first batch of types, but it was modernized and improved in accordance with the standards of the third batch in the Shu year, and it can only intercept targets at a height of less than a kilometer in the fleet's air defense operations, but it can only intercept at most one target in an air defense operation, and the axillary destroyer can also intercept the basic target. Considering the terminal interception system on an escort warship and three aircraft carriers, the USS Oregon aircraft carrier battle group can deal with a maximum of one target in a single battle. Of course, this is a purely theoretical calculation, and the interception capability in real combat is at most half of the theoretical calculation.

Obviously, the anti-aircraft interception capabilities of the USS Orenet aircraft carrier battle group are not very powerful.

As a matter of fact, relying on its powerful comprehensive combat capability, it is very difficult for the US Navy's aircraft carrier battle group to encounter a situation in which hundreds of missiles attack at the same time in actual combat.

To put it mildly, apart from the Republican ** team, I am afraid that no country's military can threaten the US Navy's aircraft carrier battle group.

What's more, even if the air defense system cannot intercept all the missiles, the US fleet has one last resort: a forced electromagnetic interference system. You know, any missile is a guided weapon, and as long as it is a precision-guided weapon. It is impossible to resist the forced electromagnetic interference system. In order to deal with forced electromagnetic interference systems, the only way to deal with the forced electromagnetic interference system is to use a closed-circuit guidance method with non-female accuracy. In this case, the attack efficiency of the missile will be reduced by several orders of magnitude, and even inferior to an unguided bomb!

Of course, forced EMI systems are by no means a panacea.

Actual combat has long been proven. The forced electromagnetic interference system is an absolute double-edged sword, both capable of destroying the enemy's electronic systems. It can also destroy its own electronic systems. Even the large warships of the U.S. Navy were improved in the mid-term overhaul and added a closed-circuit control system, that is, in the event of an electromagnetic bomb attack. The basic control system on the battleship was able to function normally, ensuring that the warship was able to return to the naval base. The question is, the main defense system of the battleship will definitely go to an end. Take the air defense system as an example, because the air defense radar and the fire control radar cannot be made into a closed-circuit system, so they are being attacked by electromagnetic bombs. Or after the fleet uses the forced collision jamming system, it is difficult to get back to work immediately, and it will take at least a few minutes to restart. In high-intensity modern naval battles, a few minutes are enough to decide the fate of the fleet.

It is precisely because of this that the U.S. Navy did not place its hopes entirely on the forced electromagnetic new address of this site has been changed to the following in the summer: Sishanwa plus 8 Si please land on the threshold reading

In fact, the same is true of the Navy of the Republic. Although the price of anti-aircraft missiles, especially those anti-missile missiles capable of intercepting missiles flying at suborbital altitudes, is extremely expensive, and the vast majority of anti-missile missiles are even more expensive than the high-pitched anti-ship missiles that need to be dealt with, a missile of tens of billions of dollars is nothing compared to an aircraft carrier of tens of billions of dollars, a cruiser of tens of billions of dollars, and a destroyer of billions of dollars. If you count the officers and soldiers of the navy, the price of missiles is nothing. It is precisely for this reason that the Republic and the US Navy attach great importance to the fleet air defense system, and even integrate the fleet air defense system with the national strategic defense system, and use many new technologies developed for the strategic defense system to improve the combat efficiency of the fleet air defense system. Among other things, the lidar commonly used in the air defense system of the fleet is developed from the directional guidance radar of the strategic defense system.

The problem is that the air defense system of the American fleet will first have to deal with thousands of distilled anti-ship missiles.

Because the fleet was active in the theater of operations, and was involved in combat operations, all warships were in combat condition. As the air defense alarm sounded, all warships entered the air defense combat state in an orderly manner under the control of the air defense fire control system. When the aviation commander on the aircraft carrier ordered the air defense fighters to leave the air defense engagement zone, the missile vertical firing systems on the three air defense cruisers took the lead in starting to work, ejecting anti-aircraft missiles into the air at a rate of 8 per second.

Compared with the "Ticonderoga"-class cruisers of the US Navy at the beginning of the year, the degree of out-of-flight missile launch has increased by 7 times! There's no way around it. Because the degree of anti-ship missiles is getting faster and faster, if you can't shoot enough anti-aircraft missiles at once, it will be impossible to shoot down enough anti-ship missiles.

As the anti-aircraft cruiser went into battle, the multipurpose destroyer also entered the state of anti-aircraft operation.

In a matter of seconds, the escort warships in the fleet were hidden in the smoke and dust that spewed out from the missiles as they lifted off. In the hazy moonlight, it was as if a haze had suddenly risen on the sea.

It was also at this catty that the anti-ship missile, which entered from a suborbital altitude, entered the dive trajectory.

The air defense of the American fleet is left with less than a second.

Although the air fire control radars on the cruisers and destroyers were guided by anti-aircraft missiles to intercept targets in batches, the frequency of missile firing was too high, so it seemed like a one-shot deal. There was no break at all.

This is precisely the characteristic of modern air defense operations. Success or failure depends on actions within a few seconds.

It is also true that the air defense systems on modern warships are controlled by class computers. As long as the threat of the anti-aircraft alert detection system on the warship appears, the warship will automatically enter the state of air defense operation. In other words, the commander of the battleship can decide whether to release the air defense operation only after the battleship has entered the air defense state, and cannot prevent the battleship's fire control system from taking the necessary precautions. Only then will it be possible to react in time to a sudden blow. Of course. If it is determined that it is a false alarm, the commander can also end the combat operation. The new address of this site has been changed to summer: Sishan Cave plus 8 four, please log in to read

As mentioned earlier, the interception capability of a warship is not enough to deal with thousands of missiles.

Here's the key.

Because the degree of engagement is too fast, far beyond the reaction and judgment of people, after it is determined that it has been attacked, that is, the battleship has entered the state of air defense operation, and has intercepted with missiles, if it is determined that it has not been able to destroy all the incoming anti-ship missiles, and the battleship's terminal interception system is not enough to intercept all the missiles, the battleship's fire control system will charge the forced electric collision jamming system. And it is in a state of readiness after the terminal interception system engages an incoming missile. That is, the fleet commander must make a decision on whether to use a forced electromagnetic interference system or not before the terminal interception system is activated. To be precise, it is a veto use decision. If the commander does not veto the decision at this time, the fire control system activates the forced electromagnetic interference system when it is determined that the battleship will be attacked by missiles. Because anti-ship missiles fly very fast, the decision-making time left for commanders is often only a few seconds.

Obviously, this little time is simply not enough.

At the last moment, any fleet commander or captain will leave the decision to use a forced electromagnetic interference system to a much more responsive fire control computer.

Although the forced electromagnetic interference system will cause the complete paralysis of most of the warship's electronic systems, so that the fleet will lose its air defense combat capability in the next few minutes, and even make the fleet completely lose its combat capability, any fleet has several to dozens of sets of forced electromagnetic interference systems, which can withstand several to dozens of attacks in a row, so after using the forced electromagnetic interference system, the fleet has not completely lost its defense capability.

It is crucial that forced EMI systems also interfere with each other.

In other words, there is always a little interval when using a forced electromagnetic interference system continuously, or system preparation time. What's more, as the number of consecutive uses increases, so does the system preparation time. Especially when there is only a minimum preparation time every time, the responsiveness of the forced EMI system will become slower and slower.

This is a fatal flaw that cannot be remedied by technology.

It can be said that this is also the key to the defeat of the American fleet!