From a purely military point of view, when the strength of the enemy is inferior to that of the opponent, the defender instigates the shrinkage of the defense line, narrows the defensive day, increases the density of troops on the defense line, and causes the attacker's battle line to be lengthened and the strength density of troops reduced. After reaching a certain level, the defender will be able to gain a superiority in forces on the local front, and turn the advantage into victory, and then accumulate to turn the tide of the battlefield.

At the strategic level, this military doctrine is to exchange space for time.

It can be said that this was the main strategy of the United States during the Great War, and it can even be said that it was the only strategy of the United States.

Of course, being passive in overall strategy does not mean being passive on all fronts and at all points in time. In other words, if the strategic theory of exchanging space for time does not bring victory. Instead, it makes the United States more passive. The authorities of the United States will not adopt this strategic theory either.

In the Pacific Theater, the effective side of this theory is very clearly manifested.

Although by the beginning of the year, the Republic Navy had an absolute advantage in the total number of forces, and this advantage will expand over time. Then. The main fleet of the two sides is 4 to 4, the air fleet is 2 to 4, the amphibious fleet is 2 to 2, the sea base is 8, the transport fleet is 2 to the gills, and the combat aircraft is 2 to the gills. Even the Marine Brigade is up to it, and it must be compared. Other words. If we take into account the combat effectiveness of ships, aircraft, and Marine Corps units, the actual combat capability of the US Navy is only about 30 percent that of the Republic Navy. The problem is that if this data is taken as a numerator, and the area of sea areas controlled by both sides is taken as a denominator of the constituents, it is not the Republic Navy that has the advantage. It was the U.S. Navy, because at that time the Navy of the Republic controlled an area of sea equal to the mouth of the U.S. Navy. That is, within the unit area. The strength of the Navy of the Republic is only a quarter of that of the United States. Although this comparison is of little practical significance, after all, the Navy of the Republic will not put the combat fleet in the rear, but will concentrate its forces on the forward front, but this data also illustrates one. The problem, that is, on the battlefield of the oceans. The superiority of the Republican Navy is not as obvious as the force statistics, and in some respects, even some crucial aspects, the Republican Navy is inferior to the US Navy.

At that time, the main factor restraining the Navy of the Republic was not the inadequacy of the combat fleet, but the insufficient forces to support it.

This is the direct result of taking the initiative to retreat and causing the opponent's battle line to lengthen.

Let's not talk about the march into the Atlantic, let's take the battle in the Pacific Ocean as an example. At the beginning of the war, the Navy of the Republic operated in the western Pacific, and even the length of the route from Shanghai to Guam was not red. It is more than a kilometer, and it is less than a kilometer from Naha to Guam. With the Navy of the Republic marching all the way. The length of this war route has also increased from concave kilometers all the way to nearly concave kilometers. That is, it takes 7 times more effort to deliver the same supplies to the front. In other words, more logistical support forces are needed to provide sufficient guarantees for combat troops. On the other hand, the U.S. military has gained a greater density of troops by actively shrinking the defensive line, which has also gained greater defensive intensity, which has doubled the difficulty of the Republican team's attack, so the demand for troops has also increased exponentially. Affected by this. Supporting the landing of Marines in Central America would provide a support force that would be twice as strong as landing on Guam. The resulting impact. Not only is it not negligible, but it is enough for the authorities of the Republic to be extra careful in drawing up their strategic plans.

It can be said that it is precisely in this way that the Navy adjusted the construction plan.

According to the information released after the war, as early as the beginning, that is, before the Republic Navy entered the southwestern Pacific, the Supreme High Command used a computer-level computer to conduct a rough analysis of the combat operations on the American continent, and the main point of the analysis was to assess the input of troops. Even if the landing site was chosen in Central America, where the density of troops was relatively high, it would mean that it would not be possible to march directly into the continental United States, but would have to take control of Central America and then march north into the Greater Andrés, such as Cuba, and then attack the continental United States, which would require more than twice as many troops as the Mariana Islands. According to this calculation, the size of the support fleet will be hundreds of times larger than that of the attack on the Mariana group.

There is no doubt about this. The results of the analysis are very unrealistic. To know. In order to attack the Mariana Islands, the Navy of the Republic mobilized small and large ships, even if the number was multiplied. It also far exceeded the period of the Great War of National Power of the Republic, which built about 100 million tons of merchant ships. According to the average force of 10,000 tons per ship, that is, about 10,000 merchant ships, and by the end of the war, the number was still sailing at sea, less than half of this number.

Fortunately, this rough analysis is very skewed

By the middle of the Jewish years, after the republican authorities had made the decision to march on the American continent, the General Staff had given priority to logistical support in the formulation of its strategic plan and had identified the necessary support forces. According to the relevant statistics released after the war, at that time, a total of more than four civilian and quasi-military ships of various types were planned to be put into operation, excluding the ships serving the fleet, and the ships serving the Marine Corps would not be less than 44, and these ships were enough to form a fleet composed of bladed merchant ships to ensure the delivery of old 100 million tons of various combat materials to the front line every month, to meet the needs of the Marine Brigade, the old tactical air force, the old strategic air force, the strategic air force of the Space Army, the combat fleet of the four main fleets and the air fleet, the air fleet, the The combat consumption of at least 4 fifth-generation sea bases at the Liza Maritime Base can be put into about the combat units of the ugly army if you include the materials obtained on the spot and the materials provided by nearby allies.

There is no doubt that the war that broke out in the Republic is very amazing.

The problem is that this still falls short of the minimum required to defeat the United States, even if you count the bladed combat units. Even if Bladevan ground forces were to be invested, it would only be one-third of the minimum ground forces needed to defeat the United States.

It can be said that it is precisely because of this that the authorities of the republic decided to advance the Atlantic instead of landing in the United States first. The reason is simple, the purpose of entering the Atlantic is to control the Caribbean, cut off the sea life routes of the United States, and weaken the war power of the United States. More importantly, if we can control the Caribbean Sea, we will be able to use Cuba as a base to carry out a large-scale strategic bombardment of the US mainland, weaken the US combat strength to the greatest extent, reduce the forced acquisition of a ground war, defeat the United States with fewer ground troops, and achieve a final victory. According to the estimation of the Space Army, it only takes two years of high-intensity strategic bombing to weaken the war strength of the United States by more than six and reduce the combat effectiveness of the US military to a minimum. Because during these two years, the republic was able to produce more ships and military supplies. In addition, it is not very difficult to support Jinwan ground forces by hoarding and allied support in advance. That is, the Republican Marines will not land on the American continent until the Republican Navy reaches the Caribbean, and the key is not the combat operations in the Central American region, but whether they can reach Cuba as soon as possible.

The problem is that this does not mean that all fleets and forces in the Pacific can be withdrawn.

In fact, the reality is quite the opposite.

In order to disguise this strategic intent, the authorities of the Republic not only did not allow the Navy to withdraw troops from the Pacific, but repeatedly increased its forces in the Pacific. At the end of the year, he even approved an operational plan to march on Oahu, "hoping to make the U.S. authorities make the wrong strategic judgment." Although, theoretically, after the advance of the Navy of the Republic to the Atlantic. The intention of using Cuba as a base to carry out strategic bombing and blockade against the United States has become clear. It is impossible for the US authorities not to see it, but the US authorities will certainly not ignore the threat from the Pacific Ocean and will take over the Central American region. For the purpose of controlling the Panama Canal, the Republic only needs to send Tian Wan ground troops, and even a little reduction will have a great chance of victory. In other words, the Republic has a great deal of confidence in conquering Central America, but it is difficult for it to move north from Central America into the United States. As a result, it is very likely that the authorities of the Republic will adopt a two-pronged strategy, that is, they will not determine the direction of the main attack, but will carry out operations in both directions at the same time, and then the reaction of the US military will decide which direction to dominate.

It was precisely because of this that more than sixty percent of the strength of the Republican Navy at that time was in the Pacific.

More importantly, of these sixty percent of the troops, the most important support forces are the main ones, not the combat ones.

At that time, the Navy of the Republic. Among the combat fleets, in addition to the three sent to the Atlantic. Only the mouth branch is carrying out combat missions in the Pacific Ocean, and one of them is conducting intensive training in the waters west of the Mariana Islands, and there are only three combat fleets on the front line, and of the other four combat fleets, two are resting in the rear mainly to carry out necessary maintenance for warships, and the other two are in the Arabian Sea and the Red Sea to support combat operations in the Middle East theater. That is, at that time the Navy of the Republic did not have an additional combat fleet that could be deployed. In fact, two of the three combat fleets sent to the Atlantic were drawn from the Pacific theater, while the other was drawn from the Middle East.

The problem of supporting the fleet is more pronounced than that of the combat fleet.

Before marching into the Atlantic; Whether it is a combat operation in the Pacific Ocean or a combat operation in the Indian Ocean, the Republic Navy adopts the same set of supply standards, that is, the specific number of rudders from one combat fleet to three supply fleets is determined by the combat intensity.

The theoretical basis for this support standard is that when the length of the battle line is 1,000 kilometers old, the navy of the Republic of China can use its existing forces to establish a relatively effective front-line support system, and make full use of various factors to ensure that the front-line combat units can obtain sufficient combat materials. In the Indian Ocean. The fleet can obtain general supplies from nearby countries such as Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka, and Sudan. Important military supplies could be transported by air, but only those that could not be obtained outside the country and were too large to be transported by air or land would need to be transported by sea, and the pressure on the replenishment fleet was relatively high in the Pacific. The combat fleet of the Republic Navy can rely on dense islands and sea bases deployed in front of it to obtain the same support, and the pressure on the supply fleet is not very great.

The problem is that in the Atlantic, this system of safeguards will not work.

Although between the mainland of the Republic and the coast of West Africa, there are transit points such as Singapore, Sri Lanka, the Seychelles, Madagascar and False Bay. But there are big flaws in this route, which is close to the length of the mouth meters. In particular, on the Trincomalee to False Bay route, which is about a kilometer long, there is no transit center that can effectively support the fleet.

From the point of view of logistics, this is undoubtedly a great disaster.

Prior to its invasion of the Atlantic, the Republican Navy used Trincomalee as a transshipment center, that is, the convoys from the Republic brought supplies here, and the fleets headed for the Gulf, the Red Sea, and East Africa to carry the supplies away, in order to improve the efficiency of the fleet, and in doing so, to use regional escort tactics to improve the efficiency of the convoy. After the expansion into the Atlantic, this method of segmentation did not work. The Navy of the Republic has two options: to transfer the transit centre to Socotra or to set up a new hub on the Trincomalee to Africa route. Apparently. Both approaches have problems, the former will lead to the extension of routes and reduce the efficiency of transportation, and the latter will require huge investment and reduce the efficiency of logistics support. Since there was no best option, the Navy of the Republic did not change the mode of transport, but solved the problem by adding a route, that is, a direct route from Trincomalee to False Bay. The same is true of this. It will reduce the efficiency of transportation and put in more transport vessels.

As a result, the three battle fleets operating in the Atlantic would need to be supplied not by six, nor by mouth, but by mouth, and even if the center of activity of the supply fleet was located in Lagos and the number of supply fleets was reduced to six, it would be necessary to replenish the old transport fleet to serve the supply fleet.

In other words, the 6 supply fleets that followed the combat fleet to the Atlantic were just the beginning. After understanding this, it is not difficult to understand why the Navy has only sent three combat fleets to the Atlantic, and it has explicitly requested that it must not participate in ground support operations until the US fleet is defeated.

In fact, the Navy of the Republic was lucky.

In any case, among these three combat fleets, all warships have unlimited cruising capabilities, and they are all brand new warships, which not only have strong combat effectiveness, but also surpass other fleets in sustained combat capabilities. Of course, the most important thing is the combat effectiveness of these three combat fleets. According to the later statement. When it entered the Atlantic, it played a clever trick with the navy of the country. Sent 3 of the most powerful battle fleets in the world. That is, on the surface, these are only 3 combat fleets, but the actual combat effectiveness is far beyond the book data.

Take the Didao Air Fleet as an example, the "Chongqing"-class aircraft carriers that are part of this fleet are all there. months after the commissioning, three of them in four years. The other two ships were commissioned in July, all of which are the latest aircraft carriers. Compared to the previous 2 batches of the "Chongqing" class. The last two batches were improved, and the third batch enhanced the terminal defense system. And the thickened deck armor is mainly to resist cluster submunitions, and the fourth batch has a more powerful power system without increasing the number of reactors by using new reactors with a larger unit output power, so it has become the first aircraft carrier equipped with the "Medusa" defense system. Although limited by the basic conditions, that is, the output power of the power system is still very limited, the "Medusa" system on the aircraft carrier is an improved version of the cruiser version, and the interception performance is much worse than that of the capital ship type, but as a warship defense system in the criminal era, the difference between whether there is or not is more obvious than the difference after it has it. In a certain sense, installing the "Medusha" on the "Chongqing" class aircraft carrier is not only a very bold attempt, but also gives birth to a new generation of aviation combat platforms, ushering in a new life for naval aviation. Of course, from a tactical point of view, the immediate benefit of this improvement is that the aircraft carrier gains the ability to act with the capital ship. It is a pity that the first ugly air fleet has only carriers equipped with the "Medusha" system. The other 3 ships do not have this system and still do not have absolute interception capabilities in the true sense of the word.

Of course, the real protagonist is the old "Han"-class capital ship in the 2 main fleets. As the largest first-class capital ship built by the Republic Navy during the Great War, the "Han" class built a total of the first class ships belong to the Republic Navy, and all of them were built before the end of the year, and the last four ships were purchased by the Republic Navy at the request of Argentina and transferred to the Argentine Navy after half a year of completion and service, all of which were completed after two years. Although most of these warships were put into service within 2 years, they were affected by several naval battles dominated by capital ships, and there were a total of 4 models of the "Han" class built in 7 batches, of which the last ice old ship belonged to the ultimate improved model. The first ship of the sixth batch of the "Miao" class, which is often referred to as the "Miao" class within the Navy, is the "Miao". Compared to the old ships of the "Han" class, which were originally built. The biggest improvement of the fourth model is the use of the latest generation of kilogram-class electromagnetic guns. In accordance with the technical standards published by the Navy of the Republic. The main improvement of this new type of electromagnetic gun, which was successfully developed at the end of the year, is that it adopts a forced cooling method and cooperates with a more powerful power system to increase the maximum fire from blades per minute to blades per minute, or at the beginning, the bladed shells are projected within the blade. This means that compared to the original "Han" class, the fourth model has an increase in the intensity of fire projection, times, which is equivalent to an increase in the strike capability, times, in addition to being able to hit 2 times the target in the same way, there is also the option to increase the intensity of the blow in the same time, times. to increase the intensity of the blow.

This small improvement has made a substantial change in the combat effectiveness of the main fleet.

Because the capital ships of the US Navy are still the "Long Island" class, and the more powerful "Rhode Island" class will not be completed and put into service until the second half of the year, and there is no essential change between the "Long Island" class and the most 8 ships in the future, that is, the performance indicators of the main guns are exactly the same, so considering the actual performance of the "Long Island" class in the Battle of Midway, especially the gap between the two sides in terms of defense capabilities, there is every reason to believe that the combat effectiveness of the four main fleets of the US Navy is not much higher than that of the main fleet and the main fleet of the first flight. Not even comparable to these two main fleets. Even in terms of the air fleet, because Xiaowei's first improved model, that is, Xiaochi's original name of Luo, has been mass-produced, and the first to be equipped is the first to follow the actions of the first sword air fleet, which consists of 6 aviation wings, with nearly 1,000 combat aircraft of various types, and is one of the largest air fleets in the Republic Navy, while only one air wing is fighting with the first air fleet, and in addition, the air wing is sent to the Middle East theater to participate in the battle for air supremacy. So the combat effectiveness of the US naval air fleet is also inferior to the Navy of the Republic.

It was for this reason that the US Navy sent two additional tactical air units to the Cape Verde Islands at the beginning of the month. The size of the tactical aviation deployed in the area was increased from four to the Blade Field. Only a few days later, as the Republican Navy fleet sailed from False Bay to Lagos, the United States Navy made the decision to send a sea base to the front. Counting the aviation units on these sea bases, the number of combat aircraft put into service by the US military exceeds the number of dents. Subsequently, after the actions of the Republic's Navy and Army, the U.S. military will take corresponding actions. By the end of the month, the number of U.S. naval bases deployed in the middle of the Atlantic had increased to seven, and the U.S. Navy had only eight in total, and the other was in the Eastern Mediterranean. The fleet reached six, and the remaining two air fleets were also in the Eastern Mediterranean, and the number of combat aircraft put into operation reached an astonishing number of notches, including four fighters alone.

Such a huge investment almost filled the entire sea area within a kilometer of the northwest of the Cape Buddha's Islands. Of course, this does not include the submarines invested by the US military, and if the submarines that were operating in the waters south of the Cape Verde Islands at that time are counted, the US military has invested almost eighty percent of its total naval strength. There is no doubt that such a huge investment is enough to show how eager the US military is for victory.

The problem is that the Navy of the Republic is no less eager to achieve victory.

According to the previous introduction, for the Navy of the Republic, this is also a battle that cannot be lost. Imagine that if the Republic Navy loses this naval battle, it will be equivalent to exposing the Liwan Army on the West African battlefield to the guns of the capital ships of the United States Navy, and it will also be equivalent to losing the entire South Atlantic. When the time comes, the U.S. Navy will have many options, such as going south to sweep False Bay and blocking the Republican Navy's access to the Atlantic, and it can also make the only country in South America become useless, and the most likely thing the U.S. Navy will do is to send a fleet from the Cape of Good Hope into the Indian Ocean, and then go west to Australia to save the crumbling Southwest Pacific Theater. At this point, the Navy of the Republic had no choice but to send all the three poison battle fleets operating in the eastern Pacific Ocean to the Strait of Magellan, and thus enter the South Atlantic, striving to fight a decisive battle with the United States again. Even if we do not consider whether the US military has the courage to fight a decisive battle again, even if it does not, the US fleet will retreat to the Mediterranean. To be exact. It was to go to the Mediterranean to support the coalition forces of the Western Coalition in the Middle East. At this point, the Republic Navy is still very passive, and can only increase its forces in the Middle East theater, and when there is no way to directly attack the US fleet, it will exchange a greater price for victory in the Middle East theater. For the US military. The situation is more favorable, that is, it can take advantage of this opportunity to make a big fuss, even if it cannot pull Europe into the water. It can also withstand the strategic offensive of the Republic in the Middle East theater. There is no doubt that if it is not attacked for a long time, the war will once again be deadlocked, and the United States will gain the time it has always dreamed of.

In the face of the huge investment of the US military, the Republic Navy can only increase its investment if it wants to win.

At the beginning of the year, while speeding up the deployment of sea bases, the Navy of the Republic of China made a very important decision to send the main fleet of the first mountain and the main fleet of the first Zhao that were operating in the Indian Ocean to the Atlantic Ocean and strengthen the strength of the Sixth Fleet, which refers to the fleet operating in the South Atlantic.

Fortunately, the two fleets that reached Qinjie could cover the 4,000-meter voyage from one end of the continent to the other in just four days. It can be said that such a high degree of sailing, and a continuous degree of sailing, has given the Navy of the Republic more tactical options. It is precisely for this reason that after the war, many people believed that the Republic Navy deliberately did not devote all its forces at once, but to test the US Navy and make tactical adjustments according to the response of the US Navy, so that the Republic Navy wanted to win in several battlefields at the same time. Of course, this argument is not well founded. From the point of view of motivation. Because in the war plan drawn up by the authorities of the Republic, the army on the West African battlefield will not move north until the navy has seized sea supremacy, and it will not take a major turn in the situation on the Middle East battlefield until the army has captured Morocco, so it is unlikely that the navy of the republic can count on winning several battlefields at the same time. From a tactical point of view, the withdrawal of the two main fleets from the direction of the Middle East theater has had an incalculable impact on combat operations in the region. To know. The first main fleet and the first mother main fleet are both fleets with the "Han" class capital ships as the core. The combat effectiveness is not bad, the artillery projection capacity of the narrow fleet is equivalent to the artillery brigade of the old army, and when striking certain solid targets. The Yo Kilogram and Ah Kilogram electromagnetic cannons on the battleship have a powerful power that the army's kilogram-class electromagnetic cannons do not have.

This move is enough to show that the authorities of the republic have made a desperate decision.

The reason is very simple, as long as the naval battle is won. The army would be able to march smoothly into Morocco, and the navy would be able to move north from the Cape Verde Islands to the Strait of Gibraltar. Joining forces with the army to blockade this vital strait will allow the coalition forces of the Western Panel in the Middle East to defeat themselves without a fight. If the result is the opposite, then the republic loses not just a naval battle in the Atlantic, but the initiative on the battlefield in the Western Hemisphere.

Obviously, from a different perspective. The same strategic decision was made by the US authorities much earlier.

What's more, the U.S. Navy's combat fleet is not slow, and the air fleet can continue to sail at a slash level, while the voyage from the eastern Mediterranean to the waters of the Cape Verde Islands is only a lot of nautical miles, operating in the eastern Mediterranean? The fleet of air forces will reach the waters of the Cape Verde Islands in just over 2 days.

By mid-February, the two sides had deployed a combat fleet in the waters centered on the Cape Verde Islands.

If you count the module ships of the sea bases of the two sides, as well as submarines, amphibious warships, supply ships, transport ships, etc., in this sea area of less than 10,000 square kilometers, about the number of auxiliary ships and the total displacement are concentrated! 100 million tons of ships of all kinds, equivalent to every square kilometer of sea area, there are ships, and strong. A square kilometer is nothing more than a circular surface with a radius of many kilometers. This shows the density of ships invested by both sides. Not only did it far surpass all previous naval battles. It has also reached a very staggering level, and it can even be said that so many ships are crowded together. It's hard to get enough room for any tactic.

In fact, the greatest density of troops is not ships, but combat aircraft. You must know that by mid-February, the various types of combat planes put in by the two sides had passed through the blade frame, which is equivalent to having bladed combat planes per 10,000 square kilometers. Even if the combat space over the mainland is counted, the average distribution density of combat aircraft has reached about 10,000 square kilometers, far exceeding that of any other battlefield. For example, in the Middle East battlefield, the density of the air forces of the two sides is within 10,000 square kilometers, while the reasonable figure is per 10,000 square kilometers.

To put it mildly, if it were not for the fact that both sides had hope for victory, and a great hope, such a huge density of forces would have made this decisive battle at sea meaningless.

According to some information published after the war, before the battle broke out, the General Staff of the Republic submitted an emergency war plan to the High Command. It is clearly mentioned that, if necessary, it is possible to detonate tactical nuclear warheads carried by unmanned underwater vehicles to destroy all enemy ships in the nearby sea zone. Of course, the reference here is not to fifth-generation tactical nuclear weapons, but to enhanced fission bombs with a yield of up to 20,000 tons. Theoretically, "a 20,000-ton tactical nuclear warhead can destroy all ships within a kilometer radius, including submarines under the surface of the sea. There is no doubt that there is no shortage of tactical nuclear warheads in the arsenal of the Republic, and the number of long-endurance unmanned underwater vehicles possessed by the Navy of the Republic is not at large. with the following.

Although no direct evidence was found, there is reason to believe that the United States has similar schemes.

Theoretically, as long as either side uses tactical nuclear weapons, this naval battle will be meaningless. Although the light fence under the sea surface does not cause pollution from the dogs, "and the waters of the Cape Verde Islands are far from the boundary of Biming, and there are not many large cities within a radius of thousands of kilometers, let alone a few coastal cities." So the collateral effects of the massive use of nuclear warheads can be minimized, but for the warring parties, it is a disaster. To be precise, in a situation where both sides want to win, even if they don't lose to their opponents, they will suffer heavy losses. Comparatively speaking, the American authorities have a greater desire for victory, so during the fighting, the American authorities are more patient.

In any case, this approach of "adding fuel to the fire" has turned this naval battle, which should have been the mastery of the fleet, into a real "war of attrition at sea"

Affected by this, the navies of both sides are very cautious in their tactical actions.

Before the end of the day, that is, when the navies of the two sides were still deploying troops, the aviation units that had already been deployed in place took the lead. In the six days from the beginning of the day to the day of sunrise in February, the air forces of the two sides fought dozens of air battles, large and small. Among them, the large-scale air battles in which the number of fighters invested exceeded the number of planes, and the average number of days was known. Some people may think that the intensity of this large-scale air battle will not be so great, you know, in the air battle dominated by the blade and 4, combat is the only way to win, and in combat air combat, even if it is a two-plane formation activity, it is normal to invest hundreds of air supremacy fighters at one time, if you count the fighters who carry out strike missions, it is not uncommon for the number of aircraft participating in an air battle to exceed the blade blade frame, let alone put into persuasion fighters.

In fact, such large-scale air battles were also a major feature of the Third World War. Although before the grain year, both the Republic and the United States had launched real aerospace fighters. And all were mass-produced, but in combat use, they were threatened by the opponent's strategic defense system. Aerospace fighters rarely go to outer space, and in the atmosphere, the combat effectiveness of aerospace fighters is not necessarily much higher than that of fighters such as the Knife. It is precisely for this reason that in the second year of Jin, the main task of the aerospace fighter was not to seize air supremacy, but to bomb some particularly important targets. Replace the problems caused by the lack of production of aerospace bombers. For example, at the beginning of the new year, the Republican Aerospace Forces dispatched a number of old O air-space fighters to destroy the "Edward Air Force Base" located in the desert of western the United States, that is, the very famous "Lead-Area", which seriously weakened the war potential of the United States, and only three days later, the US Aerospace Forces retaliated by bombing the "National Physics Experiment Center" of the Republic. Affected by this, in the battle for air supremacy, ordinary fighters are still the absolute main force.

Affected by the reduction in the efficiency of air combat, the scale of air combat is naturally getting bigger and bigger.

Of course, the attrition of air combat is also frighteningly large.

In these six days of fighting, the US military lost more than 4 combat planes, of which there were more than one fighter plane, and the losses of the Republic Air Force were not much smaller; the navy lost the bungeeping combat planes, and the army lost the vigorous combat planes. In contrast to the huge rate of fighter losses, there is a huge casualty rate of pilots. According to the statistics of the Navy of the Republic, the number of naval fighter pilots killed in these six days was excessive, and at the end of the year, the total number of pilots killed in each quarter.

In fact, such huge losses also have a lot to do with the tactical attempts of both sides.

In a sense, this is a tactical attempt by the Navy of the Republic, not a tactical attempt by the US Navy

To put it bluntly, among the fleets invested by both sides, the main fleet of the Republic Navy has an absolute advantage, while the US Navy has an advantage in the air fleet. In order to fight a naval battle in which the main fleet will win or lose, that is, annihilation, the Navy of the Republic will have to find a way to weaken the superiority of the US military, and before the naval battle begins, the only way is to weaken the US air force through large-scale air battles. It can be said that even if the United States can replenish the lost fighters for the front-line troops, it will not be able to quickly replace the lost pilots, especially those with rich experience in actual combat.

It's not that the US Navy doesn't understand this. There just isn't a better way to deal with it.

Because the Navy of the Republic holds the initiative. Therefore, when the air battle began, the main fleet of the Republic Navy had been hovering south of the battlefield. Wait for the US military to make a mistake. To put it simply, if the US military avoids losing too many air forces, it will have to take the initiative to retreat, and the defects on the front will be exposed, and the opponent will be given an opportunity to take advantage of it. What's worse is that too many troops are concentrated in the narrow sea area, and it is very difficult or even impossible to adjust the deployment. Given the situation at that time, if the US military hastily adjusted its deployment, it was very likely that it would suffer a crushing defeat. In the absence of a choice, apart from making some tactical adjustments that do not hinder the overall situation, such as putting the carrier-based air force in the back and minimizing its participation in the war, the US military can only resist the pressure-for-tat, hoping to weaken the strike capability of the Republic's air force in a frontal conflict. In fact, the US military did a good job, and in order to create a good environment for a decisive battle, the naval aviation and army aviation of the Republic paid a very heavy price before the main fleet entered the battlefield and launched a decisive attack, and the ships operating near the battlefield and the ground forces on the battlefield on the West African continent also suffered losses.

This war of attrition, which was of little significance, ended at dawn on February Day.

With the four main fleets of the U.S. Navy assembled about a kilometer southwest of the Canary Islands, they headed south for the battlefield with the cruising range of Feng Jie. The Republican Navy fleet, which had been wandering near the battlefield for many days, also swung north, aiming at the oncoming American fleet.

Theoretically, within hours of coming out. The biggest naval battle in the Atlantic is about to begin.

Perhaps, this is still the largest naval battle in the entire war, and it is even possible to admit the largest naval battle in the history of mankind!