The inaction of the country in the Middle East battlefield is not equal to the thousands of people who are absorbing it in other battlefields. [No pop-up novel network]

In the year of Tian and Jinnian, in addition to the Pacific Theater and the Middle East Theater, the Indian Ocean Theater and the African Theater are undoubtedly the two most important. The battlefield is also the most fiercely contested and brutal battlefield between the two sides of the war. More importantly, the Indian Ocean battlefield and the African theater are interconnected and interactive, which makes the situation particularly complex. Thankfully. In both theaters, the dominant group was the intensive bloc with the Republic as the dominant position, and the Western bloc with the United States as the main force was basically exhausted.

In terms of importance, the Indian Ocean theater is definitely ahead of the African theater.

According to the statistics of the authorities of the republic, the two years before the war refer to the first two years after the entry of the United States into the war. That is, from the beginning of February to the beginning of the year, most of the merchant ships and transport ships that were sunk by the submarine of the Western Group in the Indian Ocean were actually fast transport ships of the Navy, and the total amount was over, 100 million blades and 100,000 deadweight tons, so the loss of materials was as high. Jun Gong 10,000 tons, sacrificing the crew, such as the more than O. And that's not counting the lost escort warships, as well as those that performed combat missions in the Indian Ocean. If calculated by tonnage. The ships sunk in the Indian Ocean accounted for the total losses of the Republic in the two years leading up to the war.

From this it follows that ensuring the security of the Indian Ocean shipping route is already an urgent issue for the republic.

In fact, as early as last year, the Navy of the Republic regarded the Indian Ocean as a "hard-hit area for submarine warfare." "Dispatch most of the convoy warships that were completed and commissioned in those years to the Indian Ocean, and form a number of old escort fleets to provide direct protection for the fleets on the various routes in the North Indian Ocean; In addition, a number of anti-submarine support centers have been established in the northern Indian Ocean, and hundreds of anti-submarine patrol aircraft and maritime patrol aircraft have been used to strengthen the anti-submarine capabilities on various routes; A number of large attack submarines have also been deployed in the Indian Ocean, forming a professional "submarine hunting submarine fleet." "The problem is that the forces are relatively limited. In the case of the need for protection and the fact that the scope of protection is too extensive, these measures of the Navy of the Republic have not received obvious practical results.

More importantly, the U.S. Navy also stepped up its investment in submarines in the following years, for example, the establishment of the Ninth Submarine Squadron in Caernarfon in western Australia in order to make this a center of submarine activities, and after the United States entered the war, it invested heavily in digging underground waterways from Shack Bay to Lake MacLeod, so that submarines could enter Lake Macleod to avoid the Republic's long-range patrol planes and strategic bombers. The number of submarines deployed in the Indian Ocean will be increased to more than four by the end of the fourth year, and the number of US submarines operating in the Indian Ocean will be too small. And several "wolf pack fleets" were formed. That is, a large attack submarine led by several small attack submarines, which specializes in encircling and suppressing the Republic fleet in the northern Indian Ocean.

All in all, the situation on the battlefield in the Indian Ocean has not changed much with the increased investment of the Republican Navy, but because the US Navy has continued to invest in a large number of small attack submarines. The rate of loss of ships has skyrocketed. According to the statistics of the authorities of the republic. In terms of deadweight tonnage, the number of ships lost in the year is four times that of the year, and even in terms of the rate of loss, i.e., the number of ships lost in proportion to the number of ships in transit, the year of the letter is more than twice that of the year of the nephew. Thus. The input of the Navy of the Republic did not receive results.

From another point of view, the main reason is not in the navy

You must know that the year can be regarded as the most critical year of the Pacific War. Although throughout the second half of the year, the Navy of the Republic fought in the southern part of the Mariana Islands and did not launch a large-scale strategic offensive, but judging from the entire war situation. It is precisely because of the actions of the Navy of the Republic in the direction of the Mariana Islands that the US Navy is pinned down. It laid the foundation for the advance into the southwest Pacific, that is, the second round of strategic offensives. Against this backdrop, even if the Republican Navy is aware of the importance of the Northern Indian Ocean route, it is unlikely that it will send additional anti-submarine forces to the Indian Ocean. What's more. Throughout the year, the Navy of the Republic of China had to give priority to ensuring the construction of capital ships, especially the "Han" class capital ships, to ensure the absolute superiority in strength gained in the following year, so as to provide a material basis for advancing into the Hawaiian Islands, and there was no way to build more escort warships, and even the construction of submarines was even affected.

In any case, the situation has changed in four years.

To be precise, in the second half of the year, a turning point appeared.

It is precisely because in the Pacific theater that the two sides are deadlocked in the battle for the Mariana Islands. The war of attrition at sea, which lasted for several months, seriously weakened the combat effectiveness of the US Navy. More importantly, as a result, the U.S. Navy strengthened the Third Submarine Squadron, headquartered in Brisbane, eastern Australia, and mainly responsible for breaking diplomatic relations and anti-submarine warfare operations in the southwest Pacific direction, and the Fifth Submarine Squadron, headquartered in Pearl Harbor. Most of the submarines are based at Midway Island, mainly responsible for breaking diplomatic relations and anti-submarine combat operations in the western Pacific direction, and more submarines have been put into the western Pacific to strangle the sea route from Naha to Saipan, prevent the Republican Marine Corps from increasing troops to the front line, and at the same time force the Republic Navy to use more types of warships for rear escort rather than on the front line to fight with the U.S. military. And so it goes. The Ninth Submarine Squadron was weakened, and according to the U.S. military's combat record, by the end of the year. Although the total number of submarines in the Ninth Submarine Squadron has increased to more than one submarine, there are only one large attack submarine, a decrease of 60 percent from the beginning of last year. Because small attack submarines only have the ability to deal with surface ships, they are easily attacked by the other side's submarines when they carry out the task of breaking diplomatic relations alone, and the US Navy's efforts to break diplomatic relations in the Indian Ocean battlefield have naturally decreased a lot.

Of course, the main factor is still in the Navy of the Republic.

After a year of "dismal management." Subsequently, at the beginning of the year, the Navy of the Republic established the "Indian Ocean Anti-Submarine Escort Operations Command." This one-size-fits-all organization under the direct command of the Naval Command has only one task, that is, how to improve the efficiency of anti-submarine warfare in the Indian Ocean and effectively protect the thousands of merchant ships on the shipping routes. Seventy percent of them are the republic's Yi Xun books, fine notches, mixed with different body clams, and most of the other three percent are also ships of the member countries of the intensive group. The bamboo stunned" after its establishment. The first thing to do is to take stock of the previous year's anti-submarine warfare, find out what the problem is, and find out more effective anti-submarine tactics. After half a year of hard work, hundreds of submarine warfare experts, that is, the staff officers of the headquarters, summed up several very valuable experiences, and several effective antisubmarine tactics were born, such as using the method of escorting warships in sections to improve the combat efficiency of escort warships, setting up fixed antisubmarine patrol areas in the sea area where submarines are ambushed to contain enemy submarines' attack actions, and cooperating with the space forces to strike at enemy submarine bases to reduce the combat efficiency of enemy submarines. Deploy submarine fleets specialized in anti-submarine missions on the round-trip routes of enemy submarines to sneak attack enemy submarines, and so on.

These tactics have been used in actual combat in four years and half a year, and have achieved relatively significant results. In a certain sense, the war situation in the second half of the year has the greatest relationship with the huge investment of the US Navy.

Take the combat exchange ratio of US submarines. The key lies in that. In the first half of the year, the exchange ratio of US submarines in the operation of breaking diplomatic relations was Bibi, that is, the average number of ships sunk and the loss of one submarine, but in the first half of the year, this proportion remained strong. In the second half of the year, it quickly decreased to the introduction. If we look at the tonnage exchange ratio, that is, the ratio of the tonnage of the lost submarines to the sunken ships, the US submarines flew in the first year. In the first half of the year, the average tonnage of transport ships increased a lot, because the large transport ships built in batches by the Republic were put into service at the beginning of the year, so this figure has increased a lot. In the second half of the year, there will be only concave. It can be seen that if there is no huge investment of troops. It is simply impossible for the U.S. Navy to achieve a sinking blade in the next year. The achievements of many merchant ships are even less likely to force the Navy of the Republic to the point where it has to increase the investment of anti-submarine forces.

Thanks to the preparatory work in the early stage, especially the various anti-submarine tactics summed up, by the end of the year, that is, the war potential of the republic has been fully unleashed, and the construction of anti-submarine escort warships and submarines has reached an "assembly line." level, the happy days of American submarines in the Indian Ocean have basically come to an end.

In the first quarter of the second year alone, the Republic of China's navy sent additional anti-submarine escort warships to the Indian Ocean passed the whole year, and the number of anti-submarine escort warships was as high as the number of young ships. In these battleships. In addition to anti-submarine frigates built according to wartime standards, there were also large anti-submarine destroyers.

The deployment of additional large anti-submarine destroyers is a proposal put forward by the Indian Ocean Anti-submarine Escort Operations Command.

As with small attack submarines, anti-submarine frigates, built according to wartime conditions, have very obvious performance drawbacks, such as a single mission capability. It only has limited sea control and air defense capabilities, and if it encounters enemy ships and enemy planes, self-protection is a very big problem. In some cases, even if an enemy attack submarine is encountered, several frigates will need to be dispatched to drive it away from the fleet. These shortcomings of anti-submarine frigates are not very prominent, especially when dealing with the enemy's small attack submarines, most of the time they can gain the upper hand, but they are carrying out extended escort tasks, such as encircling and suppressing the enemy's submarine fleet in a specific sea area, or ambushing enemy ships in a specific sea area. These performance flaws of anti-submarine destroyers are very obvious, and in some cases even very fatal. For example, in August of this year, the Navy of the Republic of China organized a major anti-submarine operation codenamed "Clawwa Tiger," in which seven anti-submarine frigates were lost, four of which were sunk by anti-ship missiles fired by US patrol planes, and the other was sunk by large US attack submarines.

Suffice it to say that these shortcomings of anti-submarine corvettes are difficult to change. To be precise, under the premise of controlling costs and facilitating large-scale construction, there is basically no way to comprehensively improve the comprehensive combat capability of anti-submarine frigates. To put it bluntly, if the cost factor is not taken into account, there is no need at all for the Navy of the Republic to build specialized anti-submarine frigates, only anti-submarine destroyers need to be built in large quantities.

The problem is also here, it is not cost-effective to increase the integrated combat capabilities of anti-submarine frigates.

In the final analysis, anti-submarine frigates belong to the "expendable" class of warships, that is, they are built in huge quantities and the losses are very staggering. According to the relevant records of the Navy of the Republic, the average service life of many anti-submarine frigates built during the war was only a few years, while the average service life of other warships was more than one year, and the average service life of some large warships was even more than a blade year. It can be seen from this that if the displacement of anti-submarine frigates is increased in pursuit of comprehensive capabilities, the cost of building anti-submarine frigates will also increase, and valuable war resources will be wasted. Although the comprehensive combat capabilities of the second-generation anti-submarine frigates, which began construction at the beginning of the year, have been improved, such as being equipped with heavy anti-ship missiles with a range of up to 4,000 meters and having a comprehensive air defense system capable of intercepting dozens of targets at the same time, in order to control costs. The anti-submarine frigate is also not equipped with a controllable fusion reactor and is still powered by a composite battery and a fleet power delivery system, so its independent combat capability is still very limited.

The problem is that anti-submarine warfare ships with strong comprehensive combat capabilities are needed in anti-submarine warfare.

Long before the outbreak of the Great War, the Navy made it clear that in anti-submarine escort operations, there must be at least one in the escort fleet! A large warship with limited integrated combat capabilities. Affected by this, before the outbreak of the Great War, the Republic Navy adjusted its shipbuilding plan and no longer built anti-submarine frigates with smaller tonnage, at that time, the main anti-submarine force in the aircraft carrier battle group of the Republic Navy was frigates, not destroyers. Instead, switch to an anti-submarine destroyer with a much larger tonnage. What's more, the anti-submarine destroyers built by the Navy of the Republic before the war were all built in accordance with the "fleet lead ship." The standard construction, that is, they all have relatively complete fleet command capabilities, and can act as the flagship of the fleet by adding flagship modules when necessary. Of course. On the opposite side of the integrated combat capability, anti-submarine destroyers with a much larger displacement can obtain more complete combat capabilities by replacing the mission module. In fact, the Navy of the Republic has not been able to reduce the construction of anti-submarine destroyers.

By the beginning of the year, with the new generation of multi... The Navy of the Republic of China began to have a plan to send anti-submarine destroyers to the "two oceans to enhance the anti-submarine submarine forces in the Indian Ocean." Don't underestimate this anti-submarine destroyer, if it is incorporated into the escort fleet, even if the fleet needs 2 destroyers, it can form a blade support fleet with the concave anti-submarine frigates, and then cover the support fleet in a segmented escort way, that is, about the Liekou merchant ships. More importantly, if this anti-submarine destroyer is used to perform key anti-submarine missions. It is possible to set up old key anti-submarine zones in areas where US submarines are frequently active, and intensify the strangulation of US submarines.

In fact. For the vast majority of the time, the most effective anti-submarine weapons were submarines, especially more advanced submarines.

In the past four years, about 60 percent of the US submarines sunk by the Navy of the Republic were the result of attack submarines that were sent to carry out anti-submarine missions. Surface ships accounted for only 2 percent, and the other 2 percent were the results of anti-submarine patrol aircraft. More importantly. In these two years, there were only ugly attack submarines carrying out anti-submarine missions in the Indian Ocean, far fewer than anti-submarine warships and anti-submarine aircraft. It is also easy to understand that most of the tasks of anti-submarine warfare ships are escort, that is, to cover the fleet, and in escort operations, the main value of the existence of anti-submarine warfare ships is to prevent enemy submarines from attacking, not to destroy enemy submarines. In other words, as long as the fleet can reach its destination before it is attacked, the mission is considered a success. Affected by this, escort warships rarely maneuvered with enemy submarines on the ocean, and often took the initiative to disengage from the battle with the help of degree advantage after driving out enemy submarines. In contrast, the task of anti-submarine submarines is much more straightforward. Arguably. None of the submarines were suitable for escort missions. Most of the time, submarines on anti-submarine missions lay in ambush on the route of the convoy according to intelligence, waiting for enemy submarines to appear. Then attack the enemy submarine while the enemy submarine is sneaking up on the fleet. After the refinement of anti-submarine escort tactics. Escort warships and anti-submarine patrol planes will also drive enemy submarines into ambush circles set up by their own submarines to increase the chance of sinking enemy submarines. It can be seen from this that the credit for the anti-submarine submarine to achieve such great results belongs to the escort warships and anti-submarine patrol planes.

The problem is that not all submarines are capable of performing reverse missions.

To put it simply, only submarines that outperform enemy submarines are capable of performing anti-submarine missions. That is, only the most advanced submarines are suitable for performing anti-submarine tasks.

In the year of Kun and Yue, the navy of the Republic of China needs to deploy most of the large attack submarines in the Pacific Ocean to cooperate with the fleet in combat, especially when entering the southwest Pacific, because the span is too large, the patrol planes and reconnaissance planes are unusable, so the submarines have to be used to carry out long-range alert and peripheral reconnaissance missions. Affected by this. It was not until the beginning of the year that the Republic Navy was able to dispatch more large attack submarines to the Indian Ocean to carry out anti-submarine missions.

Affected by this, during the war, the Navy of the Republic not only did not slow down the construction of large attack submarines, but also started the construction of a new generation of large attack submarines at the beginning of the year, and carried out batch construction in shipyards in Qinhuangdao, Qingdao, Fuzhou, Beihai and other places. By the middle of the Tian year, this kind of construction and design work during the Great War began before the explosion of the Great War, but after the explosion of the Great War, adjustments were made according to the actual combat situation and entered service one after another. According to the operational record of the Navy of the Republic. By the end of the year, the number of large attack submarines sent to the Indian Ocean to carry out anti-submarine missions had reached as many as Qin, most of which were new-generation attack submarines.

Such a huge investment has given the Navy of the Republic more options.

The mother is undoubted. Submarines have been a veritable offensive weapon since the day they were born, and the value of their existence is to take the initiative to attack, even in anti-submarine warfare. In fact, submarines are not suitable for escort missions, especially to cover fleets that are above the average level of the Clippers, and can even continue to sail at a knotty rate. It is also easy to understand that any kind of attack submarine sailing at a certain degree or more will not only make very loud noise, but also its own sonar will not work properly. As a result, when performing anti-submarine missions, large attack submarines often lie in ambush in areas where enemy boats are frequented.

This anti-Chiang tactic allowed the defending side to have the initiative again and again.

It can be said that it was the addition of large attack submarines. To be precise, it is submarines that have become the main force in anti-submarine warfare, which makes anti-submarine warfare operations very different from previous wars. The most notable feature is that the defensive side gains the ability to attack actively. Tactically. If the Navy of the Republic is able to commit to a sufficient number of large attack submarines, and does not even need to deploy an escort fleet, all anti-submarine escort warships will have to be "unemployed".

Of course, before the end, the Navy of the Republic would not be able to deploy enough large attack submarines on the Ear Ocean. Overall, anti-submarine escort operations are still dominated by surface ships and anti-submarine patrol aircraft. And most of the time it is with accompanying escorts against elusive US submarines. In order to weaken the intensity of the activities of US submarines, the Navy of the Republic of China has carried out several key antisubmarine activities from time to time, the most outstanding of which was in July of this year, when the Navy of the Republic of China dispatched an old antisubmarine destroyer, a downed antisubmarine frigate, a number of antisubmarine patrol planes, and an unknown number of large attack submarines, centered on the Sunda Strait. The radius of the anti-submarine zone is set up between the kilometers and the number of small US attack submarines that sank in less than a knife day, making the next two. Within a month, the intensity of the activity of US submarines in the Indian Ocean was reduced by two-thirds.

It can be seen that in the second half of the year. With the increase in the number of large attack submarines operating in the Indian Ocean, the Navy of the Republic has been exploring new anti-submarine tactics, especially the anti-submarine tactics of using large attack submarines to concentrate sorties and conduct hunting in sea areas where enemy boats are frequent.

In the first quarter of the first quarter of the year, when the number of large attack submarines operating in the Indian Ocean exceeded four, the navy of the Republic began to try to take the initiative, that is, to let several large attack submarines form an "underwater fleet" to take the initiative to set up ambushes on the submarine routes of the enemy boats, and even set up ambush circles outside the enemy's submarine bases to attack those who had not yet entered the war zone and had not yet threatened the fleet of the republic

This tactical adjustment means that the Republic Navy has gained superiority in submarine forces in the Indian Ocean. That is, the situation on the battlefield became more favorable for the Navy of the Republic. It can also be seen from the troop strength data of both sides that the beginning of the year can be regarded as a turning point in the battle between the two sides and the battle to break diplomatic relations and defend diplomatic relations. According to the relevant records of the US Navy, it was the beginning of the year. Attack submarines operating in the Indian Ocean are still around the same level as they were at the beginning of the fourth year. Among them, there are less than large attack submarines with anti-submarine capabilities, and the rest are small attack submarines. According to the relevant archives released by the Navy of the Republic after the war, at the beginning of the year, there were four submarines operating in the Indian Ocean, more than twice the number at the beginning, and basically all of them were large attack submarines with a displacement of more than a ton of return tons. Although the US military still has an advantage in numbers, the combat effectiveness of the submarine forces of the Navy of the Republic of China has surpassed that of the US military, according to the calculation that the combat effectiveness of one large attack submarine is equivalent to that of three to four small attack submarines.

There is no doubt that this kind of proactive encirclement and suppression action is absolutely great for the US military

Difficult.

At the end of the first quarter of the year, the Navy of the Republic launched a combat operation codenamed "Death Trap". This sent a large attack submarine to Caernarfon. In the high-intensity anti-submarine warfare that lasted Feng Tian. 3 "underwater fleets" each consisting of several large old attack submarines. They took turns to attack and sank a small US attack submarine and dozens of small anti-submarine ships in the waters within a kilometer radius of a kilometer west of Kanafon. Before the end of the campaign, several submarines of the three "underwater fleets" also attacked Caernarfon and the submarine cobalt mooring in Lake McLeod with heavy cruise missiles, blowing up the submarine base that the US military had worked so hard to build. After this initiative, the US military was forced to transfer the submarine base to Perth, and for the next few months, no effective offensive operations were organized in the Indian Ocean.

It can be seen that taking the initiative to attack is indeed the best means of anti-submarine warfare.

In the words of Rear Admiral Wu Wei, who was in charge of anti-submarine operations in the Indian Ocean at the time, the best American submarine is the American submarine that will remain in the port forever!

Since it is an active attack, it is necessary to mention another kind of combat platform, that is, strategic bombers.

In fact. Even before the golden year, the strategic bombers of the Republic's Space Force had already assisted the navy in carrying out anti-submarine warfare missions in the Indian Ocean theater in an active manner.

As early as the beginning of the year, that is, shortly after the US military withdrew from the Indian Ocean and the Ninth Submarine Squadron was established, the Indian Ocean Submarine Command was still called at that time, the Republic Navy proposed an operational plan for the space forces to bomb the major ports in western Australia and prevent US submarines from entering the Indian Ocean. Combined with the naval battle of the Maldives, which was born that year, this operational plan of the Navy was quickly supported by the General Staff and the High Command. The question is. Even by the end of the 8th year, the Celestial Forces of the Republic did not have enough bombers to expand the operational area, and there were still many places where bombers were needed at that time, so it was impossible to put valuable combat forces on anti-submarine operations in the Indian Ocean. Besides. It was not until last year that the US submarine broke diplomatic relations in the Indian Ocean and put obvious pressure on the Republic. Exactly. At the beginning of the year, at the strong request of the navy, the Celestial Army bombed Canafon. Affected by this, the U.S. military transferred a 10,000-ton bladed rice boring machine from China. Two "undersea tunnels" were dug south of Lake MacLeod for communication with attack submarines. "Turned Lake MacLeod into the largest cobalt mooring for U.S. submarines in Western Australia. In fact. Throughout. In other years, due to the influence of combat operations in other directions, especially on the battlefield on the mainland, the bombing operations of the Celestial Forces of the Republic in the direction of the Indian Ocean were not very effective. Even in the second half of the year, the situation on the battlefield eased somewhat. Because it is necessary to redress the troops and prepare for a strategic offensive in the inevitable year, the Celestial Forces have not made much contribution to anti-submarine warfare operations in the Indian Ocean.

It was not until this situation that there was a substantial improvement.

As we all know, 2 yo years can be regarded as a "good harvest." of the year. In this year, in addition to the republican ** team reaping major results on all fronts, the military production capacity of the republic has also reached a peak, creating one miracle after another that is enough to shock the world, for example, the number of bombers produced in this year exceeded 10,000, almost twice that of the United States. It is with such a huge production capacity that the strategic bomber forces of the Celestial Army of the Republic can fully blossom on all fronts. Shouldering heavier combat missions, including anti-submarine missions in the Indian Ocean.

According to the combat records of the Celestial Army of the Republic, in, the knife. The remaining bombers consumed about 10,000 tons of ammunition on the Indian Ocean battlefield, and each bomber dropped an average of tons of bombs, even if calculated according to the number of bombs dropped per sortie, which is equivalent to each bomber making sorties every day. Judging by the intensity of sorties alone, the combat intensity of strategic bomber forces in the Indian Ocean is in no way inferior to that of the South-West Pacific. With such a huge investment, the results are also very significant. From a tactical point of view, the active offensive actions of the bomber forces can be divided into 2 stages.

Prior to the Field, the main role of the bomber force was to bomb the ports of the western part of Australia and all areas that could be used for the activities of American submarines.

To put it bluntly, at this time, the main tactic of the strategic bomber force of the Republic's Space Army was to use bombers to deal with submarines and submarine bases.

Judging by the bombing of submarine bases, the effect is not bad. In just a few months, with the exception of the heavily fortified Caernarvon and Perth, most of the ports in the western region of Australia have lost their operational capacity, and even the Lake MacLeod submarine base has been severely damaged, making the sortie efficiency of US submarines greatly reduced. The question is. It's not a good idea to use bombers against submarines. Tactically. The US military only needs to raise the combat readiness level of its submarine force, that is, keep the submarines returning to port on alert, and after receiving the alarm, they can make an emergency dive, so that the bombers' attack will come to naught. Of course, if you leave port, the submarine will be able to avoid the bombers more easily. In fact, overall, during the Great War, very few submarines were sunk by bombers during activities at sea.

Because direct bombing was not effective, from 2... It starts in the first half of the month. The main task of the strategic bomber unit has changed from bombing to wells: to lay special anti-submarine mines, especially intelligent anti-submarine mines, on the main routes of US submarines, in areas with frequent activities, and in the waters near submarine bases.

In response to this combat operation, the Navy of the Republic has also specially launched several intelligent anti-submarine mines.

Although the cost of this method of warfare is extremely enormous. In the seven months or so of the year, the strategic bombers of the Space Army used up about 10,000 mines. The total tonnage of bombs dropped exceeded 10,000 tons, which was 50 percent more than the amount of bombs dropped in the previous bombing campaign. But the effectiveness of this tactic is also particularly significant. By the end of the year, in addition to sinking nearly 100 US submarines, it had also reduced the sortie rate of US submarines by more than 60 percent, reduced the activity efficiency of US submarines by 40 percent, and reduced the combat efficiency of US submarines in breaking diplomatic relations in the Indian Ocean by more than half. Of course, the most striking effect of this tactic is the psychological blow to the officers and men of the US submarines. That is, to let the US officers and soldiers carry out their tasks. We have to be on guard at all times for the ubiquitous intelligent anti-submarine mines. According to the combat records of the US Navy, this psychological pressure has greatly reduced the combat efficiency of US submarines, missed many opportunities, and even led to many technical failures.

In a certain sense, it was the large-scale use of mines by the Space Forces in anti-submarine operations in the Indian Ocean that provided a theoretical basis for the blockade of ports with mines when they launched a strategic bombing campaign against Australia in the future. More importantly, with the huge orders in the early stage, when the space army needs to order more mines, the republic's munitions factories have enough capacity to produce ammunition and materials that are sufficient to meet the combat needs of the space army.

After the war, even most Western war historians had to admit that the anti-submarine warfare operations of the Republic's Space Army in the mouth provided a theoretical basis for the subsequent strategic bombing and strategic blockade, perfected the tactics of the strategic bomber force, and thus accelerated the course of the war.

Compare with the vigorous strategic bombardment. Another long-range anti-submarine aviation force is much more low-key.

This is the unit of anti-submarine patrol aircraft subordinate to the naval aviation of the republic.

Purely in terms of combat effectiveness, antisubmarine patrol aircraft may be regarded as the antisubmarine force with the largest sortie rate, and the effectiveness of antisubmarine warfare is not lower than that of antisubmarine warships, but not as good as submarines.

During the entire war, the Navy of the Republic ordered more than 8 anti-submarine patrol planes, 70 percent of which were deployed on the rear battlefield to carry out patrol missions to protect the diplomatic forces. Before the end of the year, the Republic Navy had as many as many anti-submarine patrol planes on the Indian Ocean battlefield, and about 60 percent of them were on the plane. Long-range anti-submarine patrol aircraft of more than one kilometer.

If calculated by the number of sunken submarines. The results of anti-submarine patrol aircraft before the end of the year were not very satisfactory, only on par with anti-submarine warships, and far lower than that of anti-submarine submarines. It was not until the golden year that the performance of anti-submarine patrol aircraft improved significantly, not only surpassing anti-submarine warfare ships, but also anti-submarine submarines. In that year, nearly half of the many US submarines sunk by the Navy of the Republic were sunk by anti-submarine patrol planes.

Although, in a sense, such an impressive record is not only the credit of anti-submarine patrol aircraft. There are many other factors. For example, the overall decline in the quality of the officers and men of the US submarine force has greatly reduced the combat capability of US submarines. Another example is that US submarines have been affected by the lack of infrastructure and have not been effectively maintained for a long time, and various faults often occur when performing combat missions, and these failures often become the direct cause of the submarine's death in the sea. Of course, the intelligence services of the republic also have a lot of credit. For example, through a captured submarine, the code of the US military was mastered. Help was provided for the Navy in arranging patrol tactics of anti-submarine patrol aircraft. In fact, this also has a lot to do with other anti-submarine activities, such as the minefields laid by bombers limiting the range of activities of US submarines, and the ambush actions of anti-submarine submarines force US submarines to sprint all their way when passing through dangerous sea areas, so as to expose their whereabouts and be overtaken by faster anti-submarine patrol aircraft. However, it cannot be denied that the anti-submarine patrol aircraft are the fastest and most responsive anti-submarine forces, that is, the anti-submarine patrol planes possess unparalleled maneuvering capabilities, which are not possessed by any other kind of anti-submarine forces. Affected by this, anti-submarine patrol aircraft played a vital role in various anti-submarine battlefields throughout the war.

There is no doubt that the Indian Ocean is the main battlefield for anti-submarine patrol aircraft of the Navy of the Republic.

According to the operational record of the Navy of the Republic. By the time Australia announced its surrender, the various anti-submarine forces of the Republic Navy had sunk and captured U.S. submarines in the Indian Ocean theater, including sinking milk ships and capturing 4 submarines, and after occupying Australia, they had accepted many submarines from U.S. forces and the Royal Australian Navy. For this result, the navy of the Republic of China paid a huge price for the loss of submarines, anti-submarine warships, milk ships, anti-submarine patrol planes, and strategic bombers, and also lost four merchant ships and transport vessels with a total deadweight tonnage of 10,000 tons, and the direct economic losses were as high as one trillion yuan.

It can be seen that although the US military lost the war in the Indian Ocean, it took advantage economically. The problem is that the big war is not about who takes advantage, but who has a strategic advantage. You know, behind the huge economic losses, there are huge benefits that the republic receives from the Indian Ocean routes. That is, billions of tons of various strategic materials obtained from Southeast Asia, South Asia, the Middle East, Africa and South America, and these materials are the solid foundation for supporting the Republic to win the war and have the last laugh.

In a certain sense, the defeat of the US military in the Indian Ocean was a strategic turning point in the middle of the war, that is, the turning point from the stalemate between the two warring parties to the Republic's strategic initiative and the launch of an all-out strategic offensive.

Of course, no one can deny that the victory of the republic is of no less important value on another battlefield with its Indian Ocean neighbor. This is the war on the continent! If you want to know what happened next, please log in to the muscle, more chapters, support the author, support genuine reading!