Li Chun, the captain of the 333 boat, won the respect of the Republic's navy, and in the subsequent exercises in which all the Chinese navies participated, the navies of other countries had to wait for fear of being beaten by the Chinese for another embarrassing end.

In addition to anti-submarine warfare, sea transportation and landing operations are also played the role of soy sauce because of the composition of the Chinese fleet, and the real other highlight is the actual confrontation at sea, which is the project of anti-ship warfare mentioned earlier. In this link, all three main combat ships of the Chinese side, plus a destroyer and frigate from Japan and Australia, formed a formation of five ships. Their opponent will be a formation of six ships composed of Britain, Canada, and the United States, and the Americans, in order to prevent Li Chun from making a fool of them again, use a Los Angeles-class nuclear submarine as a means of countermeasures.

The two formations will distance themselves in the Pacific Ocean, each using means to discover and destroy the other, in fact, it is a bit like the kind of naval fleet duel in the World War I era, because the two American aircraft carriers, the Carl Vinson and the Ranger, did not participate in this kind of duel. If you think about it, if the aircraft carrier is added, the advantage over other ships will be overwhelming.

Considering that the Chinese have long-range anti-ship missiles and AIP submarines, the US military had to take out the main battleship that was originally only used to participate in air defense subjects, the Ticonderoga-class cruiser, the third ship of the Vincennes.

The first five Ticonderoga-class ships all use Mk26 dual-arm missile launchers, although the bomb load is still more than the 6,800-ton 052A destroyer, but the rate of fire is not fast. However, there is one thing that 052A can't do against the Ticonderoga class, and that is the plate array antenna attached to the Ticonderoga's tall superstructure.

As the first generation of Aegis, although there are still many unsatisfactory points, it still has obvious advantages over the 052A, which relies on four fire control radars to guide the target. The U.S. Navy also pinned its hopes on the Ticonderoga-class cruisers, which are their main force, to teach their Chinese counterparts a good lesson and let them know who is the dominant force in the Pacific.

As the core warship of the Blue Fleet (the U.S. exercises are the opposite of China's, the imaginary enemy is the Red side, and China's imaginary enemy is the Blue side), the captain of the Vincennes, George? Ji was full of confidence, and before setting sail, he shouted to the officers and men of the whole ship: "Let the Chinese feel our enthusiasm as masters!" ”

Strategically despising the enemy and tactically valuing the enemy, although George Ji has not seen Mao Xuan, he has a deep understanding of it. From the very beginning, he regarded the Red Fleet as an opponent on a par with himself, and did not have the slightest carelessness like Pedersen before him. Moreover, in the last exercise, Li Chun, the captain of a Chinese submarine who was rumored to be almost demonic, was regarded by him as the biggest threat.

The young captain of the Chinese submarine is elusive and quiet, but the young captain has excellent tactical acumen and good patience, and although the long-range anti-ship missiles of the Chinese destroyer are also a headache for him, in his opinion, the threat of the Chinese submarine is the greatest.

Therefore, in this real confrontation, although anti-ship is the main subject, the blue fleet will not relax its attention to anti-submarine at all, and they also have an advantage this time, that is, a Los Angeles-class attack nuclear submarine has entered their formation, and the two sides are basically equal in submarine power, or in terms of speed, firepower, etc., the nuclear submarine has more advantages, and the 039A with absolute propulsion and bionic shark skin silencing tile is quieter than the Los Angeles-class.

With the intimidating radar on the Vincennes, the Blue Fleet is much more capable of detection than the Red Side. However, the Red side did not rest on its laurels, and Lu Junfu, the captain of the Shenzhen, who was the commander of the Red Fleet, was also racking his brains and trying to confront the Blue Fleet by various means.

The Sea of Japan's Hatsuyuki and the Royal Australian Navy's Darwin, plus the 054A Jiaxing are mainly engaged in regional anti-submarine work for the core ship Shenzhen, Lu Junfu and Georgeji's concerns are similar from the beginning, that is, the other party's submarines, and whether it is a British warship or an American warship, the AGM-84 Harpoon's range of more than 100 kilometers brings Lu Junfu a sense of urgency that is definitely not as strong as a nuclear submarine.

"No matter how powerful the Aegis cruiser is, no matter how versatile it is, it is absolutely related to the strategy pursued by the US Navy, and the United States' anti-ship strength focuses on carrier-based aviation and relatively despises ship-to-ship missiles, and this is a point that we can make good use of." Lu Junfu said with a smile.

On the other side, although the blue fleet is in full position, it is also relaxed, and several destroyers are sheltered by nuclear submarines, although they are spread out relatively widely, and the distance between them is even more than 10 kilometers, but they still have full confidence in discovering the enemy and striking first. Because the Blue fleet is equipped with two Sea King AWACS helicopters, which were brought by the British. After the Falklands War, the British suffered a loss of early warning power without a fleet, so they modified the Sea King AEW-Mk2, these helicopters are definitely worse than fixed-wing early warning aircraft like the E-2, but they are better than nothing in the formation without aircraft carriers.

It was only after an hour at sea that the AWACS helicopter, on which Georgige had high hopes, was shot down.

“…… Mayday, Mayday, we're going to be shot down! It's fighters, the enemy has fighters! I don't know if Lu Dao is the pilot of the helicopter who is too deep into the play, this is obviously a drill, but it turns out that he himself seems to be really on the battlefield and may be shot down by the enemy at any time. When a helicopter flies well on the sea and suddenly encounters a fighter plane, it must be full of fear, and in a tense and intense atmosphere, it is normal to substitute yourself in actual combat.

Helicopters do not necessarily suffer in the face of fighters, because many times they can block the range of fighter attacks through the terrain, and the fighters are too fast, and they may not be able to hit the helicopter when they come back from a few circles. But now at sea, a target as big as Sea King was "shot out of a cluster of 23mm aerial artillery shells" by a fighter plane that appeared inexplicably, and it was directly judged to be down.

George Ji was also stunned at this time, "What's the matter, where did the fighter come from?" This is obviously without the participation of land-based aviation and aircraft carriers, how can the other side have fighters? ”

This incomprehensible problem made Lu Junfu proud for a long time, because from the beginning he did not play cards according to common sense, and when setting the troop strength, he added a fighter to himself, that is, the J-8V Skua with vertical take-off and landing. I don't know what kind of consideration Lu Dao had in the first place, the spacious helicopter decks of several 052A such as the Shenzhen have been replaced with blowout materials, and in this way, the shipborne vertical take-off and landing fighter Skua that can fold its wings can take off and land here.

Taking off and landing on a small deck a few meters larger than a fighter plane is definitely a heartbeat, but it is also absolutely unexpected. 052A's huge double helicopter hangar, just after being modified to park a J-8V Skuua, in today's exercise, Lu Junfu did not carry a Z-20 anti-submarine helicopter, but pulled a J-8V up.

Although the vertical take-off and landing will reduce the combat radius of this fighter to 200 kilometers, it is still much more powerful than the Harrier. Relying on this fighter to conduct search and reconnaissance in a wider airspace, Lu Junfu was able to catch the enemy before the blue fleet.

Georgie could no longer doubt whether the Chinese were cheating, and the air defense alarm sounded on the Vincennes, and the officers and men of the whole ship became nervous.

"Tell me, where is that plane?"

The radar soldier replied sweatingly, "Report sir, we haven't found it yet." ”

Before George Georgie could give the next instruction, Captain Melville on the Canadian destroyer had already visually spotted a flying target, except that it was not an airplane, but an anti-ship missile!

When there was still some distance from the Canadian destroyer USS Kurtney, the anti-ship missile exploded on its own, and the director also sent a "congratulatory telegram", and the USS Kurtney was hit amidships, and the hull of the ship broke off and slowly began to sink.

"Cheating, cheating, this is cheating!" Lippitt blushed and said repeatedly that this pattern of attack was all too familiar to him, and that a few years ago Argentina's A-4 Skyhawk and Super Flag used this mode of skimming the sea to evade radar and then raid warships with anti-ship missiles.

God seemed to favor George, and his radar crew finally caught the Skua fighter, and Georgeji immediately said, "Standard missile, lock it, shoot it down!" ”

Before the Vincennes attacked, another American warship on the other side was "shot" again. The Skua carried two anti-ship missiles, an air-launched version of the YJ-83, one for the Canadians and one for the Americans. It always flies a little more than a hundred kilometers from the Blue Fleet and never comes close. In fact, this is also the farthest distance that the skua radar can take into account.

Standard missiles are fired continuously, but the hit rate at such a long distance is tangled in people's hearts. And this fighter plane seemed to find that it was swept by the irradiated radar, and immediately turned around and flew away.

At this time, just when George Ji was worried about whether the standard anti-aircraft missile could hit the enemy plane, his radar department shouted again: "Sir, more flying targets are approaching at high speed, and it is judged that they are anti-ship missiles!" ”

"How is that possible?!" Georgie was in a mess, he didn't expect it to end like this.

Lu Junfu celebrated in the war room with a smile on the success of stealing chickens, it didn't matter to him whether the fighter was alive or dead, anyway, it was all a drill, even if it was a real combat consumption of a fighter plane to knock out a few warships, it was worth it for him. This J-8V actually played the role of a relay guidance, sending the coordinates of the Vincennes to the Shenzhen behind it through a common data link. Although the Shenzhen could not accurately grasp the position of the Vincennes at a distance of more than 300 kilometers, it would be no problem with this coordinate.

The missiles were fired continuously, and Lu Junfu actually wanted to test the ability of the Aegis ship to resist saturation attacks. Of course, it is impossible to really hit her during the exercises, but the simulation of the result is calculated by parameters. He unleashed 8 YJ-62s, half of which missed, but only these 4 hits were enough to kill the Vincennes.