Chapter 698 699 The Great Air Battle in the East China Sea
The fall of Istanbul has led to a turning point in the form of the Eurasian and African battlefields, which is not a turning point. Turkey lost Istanbul, and there was an immediate and complete collapse, and the Kurdish army in the south also marched high, capturing many important Turkish cities one after another, and completely controlling the Kurdish region of Turkey was just around the corner. Immediately after that, the Kuku army and the SCO coalition forces will join forces with Turkey as planned, completely open up this Eurasian land bridge, and the European part of the SCO will no longer be isolated, and will receive a steady stream of support from China itself.
From this, the war situation in Europe is not optimistic, so the US military cannot sit idly by and watch Turkey be taken down by China like India and South Africa, and Turkey must resist to the end.
Naturally, the United States will not just choose to drain the blood of China and the SCO in Turkey, and Bush Jr. has come up with a strategy that he thinks is very clever, which is actually the "encirclement of Wei and rescue Zhao" used by the Chinese thousands of years ago. Bush Jr. believes that China's military strength with the SCO is limited, and that the number of Chinese troops now in India, South Africa, and Europe is as high as nearly 2 million, which is equivalent to the number of Chinese regular troops in active service before the war. Bush Jr. judged that although China has recruited a large number of soldiers, a conservative estimate of 5 million, there are definitely not many who can afford to fight a war.
George W. Bush firmly believes that no matter how powerful a country and military are, if they expend their strength on too many battlefields, they will also encounter their own bottlenecks, and the United States has already seen a phenomenon of being unable to take care of the situation at this time, not to mention that the US allies are much stronger than China's allies. Therefore, he knew that constantly looking for China's troubles in the new battlefield was also asking for trouble for himself, but Bush Jr. also stubbornly believed that China's troubles would be even greater.
As long as the Chinese encounter their own bottlenecks and begin to appear in the case of overstretched forces or firepower, they will naturally show flaws, and the invincible Achilles also has his own ankle is a weakness, and the exhausted Chinese army will inevitably be able to find weaknesses all over the body.
After a long period of preparations, the US military stationed in Japan and the Japanese Self-Defense Forces began to attack the Chinese mainland. In order to be able to truly threaten China, the US military gathered nearly 1,000 fighters and 60% of all bombers in the Japanese archipelago and the Ryukyu Islands. Even after the US military broke through the INF Treaty, it built a large number of medium-range missiles and deployed them in Okinawa, with the tactical aim of destroying China's economically developed coastal areas, thereby reducing China's industrial capacity and war potential just like China's "tortoiseshell plan."
Clearly, however, China's own defenses are much more dense and complex than those of European countries. The U.S. military launched a number of intermediate-range ballistic missiles in Okinawa at China's Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Shanghai and other important cities, and the targets were not limited to military installations, but also to the cities themselves. Such a move is naturally a response to China's forcible shelling of Istanbul without regard for the safety of Istanbul citizens.
However, the US military's medium-range ballistic missiles were intercepted by China's Hongqi-19 air defense system, and the Chinese Navy's East China Sea Fleet is now basically a coastal defensive fleet, and its offensive functions have been assigned to the Pacific Fleet, and one of the important defensive functions is to launch anti-missile missiles and sea-based anti-missile missiles from Aegis ships.
Several medium-range missiles were captured by China's anti-missile early warning satellites as soon as they were launched, and the Hongqi-19, which has a mid-course anti-missile capability, was launched by two 052D destroyers cruising in the East China Sea.
As a matter of fact, long before launching the attack, US military experts had predicted that unless the US military launched a large-scale saturation attack on China's extremely efficient anti-missile system, or supplemented it with some pre-emptive measures to paralyze China's anti-missile system, a few missiles would not be enough to cause any damage to China's mainland.
Immediately after that, the US military began to take off a large number of fighters and bombers from Japan to fly over the East China Sea, preparing to carry out direct bombing, paralyzing some of China's early warning radars and air defense systems, and preparing for subsequent larger-scale air raids. The US military planes that carried out this batch of strikes were basically stealth fighters. In addition to the B-2 ghost bomber, which still plays the main role, the US military also dispatched a large number of F-22 and F-35 to respond. These fighters also carry certain ground weapons, which are specially designed to attack some important targets.
Such a large-scale air raid naturally cannot be ignored by the Chinese. The PLA Air Force and Navy Air Force, which were guarding the homeland, immediately dispatched urgently and outnumbered twice as many as the US military. This world-renowned air battle in the East China Sea broke out in this way, and the two sides engaged in fierce competition for air supremacy in the East China Sea. From the very beginning, the US military did not feel that it was a realistic thing to completely seize air supremacy, so the main plan of the air attack was to use fighter planes to entangle China's interceptor fighters, and then some of the fighters would carry out a forced breakthrough or sneak attack to carry out a limited attack on the Chinese mainland.
However, even if the Americans want to use sneak attacks as the main way of attack, sneak attacks are not a simple matter, especially when China sends twice as many fighters as the US military. In this kind of battlefield, the Japanese Self-Defense Forces' fighters can only be regarded as a fraction of the battle between the two countries, and although they have also played a certain role, in the face of such a powerful and terrifying Chinese air force, they are still only afraid of swallowing saliva.
Despite the efforts of the US military, including the pilots of the US Air Force, US military planes have recently only reached the sea and airspace 170 kilometers away from Zhoushan, and they are completely unable to attack the Chinese mainland. On the contrary, the U.S. military wants to use the B-52 to launch Tomahawk cruise missiles for air strikes, but China's interceptor fighters focus on these old bombers that can launch cruise missiles from a distance of 2,000 kilometers.
The US military naturally desperately protects these bombers, but the Chinese still have a numerical advantage, coupled with the advanced generation of air-to-air missiles, so that often more than a hundred kilometers away, Chinese fighters launch missiles to attack these bombers, and B-52 obviously has no ability to dodge, although the probability of shooting down is not very high, most of them cause damage and return, but still cause huge damage to the US military, not to mention the attack on the Chinese mainland.
Fargo, commander of the U.S. Pacific Theater of Operations, expressed stern disappointment at the effectiveness of the air strikes, arguing that the U.S. military had miscalculated the strength of the Chinese air force, "In India, South Africa, the Southwest Pacific, Europe and the Middle East, there are at least 3,000 Chinese fighter jets fighting, and we may not be able to consider their own strength." But in fact, this is not the case, the Chinese can come up with more than a thousand fighters in the East China Sea alone, and a considerable number of them are advanced fifth-generation fighters, which shows that our intelligence work is still very insufficient. ”
In order to strengthen its air forces in the East China Sea, so that it can suppress China, at least for a short time, and strike at the Chinese mainland, the US military has transferred two aircraft carrier battle groups to China's doorstep. Back then, when China participated in the Korean War, the US Seventh Fleet sent an aircraft carrier through the Taiwan Strait, which deterred China and cut off China's desire to quickly resolve Taiwan. In another plane, during the missile crisis in the Taiwan Strait, US aircraft carriers once again opened their way through the Taiwan Strait, and China had no choice but to watch and tremble. In the East China Sea, the United States and Japan can conduct military exercises at will, without looking at the faces of the Chinese.
However, the situation on this plane is completely different, the United States has not had any decent military activities on the western side of the Okinawa Islands for many years, because it is afraid that such military activities will provoke China's nerves, and China has a large number of weapons that can threaten the US fleet, and the United States is not stupid, if it may face heavy losses, they will naturally not send the fleet to the range of the enemy's weapons.
The Americans are quite afraid of China's supersonic heavy anti-ship missiles, but in the East China Sea operation, the U.S. military dropped a staggering number of hydroacoustic qì people, gadgets that can receive sonar signals without interruption and can act autonomously.
and form a three-dimensional dynamic anti-submarine network, which greatly enhances the anti-submarine capability of the US military.
Naturally, such a thing is indispensable to the contribution of the Mystery Palace, and the US military has gained a little confidence in being able to compete with the Chinese Navy in the East China Sea. However, this confidence is also very limited, because although the US military has mastered the technology of capturing Chinese submarine signals, how to kill Chinese submarines remotely is still a big problem. Chinese submarines can attack U.S. ships from more than 100 nautical miles, but the U.S. military lacks something that can directly destroy Chinese submarines more than 100 nautical miles away.
However, the US military has P-3C, P-8, S-3, S-4 fixed-wing anti-submarine aircraft, SH-60 Sea Hawk anti-submarine helicopters and other aviation anti-submarine weapons, in the past, these were also very useful submarine killers, because submarines have no way to deal with these air hunters, but China's Thorn-6 submarine-launched anti-aircraft missiles have changed this situation, which makes China's attack nuclear submarines very likely to shoot down the US anti-submarine aircraft first.
Therefore, when the US military grasps the movements of Chinese submarines, it is more likely that it can judge and evade the hunting of Chinese submarines in advance, and there are really not many countermeasures against Chinese submarines. At least if the aircraft carrier is preserved, it will be able to launch a larger-scale offensive against the Chinese mainland, and as for the destruction of Chinese submarines, it will be left to be resolved later.
It's just that the Americans don't know that the threat they encounter from aircraft carriers floating in the East China Sea is definitely not just the vacuum implosion warhead supersonic heavy anti-ship missile launched by China's land-based fighters and underwater attack nuclear submarines, but a secret weapon that has also been collected by the Chinese for a long time and has not been revealed.
This weapon is precisely in the other plane, which has caused the US Navy to constantly retreat from the first island chain, and has also made the US military think tank shout that it has changed the mode of naval warfare and broken the regional strategic "balance of power" artifact -- the Dongfeng-21D anti-ship medium-range ballistic missile.
It can be said that China's raising of its head in the Asia-Pacific region and its ability to confidently and boldly go to the ocean, so that the US military can feel the power of the dragon from the East, is quite partly because of the appearance of the DF-21D. At this time, the US military did not know at all that the Chinese had such an artifact, and still put out three aircraft carriers.
They will learn the hard lessons of a lifetime.