Chapter 673 673 Indonesia and Malay
The United States is pulling its Asia-Pacific NATO allies in the Solomon Islands to prepare for the first battle in the Asia-Pacific theater with the Chinese, but the challenge to the SCO alliance has already begun; after all, the United States has always made considerable achievements in strategy, and talented strategists have emerged one after another.
George W. Bush sent his own special envoy to Jakarta, the capital of Indonesia, to meet with Indonesian President Suharto. On the other hand, dictator Suharto resigned after the Black May riots triggered by the 1997 financial crisis, but Indonesia was hit by the South Seas in the 80s, losing most of its territory, leaving only Java and some small islands to the east.
Indonesia and the Nanyang Republic have always been in a state of mutual non-recognition, and there have been many conflicts before, especially some Indonesian fishermen often unintentionally cross the border into the waters controlled by the Nanyang Republic, and they will be immediately directly shelled by the Nanyang Coast Guard and even the Navy for more than ten years, at least hundreds of Indonesian fishermen have been cut off from the sea.
Conflicts between official armies have become more frequent, and Indonesia's economic capacity has declined dramatically after losing most of its country, making it impossible for Indonesia to build a stronger army to protect the country and waters. Indonesia has only a few small frigates of several hundred tons, and artillery battles often break out with the Nanyang Coast Guard and Navy in the Java Sea, and the losses of the Indonesian Navy are heavy when the Nanyang Coast Guard is equipped with about 3,000 tons, equipped with 76mm main guns and multiple 37mm secondary guns.
Like Indonesia, there is also Malaysia that has hatred for the South Seas, but Malaysia also has a dictator, Usman Sidi, this Malay is actually a Red Alert spy, who has ruled Malaysia for a long time, under the instigation of Qi Yiming, Sidi mainly transferred the Malay contradictions to Indonesia, and the two sides have been engaged in armed conflict over the ownership of Lampung Province for many years, which has not been resolved.
Bush Jr. is naturally ready to pull Malaysia into the **** anti-Nanyang camp, and he also hopes to mediate the contradictions between Malaysia and Indonesia. But in fact, Qi Yiming deliberately instructed Sidi to do so, and when the Americans hoped that Malaysia would be able to carry out a deadly attack on the South Seas, Malaysia would instead strike a blow at Indonesia, and this kind of change of fortune in the face of war would have a huge impact on the enemy and provide help for the battle in the South Seas.
The part of the island of Sumatra in Malaysia and the island of Java in Indonesia are only a few hundred kilometers away from the Malay Peninsula and Borneo in the South Seas, and if the US military plans to deploy short-range ballistic missiles and warplanes from here, it will pose a fatal threat to the South China Sea and, of course, a huge threat to the Chinese Navy. As a result, the US military has drawn a large number of fighters from the mainland and Japan, and deployed the newly developed ATACMS advanced tactical surface-to-surface missiles to Malaysia and Indonesia to pose a threat and attack on the South China Sea.
ATACMS missile is the United States after the INF Treaty to replace the Lance missile short-range missile, in the face of the increasingly severe Chinese threat, the United States in recent years to develop it into an advanced short-range missile that is by no means too far behind the V4, especially the mysterious palace also brought a lot of information on the development of short-range missiles by the former Soviet Union, but also to make ATACMS like a tiger with wings. The surface-to-surface missile is road-mobile, and it is not large, thanks to the advanced engine and fuel technology of the United States, the range can reach 500 kilometers, and it is very useful in the tactical battlefield.
U.S. fighter jets pass through Australia and cross the Timor Sea to enter Indonesian military airfields, while U.S. ATACMS surface-to-surface missiles need to break through the Torres Strait and then transport them to Indonesia and other places.
For the time being, the only reliable route for the United States and NATO is the air route, and in the airspace not controlled by the Chinese, American aircraft can still fly safely and complete the mission. Just like the air route from Australia to Indonesia, it is relatively safe for the time being, because China's air force deployed in Papua New Guinea mainly confronts the US military on the Solomon Islands, and rarely can take care of the southern route, so relatively speaking, fighter jets and some weapons and equipment that can be transported by fighter planes can still reach Indonesia and Malaysia smoothly.
However, under the circumstance that the sea transportation was half-cut off by China, the United States mainly relied on air transportation, and soon found that the number of major transport planes of different magnitude of C-5, C-17 and C-130 equipped with them could not meet their needs at all.
After calculation, the US military needs to be equipped with at least 1,000 C-17 global hegemonic transport planes that can adapt to relatively rough airfields for short-field take-off and landing, and have a carrying capacity of more than 70 tons, but now the US military is only equipped with more than 200 planes, which is several times shortfall. Before the outbreak of the war, China was already equipped with more than 600 Y-20 strategic transport planes and more than 1,300 Y-9 medium transport planes.
The U.S. military plans to transport at least 30,000 soldiers into Indonesia, and it is actually difficult for these soldiers to threaten Nanyang or China from Indonesia before the U.S. military breaks through the Torres Strait.
In fact, just as the US military expected, when Nanyang discovered that the US military had begun to transport warplanes and soldiers to Sumatra and Java on a large scale, Nanyang began to launch air strikes against Indonesia and Malaysia with China's assistance, in an attempt to sabotage the US military's attempt to enter Sumatra and Java, protect its own lower abdomen, and thus also cover the rear area of the Chinese Navy in the main battlefield in the southwest Pacific.