It was only after being stimulated by the Americans that Ubolevich felt that the navy had a major role to play and was willing to strengthen the construction of the Red Navy. Of course, this is not to say that the development of the Red Navy was not taken seriously before, in fact, the Red Navy in this era is much stronger than in history, although it is not the strongest naval force in the world, but it is definitely still in the first group.

The main problem facing the Red Navy was not the lack of resources, although its construction was inevitably affected in wartime, but it was not enough to tighten its belt. The main problem for the Red Navy at that time was that these precious funds were going in the wrong direction.

Let's put it this way, the thinking of the Red Navy at that time was problematic. Unlike the Army, which operates in great depth with a clear-cut banner, and unlike the Air Force, which has a clear distinction between long-range aviation and front-line aviation. The Red Navy's train of thought is that there is no way of thinking. A considerable number of senior officers still stuck in the thinking of World War I, thinking that capital ships were useful. On the other hand, some of the pragmatist naval officers after the Bolsheviks came to power thought that it was unprecedented enough to hold the country, and they were more interested in submarines and airplanes. Of course, the last group of people was brought out by Li Xiaofeng, and they were the aircraft carrier faction.

It looks like there is a goal, isn't there three major factions? But in reality, these three factions are still very chaotic, and none of them have solved a key question - what is the Red Navy for?

Although the battleship faction vigorously advocates the development of battleships and aims to catch up with Britain and the United States at all times, they have no confidence if you let these grandsons go to the ocean to openly provoke a first-class navy like Britain and the United States. It was generally agreed that this could not be done for the time being with the national power of the Soviet Union, and that it was not necessary, because the Red Navy was not an instrument of imperialist aggression. Always defensive in nature. It's used to defend the country!

Not beat around the bush. This Nima is, tens of millions of battleships don't go out to the sea for a decisive battle, stay at home and exist in the fleet, which is completely inconsistent with Mahan's theory, and the price is too high. If you are only satisfied with coastal defense, it is more economical and practical to have fast air diving, so why spend so much money to build capital ships?

All have a while, except for S. Dalin was willing to support the battleship Nabo. The rest of the Bolshevik hierarchy was not interested in it. However, this does not mean that there is no problem with fast air diving, in fact, the purpose of the vote that advocates the theory of fast air diving is also problematic, because they have a problem that they cannot avoid, that is, air diving fast cannot deal with super navies like Britain and the United States, and even second-rate navies like Japan are enough. The air submarine is fast and can't keep the enemy out of the country, at most it can only harass the opponent.

That is, although such a navy is cheap, the Soviet Union really broke out a life-and-death war with imperialism, and it is of little use. So these people are also a bit of a circle, trying hard to create a naval weapon that is cheap enough but can threaten the enemy's main fleet. Unfortunately, they haven't been found yet.

As for the aircraft carrier faction. Although they have the support of a certain immortal, to be honest, they are not much better than the two above. They also tried to portray the aircraft carrier as a weapon of a defensive nature. But is it really feasible for aircraft carriers to be used for defense? To tell you the truth, it seems to be a bit passively beaten.

All in all, throughout the thirties and forties, the Red Navy was confused and did not quite understand what their purpose was, whether it was to fight for control of the seas (which was really not very attractive for the Soviet Union, which did not have much overseas trade and was rich in resources), or whether it was willing to be an existential "big killer" to frighten people, or simply to pounce on the coastal waters twice.

Anyway, the construction of the Red Navy lacks purpose, it is always a hammer in the east and a stick in the west, and likes to follow the trend indiscriminately; today Britain, the United States, and Japan have launched new battleships, and the Red Navy will suddenly flatter the battleships, and tomorrow Britain, the United States, and Japan will start to build aircraft carriers again, and the Red Navy will also follow in the arms of aircraft carriers, and the day after tomorrow I heard that submarines are the king, and the Red Navy will immediately throw itself into the arms of submarines.

The Red Navy can be said to be synonymous with the dawn and twilight, but it is normal for this situation to occur, first of all, the Russian Navy has historically been a hodgepodge, which was developed by directly purchasing ships from abroad and importing technology. Its naval base is weak, so it is normal to return to chaos in the face of new technologies and new ideas.

In particular, we must also see that the Russian Navy was wiped out once before the First World War, and the defeat that time was so disastrous that the Russians were very unconfident, and they always felt that they were the backward side, so they were willing to blindly follow the trend.

In addition, the birth of a certain immortal has stirred up the navy into a pot of porridge, allowing all kinds of new ideas to be extremely proliferated, which in a sense has aggravated this lack of self-confidence among the Russians. Therefore, it is normal for a blind person to touch an elephant on the issue of naval construction.

However, after entering the Great Patriotic War, the chaos of the Red Navy turned out to be greatly improved, and it seemed that the Red Navy began to find its goal. They have always believed that fast air diving is equivalent to defense, and defense is always passively attacked, especially when using air and submarine fast to deal with large navies like Britain and the United States, there will be no advantage.

This was their initial idea, but with the outbreak of World War II, especially after the Germans once again sacrificed the weapon of unlimited submarine warfare, the supporters of air diving fast suddenly boiled. What does it mean that the Royal Navy, the world's No. 1 Navy, was forced to almost take care of itself by a group of submarines? It shows that the air dive is not only defensive in nature, it can be used for attack!

The idea of using submarines to keep the enemy out of the country seems to have been confirmed by the Germans! Therefore, the support of air diving fast believes that practice is a test of the truth. Since the Germans can do such a big thing with a small number of submarines. It makes no sense that the submarine forces of the Red Navy, which are much more powerful than the German underwater forces, can't do it!

From 1939 to 1941, the wave of people who were flying fast was unprecedentedly active, constantly clamoring for the revision of the tactical theory of the Red Navy, clarifying the core position of submarines, and demanding that they learn from the German Navy, use submarines to carry out maritime operations to break diplomatic relations, and completely destroy the maritime lifeline that is extremely important to the capitalist world.

As we all know, Li Xiaofeng is an aircraft carrier faction, and he has no opinion on the development of submarines. But the supporting role of the submarine came out to steal the show and steal the leading role, so he couldn't agree. So in those two years he tried his best to suppress the hustle and bustle of the air dive fast. With his support. The aircraft carrier faction has finally found its combat target.

The aircraft carrier faction believes that the use of submarines to break diplomatic relations does have an extraordinary effect, but breaking diplomatic relations can only play a major role for an island country like Britain, which is highly dependent on colonies for resources. Does it work if you run into the United States? They believe that the results achieved by the German submarine forces do not fully explain the problem, and in particular, they believe that the submarine forces are not able to effectively destroy the enemy's main fleet, and without destroying the enemy's main fleet, it is naturally impossible to talk about completely removing the enemy's threat.

Therefore, the aircraft carrier faction believes that in the future, the Red Navy should use submarines to carry out operations to break diplomatic relations, but the task of submarines is to weaken the enemy's strength. It will create good conditions for the final decisive battle between the relatively weak Red Navy surface ship formation and the enemy's main force.

To put it bluntly, the aircraft carrier faction believes that submarines are a means of harassment, weakening the enemy, and then they will come out to solve the problem.

It should be said that this theory of the aircraft carrier faction is indeed not advanced, because the dominant idea of the Red Navy is still not to control the sea, but only to prevent the sea from being controlled by the enemy. In other words, the Red Navy still did not have much interest in sea supremacy, and was still only a saboteur.

Truth be told, it's backward. After all, the ocean occupies three-quarters of the Earth's area, and the future of humanity is in the ocean. The Red Navy, on the other hand, had no interest in the seas and was only happy to be a saboteur. Sincerely, there is nothing to pursue.

Of course, the backward Red Navy cannot be too demanding. Who made the territory of the Soviet Union too vast and rich in resources, so that it is normal for polar bears to be interested only in their own one-third of an acre.

Moreover, from the point of view of progress, the Red Navy's aircraft carrier faction has shifted from the purely defensive nature of naval construction at the beginning to offensive and sabotage, which can be regarded as progress. You can't be a fat man by eating in one breath, you have to take it step by step, don't you?

Moreover, this set of theories of the Red Navy's aircraft carrier faction is very clever, not as exclusive as the previous battleship faction and the air-submarine fast faction, and it is not so either/or. The aircraft carrier faction recognizes the importance of submarines and does not exclude the development of submarines, which is not so antagonistic. Even when the air dive is at its most fast, it is not possible to say that the aircraft carrier faction will be killed with a stick.

So in the late thirties and early forties, the development of aircraft carriers and submarines was relatively fast. Let's talk about submarines first, why? The reason is very simple, after forming an alliance with Britain and the United States, and under the repeated strong demands of Britain and the United States, the Red Navy finally agreed to strengthen the strength of the Taiping Fleet, so how to strengthen it? It is to send additional submarines and some surface ships to Vladivostok.

Among them, submarines occupy the lion's majority, and nearly 30 submarines will be transferred from the Northern Fleet in one go, and this number is quite staggering to be honest. And more than half of these thirty ships are so-called cruiser submarines.

The so-called cruiser submarines are actually the large ocean-going submarines of the Red Navy, while the others are small and medium-sized offshore submarines. Speaking of driving the Soviet Union, or Russia is quite enthusiastic about ocean-going submarines. As early as 1910, the Russian engineer Zuravyev proposed to build a cruiser submarine with a displacement of up to 4,000 tons (this tonnage is the largest among today's conventional submarines).

Zuraviev designed such a cruiser with 36 torpedo tubes (18 in the front and 18 in the front), which could also carry 120 mines and five 120-mm guns. Truth be told, this whimsical large submarine completely surpassed reality and exceeded the industrial capacity of Russia at that time. In fact, only the biggest and best design thinking like Maozi can make this kind of monster.

Fortunately, the Tsar's Admiralty did not have a convulsion and rejected Zulaviev's design, but asked to build a 1250-ton large submarine designed by Bald first to see if the effect was good, and if so, to Mazuravyev's design.

Of course, with the increasing brutality of World War I, as well as the February and October Revolutions, these large submarine programs fell to fruition. But the Russians never gave up on this idea, and by 1930 when the country's economy began to pick up, large submarines returned.

This is the IV batch of cruisers, that is, the real . Li-class cruisers. But let's be honest, really. The rational grade is really a piece of garbage. In order to make it true. The Li-class submarines reached high surface speeds, which Assafov designed to resemble destroyers. As we all know, the body of a destroyer is absolutely unsuitable for underwater navigation. The reserve buoyancy of the Li-class submarines was as high as 92%, and later it was modified to about 75%.

Although the large reserve buoyancy is conducive to improving the surface seaworthiness of submarines. But that's it. Its underwater displacement is naturally a rising tide. It is difficult to dive or ascend quickly. At the same time, the high freeboard design also makes the submarines of this class vulnerable to surface fire.

All in all, true. The Li-class is a marvel (such as its inexplicable torpedo loading hatch design, through which it takes an hour and a half to load a torpedo, and only twenty minutes to reload directly from the torpedo tube). I don't know why the Soviets made such an inexplicable design). Its ultimate depth is only 45 meters (barely 70 meters after improvement). In the words of the officers and men of the Red Navy: "That's a piece of shit!" ”

Fortunately, the Red Navy did not intend to let the real . On the battlefield, this "advanced" submarine, which was commissioned in 1936, was built in a total of three, П-1 true . In 1939, it was changed to training submarines. After the outbreak of war, it sank in the Gulf of Finland while undertaking a transport mission. The P-2 Red Star and P-3 Spark were also converted into training boats in 1939.

And this time the Red Navy sent to Vladivostok with more advanced K-class submarines, the so-called "Katyusha" class. This XIV batch of submarines has a surface displacement of 1487 tons, an underwater displacement of 2102 tons, and a reserve buoyancy of 20% (finally there is no real one. The level of science is so weird). Its maximum surface speed is 22 knots, and the maximum underwater speed is 10.3 knots (it must be noted that the Katyusha, which has a small reserve buoyancy, is even faster than the surface speed of the Zhen Li class. As for the endurance, Katyusha is also three times as long as the real one. At 9 knots on the surface, the Katyusha has a range of 16,500 nautical miles, and 175 nautical miles at 3 knots underwater. The two figures for the physical class are 5,535 nautical miles and 96 nautical miles).

This time, a total of 11 Katyusha-class submarines were transferred to Vladivostok. They are named after the beginning of К plus the number. One of the more noteworthy is the К-21, a new submarine commissioned on December 21, 1940, which encountered the German fleet including the Tirpitz and the Admiral Schell on July 5, 1942. The boat fired four torpedoes in a row from a distance of 2850 meters near the island of Inge. Claimed to have heavily damaged the Tirpitz and sunk a destroyer.

Why use claims? Because later the big guys knew that there was no on the Tirpitz, and not a single German destroyer was sunk during that time period. So, the Russians' record is all moisture.

Interestingly, the Red Navy believed that the К-21 was awarded the Order of the Red Banner three months later, and the captain of the boat, Lu Ning, was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union and the Order of the Golden Star. It was not until 1966 that the Soviet authorities admitted that the 1942 attack had no results, but the Soviet authorities did not revoke the honorary titles of К-21 and Luning. Even the К-21 was exhibited in Severomorsk after it was restored in 1983.

With the exception of these eleven K-class submarines, most of the rest are medium-sized "Pike" class submarines, the so-called Щ-class medium submarines. This is actually a legend, divided into Lot III, Lot V, Lot Vбис, Lot 2 and Lot Xбис Pike. And this time the transfer to the Far East is the more advanced batch of the 2nd batch of dogfish, a total of 19 ships.

In addition to a large number of submarines, the Red Navy drew a considerable number of destroyers and frigates from the Baltic and White Sea fleets. Including Type 33 destroyers, Type 36 destroyers and frigates, a total of 20 units.

Officially, these 50 ships have greatly enhanced the combat strength of the Red Banner Pacific Fleet and are of great significance to the future elimination of Japanese fascists. But privately, both Britain, the United States, and the Soviet Union considered this to be only symbolic, and whether it was a submarine, a destroyer, or a frigate, they were all small and medium-sized ships, and it was really not worth mentioning compared to the Japanese Combined Fleet. In particular, it should be noted that none of the ships transferred to the Far East had more than a single cruiser.

To put it bluntly, the Red Army did not want to participate in the Taiping Naval Battle for the time being, and only sent symbolic forces to make a show. Anyway, Western historians sneered at this after the war, believing that the Soviet Union just didn't have a seed.

So is this really the case? It's safe to say no. If the Soviet Union had just put on a show, neither Britain nor the United States would have had reason to be unhappy, but judging from the actual situation at that time, Britain and the United States, especially the latter, were not in the slightest bit dissatisfied. On the contrary, the Americans highly praised the strengthening of the naval power of the Soviet Union in the Far East, giving it a high rating.

This baffled a group of later historians, and this confusion lasted until 1950, when Li Xiaofeng came to power, declassified a number of classified documents from World War II, and these documents involved the Soviet Union's strengthening of naval power in the Far East.

In the first batch of declassified documents, the Soviet Union officially stated that it had provided a large amount of support to the submarine forces of the US Navy for attacking Japan's sea lines of communication, including the opening of ports such as Vladivostok to moor USS-flagged US Navy submarines, and the direct supply of submarine supply ships to provide sea supplies to US Navy submarines, in addition to providing a large amount of intelligence about the Japanese Navy...... (To be continued.) )

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