Chapter 642 642 Battle of the Mozambique Channel (7)
I'm afraid that only two countries on the planet, China and the United States, will fight like this!
More than 100 carrier-based planes from both sides fought a bloody battle in the narrow airspace in the Mozambique Channel. China's main aircraft are J-15, F-14CN, J-31, and the U.S. military has F-14, F-18 and F-24 (that is, the product of the NATF program).
In such a battle, the pilot's personal skills and the impact of the quality of individual equipment on the battle situation are relatively weak. Just like just now, the J-15 raid shot down three F-14s, and the other two F-24s shot down two flying sharks in the color of several J-15s.
A string of numbers kept coming from Zhang Juzuo's ears, the number of fighters shot down by his own side and the number of opponents shot down, basically these two numbers were relatively up, and neither side played a significant advantage.
"If this continues, this battle will become a war of attrition, although we have many fighters, we can't continue to consume them like this, and our pilots should not be consumed so lightly." The staff officer of the fleet stood beside Zhang Juzuo and couldn't bear to say authentically.
Zhang Juzuo's face did not change much, he said: "This is war, the sooner we realize its cruelty, maybe we can win one day earlier." ”
He glanced down at the number on the paper again, and said: "But now we are counting on defeating the US fleet by seizing air supremacy, I'm afraid that even if we can succeed, this battle will be a bad battle by us, and we need another way to break the situation!" The 31st Submarine Group, the 36th Submarine Group, and the 44th Submarine Group are in full attack, and we must let the Americans know that the battlefield is not just in the sky! ”
After Zhang Juzuo's submarine attrition operation was over, he gathered all the attack nuclear submarines of the Indian Ocean Fleet into the fleet, plus the attack nuclear submarines that temporarily rushed from the local military port to support, forming a nuclear submarine force of 18 with a total of three groups. This nuclear submarine force is one of the biggest cards in Zhang Juzuo's hands, and although the anti-submarine combat capability of the US fleet is strong, China's nuclear submarines are even stronger. The three submarine groups are like the sharpest daggers in Zhang Juzuo's hands, trying to kill the enemy with one blow when the enemy is most unprepared.
At the same time, the enemy of the Chinese fleet, the US expeditionary fleet, is also looking for a good way to break the situation, Cornell said: "We cannot continue to entangle with the Chinese in the sky, we cannot afford to fight a war of this scale a few times, I am afraid that we will go bankrupt." So we must support our aviation, cruiser-destroyer groups to move forward, and after approaching the air combat area, conduct air defense operations, and since the operations in the sky are evenly matched, then let's increase our chips! ”
Cornell himself came from naval aviation, so his focus remained on the seizure of air supremacy; Zhang Juzuo has been a submariner for several years, so he is quite favored in the use of submarines. However, Cornell also suffered the loss of Chinese submarines before, and at this time he also instructed: "Let the anti-submarine ships cheer up, I have a hunch that our opponents will definitely seek all kinds of means to master the match point like us, and the more we reach this moment, the more we must not make any mistakes." ”
The surface ships of the U.S. fleet include three Ticonderoga-class missile cruisers, four Alex-Burke-class guided-missile destroyers, four Spruance-class guided-missile destroyers (in the other plane, this type of destroyer is facing full retirement, but due to the outbreak of the war on the plane, this class of destroyers has been fully retained and postponed for retirement), and three Perry-class missile frigates. Two Carel Dolman-class frigates of the Dutch Navy.
Such a formation of surface ships can be regarded as the peak of military appearance, and it takes into account the needs of air defense and anti-submarine defense, and can cope with the vast majority of situations. A large formation of 20 surface ships broke out of the aircraft carrier battle group and headed north, ready to be engaged in an air defense counterattack against Chinese fighters. Naturally, there is a greater risk that if Chinese fighters dive down to attack these ships, the ships of the expeditionary fleet may suffer losses. However, on the one hand, there are so many American fighters in the sky pestering them, and the air defense of the fleet itself is not weak, so the Americans and their allies think that it is not a big problem.
However, this problem is not much of a subjective situation, these 20 ships were immediately discovered by Chinese fighters after entering the line of fire area, and their coordinates and situation were immediately transmitted to other units in the fleet, including the three Chinese submarine groups that had already departed.
The Chinese nuclear submarines, which are excellent for their quiet performance, are not at all afraid of the towed sonar arrays of surface ships of the NATO fleet at such a long distance, and only those annoying fixed-wing anti-submarine aircraft will give China's attack nuclear submarines a headache. Chinese nuclear submarines also do not deliberately keep communications silent, because they have no fear that the Americans will intercept their electromagnetic signals. The Type 095 submarine has been uniformly modified with the latest quantum communication before the war, so all their communication is quantum-level. After the fighter finds the target, it is transmitted back to the Jiangsu, and the quantum communication device of the Jiangsu directly transcodes the information for quantum jump, while the underwater submarine gets the information instantly, and the process is fast and secret.
In order to avoid exposing their position, submarines have always had to use radio silence to keep their positions exposed, which makes them safe, but it also turns them into headless flies, which is very likely to cause them to crash headlong into the enemy's fleet.
With the unlocking of the three-level base, this problem was solved, and the threat of China's nuclear submarine force was greatly increased. The Type 093 attack nuclear submarine, which has not been modified for quantum communication, will probably be deployed to the next level of regional service or even retired after this battle to maintain the tactical advantage of Chinese submarines in the hot theater of operations.
The Chinese submarine, which did not need to discover the enemy at all, was calculating or unintentional at this time, and slowly approached the NATO forward surface fleet that was still unaware and was ready to launch anti-aircraft missiles to attack Chinese fighters. Equipped with a large number of heavy supersonic long-range anti-ship missiles, these nuclear submarines can teach these confident Americans a very tragic lesson from a distance of more than 100 kilometers.