(I'm sorry for the delay yesterday)

The Yankees began to lay down their means and began to study and adopt the tactics used by the PLA with a learning mentality among the senior generals, which was a very rare change for the US military; of course, at this moment, the commander of the US Fifth Fleet, Navy Nicholson, did not know that it was a new era in the US military's operational thinking.

At this moment, the task force of the People's Liberation Army, which is thousands of miles away, did not stop after annihilating the main force of the Indian Eastern Navy Fleet in the Andaman Sea, and continued to go west at full speed, and now they are still more than 4,000 kilometers away from the destination, and it will take more than 4 days to reach the destination at full speed.

This is because, in the Gulf area near Karachi, the US military not only has dozens of land-based fighters, but more importantly, it also has the two major aircraft carrier battle groups of the US Fifth Fleet, the USS Eisenhower and the USS Truman, and this is the real enemy of the PLA task force.

Therefore, as soon as the battle ended, Rear Admiral Xue Chenguang, deputy commander of the South China Sea Fleet, who led the PLA's twin-aircraft carrier task force, held a meeting to discuss the plan for the next operational deployment on the "Shanghai" aircraft carrier. The captains of the major destroyers and the 081-class amphibious landing ship all boarded the "Shanghai" aircraft carrier by helicopter and participated in this extremely important combat meeting.

"Comrades, first of all, congratulations to you on your brilliant victory in the battle that has just ended, the Central Military Commission has telegraphed our results to the whole army, and proposed to reward us, everyone has performed well in this operation, and has not lost the face of our South China Sea Fleet, I won't say much if you praise us, let's talk about business first," Rear Admiral Xue Chenguang saw that the personnel had arrived, and he took the lead in speaking, "I gathered everyone today, mainly to discuss with you the situation and countermeasures that the fleet will face in the next few days. Next, Comrade Tang Deen, chief of staff of the fleet, will give you a brief introduction to our current situation and several operational plans drawn up by the staff department, and then discuss the challenges facing our fleet. ”

Although the fleet achieved an unprecedented victory, Xue Chenguang finished in a few words, today's meeting is not to commend the advanced, so Xue Chenguang quickly entered the topic.

"Comrades, after the devastating blow to the main fleet of the Indian Eastern Navy Command, the General Staff believes that from now on, the Indian Navy basically no longer poses much threat to our fleet, half of their fleet strength has been buried in the Andaman Sea, and most of the advanced land-based fighters are now deployed in the north, facing the direct threat of our Air Force and the Pakistani Air Force, so from now until the Karachi Sea, the main threat we face in the Indian Ocean is the submarine force of the Indian Army." On the large screen of the spacious combat command center of the "Shanghai" aircraft carrier, Chief of Staff Tang Deen played the current naval forces of the enemy and us in an intuitive visual way.

"According to our intelligence, the Indian Navy now has more than 20 conventional submarines and 6 nuclear submarines, of which among the conventional submarines, 6 Squid-class diesel-electric submarines and 10 877-class Kilo-class diesel-electric submarines are more combat-effective, and among the 6 nuclear submarines, India's own research on the enemy-destroying class nuclear submarines accounts for 5, these 5 are the main attack nuclear submarines of the Indian Navy, and the other is the Akula-class nuclear submarine leased from Russia, which is used by the Indian Navy as a strategic nuclear submarine."

"In the past naval battle, none of these submarines of the Indian army appeared, so the General Staff estimated that the Indian army may use these submarines to attack us in the next voyage. In between, in the next battle, we drew up a new operational plan for anti-submarine warfare...... "Chief of Staff Dondeen soon outlined the operational plan for the Indian submarines.

In addition to the Indian army's own development of the enemy-destroying class nuclear submarine does not know much, the captains here are very familiar with the Indian army's Squid-class and Kilo-class conventional submarines, in the People's Liberation Army there are many Kilo-class submarines, 877 and 636, and although the Squid-class PLA does not have it, but through Pakistan to purchase the same source as the Squid class, the French DCN shipbuilding bureau's Agosta 90B submarine, the PLA is also very clear about the main performance and combat mode of the Squid-class.

For the Indian army's enemy-destroying nuclear submarines, the intelligence department analyzes that its overall combat capability is estimated to be close to the level of the PLA's 092-class nuclear submarines, because the Indians completed it with the help of Russia, with some styles of heavy Russian nuclear submarines, considering India's local shipbuilding and manufacturing capabilities, it is indeed very reasonable to compare it with the PLA's early 092. It's just that the Indian army's nuclear submarine has never been in actual combat, which makes the outside world feel very mysterious all the time.

With regard to these Indian submarines, which are equivalent to the level of the previous generation of submarines of the PLA, the anti-submarine warfare plan drawn up by the General Staff is of course very targeted, and there are not many supplementary opinions that can be put forward.

However, as everyone knows, these were not the topic of today, so they passed quickly.

"In the second half of the Indian Ocean, we will face tremendous pressure from the US Fifth Fleet," Chief of Staff Don Dun also knew that the deployment of submarines against the Indian Navy was just an episode, and he quickly turned to today's main event, "According to the information we have now, the main force of the US Fifth Fleet is the two major aircraft carrier battle groups composed of the USS Eisenhower and the USS Truman, and they have strong naval and air capabilities. It will be a serious test for us. Because these two aircraft carrier battle groups have more than 120 fighters in 10 carrier-based fighter squadrons, of which 8 squadrons are F\/A-18 Super Hornets and 2 squadrons are F-35C, in comparison, our fighters only have 60 J-15 Flying Shark fighters and 30 J-18 Flying Jiao fighters, and the gap in number is relatively large. ”

"In terms of surface ships, the U.S. Fifth Fleet has the "Aegis" system's Ticonroga-class missile cruisers and Ali. The 12 Burke-class missile destroyers are stronger than our task force in terms of air defense and anti-ship firepower, and in terms of submarines, the Fifth Fleet has eight Los Angeles-class attack nuclear submarines, and their underwater strength is also very strong. ”

After listening to the enemy briefing by Chief of Staff Tang Deen, the captains present were silent, the main warships of the PLA task force are now four 10,000-ton 052E destroyers and two 7,000-ton 052D destroyers, which are half the difference compared with the main fleet of the US military, although the four 054B missile frigates are also good in combat power, and after being connected to the theater joint combat tactical system, they can form an integrated combat advantage with the 052 series of main destroyers and give full play to the maximum role of all kinds of firepower on the ships. However, in terms of total firepower, it is much inferior to the main fleet of the US army.

Because 12 Ticonroga-class missile cruisers equipped with the Aegis system and Arleigh. The Burke-class destroyers have a total of 1,272 missile vertical launch units, of which 848 are equipped with medium- and long-range ship-to-air missiles of the "Standard II." type, and each "Aegis" missile air defense ship can guide 24 ship-to-air missiles to intercept and engage at the same time, so that the number of "Aegis" warships belonging to the task force of the US Fifth Fleet to intercept enemy aircraft or anti-ship cruise missiles at the same time can be as high as 288 (pieces); This air defense combat capability is far from being comparable to that of the PLA task force.

Therefore, once the two sides really start a decisive battle, the PLA task force relies on surface ships and fighters to win the odds is not large, in the absence of a large number of land-based destroyer UAVs to launch a saturation attack, the real opportunity of the PLA task force is to follow the fleet of 16 main submarines, including 8 nuclear-powered 041B Yuan-class submarines and 2 097 Qin-class attack nuclear submarines, and 6 are Duke Qianlong program, The 039G New Song-class diesel-electric submarine completed by modernization using the Golden Dragon super battery and a new combat system.

In order to ensure the safety of the task force, the navy not only dispatched all the main submarines of the South China Sea Fleet, but also drew a part of the East China Sea Fleet to provide support, forming two powerful submarine detachments to escort the fleet.

Of course, along the way, in addition to the 6 039G new Song-class submarines are not exposed to the sea surface to charge and show their faces, the remaining 10 main nuclear submarines of the task force have always maintained submersible and secretly followed the actions of the large force, which is the largest capital of the task force, in the attack on the Indian East Fleet, except for the 039G New Song-class following the 052D/E destroyer to launch an attack, the actual verification of the new tactical system of joint operations of submarines and destroyers, the main force of the task force nuclear submarine has been stationary, The surround protects the safety of large ships such as aircraft carriers and 081-class amphibious landing ships.

In the silence of the captains, Chief of Staff Tang Deen threw out the fleet's operational draft - this is an extremely tragic plan for survival with broken arms, and the main tactic is to use 052D/E destroyers and carrier-based aircraft to attract the attention of the US mixed fleet, so that the submarine detachment can go all out to break through the US submarine defense line, and ensure the safety of several large transport ships by severely damaging US aircraft carriers.

In this plan, the General Staff planned to even use the Tianjin aircraft carrier as part of the decoy to attract the attention of the US military, and it can be said that from the beginning, the General Staff played a lose-lose idea to ensure that the four 081-class amphibious landing ships and two 100,000-ton ro-ro cargo ships transporting baggage arrived safely in Karachi.

In the plan of the General Staff, the solution to the Pakistani problem will ultimately depend on the counterattack of the army and air force, and not the navy!