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Economic changes are much slower and more civilized than military changes, and an encounter with the US military in Africa has made the Military Commission and the General Staff very worried for a while, because in nature, although the scale of this battle in Africa is not too large, the taste in the middle is too intriguing, although Dai Qiliang came up with a strategy to point the fuse of this matter at the other side, but the US military is not stupid, whether it is the self-examination of Lieutenant General Reilly of the Africa Command or the investigation from the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the US military, from among the escaped pilots, all came to the unanimous conclusion that no one in the entire squadron at that time said a word about taking the initiative to attack.

And judging from the scene at that time, although these pilots of the F-15 squadron at that time were also very conceited, or they would not have approached the range of the two sides of the medium-range missile attack, but they also had some understanding of the strength of the PLA J-10C, in the face of the opponent's superior forces, no one was stupid enough to launch a suicide attack, not to mention that they already knew that the F-35 squadron was not far away for air refueling, ready to launch the first wave of attacks.

Therefore, no matter from the confession or from the actual scene deduction, there is no need for the F-15 squadron to take the initiative to attack, but the black box record is ironclad, so that the US military cannot deny it, and was shocked by the annihilation of the F-15 squadron, and in the case of being unable to mobilize more air power to form an overwhelming advantage over the PLA flight regiment, Lieutenant General Reilly chose to temporarily forbear.

However, after Vice Admiral Reilly remobilized a new F-15 squadron and F-35 squadron from Europe and mainland China to Nairobi, he was surprised to find that the PLA Air Force in Tanzania also had a new J-21 flying regiment. The 3rd Mechanized Infantry Division of the US Army, which was scattered in Africa, began to be concentrated, of which the division headquarters, armored brigade and one infantry brigade of the 3rd Mechanized Infantry Division were placed at the base in Nairobi, Kenya, and the other infantry brigade was placed in Butare Province, Uganda.

This deployment just happened to have a direct military pressure on China's operations in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Tanzania, and when the US Africa Command completed this deployment, the Military Commission and the General Staff Department were very worried for a while, and they asked Song Jihong's 86th Mechanized Infantry Brigade to fully monitor the movements of the US military and maintain combat readiness.

Although in terms of air power, the PLA's two flight regiments are stronger than the two US squadrons stationed in Nairobi, because the US military can temporarily draw reinforcements from Saudi Arabia and other Gulf bases, while the PLA has only these two flight regiments in a short period of time, the Central Military Commission and the General Staff Department have always been worried that if the US military forcibly launches an African campaign, the 86 th Mechanized Infantry Brigade and the two air force flight regiments, which will be very dangerous.

Because even if the two sides of the air force are tied, the 86th Mechanized Infantry Brigade will never be able to withstand the attack of the Third Mechanized Infantry Division of the US Army, after all, the gap in strength between the two sides is too great, and the Third Mechanized Infantry Division of the US Army, which has more than 20,000 people, is now far above the 86th Mechanized Infantry Brigade in terms of strength and equipment, and even if the two mechanized infantry brigades newly reorganized for the Tanzanian side are added, there is a big gap. It was not until the People's Liberation Army (PLA) sent the so-called Gulf of Aden escort mixed fleet to the Seychelles that the General Staff was relieved, and at a critical moment, this mixed fleet could provide strong fire support for the 86 Mechanized Infantry Brigade, and as long as the Air Force could reach a draw with the US military with the support of land-based air defense, the mixed fleet could provide maritime fire support in the waters near Dar es Salaam.

In these troublesome days, time passed day by day, and in the autumn of 2021, as the PLA continued to leave the factory with new fighters, the situation turned into a worrying CIA, and their detection satellites took pictures of the completion and launch of four more 10,000-ton 052E China Aegis-II destroyers of the PLA, and these four new warships joined the Pacific Fleet and the South China Sea Fleet, which are under the greatest combat pressure.

According to the plan of the General Staff Headquarters, the Navy will eventually form five major aircraft carrier fleets, and will eventually form a pattern of two ocean-going aircraft carrier strike groups, the Beijing and Shanghai, and the three major defense aircraft carrier battle groups, the Liaoning, Chongqing, and Tianjin.

In this process, the five major aircraft carriers have been built first, but they have been very reluctant in terms of supporting facilities, so that the Pacific Fleet has two aircraft carriers, but on the one hand, they are still underequipped with carrier-based aircraft, and on the other hand, they are also unsatisfactory in anti-submarine air defense.

At present, the main destroyers of the Pacific Fleet are still mainly based on the old Kidd class and modern class, and the relatively new destroyers are only 4 052D first-generation China Aegis-I and 2 052E China Aegis-II, that is to say, each aircraft carrier has only 3 destroyers with strong air defense capabilities, and for the defense of territorial waters, it is not a big problem to have land-based fighters or missile support.

However, once it enters an ocean-going operation without land-based support, this strength is somewhat stretched, so the plan formulated by the General Staff for the two ocean-going aircraft carrier strike groups of Beijing and Shanghai is to equip each with 5 052E large destroyers, 2 081 large amphibious assault ships (i.e., helicopter carriers) and 2 large amphibious landing ships and a large supply ship, plus 2-3 anti-submarine forces of the 041B Yuan-class nuclear submarines, In this way, an ocean-going aircraft carrier strike group will have a powerful carrier-based aircraft attack wing and a marine brigade carrying strike capability, and its sea, air, and ground strike force will be the world's first-class aircraft carrier battle group, and it will not be inferior to any aircraft carrier battle group of the US military at all.

The three aircraft carrier formations used for territorial sea defense operations will eventually be equipped with three 052E large destroyers, two Type 054B frigates, and four battle groups of 039 improved or Kilo-class submarines, giving the PLA Navy a 2,000-nautical-mile defense combat capability.

Therefore, according to this plan, the Navy needs at least 20 052E large destroyers, several major domestic shipyards go all out to give priority to the construction of 4 ships per year, the latest batch of 052E in the use of the new G4 core super small aircraft, so that the combat performance of the Chinese Aegis-II type has been greatly improved again, more than 1500 air targets can be tracked at the same time, and 20 targets judged to be the most dangerous can be attacked at the same time. With the new 32-unit / 64-unit universal vertical launch system and the Haihongqi-16C short-range anti-aircraft missile / Haihongqi-15B long-range anti-aircraft missile, a tight air defense system combining far and near is formed.

After the photos were taken, the CIA struggled to get some of the performance parameters of this new missile destroyer, and the US Navy began to worry after seeing these performance parameters, because the PLA's 052E destroyers have reached the capabilities of their main "Ticonderoga"-class missile cruisers. The Burke-class missile destroyers are even better, and more importantly, the PLA's 052E destroyers have all been nuclearized, which has greatly improved the ocean-going combat capability, and the precious space that was originally needed to load fuel can now be used to load weapons and ammunition to meet the ammunition needs of high-intensity ocean-going operations.

It can be said that the addition of four new 052E destroyers has enabled the Beijing and Shanghai aircraft carrier battle groups of the Pacific Fleet and the South China Sea Fleet to each have four super-powerful air defense and anti-submarine capital ships at once, and their combat power has reached a higher level. The People's Liberation Army (PLA), which has five major aircraft carrier battle groups, already has the strength and qualifications to compete with the US aircraft carrier battle groups.

If the 052E destroyer enters service makes the US Navy feel a little worried, then if the latest secret construction and launch of the 4 imitation titanium alloy 097A attack nuclear submarines leaked out, the US military top brass will no longer be able to sleep peacefully, the latest research and development of Duch Heavy Industries imitation titanium alloy, the performance is very close to the excellent performance of titanium, but the cost is less than half of titanium, so not only the Air Force in J-10D and J-11D manufacturing a large number of use, This new alloy is also fully used in the construction of the second batch of nuclear submarines in 097A, and the practical depth of 700 meters under the use of a single hull structure is even better than the Seawolf class of the US military.

But what is more important is not the depth, but the noise control level and weapon device, after Kerry's optimized noise control simulation application, so that the shape and anti-noise design of the 097A are optimized to the extreme, and the ability to sail silently and quickly under the water is realized, that is to say, in the case of maintaining a speed of 22 knots, the noise emitted by the new 097A attack nuclear submarine is almost the same as the background noise of the ocean.

Considering that the first generation of 097A has withstood the great test of circumnavigation and accumulated a large number of US military underwater sonar signal data, the new generation of 097A has been designed for these characteristics of the data with a strong avoidance, so it will be an out-and-out ocean ghost when you get out of the water.

After adopting a large number of automated operations, the personnel requirements on board the 097A have been greatly reduced, from more than 150 people in the previous generation to more than 90 people, but in terms of weapon loading capacity, it has been greatly increased from 36 to 48 in the first generation, plus the use of the fish communication system can control the missile launch on the nuclear submarine through the headquarters, and 2 ballistic missile launches are installed on the 097A-class nuclear submarine, which can load and launch Julang submarine-launched ballistic missiles carrying nuclear warheads, Let 097A have strategic deterrence capabilities.

Because compared with the 094 strategic nuclear submarine, the new 097A can have better survivability and stronger ability to approach the US mainland, the design of the separate conventional strike and nuclear strike command and control system makes the 097A more flexible in use, according to the existing typical weapon configuration, 097A can carry 4 multi-warhead Julang-2C (JL-2D), 12 DH-10G submarine-launched cruise missiles and 24 Yu-6G heavy torpedoes. Or load all conventional weapons, carrying a mix of 48 DH-10G submarine-launched cruise missiles and Yu-6G heavy torpedoes.

After the launch of these four 097A attack nuclear submarines, the General Staff integrated the six 097 attack nuclear submarines into the strategic deterrent force, and ordered the Navy to maintain the pattern of two in the Pacific Ocean, two in the Atlantic Ocean, and two in port for rest before the new 097 nuclear submarines joined.

If the 052E destroyer gradually makes the PLA Navy's coastal defense conventional combat capability qualified to compete with the US aircraft carrier battle group, then the 097A joining the active service has really improved the PLA's strategic counterattack capability, and has the strongest survivability nuclear submarine in the history of the PLA, making the PLA's secondary nuclear counterattack force more reliable, and forming a sea and air double insurance with the Terminator strategic bomber group.