Chapter 230: The First Aircraft Carrier Battle Group
Chen Shao's appearance was very surprising to Fan Yize, but Chen Shao was not surprised at all.
From the time he encountered the enemy, the base had already made it clear that he had three allies, and Fan Yize had already been mentally prepared for the meeting with the allies.
And the relationship between Sha Junyi and Chen Shao, Fan Yize is not surprised, from those diaries, you can already get a glimpse of the clues.
Chen Shao, who came and went in a hurry, although the two did not talk about anything important, in a simple exchange, some basic policies were also determined.
From the very beginning, there was only one core goal, and that was the enemy.
There is no doubt about this, so the main topic of conversation revolves around the enemy.
Fan Yize has his own ideas about the enemy, and at the same time, he also knows very well that he needs to unite all the forces that can be united and used, so that he has a better chance of defeating the enemy.
However, these are still a little far from the current Red Police Corps.
Shaking off the dust on his body, Fan Yize got up and left the bar.
In the port of Honolulu, the new command ship is already waiting for Fan Yize's arrival here.
Boarding the ship and setting off, the command ship quickly left the port of Honolulu.
At this time, the night began to cover, and the command ship on the surface sailed away from Oahu at high speed, and soon left Pearl Harbor for hundreds of nautical miles.
It was located northwest of Hawaii, 100 nautical miles from the Japanese fleet and more than 300 nautical miles from the four U.S. aircraft carriers.
In the dark night, the command ship stayed quietly on the calm Pacific sea, and as the minutes passed, everything seemed to be very quiet.
Fan Yize sat quietly on the bridge of the command ship, and the radar and sonar on the command ship were running at full power, searching the nearby sea surface and underwater.
A hundred nautical miles away, in the waters north of Oahu, the Japanese Combined Fleet is slowly approaching.
Japan was about to attack Pearl Harbor, and there were only a few hours left before Japan attacked.
The sky is about to light up, and the Japanese Combined Fleet is also preparing to take off fighters.
At the same time, in the sea area where Fan Yize is located, a large fleet is slowly arriving at night.
The Pacific Aircraft Carrier Battle Group, which consisted of two aircraft carrier strike groups, quietly came to the side of the command ship, and when they arrived in this sea area, the speed of the ships decreased.
A helicopter took off from the command ship, and Fan Yize sat on the helicopter, looking at the huge aircraft carriers around him, the corners of his mouth slowly curled.
As an expeditionary force of the Red Guard Corps, the navy has always perfected its establishment as much as possible, and ensured that it has independent ocean-going combat capabilities and ultra-long-term endurance.
The main thing is that as an expeditionary force, it is necessary to ensure that the fleet has a strong combat capability.
Therefore, each aircraft carrier strike group of the Red Alert Expeditionary Corps has a very powerful configuration, which is mainly reflected in the number of aircraft carriers.
According to the needs of the Red Alert Navy to invade time and space, and in order to resolutely obtain air supremacy, and then gain sea supremacy, the navy under the command of the expeditionary corps completely canceled the establishment of battleships.
At the same time, in order to ensure that the aircraft carrier fleet can enter the high-threat theater of operations, the number of aircraft carriers in each strike group is more than six.
A fleet of multiple strike groups, organized as battle groups, generally refers to the combination of at least two strike groups.
Just like the arrival near Hawaii this time, the first aircraft carrier battle group in the Pacific Ocean is composed of two strike groups, and the core combat ships are mainly composed of 12 aircraft carriers, combined with the strength of the anti-submarine air defense fleet.
The total number of ships exceeded 80, consisting of four anti-submarine cruisers and four air defense cruisers, which were then integrated into air defense and anti-submarine destroyers and frigates.
Combined with the submarine forces under water, as well as more than ten integrated combat supply ships.
As the capital ship, the aircraft carrier is also the primary aircraft carrier of the Red Guard Corps, and it is a large aircraft carrier with a full load displacement of more than 60,000 tons.
The standard displacement of this type of aircraft carrier is only 40,000 tons, but the full load can reach 61,000 tons, and the carrying capacity is very amazing.
The surging 230,000 horsepower, powered by twelve boilers for four steam turbines, is propelled in four axles, and can reach a top speed of 35 knots.
The endurance is at a full load, sailing at an economic speed of fifteen knots, and the total range can reach 13,000 nautical miles.
In terms of weapons and equipment, the main weapon is the concentrated use of the Getter cannon air defense system, and there will be areas for installing anti-aircraft missiles in the future, but anti-aircraft guns are currently used.
The total length of the ship is almost 300 meters, the widest point is 42 meters, and the draft is 10 meters.
A straight-through deck is used with an angled deck, which is mainly used for take-off fighters, while on the angled deck, two steam catapults are used, which can only catapult aircraft that require standard weights.
These two steam catapults are mainly used to catapult early warning aircraft, of course, they can also be used to catapult some large aircraft, and there is a special bomber for aircraft carriers, which can catapult and take off on aircraft carriers.
The maximum ejection take-off weight is 35 tons, and the minimum ejection weight is also more than 25 tons.
Therefore, this catapult cannot be used to eject fighters of this era, because the weight and structure of the fighter jet, once the ejection is carried out, the only result is direct disintegration.
In order to ensure the strong combat effectiveness of the aircraft carrier, this type of aircraft carrier can carry a maximum of 150 carrier-based fighters (all of them must be fighters) in one go, and if it carries early warning aircraft and carrier-based bombers, the minimum number of aircraft is also 80.
In the Red Alert Navy, there are no so-called dive bombers, torpedo bombers, and other types of aircraft, only two types of aircraft, one is a bomber, and the other is a carrier-based fighter.
Bombers are capable of carrying torpedoes and aerial bombs for ground-to-sea attacks, while fighters have the only task of gaining air supremacy.
Of course, if the battle requires, or the attack distance is within 500 kilometers, after reducing the fuel carried by the fighters, the intruder carrier-based fighters can also carry a 500-kilogram bomb.
However, if the bomb cannot find the target of the attack, it cannot be carried back to the aircraft carrier, so it can only choose to throw it away, otherwise it will not be allowed to land.
In order to meet the needs of the entire aircraft carrier, an aircraft carrier needs at least 2,400 personnel under the use of most of the mechanical and computer operation methods that greatly reduce the number of personnel.
Compared with the aircraft carriers of the same level after World War II, the number of personnel required on this type of aircraft carrier can be said to be extremely reduced.
Compared with the battleships that have not yet been officially named, the aircraft carrier of the Red Guard Corps was awarded the official name by Fan Yize from the beginning.
The first aircraft carrier was launched and named, this type of aircraft carrier was named the Star class, and the first ship was named Jiaomu Jiao, one of the 28 Nakshatras, with the port number 001.
The first aircraft carrier battle group of this expedition has twelve aircraft carriers, with the numbers from 001 to 012 respectively, of which the 012 ship is the Wei Yueyan.
At this moment, on the aircraft carrier Kang Jinlong, with the number 002, the deck crew guiding the landing is guiding the helicopter to land on the deck of the aircraft carrier.
The military commanders on the aircraft carrier Kang Jinlong also lined up on the deck to greet Fan Yize's inspection.
However, on the busy deck of the aircraft carrier, hundreds of ground crews are busy with four take-off and landing planes constantly transporting the fighters in the hangar to the deck.
The fighter planes almost filled the entire right-angle deck, which made Fan Yize's helicopter have to land on the bow of the take-off deck of the aircraft carrier, because only here is there room to land helicopters.
As soon as Fan Yize stepped off the helicopter, he saw fighter jets on the deck, and the belly of the plane was already full of bombs, and the ground crew was conducting a final inspection before the flight.
The sky in the distance was about to brighten, Fan Yize waved his hand to let the helicopter stay on the deck, and then walked to the aircraft carrier officers lined up on the deck.
None of the people present were generals, because the gold content of the rank of the Red Guard Regiment was too high, and the captain of a 60,000-ton aircraft carrier was only a colonel.
This is also in line with the huge army size of the Red Police Corps, not to mention the current aircraft carrier, Fan Yize did not intend to let them fight alone, one colonel is more than enough.
Fan Yize and the officers on the Kang Jinlong nodded, and walked into the carrier-based aircraft group, the pilots of these carrier-based aircraft had not yet appeared, and most of the fighters were ready to take off.
"The pilots of carrier-based aircraft are still familiar with the combat briefing in the briefing room, and according to the combat plan, the first batch of fighters will take off in half an hour." The captain of the aircraft carrier Kang Jinlong, who followed Fan Yize's side, explained.
Fan Yize nodded, saying that he was just coming to see and not express any opinions.
In fact, the work on the aircraft carrier was in good order, without the slightest nervousness and panic, and Fan Yize had nothing to say.
Most of the other twelve aircraft carriers are also preparing for an attack.
FAN Yizefu. The intruders, who had touched the aluminum alloy fuselage one after another, had the urge to fly the fighter to take off.
And on the beveled deck, an AWACS aircraft carrying a huge radar disc is preparing for takeoff, and the trailer on the aircraft carrier is pulling this AWACS aircraft towards the catapult take-off line.
On the Kang Jinlong aircraft carrier, there are only two early warning planes, and in fact, in the entire first aircraft carrier battle group, all the early warning planes add up to only 12 aircraft.
Twelve AWACS aircraft are completely sufficient, only two AWACS aircraft responsible for the defense of the sky are enough, and the rest are only responsible for guiding the attack for fighters.
And in the entire 1st aircraft carrier battle group, there are also thirty-six tankers, four hundred bombers, and a total of eight hundred fighters.
If all of them were to carry fighter planes and not carry any other aircraft, the entire First Aircraft Carrier Battle Group would be able to fight 1,800 fighters in one go, and a batch of fighter planes would be able to exceed 600 in one sortie.
Of course, it is impossible for the entire aircraft carrier battle group to carry all fighters, at least other aircraft are needed to cooperate.
And the first aircraft carrier battle group, Fan Yize's requirement is that it must control the entire Pacific Ocean.
If the first battle group cannot meet the operational requirements, Fan Yize will also let the follow-up aircraft carrier strike group enter the Pacific Ocean, after all, the 28 aircraft carriers of the 28 constellations will also be completed in the next year.
At present, if there is really a combat need, Fan Yize can dispatch at least three aircraft carrier strike groups in one go, and a fourth aircraft carrier strike group in half a year.
After briefly inspecting the preparations of the Kang Jinlong aircraft carrier, Fan Yize quickly left the aircraft carrier, took a helicopter, and landed on the command ship of the first aircraft carrier battle group.
The command ship of the 1st Carrier Battle Group is the Growth Tianwang, which is also one of the four Villadimore command ships currently owned by the Red Alert Navy.
Ji Fengchi, who was promoted to commander of the first aircraft carrier battle group, was on the helicopter deck of the command ship to greet Fan Yize's arrival.
Ji Fengchime, who is dressed in military uniform, has an extraordinary temperament and is sharp.
After giving a military salute to Fan Yize, he welcomed Fan Yize into the command center of the command ship.
The command ship with the integration of advanced electronic technology can closely connect with every warship and even every fighter of the first aircraft carrier battle group.
In the busy fleet command center, dozens of commanders are also making final preparations before the attack.
Hundreds of LCD monitors, connected to the 200-inch LCD in the center of the command center.
Fan Yize's arrival did not affect everyone inside, and everyone who was busy just saluted Fan Yize and continued his work.
"Commander, do you really want to spare the Japanese Combined Fleet?" Ji Fengling stood beside Fan Yize and asked in a low voice.
"Do you think the Japanese Combined Fleet should be attacked?" Fan Yize asked without looking back.
Ji Fengling immediately shook his head and said: "I always feel that this is a good opportunity, after all, the six aircraft carriers of the Japanese Combined Fleet are the absolute main force of the Japanese Navy, and once they are all annihilated, Japan will no longer be able to compete for sea supremacy in the Pacific Ocean." ”
"And the elimination of the Japanese fleet will not stop Japan's invasion of the Pacific and Southeast Asia, we can completely block the news, so that neither Japan nor the United States will know the detailed situation."
When Fan Yize heard this, the corners of his mouth curled, and he said: "I understand what you mean, but I need Japan to attract more attention from the United States, after all, for us, the Japanese Combined Fleet is not too much of a threat." ”
Fan Yize needs an arrogant Japan, and Japan needs to break the original pattern of the Pacific, and only by consuming a large number of Japanese troops in the Pacific can he support the war in his hometown as much as possible.
Ji Fengling's suggestion was the most in line with the strategic interests of the Red Guard Corps, but this was not what Fan Yize wanted, because he was worried that annihilating the Japanese Combined Fleet would crush Japan's ambitions to move south.
Therefore, it is necessary to give Japan a little confidence and let Japan's ambitions further expand.