Chapter 336: Eyeing Iwo Jima
At the end of the trip to Berlin, a total of four satellite launch centers in Australia, North America and South America carried out satellite launches on the same day.
The first launch was a super-large carrier rocket located at the Cosmodrome in the United States, which successfully lifted off and successfully released a total of 36 spy satellites in orbit at an altitude of 100 kilometers to 200 kilometers above the earth.
The mass of each of these spy satellites is nearly 300 kilograms, and the total weight of the 36 spy satellites is more than 10 tons.
There are many satellites with one arrow, and each of them is the main satellite, which initially constitutes the satellite coverage network of the Red Guard Corps.
The launch vehicle that was then launched in South America also put a massive geostationary orbit satellite into a geosynchronous orbit over Europe.
The satellites launched by the Australian Satellite Launch Center have also successfully put two satellites in geostationary orbit into the same orbit of the North Pacific Ocean in the Central Pacific.
The last satellite to be launched was another satellite launch center in the United States, and this time the launch vehicle launched a total of as many as 78 various detection and meteorological satellites into orbit at multiple altitudes of the earth.
In the next six months, there will be a second round of launch missions, and more satellites will be sent into space, giving priority to completing satellite reconnaissance coverage around the world.
Among the launch tasks of military priority, the launch of a variety of civilian functional satellites will also be started simultaneously, mainly covering four main aspects: environment, resources, practice, and meteorology.
The focus of the second round of satellite launches will also be mainly on global positioning and military satellite communication technology.
The successful launch of the first round of satellites means that the new era of war mode is coming, and the sky is no longer the commanding heights of human warfare.
On this night, there were already astronomical telescopes that saw a shadow flashing rapidly in space, but it did not attract much attention.
Because even if the astronomical observer is lucky, when the telescope sees the satellite flashing, the satellite has disappeared from the telescope in 0.05 seconds, and it is difficult to catch.
Not to mention satellites, which are very foreign to the world, so they have not attracted any attention and attention.
As for radar detection satellites, current radar technology simply cannot reach the level of satellite discovery.
For nearly three months, the Red Guard Corps was in the midst of rapid internal rectification, a large number of front-line combat units were all equipped with the latest combat equipment, and even the navy of the expeditionary corps was replaced with a batch of new warships.
On the Pacific battlefield, the smell of gunpowder could be felt in the air as the calm time slowly passed.
From the Shenzhou battlefield, Japan mobilized a lot of troops to the south, deployed them in the Philippines and Southeast Asia, and strengthened the defense of a large number of islands around the Japanese mainland.
The defense of the Philippines was the 14th Front Army, the main force of the Japanese army, commanded by the famous Japanese Army General Yamashita Fumi.
The 14th Front Army, which is under his command, has nine main divisions and three independent brigades, with a total strength of 230,000, plus many local puppet army units, which can command more than 400,000 troops.
The Philippines is the place where the United States woke up, where the United States was defeated and driven away by the Japanese, but now the United States is gone, and the Japanese are facing an even more formidable opponent.
However, Japan still did not intend to surrender easily, and organized a million defense troops in Southeast Asia, and organized relevant defense work according to the performance in the Pacific theater.
For the past three months, the Japanese army has been constantly strengthening its defenses, and has also concentrated its naval and aviation forces, planning to start a counterattack.
For this reason, the Japanese Navy also regrouped, not only calling all the aircraft carriers that could be used, but also allowing a battleship Yamato and Musashi, which were reluctant to come out, to fight.
To this end, the Japanese Combined Fleet also formed a final decisive force, including two Yamato-class battleships, converted aircraft carriers: Chitose, Chiyoda, Sea Hawk, Cloud Hawk, Okaka, Hayabusa, Tensei, and Fengxiang.
Two battleships, eight aircraft carriers, plus cruisers and destroyers, it seems that the force structure is very large, but most of these aircraft carriers are light aircraft carriers, and the combat capabilities that can be brought into play are very limited.
Among them, Tiancheng is an aircraft carrier that was completed urgently, and belongs to the second of the Yunlong-class aircraft carriers, because of the changes and tensions in the situation, Tiancheng had to speed up outfitting after the basic completion, and at the same time reduce some equipment, and after barely forming combat effectiveness, urgently go to sea.
And this aircraft carrier, with a displacement of more than 20,000 tons, has also become the last main aircraft carrier of the Japanese Combined Fleet.
If Japan's eight aircraft carriers are filled with carrier-based aircraft, the total number of carrier-based aircraft that can be carried is only about 200, and the combat capability is far from being comparable to that of the glorious days of the Japanese Navy.
In fact, since the Japanese Navy started the war with the Red Alert Empire, the rate of loss of ships is too alarming, and the Japanese domestic industry cannot meet the needs of the speed of shipbuilding, and it is difficult to replenish the lost aircraft carriers in time.
However, this time the Japanese Navy was pinned not on the aircraft carrier fleet, but on the two battleships in the fleet.
As the pride of the Japanese Navy, the Yamato has always played the role of soy sauce and has never participated in any battle with the Red Alert Imperial Navy, but it is still the trump card in the eyes of the Japanese Navy.
The two Yamato-class battleships, in the extravagant hope of the Japanese Navy, were able to quickly destroy the enemy's aircraft carrier fleet as long as they were close to the enemy's fleet, and the aircraft carrier was slaughtered in front of the battleship.
It's just that how to get close to the enemy's fleet is a very serious problem, and at least the Japanese navy still can't think of a feasible way when it goes to sea.
At the same time, in order to preserve the last bit of incense, the Japanese military headquarters also did not allow the Combined Fleet to leave the mainland too far, and also forbade it to go to Southeast Asia for support.
In other words, even if the Japanese Combined Fleet sailed again, it would only be able to wander around Japan, and it would be difficult to find an opportunity to start a decisive battle at sea with the Red Alert Navy.
However, the Japanese Navy has no chance, but the Red Alert Navy will not let go of the last bit of vitality of the Japanese Navy.
Because the expeditionary corps is already organizing attacks on Iwo Jima and the Ogasawara Islands, this will be the last door for the Red Guard Corps to knock on the Japanese mainland from the Pacific region.
In particular, the two Japanese air force airfields on Iwo Jima will be the key targets of attack, and they can even be used to attract the Japanese navy to leave the protection of its own air force and come out for a decisive battle.