Chapter 445: The Giant Bear Awakens 3

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The Commander-in-Chief of the Navy still estimates that there is too little, and Big Pineapple intends to sell four capital ships each to Argentina, Brazil, South Africa, and fraternal countries, for a total of as many as sixteen.

As new equipment is put in place one after another, the navy must also be reorganized in a step-by-step manner in accordance with the established strategy of the Supreme High Command.

In particular, it is necessary to eliminate old warships with large tonnage, old equipment, low combat power, and long ship age, and it is better to sell them half and give them to allies.

At present, four cruisers of the Kresta I, four Kenda, and eight Sverdlov cruisers are among them.

The cruiser sequence retains only two ships of the Kirov class, two of the Glorious class, ten of the Kresta II class.

Even two anti-submarine helicopter carriers of the "Moskva" class were swept into warehouses and prepared to be disposed of at a low price.

When the two Kirov-class and two Glorious-class ships under construction enter service one after another, the Kresta II class will also be decommissioned ahead of schedule.

The focus of the new military strategy advocated by Big Pineapple is to cut off stupid and stupid equipment that wastes the defense budget.

We should remove all obstacles to military modernization and enhance the comprehensive combat capability and counterattack capability of all branches of the armed forces.

For the Navy, the ultimate goal is to build multiple ocean-going fleets similar to the US aircraft carrier battle group.

The 1143.5 project is being built at the Nikolaev shipyard on the Black Sea, which is the well-known "Marshal Kuznetsov" class of conventionally powered aircraft carriers.

The current name is "Tbilisi", continuing the tradition of naming aircraft-carrying cruisers after the countries that joined the "Kiev" class.

The second sister ship was named "Almaty", and the ship was named the seat of the capital of Kazakhstan.

Although the displacement and number of carrier-based aircraft of the "Tbilisi" class aircraft-carrying cruisers are still inferior to those of the United States "Nimitz" class nuclear-powered aircraft carriers.

But compared to the 40,000-ton "Kiev" class, this is undoubtedly a huge military progress and technological leap.

From the "Tbilisi" class, the USSR Navy officially had large aircraft carriers capable of carrying heavy carrier-based fighters.

And the second-cargo youth has already prepared two teams of carrier-based aircraft for it - MiG-29K!

Although the combat radius of the "swallow of the Dnieper" is smaller than that of the Su-33 and belongs to the category of medium fighters.

However, the glass-based cockpit is equipped with medium-range air-to-air missiles, so that its combat effectiveness is not too low.

Russia on the main plane no longer produces the Su-33, if Marshal Chernavin has to equip his big ships with heavy fighters.

Then the chicken can only consider the J-16 or the American F/A-18E / F "Super Hornet".

France's "Rafale" is also a good choice, but it will fall into the vicious circle of Russia, France, and the United States.

The Union Navy has not yet been equipped with American fighters, and maintaining a single variety of native products is also convenient for unified command and maintenance.

In fact, the Yak-141, which can take off and land vertically, is the original configuration of the "Tbilisi"-class aircraft-carrying cruisers!

Although the addition of such fighters can make it possible for aircraft carriers to be installed without the need to install catapults.

But after all, it is not as large as the bomb load and range of conventional take-off and landing fighters, and it belongs to the upgraded version of the Yak-38.

Being able to carry the MiG-29K, which has a combat radius of more than 500 km, can be regarded as a big step forward for the alliance's carrier-based aircraft forces.

The Tbilisi class was only a springboard for the Soviet Union to become a powerful navy, and after accumulating a certain amount of experience in construction, it would embark on larger projects.

For example, the Project 1143.7 nuclear-powered heavy aircraft-carrying cruiser, the legendary "Ulyanovsk"-class nuclear-powered aircraft carrier!

This time, with enough funds for construction, the woolly bear will not hang up due to illness.

The giant ship that has changed the face of Washington's talk should have escaped the bad luck of being dismantled on the slipway.

By the beginning of the summer of 1985, the total strength of the Soviet Navy, including naval aviation, naval infantry, and coastal artillery rocket forces, provided 500,000 men, of whom 70 percent were conscripts.

Among the surface ship forces, there are five aircraft-carrying cruisers in active service, including three "Kiev"-class aircraft-carrying cruisers (another "Baku" is under construction) and two "Moskva"-class anti-submarine helicopter carriers.

Another large aircraft-carrying cruiser "Tbilisi" is under construction, and the sister ship "Almaty" of the same class is included in the construction plan.

The cruiser force consisted of thirty-nine cruisers, including two Kirov-class nuclear-powered cruisers (one more is under construction and one is planned), two Glory-class cruisers (two more are under construction), seven Kara-class cruisers, ten Kresta-II class cruisers, four Kresta-I class cruisers, four Kenda-class cruisers, and eight Sverdlov-class cruisers.

The destroyer formation consisted of 65 destroyers, including five Dreadnought-class, four Modern-class, three Sovoremeny-class, six Kasin-class, 13 Kasin-class, eight Kanin-class, four Udaroy-class, eight Kilding-class, 11 Kotlin-class, and 10 Skorly-class.

Whether it's a cruiser or a destroyer, the catalog roster looks dizzying.

Of course, this is not a compliment.

Western navies, especially the U.S. Navy, have taken the route of generalizing ships.

In a few years, "Ali? The Burke-class Aegis destroyer is a typical example.

In contrast, the alliance's escort ships are divided into anti-ship and anti-submarine, which is essentially a waste of the already small budget.

What's more, with the "Ali? Compared with the Burke-class destroyers, Soviet destroyers of the same tonnage are far inferior to the former in terms of comprehensive combat effectiveness.

Even so, the league still has to keep building, because there is no better option!

If you don't launch the "Dreadnought" and "Modern" classes, you can only continue to use the older "Casin" class......

The chicken looked at the serial menu of the Soviet Navy, except for a few large cruisers.

It feels like the woolly bear is fighting with the US Navy for world supremacy with a pile of steel garbage, how can it win?

In the United States, we are going all out to build "Ali? In the era of Burke-class destroyers, the Union also launched Project 11990 destroyers in response.

However, you can think of this type as a 10,000-ton destroyer cobbled together with a "glorious" hull, a vertical launch module on the foredeck of the "Kirov", and anti-ship missiles of the "modern" class according to their position!

What is even more amusing is that the prototype of the Type 11990 did not have a vertical launch system, and used a single-arm launch device.

And this cargo is actually for the escort of the "Ulyanovsk" class aircraft carriers......

So in the big pineapple watched "Ali? After the introduction of the Burke-class destroyers, the expensive Type 11990 died tragically on the drawings.

As the Inspector General of the Ministry of Defense, and especially in the Navy, Marshal Gorshkov resolutely supported Big Pineapple's drastic reclassification, and it was long overdue for such a resolute and resolute move.

"According to the reorganization plan of the Ministry of Defense, in the next five years, at least 50 nuclear submarines, 120 conventional submarines, 20 cruisers, 30 destroyers, and 50 frigates will be retired from active service."

The unprecedented "chopping plan" has caused an uproar within the Navy, with some generals even getting drunk saying that it was more than any Union ship sunk in World War II.

But the big pineapple was supported by the triumvirate of the Inspector General, Marshal Gorshkov, the Commander-in-Chief of the Navy, Marshal Chernavin, and the Chief of Staff, Marshal Yegorov.

Chernavin was originally Gorshkov's successor, but without the latter's insistence and assertiveness, he belonged to the category of echo worms.

But his post experience and command ability are still undeniable, so Big Pineapple promoted him to the position of commander-in-chief of the navy.

At the crossroads of redesign, a submissive like Chernavin may be better suited to lead the coalition navy in a grand military modernization.

Marshal Gorshkov has become a booster for the renovation of the Navy: "At present, one aircraft-carrying cruiser, three missile cruisers, ten destroyers, eighteen frigates, six nuclear-powered submarines, and eight conventionally powered submarines are under construction at various shipyards. ”

Just looking at this list of newly built ships, it seems that it is far from being able to replenish the cut parts, which is a bit of a thirst quenching and overstretched.

"The Navy has acquired thirty-two new frigates (4 x 11356, 4 x 11356M, 2 x 22350, 2 x 20380, 4 x 11661 'Cheetah', 3 'Sigma', 5 'Incheon', 3 'Sal'-5, 4 K-130, 3 056), twenty-six conventionally powered submarines (10 'Kilo', 8 U-212/214, 4 'Squid', 4 041'). ”

There are Russia, Vietnam, Indonesia, South Korea, Treasure Island, Italy, and a large country......

In the words of the young man of the second goods: It doesn't matter what you want, what matters is what kind of goods the deity can find!

No matter how big the battleship is, it can't fit into the space and carry it, and it takes tens of thousands of points to increase the virtual space.

For the chicken, it is better to live within your means, otherwise the points that you have saved with great difficulty will have to be cleared in an instant.

Big Pineapple knew that it could not blindly suppress the navy and serve the reorganization plan of the alliance army.

Give them some sweetness when the time is right.

"The Political Affairs Bureau has approved in principle the construction plan for two Project 1143.7 nuclear-powered heavy aircraft-carrying cruisers, and is considering the intention to add two more 'Kirov' and two 'Glorious' class cruisers." Dreadnought-class and 'modern' class destroyers can be built with four additional units each. Six Type 949A (Oscar-class) and Type 971 (Akula-class) attack nuclear submarines can be built, and ten more can be built for the Kilo-class. ”

The construction of the Project 1143.7 nuclear-powered heavy aircraft-carrying cruiser was already a foregone conclusion, the first ship of the class was named "Ulyanovsk", and the second ship was named "Stalingrad".

With a full set of design drawings provided by Miji, the project design progress is very fast and has reached the final stage.

The Nikolaev shipyard on the Black Sea is rushing to build two Tbilisi-class aircraft-carrying cruisers in an effort to make room for the largest slipway as soon as possible.

The specific plan will start construction by the end of next year and the beginning of the next year, and the required CNC machine tools such as forging, cutting, milling and drilling have arrived in Ukraine.

The two large aircraft carriers, which have a full load displacement of more than 80,000 tons and can carry 48 MiG-29 carrier-based fighters, adopt a design concept similar to that of the American "Nimitz" class.

After the catapult was installed, not only did the combat capability of the aviation be greatly strengthened, ensuring the use of early warning aircraft, but also greatly improved the aircraft carrier's reconnaissance, search, and strike capabilities.

The appearance of the "Ulyanovsk" class allowed the Soviet Navy to significantly shorten the gap with the US Navy in terms of aircraft carrier technology and combat capabilities.

When this class and two "Tbilisi" ships enter service one after another, the Soviet Navy will become the only ocean-going combat force in the world that can compete with the US Navy's aircraft carrier battle group.

Constrained by naval strategic thinking, the status and role of aircraft carriers in the Soviet Navy were completely different from those of the US Navy in positioning and using aircraft carriers.

As a direct result, at the beginning of the design, the focus was on the offensive and defensive capabilities of the aircraft carrier itself, while weakening the combat effectiveness of the aviation system.

The main task of aircraft carriers and carrier-based aircraft is to provide air cover for their own nuclear submarines operating in the established sea area and to reduce detection and harassment by Western anti-submarine forces.

Long-range sea and air defense missions rely more on anti-ship and anti-aircraft missiles of surface ships, which is completely different from the US Navy's use of carrier-based aircraft to carry out offensive and defensive tasks.

That's why the Soviet Union still calls the "Kiev" class and the next two aircraft carriers "aircraft-carrying cruisers", which is inseparable from its strategic thinking and design concept.

Fortunately, the young man of the second cargo appeared in time to help the big pineapple and the Supreme Command get out of the misunderstanding and have a correct understanding of the role of the aircraft carrier.

It also led to the fact that three Typhoon-class strategic nuclear submarines were not included in Moscow's construction plan and died directly on the menu.

On the premise of ensuring that they could destroy each other, the Kremlin realized that it already had enough nuclear warheads and weapons.

This makes it unnecessary to continue the construction of the extremely expensive "Typhoon" class, the current three with other classes of strategic nuclear submarines.

Together with strategic bombers and vehicle-mounted TEL launchers, the three-in-one nuclear strike system of sea, land, and air is sufficient to defend the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the alliance.

Seeing that the big pineapple had already spoken and had a positive and positive attitude toward naval construction, Chernavin continued: "On the premise of ensuring the resolute implementation of the reorganization plan, the underwater strike force can basically complete the maintenance of 24 strategic nuclear submarines, 48 attack nuclear submarines, and 72 conventionally powered submarines. Surface ship units will be regrouped in formation according to the deployment of the 'aircraft-carrying cruisers' and appear in any sea area that the alliance needs in the mode of a battle group! ”

After estimating, the Ministry of National Defense believes that the Navy will retain 24 strategic nuclear submarines and ensure three shifts, that is, eight in port for repair, eight in the sea area, and eight in combat readiness patrol, which can meet the needs of sea-based strike platforms.

If the military spending allocated by the Supreme High Command to the Navy will not continue to increase, then in the future, of course, the focus will be on the development of large "aircraft-carrying cruisers" that are also costly.

After all, if there is no nuclear war, those underwater "big black fish" can really only come out day and night, and appear in military magazines or something.

In conventional warfare, which is often exposed, there is no doubt that the role of "aircraft-carrying cruisers" is extremely prominent.

In this regard, the Supreme Command, the Ministry of National Defense, and the Navy have reached a complete confession.

Big Pineapple has nodded in agreement, as long as the design bureau completes the relevant plan, successfully passes the review, and the shipyard vacates the slipway, construction can begin.