Looking at the situation in the parallel world, in order to counter the US Navy, the Red Empire has maintained a huge force of ocean-going navy + underwater fleet + shore-based aviation for a long time, especially a complete set of anti-ship missile combat systems stationed on land, with a total of hundreds of Tu-22M3 and Tu-160 strategic bombers, but such a huge number of equipment cannot guarantee that every inch of land on the long coastline is well protected, but can only ensure the defense of some key areas, The price to be paid is enormous.

To put it bluntly, the attacking side can choose the time and place of the attack, but the defending side can only wait for 24 hours in all areas, and the form of attack and defense has been the same since ancient times, otherwise why would the Soviet military philosophy repeatedly emphasize that "attack is the best defense"?

The Far East campaign, which lasted for more than 10 days, seemed to have no other way but to develop step by step in the direction of a war of attrition.

For such a tricky situation, not only did the people present talk about it, but Long Yun naturally fell into a careful thought.

Yes, before the war in the East began, he did not carefully consider the overall situation in the Far East, but simply believed that "as long as the JASDF is eliminated, and perhaps the US troops stationed in Japan are added, the Americans will be exhausted in the Far East, and the campaign goal will be achieved"; However, it now seems that the situation is clearly much more complicated, and the threat to the Far East cannot be eliminated if the US Navy's aircraft carrier battle group is not eliminated for a day, and the war is obviously unfavorable to the Soviet Union, but he cannot think of any other way.

It is probably unrealistic to expect the Red Navy and the US Navy to confront each other head-on. The war has evolved from a sea and air battle to a landing operation. It also seems to be an adventure. Is it just that the Americans will continue to attack day by day until the Americans bow their heads and admit defeat because of unbearable war losses?

Thinking of this, the young man in the chair slowly shook his head.

He knows that as the number one power in the Western world, it is not an exaggeration to overestimate the war potential of the United States, and the geographical environment far away from the ocean also determines the rear security of this superpower; To bring down such an opponent through a war of attrition, the current bloc of Eastern countries may be able to do it, but the whole process can be imagined how long and cruel it will be. How many technological weapons and precious lives do you have to expend to really do this?

Hmph, if you were planning to see, then it would be better to land in Japan in one go!

Long Yun naturally has no good impression of Japan, if he were to serve as the commander of the three armed forces of the Red Empire and formulate a national combat strategy, he might really choose to completely destroy this American's pawn.

But now, to do this, again, is beyond the capabilities of the USSR for war.

In the hotly discussed battle rehearsal room, the mental activities that I felt through my consciousness were very complicated, and I sat in my position silently. Long Yun, who seemed to be an outsider, was observing the surroundings, and he could feel the anxiety in the hearts of those present. and some worries about the development of the war situation.

If the campaign develops into a protracted war, will the situation be very unfavorable to the Soviet Union?

When it comes to protracted wars, there are actually many kinds, and the key depends on the role played by the warring parties, whether they actively participate in the tug of war that consumes the enemy's war potential, or passively participate in a war with no end in sight.

If it's the former, it's good, but the latter is a big bad thing.

Since coming to the Far East and having been flying the Su-27M2 to slaughter enemy planes in the sky battlefield, Long Yun has only now realized that in this battle in which the army has no place to play, the Red Air Force is certainly playing the main role, but the final trend of the battle situation will still fall on the duel between the naval ships of the two sides.

Or, to put it more accurately, it was a contest between land-based and carrier-based aviation between the United States and the Soviet Union.

The battle on the sea, but the battle in the sky will decide the victory, this scene is not uncommon in the history of human warfare, many famous examples in World War II are like this, the "Prince of Wales" was sunk by the Japanese army, the prelude to the death of the "Bismarck", and the "Midway", "Coral Sea" and "Leyte Gulf" and other famous naval battles, all ended in the victory of the fighter against the ship.

In the decades after World War II, missile weapons rose rapidly in the Cold War era, and the means of attack on surface ships by fighters also evolved from free-fall bombs and direct-sailing torpedoes to guided bombs, self-guided torpedoes, and even anti-ship missiles that came later.

Because of this, surface ships are in a more difficult position in the face of fighters, and even special air defense ships with high-level anti-aircraft firepower are very uneasy in the face of enemy planes approaching at high speed.

The obvious difference in Chinese vocabulary between "air defense" and "anti-ship" is very appropriate to summarize the status of air and surface combat platforms.

In this case, in order to fight a decisive battle with the powerful US Navy in the far sea, it is a prerequisite for the Red Navy, which has relatively weak carrier-based aviation forces, to carry out tasks within the combat radius of shore-based aviation. However, as far as Long Yun understands, this matter is easy to say, but it is difficult to really operate.

First of all, a very simple question, would the Americans be stupid enough to fly an aircraft carrier to the near sea and compete with the Red Navy within the range of Soviet shore-based aircraft?

In fact, the US Navy has always been conservative in its use of heavy aircraft carriers, and will never allow aircraft carriers to approach the enemy's coastline unless it is certain that the adversary does not have any means of attacking the aircraft carrier battle group, as was the case in the 1991 Gulf War.

On the other hand, due to the constraints of technical level and other aspects, the "combat radius" of shore-based aircraft is also uneven, and the combat radius of fighters is often much lower than that of bombers, which will also cause some trouble.

For example, the armed forces of the Red Empire, even the Su-27S / P fighters, which are known for their large range, have a combat radius of only 1,200 kilometers, and among the strategic bombers carrying heavy anti-ship missiles, the Tu-22M3, which has a shorter range, also has a combat radius of more than 2,000 kilometers, but this figure is almost meaningless to the US Navy, with the cooperation of the F-14 "Tomcat" and the E-2C "Hawkeye", The surprise attack of the US aircraft carrier battle group by Soviet strategic bombers without fighter escort was difficult, and even bordered on futility.

The difference in the combat radius of fighters and bombers is reflected in the tactical contradiction that is difficult to coordinate, so the Americans basically only need to deploy the aircraft carrier battle group 1,000 kilometers away from the coastline to eliminate the variables that the Soviet shore-based air force will add to a naval confrontation.

Of course, in order to deal with the Americans' aircraft carrier battle groups, in addition to shore-based aviation, the Red Navy, which has been developing "aircraft-carrying cruisers" in small steps for several decades, also has a certain amount of carrier-based aviation strength.

Specific to the Pacific Fleet, two Type 1143.5/6 "full-deck heavy aircraft-carrying cruisers" (in fact, aircraft carriers), each can carry up to 34 Su-27K carrier-based fighters and 12 Ka-27 carrier-based anti-submarine helicopters. In the face of the powerful US Navy, it is very stretched.

As a comparison, Long Yun came back to his senses and flipped through the intelligence information in his hand to see the deployment of US Navy ships in the Pacific direction.

Perhaps considering that this sea area is too vast, the aircraft carriers belonging to the US Third and Seventh Fleets, except for the CV-63 "Kitty Hawk", are all "Nimitz" class with an almost unlimited endurance, and the three aircraft carriers "Abraham Lincoln", "Theodore Roosevelt" and "John F. Kennedy" are all in combat readiness.

Among them, the CV-63 "Kitty Hawk" has the least number of aircraft, but even so, this giant ship with a full load displacement of more than 80,000 tons also carries the 15th Carrier-based Aircraft Wing, and the total number of combat/attack aircraft is about 60.

The number of carrier-based aircraft on the "Kitty Hawk" aircraft carrier alone is close to that of the combat formation composed of "Tbilisi" and "Varyag"; if it is really as set in the "campaign deduction" that the Red Navy formation encounters three US heavy aircraft carriers, then the strength of the carrier-based air force will be about 1:2.5, and this is obviously very unfavorable.

After a cursory reading of some information and a horizontal comparison of the situation of the carrier-based aircraft of the United States and the Soviet Union, Long Yun knew how bad the situation was.

Although war is not a simple comparison of the number of weapons, such a large gap is difficult to make up for by tactical or other factors.

As far as the Red Navy is concerned, the only chance is at the strategic level; if the US military is induced to rush forward and let the decisive battle break out within the combat radius of the Soviet strategic bombers, through the operational strategy of integrating sea and air, using carrier-based aviation to open up channels for air-launched anti-ship platforms, reach missile launch positions, and carry out several rounds of intensive salvos of heavy anti-ship missiles, coupled with the firepower projection of surface ships and cruise missile submarines, it will be able to wipe out the huge US aircraft carrier battle group in one fell swoop.

In the air, on the surface and under the water, three different anti-ship platforms must work together and exert their power together, and this kind of thing is easy to say in the command center, but it can be said that it is extremely difficult to carry out it on the vast ocean. (To be continued......)