In the face of the air threat from land, surface warships have always been at a disadvantage since the era of World War II, and the emergence of carrier-based aviation has certainly greatly reversed this situation, but compared with land-based aviation units with more convenient logistical conditions and a very large scale, if other factors such as battlefield situation, tactics, and tactics are removed, carrier-based aviation units still cannot compete with land-based forces with similar technical level and establishment scale.

It is not so incomprehensible that even the heavy aircraft carriers of the US Navy failed to win for the United States on the Caucasian front.

The idea seemed to be very correct, and he chatted with the staff officer of the major general in the corridor for a while, during which he also talked about the air battle in the Far East, Long Yun learned from Zakharov about the deployment of the VVS, which still had a certain advantage in the number of fighters on the Far Eastern front, and the situation was also favorable to the side of the Red Empire.

However, during the conversation, the major general also mentioned a troublesome matter, the KnAAPO in Komsomolsk, the Komsomolsk-on-Amur Aviation Industry Complex, has recently been frequently attacked by US cruise missiles, although it did not cause very serious losses, but it has affected the progress of a series of production plans; In the short term, such an attack will not have any impact on the war situation, but with the destruction of cruise missiles falling from the sky, the production of Su-27 and Su-17 series fighters will be somewhat blocked, and eventually the air combat strength of the Red Empire will be weakened.

In order to change this situation with cruise missile attacks on the Americans, VVS and PVO have little to think of for a while.

The location of KnAAPO is located in Komsomolsk, on the banks of the Amur River, in the coastal region of the Far East, not far from the coastline. Strategic bombers of the US Air Force did not even need to fly over the Japanese archipelago. You can calmly shoot air-launched cruise missiles; The current progress of the Far Eastern war. Although the ВССЯ is close to collapse, it is of course still unattainable in a short period of time to quickly crush NATO's defenses, or even land on Japan, and push the defense line further south.

After learning about this situation and hearing a short bell from the deduction room, Long Yun walked out of the corridor with Stepan Zakharov to participate in the next meeting.

The process and conclusion of a "battle deduction" were introduced, and after a short break and discussion. Long Yun, who was sitting next to the staff of the major general, looked left and right, and found that many of the participants had the same views as himself and Zakharov, and questioned the background setting of the exercise, believing that there was no need for the Red Navy to fight a decisive battle with the Americans in the ocean, but should continue to play a deterrent role and build an impregnable maritime defense line near the coast.

With the cooperation of shore-based aviation, as long as the US aircraft carrier battle group can be contained in the far sea, to be specific, outside the combat radius of the US carrier-based aircraft, then in a certain sense. The strategic value of these aircraft carriers will not be able to be brought into play, and they will not be able to influence the situation in the Far East.

But. The decisive battle on the far sea is sometimes not avoided by wishful thinking.

The analysis of the campaign has come to an end for the time being, and unlike the operational meetings that specialize in the study of how to destroy the enemy, the command organs at the level of the theater headquarters should no longer focus only on tactics, but should pay more attention to the overall strategy under the direct leadership of the Supreme Command and the General Staff.

As far as the current situation is concerned, the instructions conveyed above are "to complete the first phase of the Far East operational plan, that is, to seize strategic air supremacy, suppress the enemy in front of them, and make preparations for ocean-going campaigns, and to take the initiative to launch a far-sea combat operation when the time is right, with a view to stabilizing the situation in the Far East for a long time" -- this instruction actually leaves a lot of room for the commanders, and if translated into the vernacular, it is to hope to "suppress" rather than conquer the US imperialist client states in the Far East. Eliminate the threat of the Red Empire's frontier invisibly, and if necessary, actively fight a decisive battle at sea.

In line with this line of thought, the chief of staff of the command, who presided over the meeting, was talking eloquently:

“…… Indeed, in a comprehensive analysis of the current war situation and the armed forces that can be used in the Far Eastern Theater, we must make clear such a premise when considering the strategy for the next move.

To launch a cross-sea landing campaign or an offensive operation on the ground, whether to occupy South Korea or Japan, it requires a huge number of troops and sustained combat capability, which is obviously an unbearable heavy burden for our army. The directives of the High Command clearly point out that operations in the Far East must be confined to the naval and air levels, both to destroy NATO's war potential in the Far East in one fell swoop and to prevent it from posing a threat to our country and its allies, and not to expand the scale of the war indefinitely.

In this way, I think everyone here should understand that from the point of view of addressing the maritime threat on the NATO side, we must also actively prepare for a battle in the far seas.

Even if such a combat operation cannot completely annihilate the American aircraft carrier battle group, which we all know is almost impossible, it can send a signal to the enemy through resolute action that even the US Navy cannot operate in the Pacific in the northwest as it pleases, so as to greatly reduce the maritime threat in the Far East and, more importantly, to overwhelm the adversary as soon as possible and achieve the ultimate goal of this campaign. ”

The Chief of Staff's words caused the Red Admirals present to nod their heads again and again, and the participants from other branches of the military also exchanged ideas with each other for a while, and bowed their heads slightly as the conversation progressed.

Yes, as far as the current situation is concerned, the Red Navy does not have the ability to completely destroy the American Navy, and this is well known to everyone, even if not the naval commander; Therefore, the crux of the matter lies in how to give play to the role of the navy in the Far Eastern theater, and if it is only satisfied with such actions as strategic nuclear deterrence, protecting sea lines of communication, and destroying the enemy's sea lines of communication, then for the Red Navy, it will not be regarded as fulfilling its duties as an ocean-going navy, but will degenerate into a coastal defense force, which is a dereliction of duty for the Pacific Fleet, which has a large number of combat ships and is strong.

However, having said that, from another point of view, in the face of the huge US Navy's Third and Seventh Fleets and their accomplices the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force, the overall strength of the Pacific Fleet is not superior, and the carrier-based air force is far behind the US military.

The unfavorable conclusion of the "campaign deduction" is certainly unpleasant, but it also reminds everyone here of how risky it is to defeat the US Navy in the depths of the ocean.

While thinking and discussing with his colleagues, the atmosphere in the deduction room gradually became lively, and Long Yun's thinking became clearer and clearer with everyone's discussion, and like the commanders and staff officers present, he also quickly realized that in the Far East Campaign, a proactive attack of the Red Navy was actually very necessary, which could not be avoided by making a comparison of the strength of the two sides, but was determined by the general premise of the Far East sea and air operations.

To put it bluntly, the question is actually very simple, can we defeat the enemy in one fell swoop by relying solely on air strikes and breaking diplomatic relations at sea?

As a lieutenant general of the VVS Air Force, Long Yun wanted to answer this question "да", but reason told him that in the face of Japan, and perhaps Korea, the client states of the Americans, without landing and occupying them, it was impossible to force the enemy to surrender by fighting in the sky alone.

The situation of the client states is not bad, but if Japan and South Korea are not occupied for a day, the Americans will have two unsinkable giant warships in the Far East, and their armed forces will be very convenient for them to attack, supply, and rest, and if this continues, the Far East campaign will certainly become a protracted war in which the two sides compete for war potential, and this prospect will undoubtedly be unfavorable to the Soviet side, which is sparsely populated and has limited potential in the Far East.

Judging from the overall strength of the fleet, the balance of forces between us and the enemy is not conducive to a decisive battle on the far sea, but from the perspective of the development of the war situation, a battle at sea is imperative, and this is not a complete dilemma?

In the face of this dilemma, there is no possibility of a significant increase in the strength of the Pacific Fleet in a short period of time, and several army generals actually began to discuss whether to simply launch a landing campaign in the Sea of Japan, sweep through Japan to clear the forward bases of the Yankees, and then use the shore-based forces stationed in the Japanese archipelago to screen the rear and completely eliminate the threat of the US Navy.

This plan, which sounds quite bold, is actually difficult to implement, and was soon completely rejected by some of the reasons put forward by everyone.

If another landing operation is launched to attack Japan, which is densely populated and well prepared for war, the number of troops and equipment required will completely exceed the capabilities of the Far Eastern Theater General Command, and at the same time, it will completely contradict the instructions of the Supreme Command.

In addition, another question that cannot be ignored is that even if Japan is swept through with all its might, and the defense line is pushed to the Japanese archipelago, with the shore-based forces of the Red Empire, the absolute security of the coastal areas of the Soviet Union and the Far ASEAN countries can be completely guaranteed.

He knows that the great value of aircraft carriers in modern warfare is by no means as simple as a "floating airfield", but can give the attacking side great flexibility to choose the time, place and mode of operation at will; As a defender, maintaining a defensive force that can deter an enemy carrier battle group most of the time and in most locations will require far more investment than a carrier battle group.

The "defensive inferiority" in modern warfare can be said to be vividly manifested on this issue. (To be continued......)