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Russia, a country that has been a group of barbarians who have been begging for a living on the plains of Eastern Europe for hundreds of years, has it actually built aircraft carriers and a large number of combat ships to compete with the United States for sea power?

Sitting at the long oval table and listening to the adjutant explain the fleet's battle plan, Vice Admiral Pratt was a little distracted.

The Great War was imminent, and William Pratt was now thinking more about the fortunes of the United States than the war situation; This kind of thinking seems to be a bad job for a soldier, but as a politician said, the prestige of the United States is based on the deterrence of the US military, and the US Navy, which dominates the world, is the top priority of this chain.

The general was still distracted, but the adjutant who was in charge of the explanation task was very attentive, holding a laser pointer and gushing:

“…… Regarding the location of the main forces of the Russian fleet, the latest intelligence shows that the Russians' aircraft carrier formation is still lagging behind, and it is speculated that its coordinates are here.

-- That's about 500 nautical miles.

Then, in accordance with the series of operational plans drawn up by the staff department earlier, we should now act immediately and send a wave of Hornet fighters to attack the main force of Russian surface ships using air-to-ship missiles.

As for the preferred targets, the most sensible thing now is not to go for air strikes on Russian aircraft carriers. Rather, it is a Russian surface and underwater anti-ship missile launch platform that poses a heavy threat to our ships; The problem of submarines. It's not a cause for concern for the time being. So the VFA's first task is to say, gesturing, the red bright spot of the laser pointer swaying back and forth in the sea northwest of the fleet, "to the position of the Russian surface ship formation, under the cover of the 'Tomcat', to break through the Russian fighter interception line, and to destroy these surface ships carrying large anti-ship missiles." ”

"Thomson, the action you said was just a plan to lure the enemy. Is it? ”

"Sir Jensen, you're absolutely right,"

The battle was about to begin, and the discussion atmosphere in the command room was very solemn, and the adjutant simply called the general by name and asked everyone to relax a little:

"An offensive in this direction, in the plan, does not expect to destroy the Russian fleet.

However, it is conceivable that in the face of our air offensive, the Russians will inevitably send a large number of warplanes to cover their main anti-ship platforms, including the SSGN (Submarine_Ship_Guide_missile_Nuclear that threatens Yanzhòng. cruise missile nuclear submarines), so that there is no time to take care of anything else. We can—"

"-- So what about the 'backfire'?

It's past four o'clock in the morning, and the intelligence says that the Ivan have already made a big move! ”

"The threat of 'backfire'?

Then dispatch the 'Tomcat', what is there to worry about! ”

Just now at the table without saying a word, Lieutenant General William Pratt suddenly spoke to everyone, and met everyone's eyes, as if he was provoked by the polar bear, the lieutenant general stood up and walked to the adjutant with a gloomy face, took the laser pointer in his hand, and made an impassioned statement to the generals and staff officers:

"Now, don't think so much, all ships will act according to the predetermined plan!

Spencer, your 'Washington' is responsible for attacking the Russian surface formations, and with the exception of the anti-aircraft fighters, dispatch all available 'Super Hornets', and be sure to put pressure on the opponent and hold back the Russian fighters; George, the 'Kennedy' concentrated all the fighters and formed a dense fighter interception line on the periphery of the fleet, and set aside a squadron of 'Tomcats', and when the signal came from the front, it would immediately eject into the air and intercept the 'Backfire'!

As for the Theodore Roosevelt, I will personally take command and act as a reserve in case the Russians play any more tricks. ”

Yelling at his subordinates, in fact, these battle plans had already been finalized, and now seeing the generals and staff of the United States, many of them were worried, clearly lacking confidence in the upcoming battle, and the rest of the guys were full of confidence, just like the sky and the earth, William Pratt repeated again, he hoped that his subordinates would understand that although the current situation of the war was not very optimistic, the sea power of the United States still had a considerable advantage, as long as there was no mistake in command and specific actions, You can defeat the damned Russians.

So now, there is no need to be afraid of the Russian fleet, even the bombers flying from the sky!

The "Backfire" bombers that broke through the sky, those big guys roaring from hundreds of kilometers away, are of course more threatening than the surface ships and submarines of the polar bears.

But now, commanding three nuclear-powered heavy aircraft carriers, there are more than 150 planes in hand that can directly carry out combat missions, which is more than the total number of air force fighters of most countries in the world, even in the face of a large-scale attack by the Russians, the fleet is still far from land, and it is conceivable that Ivan's bombers cannot be escorted by land-based fighters.

The plan had already been communicated, and at this time, without much nonsense, the lieutenant general quickly dismissed the generals who were sitting together for a meeting, and asked them to return to their own warships, and take full responsibility for the dispatch and coordination between surface ships, fighter squadrons and support fighters after the start of the operation, and once the command gave the order, the rapid release of carrier-based aircraft could begin immediately.

The personnel dispersed, each rushing to his own position, and the command structure of the aircraft carrier battle group, which remained in the combat command room and maintained contact with the direction of Hawaii, was operating at high speed.

Using the number returned by the forward early warning planes and comparing them with the battlefield information sent from the rear, in order to estimate the general direction of the Russian fleet, the first wave of attacks does not need to be too precise for the Americans, anyway, it is just a feint to attract the attention of the opponent, as long as the sea area to which the attack aircraft are pounced in formation is roughly reliable, the nervous Russians will definitely counterattack -- then according to the pre-war deduction of Vice Admiral Pratt and a group of staff officers, The outnumbered U.S. Navy attack aircraft group will certainly be able to hold back the Russians' fighters, and may even achieve some success, and then the Russians will have to rely on their limited number of "sea guards" to exhaust themselves, and defeat is inevitable.

A battle of victory and defeat in the ocean seems to be huge in scale, but in fact, it is only the interconnection of several key elements.

Now it seems that the analysis of the Pacific Command is correct, the weakness of the Russians is that there are too few fighters, even if there are many threats in the air and underwater, without a group of fighters to escort them, what threat can they pose to the United States' impregnable aircraft carrier battle group defense circle?

With this in mind, Vice Admiral Pratt beckoned his staff officers to stand by in the operational command room, ready to dispatch his forces to attack at any time, while he left quickly, taking the elevator back to the ship island of the "Theodore Roosevelt", where he planned to watch the elite of the United States of America in a big attack from the bridge of the air and the air, sail all the way according to the guidance of accurate intelligence, and throw the "harpoons" and "whaling forks" that were presented on the heads of the Russians.

Since the beginning of the Philippine War, for nearly 100 years, the United States has always been the master of the world's oceans, and now it is equivalent to fighting on its own home turf, and defeat will never be tolerated!

"Even for the sake of dignity, you must not lose", the general who came out of the elevator strode to the bridge with these thoughts in his mind.

In the face of war, the generals' blood is boiling, but for the soldiers on the front line of the war, it is a completely different feeling.

In the darkest hour before sunrise, the CVN-71 "Theodore Roosevelt" aircraft carrier broke through the waves, accompanied by the sound of swells slapping "brushing", the release and recovery of the fighter planes were still in progress.

Located in the center of the entire three-carrier battle group, the USS Theodore Roosevelt undertook the task of maintaining the inner air defense circle of the entire battle group, and at this time, two gray-and-white F/A-18E fighters with flat wings were preparing to launch at the first and second ejection positions in the bow of the ship, and had just returned from a patrol mission, and the "Tomcat" with auxiliary fuel tanks and four heavy "immortal birds" on the fuselage had just landed on the deck and slowly taxied to the parking area on the side.

The fighters taxied into place one by one, and at the moment when the threat level in the air was not too high, the two F-14Ds that landed could also return to the hangar for maintenance and refueling.

While waiting for the elevator to take place, the narrow hatch on the "Super Cat's" thick fuselage opened upwards, and the young pilots who had completed the mission climbed down the boarding ladder and jumped onto the rough and cold aircraft carrier deck, taking off their flight helmets and breathing in the cold and salty sea breeze.

Like the pilot in the front seat, he jumped off the plane and moved his legs and feet on the spot a few times, and the radar operator Pearson greeted the ground crew who came to tow the fighter, and hurriedly signed the combat record to confirm, and the two did not wait for the battery car on the way, so they walked to the ship island by themselves, and turned their heads to look at the roar of the engine as they walked, and happened to witness the fighter plane with the engine fully turned on and the tail flame like a dazzling star ejection and take-off.

With the catapult action, a puff of white steam rises in the dim light, and the faintly visible outline of the F/A-18 Super Hornet soon disappears into the endless darkness, except for the piercing tail vent, which temporarily leaves an ablative blurry afterimage on the retina of the onlooker.

"Let's go, -Sean?"

Stopping a few meters away, and watching the scene of the fighter plane ejecting and taking off with his partner, Pearson, who came up, was a little puzzled by the fact that the fighter plane ejected and took off, what was there to see in the scene that he was used to seeing on an aircraft carrier.

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