Chapter 1211: Two Battle Groups

Major Nasimov's construction is exactly what Long Yun wants to do now.

Although he was the proposer of this plan, he really entered the interior of the "Ruslan" transport plane, and saw the excellent work of the project team, Long Yun nodded frequently with appreciation all the way, he walked into the compartment and looked around, and saw that this small compartment was the same as other "rooms", because there was no suspended ceiling, the ceiling was directly the top bulkhead of the transport plane.

In addition, there is another metal ladder fixed at the bottom, and when you look up, there seems to be a hatch-like structure next to a rather complex set of actuating mechanisms.

Seeing the new hatch in the middle and rear section of the back of the "Ruslan" plane, he had a very intuitive understanding of the situation introduced by the major earlier, and then, Long Yun tried to climb up and go through the operation process, and found that the difficulty of boarding in this way was not high, of course, it might be more troublesome to wait for the plane to really fly, but since the test pilots had successfully completed it more than once, then, he should also be able to enter the landline.

Flying on the An-124B, if you just carry a Su-27M2 on the back of the aircraft, and the pilot spends the long journey to the war zone in the cockpit, it will be too hard.

After testing the boarding process, I feel that this set of devices is quite well modified, Long Yun got down from the ladder and said a few words to Major Nasimov, and an electric bell sounded in the cabin, and an accompanying KGB agent came to report that the flight preparation of "Ruslan" was ready, and the latest order was sent from above:

"Comrade Lieutenant General, the command has just sent a package of action plans, you see. When are we going to strike? ”

"How. ――Didn't go into detail in the plan? ”

Be the planner of this covert operation. Long Yun was not fully in the state at first, he and the personnel who came to report looked at each other for a few seconds, and then realized that he was now the passenger and supreme commander of the An-124B "Ruslan": for Lieutenant General Viktor Rezenov, the battle order was directly issued to him, and as for the specific tactical arrangements, he needed to take the idea according to the battle situation.

In this case, Long Yun, who reacted, quickly realized that the battle was imminent. Naturally, the plan passed down from the headquarters will no longer be just a vague description, he needs to study it carefully:

"Okay, it's 8:40 p.m., what about the plan of the headquarters, I need to understand the battle process first."

Although the matter was hasty, he had already made preparations for an attack before, and he also had a package of operational plans to participate in the decisive battle in the far sea, and now he needed to make decisions alone, and Long Yun, who was preoccupied, realized how heavy his responsibility was, and he hurriedly beckoned Valentina to get the information. Ran to the temporarily renovated "operational command room" to study the current situation in the Far East.

The battle on the ocean is in full swing, but now there is time to study the battle situation and decide when to dispatch on the standby "Ruslan" transport plane. It sounds a little ridiculous.

Behind closed doors to study information, Long Yun didn't care about that much at this time.

As a high-ranking officer of the VVS, as early as when Irkutsk offered to participate in the battle, he knew that this was definitely not a personal show by Viktor Rezenov, but should have used himself as an indispensable screw, embedded in the huge war machine of the Red Empire in the Far Eastern theater of operations; At this moment, in addition to the first and second naval and air battle groups of the Red Navy on the vast ocean, the important role of this battle -- the Red Navy's long-range bomber unit, the Tu-22M3 of the four bomber regiments are dormant in several coastal bases, once Viktor issues an order and is approved by the General Headquarters, these Spitfire behemoths carrying KSR-5 and Kh-15 anti-ship missiles will pour out of their nests and go straight to the open sea under the cover of the Red Air Force Su-27M/UBM fighters. Launch massive aerial fire projection against a U.S. aircraft carrier battle group.

Tu-22M3, an improved development model of the Tu-22M (Tu-26) family, has changed significantly compared to the prototype T-22M / M2, not only the maximum flight speed has been increased from Mach 1.6 to Mach 2.2, but the maximum flight range has also reached 7,000 kilometers, and in other words, the combat radius of a long-range bomber using the in-aircraft magazine mounting scheme can reach 3,000 kilometers.

If the issue of escort is not taken into account, then the Tu-22M3, taking off from bases in the Soviet Far East, can go directly to the battlefield without refueling in the air.

For the 3,000-kilometer route, the bomber unit of the Red Navy, which is a first-class combat readiness, can enter the sea area in battle as soon as it takes three hours to take off immediately after receiving the order, so for Victor, the speed of the "Ruslan" he is flying is relatively slow, and it will have to depart about an hour earlier than the anti-ship missile fleet, and in addition, it is necessary to coordinate the surface combat formation and the submarine force.

Feeling that the responsibility on his shoulders was extremely heavy, he hid and looked through the information, and Long Yunxian probably figured out the shape of the sea battle thousands of kilometers away.

In recent days, as the Soviet military has gathered intelligence from various sources, the movements of the old enemy, the US Navy, have become increasingly clear.

In particular, about a week ago, the Soviet military organization launched two low-orbit reconnaissance satellites from the Baikonur Space Center to strengthen intermittent detection in the North Pacific region.

In the face of the US Navy's three-carrier battle group, after crossing the Kuril island chain, the deployment of the Red Navy also underwent some adjustments.

After the formation left the Sea of Okhotsk, in order to wait for the "Tbilisi", which had been delayed due to the maintenance of the main engine, the second sea and air battle group composed of the heavy aircraft-carrying cruiser "Varyag" first cruised near the island chain, and by the way carried out some offensive anti-submarine operations, and only three days later received the first sea and air battle group escorting the "Tbilisi", and then joined up with the third sea and air battle group from the direction of Petropavlovsk.

The three ship formations were united into one unit, and the forces prepared for ocean-going naval warfare were basically complete, and the huge Red Navy fleet was reorganized into two battle groups.

Among them, as one of the main forces of ocean-going naval warfare, the two heavy aircraft-carrying cruisers of Project 1143.5 "Tbilisi" and Project 1143.6 "Varyag" and the Project 1144 nuclear-powered missile cruiser "Frunze" together form a naval and air battle group, which is organized into four Type 956/956E missile destroyers, three Type 1155 large anti-submarine ships, three Type 1135 alert ships, two Type 971A attack nuclear submarines, and two new generation Type 945A attack nuclear submarines.

With the reorganization of the Tongguò naval and air battle group, the carrier-based aviation of the Pacific Fleet of the Red Navy was assembled and deployed in the second line as the core force of ocean-going combat.

In addition, the three Type 1164 missile cruisers "Belarus," "Ukraine," and "Tajikistan," which were originally attached to the First and Second Sea and Air Combat Groups, formed a surface battle group consisting of four Type 949A cruise missile submarines, two Type 1134.2 missile cruisers, three Type 956E missile destroyers, two Type 1155 large antisubmarine ships, and four Type 971A attack nuclear submarines.

The size of the two ship formations is really not small, but this is basically a division of the command system, and the two battle groups are generally not far apart from each other, but maintain a certain distance between the front and rear and move eastward, so that they can not only reduce the difficulty of command and coordination, improve the operational efficiency of the automated air defense network, but also support each other, and seek opportunities to launch intensive anti-ship missile salvos under the cover of carrier-based aviation.

To attack the US aircraft carrier battle group, just as Long Yun said before, the Red Navy mainly relies on the "three-in-one" missile combat system, and for the ocean-going fleet that is confronting the enemy, surface missile ships and cruise missile submarines are the real main anti-ship forces.

Take a look at the Red Navy's surface battle group, three Type 1164 missile cruisers, four Type 949A cruise missile nuclear submarines, including P-500 and P-700 missiles, and a total of 144 long-range heavy anti-ship missiles -- this figure is indeed terrifying, after all, the difference between anti-ship missiles is also very large, and these big guys carried on the Red Navy's missile cruisers and missile nuclear submarines can be reimbursed by 10,000-ton ships if they hit one. Even if the heavy aircraft carriers of the U.S. Navy eat two or three, they will lose their combat effectiveness, and if they eat a few more, they will be finished directly, and the threat can be said to be very large.

Of course, considering the range of about 500 kilometers of heavy anti-ship missiles such as the P-500 and P-700, as well as the extremely high demand for target search and relay guidance, it is very difficult for a simple surface combat ship to break through the air interception of the US Navy, and its tactical value is not as high as it seems on paper, and it must be covered and supported by air and sea battle groups in order to play its role.

On the other hand, as far as the naval and air battle groups of the Pacific Fleet are concerned, the combat mode of the Soviet aircraft carrier aircraft unit is completely different from that of the US aircraft carrier aircraft unit, the former mainly undertakes the fleet's air defense and anti-submarine tasks, that is, it is used for tactical defense rather than offense, while the latter focuses on tactical attack.

It is precisely for this reason that during the two-to-three days of confrontation between the Red Navy and the US Navy, the two ocean-going fleets, which had adopted different lines of thinking about building their forces, never made a mistake, and at the same time failed to seize the opportunity to destroy their opponents. (To be continued......)