Even if the 15 heavy aircraft carriers need to be deployed in the Atlantic and Pacific directions, they will have an overwhelming advantage in either direction, and in terms of carrier-based aviation, the Red Navy, which is biased towards missile ships, submarines, and shore-based aviation, will absolutely not be able to compete head-on.

The situation of aircraft carriers is probably like this, in other surface ships, the US Navy does not have any advantages at all, 27 "Ticonderoga" class cruisers, 31 "Spruance" class and 17 "Burke" class destroyers composed of a large surface ship lineup, the number is almost equal to the rapid growth of the strength of the Red Navy, as for combat effectiveness, that is, the benevolent and the wise see the wisdom, the design focus and operational thinking of the two sides are fundamentally two paths, perhaps only on the battlefield, In order to truly see the true chapter through a confrontation of the system.

This is the situation on the water, and in terms of submarines, Long Yun is even more ignorant, he can only roughly compare the number of nuclear submarines of the United States and the Soviet Union, and the Soviet Union in the parallel world has a slight advantage in this regard.

Of course, when it comes to the technical indicators of each type of nuclear submarine, such as the intensity of firepower, the level of silence and the sailing rate, the relevant numbers are too complicated, and he can't understand it for a while, and now he thinks that the two sides are on the same level, after all, since the seventies, the Soviet Union has gradually abandoned the practice of blindly pursuing numerical superiority, and although some of the nuclear submarines built in the early days are in a state of scrapping, the comprehensive level of the new generation of nuclear submarines has been on the same level as that of the same class of boats in the United States.

In addition to this, with regard to shore-based aviation on both sides of the United States and the Soviet Union, in this regard. There is almost no comparison between the two superpowers. The young man put down the material for a while. Join the rest of the participants to see how the campaign was rehearsed.

While watching the virtual deduction of the battle situation, while analyzing it with the information he had just consulted, Long Yun in his seat gradually became a little absent-minded.

He began to feel that as a VVS combat officer, he might not be able to help the Red Navy in the battle at all, but the theme of today's combat meeting was ocean-going confrontation.

Follow the narrator's train of thought. Looking at the huge nautical chart, a tortuous track was drawn, and the large-scale battle deduction had actually only begun for a short time.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, looking at the lineups and ship formations of the opposing sides, Long Yun blinked suspiciously, and then looked at the thick stack of materials in his hand, and found the part of "ВМС_США-Авианосец" (US Navy - Aircraft Carrier) from it to study it carefully; Because he intuitively believed that since the Americans had as many as 15 aircraft carriers, it was impossible for them to have only three combat forces in the Pacific direction.

If you don't look at it, you can probably read the information compiled by the KGB and the Intelligence Bureau of the General Staff, and Long Yun has some new understanding. The situation of the battle in the sea is very different from that of the land and the sky.

At the very least. The Navy's combat ships are far from being as simple as building one and then being able to go into battle.

Even if there will be some discrepancies in the front-line war situation, all in all, the United States, which holds sea power, is not afraid of the "polar bears" in the Far East, and in the face of its main strategic opponent, the Soviet Pacific Fleet, the Seventh and Third Fleets still have an advantage in carrier-based aviation, attack nuclear submarines, and strategic depth, and the situation seems to be very favorable to the free world, but the outbreak of a world war quickly changed all this.

Since the beginning of the war, in order to confront the powerful Eastern bloc, the United States has naturally tried its best to fight in coordination with a number of NATO allies, and in the previous large-scale war, five heavy aircraft carriers and a large number of surface ships were invested in the Caucasus alone, but in the end they failed to win.

After a fierce contest, with the total collapse of the Caucasian front as the end, it can be said that the overall situation in the Middle East has been decided, but the threat from the north still exists, and the exhausted US Navy can only turn over the boxes again, not only to let the two "Forrestal" class aircraft carriers that are ready to be decommissioned continue to serve, but also to urge the Newport shipyard to step up construction and complete the construction of the CVN-75 "Harry Truman" nuclear-powered aircraft carrier as soon as possible.

However, all of these contingency measures did little to alleviate the needs of the U.S. military.

After the fierce battle in the Caucasus, almost all the US aircraft carrier battle groups belonging to the Second Fleet needed to return to Hong Kong to rest and recuperate, and the U.S. Navy had no choice but to transfer the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier CVN-73 "George Washington" from the Third Fleet to sit in the Middle East together with the "Big_E" and "Constellation" that were still in the First World War.

Not only that, after the high-intensity confrontation in the Eastern Mediterranean, the CVN-69 "Eisenhower" and CVN-70 "Carl Vinson" and the escort ships are in urgent need of rest, and the two aircraft carrier battle groups are not able to enter the battle for a while; The CVN-74 "Steanis", which had returned to Norfolk Harbor earlier, was busy repairing the hull structure damage caused by an accidental lightning strike, and temporarily lay down in the huge dock of the Newport shipyard.

The situation in the Atlantic Ocean is not good, and if we look at the Pacific Ocean, the CVN-68 "Nimitz", which belongs to the US Third Fleet, has entered a period of reactor exhaustion after more than 10 years of continuous high-intensity cruise, and it is also carrying out fuel rod replacement and ship-wide overhaul projects at the Newport shipyard for the estimated construction period of up to 30 months.

Fifteen heavy aircraft carriers seem to be an invincible fleet, but after nearly a year of long war attrition, even if not a single one has been sent to the bottom of the sea by the Red Navy, there are only 11 aircraft carriers left in the hands of the Americans.

Moreover, even the number of "eleven" also includes the three aircraft carriers stationed abroad that should have returned to Hong Kong for rest and recuperation, and the three "Forrestal" class that have been in service for about 40 years and whose hulls and main engines are aging; at present, the front of the world war is getting longer and longer, and the flames of war are getting stronger and stronger, and it is necessary to maintain sea and air pressure in the three directions of Western Europe, the Middle East, and the Far East at the same time. It is already a kind of limit state for the US Navy.

Not to mention the fact that the situation in the Taiwan Strait is becoming increasingly tense and the situation around the South China Sea is not stable at all, the Americans, whose client states are all over the world, have suddenly discovered the fact that if they really want to maintain their existence in the global waters and deter any adversary, even fifteen heavy aircraft carriers are still a bit insufficient.

It is based on this analysis that in the background setting of the "battle situation deduction", the General Headquarters has made some adjustments.

Leaving aside the sortie rate of the Red Navy for the time being, on the premise that the Americans are pouring out of their nests and ensuring that four aircraft carriers are available at any time, considering the geographical shape of the Far East, it is also assumed that it can only gather a maximum of three aircraft carrier battle groups in the depths of the ocean, and that the other aircraft carrier battle group needs to be invested in other directions to maintain its strength in the Far East.

Long Yun fully agrees with this assumption, just as he has just realized, the maintenance, overhaul, personnel rest, and equipment maintenance of naval vessels, especially aircraft carriers, are very important in peacetime, and even a country with rich experience like the United States cannot keep every aircraft carrier of the Navy in a state of combat readiness.

However, even so, if we look at the situation of the Pacific Fleet on the other hand, it is also impossible to attack with all its strength and confront the Americans with the maximum force on paper.

Against the backdrop of the outbreak of the war in the Far East, the large ships of the Red Navy had already left Vladivostok at the beginning of the war, not because they were worried about an air attack on the NATO side, but because the geographical location of this home port of the Pacific Fleet was unfavorable, and the Red Navy warships departing from the port could only make a small fuss in the Sea of Japan, and if they wanted to enter the ocean, they could only take one of the Korean Straits or the Tsugaru Strait, which was certainly not an easy task in wartime.

Vladivostok, also known as Vladivostok, is a natural harbor of the Pacific Fleet, and it is the best among the ports of the Far East in terms of logistical support and wartime maintenance conditions.

Now, judging by the lineup of the deduction, of course, this should be classified, and the aircraft-carrying cruiser Project 1143.3 "Novorossiysk" of the Red Navy is not among them.

As for the reason, it is very different from the rumors of "main engine failure" or "stranded in Nikolaevsk" from the outside world, in fact, the "Novorossiysk" has always been supported by escort ships, with Petropavlovsk as its home port, to carry out tasks in the waters around the Kamchatka Peninsula, to provide protection for the Red Navy's strategic missile nuclear submarines and other underwater forces, in addition to the more important intention is to maintain a high-pressure anti-submarine posture and deter the attack and sabotage activities of NATO submarines.

In this way, the Pacific Fleet can only use two aircraft carriers, "Tbilisi" and "Varyag," plus a sufficient number of support ships, in a naval duel in the depths of the Pacific Ocean, facing the US Navy's three aircraft carrier battle groups, the outcome can be imagined.

"Relying on submarines and aircraft to strike at the enemy with the support of surface ships", specifically to strive to launch a saturation attack and destroy the enemy at sea with a large number of heavy anti-ship missiles, this military building strategy of the Red Navy basically originated from Marshal Sergei Gorshkov, and there have been no major changes over the years; Since aircraft carriers are not used as a means of decisive victory in terms of operational thinking, it is not a wise choice to simply use surface ship formations to fight a decisive battle with the US Navy. (To be continued......)