Chapter 1133 The Situation in the Far East
Participating in a secret meeting at the war zone level was nothing new to Long Yun.
After passing through the security check, take the elevator and go down, and then pass through the corridors, Long Yun planned to change into a flight suit and go to the meeting again, but there was no need to think about it, he pulled out a huge blue hat from his shoulder bag and buckled it on his head, so he went to the conference room under the guidance of the escort.
The underground structure of the sparse buildings in the "Far Eastern Theater Command Center" in Irkutsk, which is huge, is quite cramped in a conference room with a limited area and no decoration.
In the conference room illuminated by mercury lamps, the commanders of the General Headquarters of the Far Eastern Theater of Operations and the commanders and staff officers from the forward command organization were sitting on both sides of the long table, and a major was walking back and forth distributing materials; Seeing Victor, who was wearing an olive green flight suit and a blue big-brimmed hat, came in, almost everyone present immediately recognized the identity of the "Caucasian Reaper", and several aviation officers in dark blue general uniforms were particularly excited, but they could only bow slightly and nod to this brilliant super ace at the venue.
Seeing that the meeting was about to start, he took off his big-brimmed hat and tucked it under his armpit in a very low-key manner, Long Yun nodded to his colleagues at the table, and found a place to sit down at the end of the long table.
Today's meeting, as expected, was indeed about the operational deployment in the Far East, and Long Yun, who was sitting on a wooden chair, listened to the explanation of a certain lieutenant general and chief of staff of the Far Eastern Theater Command while staring at the slightly dim projection screen under the light while comparing the materials he had just gotten in his hand. Gradually, an outline of the current situation of the Far Eastern campaign and the next plan of action was formed in my mind.
In his opinion. A Soviet offensive in the Far East. So far, the progress has been very smooth.
Recall that half a month ago, when he was stranded in the Irkutsk Aviation Industry Complex and conducting some adaptive training for the reception of new Su-27M2 fighters, the Soviet Far Eastern Military District, which had been preparing for a period of time before the war, began combat operations against Japan; After the campaign began, the Red Air Force and the Territorial Air Defense Force carried out air strikes, and the Far Eastern Military District was also supported by the Soviet Pacific Fleet under the Theater Headquarters, and the opponent was severely damaged in a battle of just over 10 days.
As a VVS super ace, Long Yun's main concern is naturally the battle in the sky.
As of now, according to some statistics from the General Command. In the fierce battles over the Sea of Japan, the results of the Red Air Force were quite good, and the number of combat aircraft lost by the ВССЯ (Japan Air Self-Defense Force) was already close to one hundred and sixty units, which in percentage conversion reached fifty percent.
Japan's air power has been severely weakened, and if we look at the strategic opponents entrenched in the territory of the client states, the САА_США (US Seventh Air Force) deployed in Japan and South Korea has also suffered a certain amount of losses on the battlefield, although the main force of this armed force has almost shrunk to the front line in the Kanchu area of South Korea and Japan, and the battles between the Red Air Force and it are not frequent, but cumulative. Nearly 30 enemy aircraft of various types have also been shot down.
Less than half a month after the start of the war, it dealt a heavy blow to the air power of the NATO side. The air raids also paid off, and the situation did seem to be very favorable to the Red Empire.
However, after being in the war for so long, Long Yun will not be as blindly optimistic as an idealist, he turned to the battle loss statistics part, checked the loss statistics of VVS and PVO, and the number of fighters, fighter-bombers and other support fighters lost in the two weeks of the war also exceeded 100, so that the exchange ratio is less than 1 to 2.
More than 100 were damaged in battle, a number that made the young people who checked the information feel sorry for a while.
As a senior general of the Red Air Force and a traverser, he certainly knows very well that more than half of these lost fighters are MiG-23ML and Su-17M old models, but on the other hand, there are many heavy aircraft such as Su-24M and Su-27, and the short-legged MiG-29 series fighters did not participate in the battle over the ocean.
In addition, compared with the wartime fighter planes that can be mass-produced, pilots, especially those with actual combat experience, are a valuable resource that is extremely difficult to replenish, and the losses in this regard are even more worrying.
Having a general understanding of the situation in the sky battlefield, and at the same time calculating an account in his heart, Long Yun remembered the bold words he said to Valentina Kurnotova two or three days ago: If you want to "overturn JASDF in ten days", he still has one week left to complete the goal, then, for the remaining more than 100 fighters of the Air Self-Defense Force, it is enough to take off five or six fighters every day, and the rest of the trash fish that have slipped through the net, naturally there are VVS comrades-in-arms to take care of it for him.
Compared with JASDF, which has gone away, the more troublesome opponent is still behind, and Long Yun is still very sober at this point.
САА_США, the Seventh Air Force of the US Army, plus ПАА_США (Fifth Air Force of the US Army), which has been preserving its strength for some time and has hardly participated in the battle, since the Japanese who were used as cannon fodder are almost going to die, and the Americans with longer blood tanks are still jumping around on the second-tier airfields, this is the main winner and loser of the Far Eastern war, and in addition to that......
Thinking of this, Long Yun raised his hand and stroked the bridge of his nose, he knew that the problem was not so simple, and the air power of the Americans was not only as good as the Fifth and Seventh Air Forces.
As if in response to the young man's train of thought, after a brief introduction to the situation in the sky, the chief of staff turned to describe the situation on the surface front, these things, to Long Yun is a little foggy, he is dealing with fighter planes, air combat and other things in the real world and parallel worlds, and now although he up his ears and listens carefully, he can only roughly understand the current battle situation on the front line of the Far East coastal sea.
After introducing the general situation, the chief of staff waved his hand and asked a rear admiral from the Pacific Fleet Command, dressed in dark blue regular clothes, to explain the situation.
Seeing the content change on the projection screen for a while, Long Yun temporarily put down the materials in his hand.
“…… In the 13 days since the start of the war, while ensuring the implementation of combat missions, the fleet has also paid special attention to the preservation of missile submarines and large warships. For specific deployments, at present, the two 'all-deck heavy aircraft-carrying cruisers' are on standby at the 'Soviet Port' and are in a good state of combat readiness; the missile submarines are scattered and deployed in the ports of 'Petropavlovsk' and 'Nikolaevsk,' and the rest of the combat ships are carrying out their tasks normally.
The battle plan for the next stage of the team headquarters, combined with the current situation of the fleet, our construction is ......"
Standing at the end of the long conference table, with the help of the projection screen gushing explanations, all the generals, staff officers and others present were very attentive, including Long Yun.
Although his knowledge of the Red Navy was limited, the young man felt a little strange when he heard the Rear Admiral's explanation.
The two 'full-deck heavy aircraft-carrying cruisers', such a long name, are obviously used to distinguish the various sub-types of the 1143 aircraft-carrying cruiser family, that is, the 1143.5 'Tbilisi' and the 1143.6 'Varyag';
Speaking of which, the Soviet Pacific Fleet, located in the Far East, faced the vast ocean and the length of the coastline that could be reached was also very wide.
However, on the other hand, due to geographical and cultural constraints, the number of home ports available to the Red Navy was not at all.
Now, if you look at the geographical location of the Soviet port, it is convenient for the PVO to provide a full range of security barriers, but this port has a freeze period of more than three months every year, which is not as good as the ice-free port of Petropavlovsk on the Kamchatka Peninsula, and it is even worse than Vladivostok; In addition, the port's ocean-going waterways are not very good, with the Japanese archipelago to the south and the frozen Tatar Strait to the north, which is not conducive to surface ships, which is also a common problem of the Red Navy's Far Eastern home port.
In the face of the vast ocean, the path of the voyage is full of dangers, and anyone who looks at the map may feel what kind of unique geographical conditions the United States has for its plan to encircle the Soviet Union in the Far East.
However, the containment during the Cold War was one thing, and when the war really starts, it will be another.
Since the beginning of the war in the Far East, although it was difficult to exert its full force due to geographical constraints, the Soviet Pacific Fleet still played some irreplaceable roles, taking the Sea of Japan as the main battlefield of the first phase of the operation, and with the long-distance echo of the Chinese Navy's submarine and surface warship units, one blockaded the east and the other pinned down the west, making a big fuss about the blockade of the shipping routes between Japan and South Korea, and also achieved considerable results.
In addition, the strategic game between the two sides has also been going on against the US Seventh Fleet entrenched in the western Pacific, and the moment for a decisive battle in the ocean has not yet come, but both sides are silently preparing, and now it depends on how the overall trend of the war situation is.
Unconsciously, seeing that the major general had finished explaining, the presiding officer of the meeting left some time for everyone to discuss.
When it came to the free distribution period, it was necessary to discuss and decide the next battle plan of the Far Eastern Theater together, Long Yun leaned in his chair and picked up the text to continue to read, now he had a comprehensive understanding of the battle he was in, and he could probably figure out the next direction of the Red Empire. (To be continued......)