In the real world, with the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the Pacific Fleet, like the entire armed forces of the huge empire, was in a difficult and bumpy period of decline.

Back in 1996, the Pacific Fleet of the Red Navy, which once had hundreds of combat ships of all sizes and a total tonnage of more than 1 million, experienced a catastrophe that could be called a catastrophe; the two Type 1143 aircraft-carrying cruisers "Minsk" and "Novorossiysk" that had been in the process had just been sold to South Korea's Daewoo Heavy Industries Group at the price of scrap steel, and the rest of the large and medium-sized surface ships were also retired one after another due to tight military spending and poor maintenance, and even the nuclear submarine force, which was the most important one, could not avoid being greatly affected. The equipment and training process has completely plummeted.

According to Long Yun's vague memory, in the mid-90s of the last century, when the Pacific Fleet was at its weakest, the number of large surface warships was only a dozen or so.

More than a dozen large ships, at first glance, the number may be okay.

However, under this appearance, if we remove a few warships that are on the verge of being scrapped and overhauled for a long time (if they say they are "overhauled", they often enter the repair shop and never get out again), the entire Pacific Fleet will not be able to send ten cruisers and destroyers that can be put into ocean-going battles, and the Type 1164 missile cruiser "Varyag" with the board number "011", plus four Type 1155 and two Type 956 destroyers, is the whole class of the entire fleet. Even the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force to the east is inferior.

All in all, in those chaotic times, this was probably the case in the real world.

But now. The Soviet Union in a parallel world still exists. The situation of the Pacific Fleet of the Red Navy is naturally very different from the real world.

At the forefront of the East-West confrontation during the Cold War era. In the face of the JMSDF and the U.S. Seventh Fleet, the Pacific Fleet, the second largest of the four fleets of the Soviet Union, has not slowed down the pace of construction, even when the confrontation between the two camps has eased and disarmament negotiations have been going on from time to time.

In terms of the overall environment, although it fell from its peak in the early eighties, the economic situation of the Red Empire was not very optimistic for a time, but in the case of Marshal Sergei? Georgievich? Under Gorshkov's leadership, the Red Navy built a large number of new combat ships to augment its strength, although it still ranked last among the five major branches of the Soviet Union. However, compared with the sea power that was completely surrounded by the Western blockade at the beginning of the Cold War and had no ability to carry out a decisive battle in the ocean, the Red Navy of the Soviet Union has now become a formidable combat force, second only to the United States Navy in the world, and far from the third place Britain.

Specifically for the Pacific Fleet, this maritime force subordinate to the General Command of the Far Eastern Theater of Operations had two "heavy aircraft-carrying cruisers" in 1996, including the 1143.5 "Tbilisi" and the 1143.6 "Varyag", and the Project 1143.3 "Novorossiysk" aircraft-carrying cruiser that had been commissioned earlier, and the Project 1143.2 "Minsk" was transferred to the Northern Fleet the year before to replace the lead ship of Project 1143 "Kiev", which was about to be decommissioned.

Anyway. That is, there are a total of three aircraft carriers, probably this first!

The situation with aviation platforms is approximately the same. The Pacific Fleet also has a large number of large surface combat ships, not only with the Type 1164 missile cruiser "Ukraine" as the flagship, but also the Type 1164 ship No. 4 "Tajikistan", the No. 5 ship "Belarus", three Type 1134.2 "Kara" class cruisers and a total of 23 Type 956 and 1155 destroyers, and the number of amphibious combat ships is also very large, which can fully support an ocean-going decisive battle or a campaign-level amphibious offensive.

The ships on the sea are visible to everyone, but in the decisive battle of the modern sea, to form an ocean-going fleet with both offensive and defensive capabilities, submarine forces under the surface are also indispensable.

In this regard, after years of fruitful construction, the submarine strength of the Pacific Fleet of the Red Navy is also considerable, including the 971 type attack nuclear submarine, the 877EM type conventional submarine, the 659 and 679 type cruise missile submarines, a total of dozens of considerable scale; In addition, there are a large number of ballistic missile submarines, but these strategic weapons platforms do not play a role in naval warfare, but are more protected as a deterrent.

In addition, compared with the surface and underwater forces in the general understanding, the Red Navy's shore-based aviation strength is also considerable, a large number of Tu-16, Tu-95 and newer Tu-22M3 bombers, forming a number of bombing/reconnaissance aircraft regiments, as a maritime campaign assault force, can exert a strong deterrent within the effective combat radius, and the threat to surface targets even exceeds that of missile ships and cruise missile submarines.

While listening to the vice admiral's explanation, while looking at the summary materials in his hand, Long Yun probably calculated an account for the Pacific Fleet, of course he could see that the strength of the Red Navy in the parallel world was very strong, far from being able to reach the Russian Federation Navy in the nineties in the real world.

However, compared with the number on paper, the result of a battle deduction is obviously closer to the truth, thinking of this, Long Yun took his mind and began to seriously study the process of "Pacific Far Sea Confrontation Deduction" explained by Comrade General, although he is not from the navy, and he has no concept of modern naval warfare and the game of sea power, but since it is a war, there must be some commonalities in some aspects, after explanation, he also figured out the process of deduction, not just a boring final conclusion, Although this conclusion is also a little difficult for him to accept.

The process of "campaign deduction" was set in the period after the outbreak of the war in the Far East, which coincided with the current situation.

As for the main intention of the campaign, the Red Empire's side ordered the Pacific Fleet to move forward to the east of the Kuril Islands as planned in order to contain and eliminate the US maritime forces in the western Pacific and ensure the strategic security of the Eastern Bloc in the Far East.

In fact, many people in the Fleet Command and the Theater Command have always been cautious, believing that the Red Navy should not rashly engage in ocean-going confrontation with the US Navy. However, the so-called "deduction" was originally intended to find out the real result in the event of an incident, so the following series of deductions and calculations were based on this, and the final conclusion reached was a bit inspiring, that is, "if an ocean-going battle breaks out, even if the battle is carried out within the combat radius of the shore-based air force, the Red Navy will not be able to effectively annihilate the main combat forces of the US Navy, but it may itself suffer relatively severe losses."

As a bystander, Long Yun is not clear about the process of such a deduction, although the process data is at hand, what he is most concerned about now is the result itself.

If the deduction process is detailed enough and the general direction is correct, then this conclusion is still quite credible, even if it seems a little frustrating -- after more than ten years of high-speed construction, the sea power of the huge Soviet Union has firmly ranked second in the world, and the total tonnage of combat ships has surpassed that of the US Navy, but on the one hand, due to geographical constraints, the four major fleets of the Red Navy can hardly support each other in wartime, and on the other hand, the confrontation on the sea has always been a "winner-takes-all", as was the case in the Anglo-German naval arms race of that yearEven if the second power is only slightly inferior in overall strength, it will not be able to achieve an equal strategic posture in the face of the world's number one naval power.

However, since the sea strength was mentioned, Long Yun continued to read the materials with the help of a piece of light, and he was basically clear about the situation of the Red Navy in the parallel world, so what about the situation of the Americans?

This problem has nothing to do with the battle of Viktor Rezenov in the parallel world before, and Long Yun has never paid attention to it, he only knows that the Cold War has been going on in this world, so correspondingly, it is impossible for the Americans to put their guns into storage and put their horses in the south like in the real world, because the collapse of the Red Empire slowed down the construction and development of maritime power.

With such a judgment, after checking the information in his hand, Long Yun first began to observe the aircraft carrier representing the US maritime hegemony, and he quickly partially verified his speculation.

Of course, fortunately, this is only part of it.

Looking at the situation in the parallel world, as Long Yun guessed, since the Cold War is still going on, it is impossible for the United States, which maintains a huge maritime power to control the world's sea power, to relax in the slightest.

Although relations between the East and the West have warmed up for a time since the 90s of the 20 th century, behind the superficial relaxation, the military construction of the two sides will not slow down at all, and "only by holding a big stick in hand can we sit down and speak calmly." This may be the ultimate law of the human world, and this is obviously not something that a certain country or a certain era can violate.

In 1996, the U.S. Navy still had a huge scale of 15 heavy aircraft carriers, including three of the "Forrestal" class (CVA-60, 61, 62), one of the "Enterprise" class (CVN-65), four of the "Kitty Hawk" class (CV-63, 64, 66, 67), and seven of the latest "Nimitz" class (CVN-68~CVN-74). The scale of such equipment is still second to none in the world, and the number of aircraft carriers is more than the number of active aircraft carriers of all other countries combined, not to mention the quality. (To be continued......)