Volume 12 Prelude to the Great War Chapter 62 Communication
After a long silence, Yuan Chenhao asked Ran the first question, namely, the female farmer in the air, guaranteed.
This is actually a question that is not necessary at all, because it was explained in detail in the combat plan issued by Pei Chengyi. Seeing that Su Jinhui did not want to break the silence and those generals of other countries did not intend to appear ugly rashly, Yuan Chenhao used this relatively basic question to open up a new topic.
Strictly speaking, how to deploy air forces is the most critical and difficult part of pre-war preparation.
In modern warfare, the ground forces are definitely not the ones that decide the outcome. In local wars with limited scale, the ground forces can even play the role of occupying forces. Even in large-scale wars where the ground forces play the protagonist, they can only achieve final victory if they have mastered air supremacy. In a broad sense, "air force." not only includes the tactical aviation of the Air Force, strategic aviation thugs, air force and support aviation, but also the naval aviation and army aviation. As the sky army gradually gains practical combat capabilities, the aerospace forces actively formed by various countries are also part of the air force.
Based on the actual situation, when considering deploying air forces, Pei Chengyi first thought of the naval aviation, not the air force. In fact, Duchwit also thought of the US Navy's aircraft carrier battle group, rather than the air force deployed in Turkey and neighboring European countries.
Entering the century, although the Republic acquired dozens of overseas military bases in the strategic expansion of Dali for years, built a "crescent-shaped local peripheral defense line" from the Korean Peninsula to the Arabian Sea and obtained advance bases in Argentina and East African countries, Russia also obtained many overseas bases based on the CIS. The EU has expanded its military in cooperation with North African countries, but in the context of the United States shrinking completely and losing half of its overseas military bases, the number of overseas military bases in world powers has shrunk by nearly 30% compared with the end of the century.
Among the important factors that have led to a sharp decline in the number of overseas bases, the strength of major countries has decreased or increased again
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According to the annual expenditures spent by the Republic and the United States on overseas military bases, excessively expensive construction and maintenance costs are the main reasons for the sharp decline in overseas bases. According to the defense blue book released by the Republic in Likou year, in the defense budget for the fourth fiscal year, the expenditure of maintaining overseas military bases was 400 million yuan, including subsidies paid to permanent military personnel, special costs of equipment maintenance overseas, etc., the cost spent on overseas military bases will not be less than RMB, accounting for about the gills of military expenditure, which is equivalent to the gills of the total equipment expenditure of the US military throughout the year.
Such high maintenance costs will definitely cause other ideas from officials of the Ministry of National Defense of various countries. The new address of this website has been changed to: Exorcist, please log in to read if you delete it!
Even based on the relatively high labor costs of developed countries such as the Republic and the United States, Liekou 100 million yuan or thugs, super aircraft carrier "cruisers, 4 destroyers" attack submarines and fast combat support ships, purchase an air wing with fishing combat aircraft, and use it normally within the year. According to a comprehensive analysis and statistics conducted by the US Department of Defense in the year, in addition to ensuring that the military bases in important allies can operate normally, by reducing military bases in secondary areas, four to four can be saved every year.
In the long run, the expansion of the naval scale is more cost-effective than expanding the scale of overseas military bases during the development cycle based on force years. Although the Republic has not released relevant information and information, it is reasonable to believe that for a carefully calculated Ministry of Defense officials, similar statistics will definitely be made and similar conclusions will be drawn. In fact! After the return of the year, the Republic has closed approximately the old overseas military bases to reduce military expenditures or spend precious military expenditures to more important places.
That's why when Pei Chengyi was formulating combat missions, the first thing he thought of was the navy's aircraft carrier battle group.
The actual situation is not ideal. Due to serious design problems, three "Huaxia"-class aircraft carriers returned to the shipyard one after another during the period from the 2nd to the 2nd year of the year, and at the earliest they could only enter service one after the end of the year of the Likou year. Therefore, the Republic's Navy had only been able to dispatch three "Beijing" and three "Shanghai"-class aircraft carriers to fight the aircraft carriers, as the debts owed to the construction of escort warships over the years, even if the "Huaxia"-class can complete the overhaul in advance, there is not enough escort warships to form 3 aircraft carriers.
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Compared with the investment of the US military, the investment of the Republic's Navy is indeed unsatisfactory.
Judging from the actual situation, the strength of the six aircraft carrier battle groups should not be underestimated.
Because of the rotational deployment method, when an aircraft carrier is owned, the Republic's Navy only retains 7 carrier-based aviation wings. Only 6 of them perform combat deployment tasks. Therefore, in addition to the second wing wing, which mainly serves as scraping and training tasks and confrontation tasks, the other 6 wings are formed according to combat standards, and each wing has a graffiti fighter and other aircraft. The benefits of this organization are very obvious. For example, in peacetime, a relatively small scale can be maintained at a higher combat power, and during wartime, it can be put into combat at the largest scale. This is why the six aircraft carrier battle groups are all based on combat standards. Each aircraft carrier carries a knife fighter and an old wing other aircraft, and the other wings are deployed at the nearest naval aviation station.
According to Hua Jianfeng's guarantee, as long as the ammunition support can keep up, the six aircraft carrier battle groups can be dispatched continuously at the highest intensity of hours and uninterrupted for 7 days. Because Gwadar Port is close to the front line, the rapid combat support ships that cooperate with the six aircraft carrier battle groups do not need to return to the local area to carry ammunition, so logistics support is not a problem.
It can be seen that within the first seven days, the Navy was able to continue to invest in persuading multiple combat aircraft.
This scale has exceeded that of the Air Force General of a regional power
Of course, the naval fleet can use more than just carrier-based aviation.
With only six aircraft carrier battle groups and a directional task force, the Republic's Navy can provide each task force with an air defense cruiser. "Move multi-purpose destroyers and anti-submarine destroyers, and incorporate 8 anti-submarine destroyers into the four rapid support fleets. The total number of missile vertical launch systems on these escort warships exceeds 44. In addition to half of them used to accommodate air defense missiles and anti-submarine missiles, the other four can be used to carry hypersonic cruise missiles. Because the aircraft carrier battle groups will operate in the Persian Gulf and the Arabian Sea, that is, within the cover of the onshore-based aviation force, the possibility of conflict with the US fleet is not very high. There are more than one old attack submarine underwater, so there is no need to carry too many air defense missiles and anti-submarine missiles, and you can try to carry ground attack ammunition.
In addition to hypersonic cruise missiles, cruisers and multi-purpose destroyers have two large-caliber electromagnetic guns, and anti-submarine destroyers have one large-caliber electromagnetic gun. The maximum range of these electromagnetic guns is about 1,000 meters, so they can provide artillery support to combat troops in the northern part of Iraq in the waters of the northern Persian Gulf. Unfortunately, because the US military controls the estuary of the Red Sea, the Republic's Navy cannot enter and exit the Red Sea at will, and cannot use the electromagnetic guns on the warships to support combat operations in the direction of the Golan Heights.
Relatively speaking, because the United States will directly participate in the war, the hypersonic cruise missiles carried by the expansion warship are very significant when it cannot fully ensure air supremacy.
That's true, it is definitely not enough to just invest in carrier-based aviation.
Compared with shore-based aviation, the biggest problem with carrier-based aviation is its lack of continuous combat capability.
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Although the explosion and mobilization capability of the carrier-based aviation force is very amazing, taking the "Shanghai" class aircraft carrier as an example, the basic design indicator is that when the strike radius is thugs and kilometers, the combat aircraft that dispatches the raft within the initial time of the destruction does not include support operations, that is, when the knife-mounted fighter jets are equipped, each fighter jet will be dispatched and the multi-purpose fighter jets will be dispatched and the multi-purpose fighter jets will be dispatched. After deducting the combat time, it is equal to the minutes that each fighter must be in after returning to the aircraft carrier. The air was launched again. For this reason, the "Shanghai" class aircraft carrier prepared an officer's compartment that can accommodate nearby pilots, while other aircraft carriers can only accommodate major pilots at most. However, due to the limitations of the aircraft carrier itself, especially the maritime combat environment, the continuous combat capability of the carrier-based aviation is far less than that of the shore-based aviation. This situation can also be explained from the basic structure, that is, the aircraft carrier carrying the carrier-based aviation is a three-dimensional and intensive combat platform, while the aviation base carrying the shore-based aviation is a plane-dispersed combat platform.
When formulating a war plan, Pei Chengyi knew that he had to join the Air Force as soon as possible.
The problem is that if the Air Force is used too early, the Republic's war intentions will be too obvious, which will be in a very unfavorable situation in international struggle. In fact, before the battle begins, Pei Chengyi cannot use the Republic's Air Force, and he cannot even use transport planes to transport the Operations Department to the front line.
In response to this situation, Pei Chengyi could only use his "bad ideas".
When negotiating with Iran, Iraq and Syria, Pei Chengyi made a special request through the Military Intelligence Bureau that the air forces of the three countries must undertake a coveted air combat mission within the first hour after the outbreak of the war, and the other air combat missions will be undertaken by the carrier-based aviation forces of the Republic Navy. Within the hour after the war begins, the Republic Air Force will complete the dispatch and delivery of troops.
In other words, the Air Force will deploy at least platinum dart combat aircraft and four support aircraft to the front line within hours.
Mu Yong doubted that this was a very difficult task.
Of course, this is not Pei Chengyi's promise, but the promise of Air Force Commander General Lei Jingming.
As an air force general who has served in the Air Force for many years and has assisted several air force commanders and has become the top leader of the Air Force until he was over the age of a year. Lei Jingming would never joke about this issue.
In fact, achieving "access and deployment from the hour" is the realistic goal that the Air Force strives to pursue.
According to the air force reform plan proposed by Lei Jingming after taking office in Kou Nian, with the main development direction of supporting the aviation force, especially the global troop delivery capability, the air force must first start from itself and achieve an air force with a scale and combat effectiveness that is no less than the overall power of the regional power of the air force in any hot spot within 4,000 meters away from the local Dan. Specifically, under the circumstances of mobilization, seven tactical aviation corps will be sent to the area within 1,000 meters of Dan.
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Although the fighter jets of the tactical aviation corps can fly directly to the destination with the support of tankers, in order to ensure that the troops continue to fight, all support materials including ground staff, support equipment, backup parts, communication facilities, and even basic living facilities of personnel, as well as fuel, ammunition and other combat materials to meet combat needs.
Although the Air Force is an air combat force, the equipment left on the ground must be more than those that fly into the sky.
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According to the "unitted equipment of the Republic Air Force, the nickname pilot corresponds to the ground crew. To transport these equipment and personnel, it is necessary to use a large transport aircraft or a multi-purpose transport aircraft. Although the Air Force spent a lot of effort to "lose weight" after Lei Jingming initiated the revision, it added a lot of logistics support facilities, such as the "comprehensive service support and living support system" that provides basic living support for pilots and ground crews in the entire wing, which can fill 3 or 4 old cargo foxes.
In addition to supporting equipment, the transportation of combat supplies is even more troublesome.
Even if the materials consumed by a small multi-purpose fighter wing are used to use the blade frame or fly frame through the old. It can be seen that if seven tactical aviation wings are dispatched, all the transport aircraft owned by the Air Force must be used to transport ammunition.
Fortunately, when fighting in the Gulf region, there is no need to consider air combat materials for the time being.
According to Pei Chengyi's deployment, the Air Force's tactical aviation corps are mainly deployed in the southern region of Iran with Khuzestan Province as the center, and in the southeastern region of Iraq with Basra as the center. Both areas have large ports and relatively complete transportation infrastructure. The main airports have railways to direct ports, and military airports also have roads to direct ports. More importantly, these areas are far away from the war zone and are safe and secure.
For the Republic Air Force, the key is how to send 7 tactical aviation corps within 2 times.
To this end, the Air Force must occupy all large transport aircraft and multi-purpose transport aircraft. That is to say, the action to be sent to the 10th combat unit must be postponed.
Pei Chengyi had no other choice. Before sending the tenth combat unit, it was even more critical to invest in air power.
In fact, the actions of the 10th combat unit will not be affected much, because there are no air force transport aircraft and also tactical transport aircraft of the Army Air Force. The address of this site has been changed to: 8. Please log in to read it if you delete it!
Although the maximum range of the 10th combat unit cannot be sent from the small southwest region of the Republic to the Gulf region, it can be sent from the northwest region of the Republic to the northwest region of the Republic or to the Ganges plain in India with air transport efficiency not lower than the air force. However, the Indian authorities are unwilling to be involved in the Middle East conflict. Therefore, military bases and domestic transportation facilities are not opened to the Republic, and then travel to Pakistan through the China-Pakistan strategic railway. If you do not take the sea route, after arriving in Lahore, the 10th combat unit can take the Dian 2meng aircraft group of the land flight to Iran or Iraq again. If you take the sea route, you need to continue south to go to Gwadar Port.
In general, the 10th combat unit will definitely arrive at the battlefield by the end of June.
Because the tactical aviation force was able to participate in the war in time, Pei Chengyi did not rush to join the Army Aviation low-altitude attack aircraft group, but planned to let the aircraft follow the ground forces and move towards the war zone in a steady manner, thereby reducing the pressure on early logistics support.
To sum up, the problem of air force investment is not serious.
After Pei Chengyi explained this question, Su Jinhui and several generals of other countries each raised a pound. The question, among which Su Jinhui's question was the logistics support of the ground troops deployed in Syria. Because the Republic is likely to invest more troops in a way of increasing troops one after another, when answering this question, Pei Chengyi only mentioned that the Iraqi Defense Forces and the Syrian Defense Forces were mainly responsible for ground transportation in the early stage, and the Republic's Air Force and Navy Air Force were responsible for air defense cover, and did not mention the later combat deployment. Su Jinhui did not ask much, because before going to the Great Beggar Scus, he obtained relevant information from the Military Intelligence Bureau and knew that there would be greater actions in the later stage.
Pei Chengyi announced the end of the meeting after the staff came in to inform the Ministry of National Defense that it was about to hold a press conference.
Like previous meetings, Pei Chengyi did not expect others to raise constructive questions. The main purpose of convening pre-war meetings was to enable the front-line commanders responsible for specific command work to understand the tactical intentions of the supreme commander and avoid making mistakes in combat operations. In fact, this was mainly aimed at Su Jinhui. Yuan Chenhao was Pei Chengyi's deputy during the Indian War, so he was very clear about Pei Chengyi's tactical ideas. Although Su Jinhui also cooperated with Pei Chengyi during the Peninsula War, the cooperation was not long, and Pei Chengyi was not very mature at that time, so Su Jinhui did not know much about Pei Chengyi.
In fact, what Pei Chengyi is most worried about is Su Jinhui.
Chapter completed!