Thirsty for 7 years? Moon Knife at night... Any time after aerial battle that lasted for 7 days was about to be heard, it seemed that even God did not want to destroy the good show at night. On this full moon night, the Cape Verde Islands were cloudless, and the bright moonlight could maximize the pilot's field of vision. In fact, with the help of various advanced equipment, the impact of meteorological conditions on air combat is minimal. Unless there is an extreme and severe weather such as thunderstorms, super storms, etc., we basically do not need to consider meteorological factors.

In terms of scale, from the ugly blade that night to the 3 a.m. on February flying, it lasted for a full five hours of air combat. Whether it was investment, loss, or duration, it was likely to be the largest air combat in human history.

Within these 5 hours, the warring sides successively invested their combat aircraft!

What is this concept? The ancestor should be in this battlefield with an area of ​​less than 10,000 square kilometers. On average, there is a combat aircraft for every square kilometers, which is equivalent to the distance between combat aircraft being only a few kilometers.

If high-density investment is invested, it has a lot to do with changes in air combat tactics.

Whether it is the Republic's Navy or the US military's air-controlling fighter jets, they have basically given up the visual range of outer air combat, and all use combat as the main means of winning. Even if the main air combat weapons are no longer fighting missiles and machine guns, they are energy weapons such as laser cannons, particle beam cannons, electromagnetic machine cannons, etc. The combat distance of fighting air combat is within the visual range, and at most does not exceed the detection range of photoelectric sensors. Under normal circumstances, the combat distance of fighting air combat is within a force of kilometers, while most of the battles are concentrated within the old kilometers, and often even within 5 kilometers to determine the outcome.

Because in combat air combat, the chance of winning alone is very small, most of the time, several fighter aircraft need to be able to fight in cooperation. The ideal tactic is to cover the rumor-wing aircraft to enhance the survivability of the formation and to extend the continuous combat capability of the formation by rotating as a long aircraft. Affected by this, the military density of combat air combat is very high. At some point, in order to obtain absolute air supremacy, hundreds of fighter aircraft can be invested in airspace within a radius of tens of kilometers. New fighter aircraft can be continuously invested to supplement combat losses.

In addition to the air combat tactics itself, the most impact on air combat is also amazing war productivity. Compared with World War II more than a hundred years ago, the nature of the war in World War III did not change much. Seizing the commanding heights of the battlefield is still the key to victory, and the war itself revolves around this key. The biggest difference is reflected in the war productivity.

During World War II, the United States had an astonishing war potential. By the third year of participating in the war, that is, in Mom Nian, the United States' war production capacity accounted for more than half of the Allied Group, and produced 50,000 aircraft, 10,000 tanks and tens of millions of tons of ships. Compared with World War III more than a hundred years later, the war potential of the United States in World War II was nothing.

As mentioned earlier, the Republic met the military production standards set before the war the following year. The United States also met the standards set before the war after the year. That is to say, when it is adulthood, the Republic and the United States are not lacking in potential, and there is no shortage of weapons and equipment. Because from the second half of the year to the end of the year, especially in the year, neither side launched a large-scale strategic action, so by the beginning of the year, both sides did not lack weapons and equipment and ammunition supplies, but had endless weapons and ammunition supplies.

According to the data released after the war, by the beginning of the year, the Republic had as many "surplus" fighter jets, among which Xiaofei alone had as many blade frames. Because the war was far from over, the Republic's authorities did not adjust their military production plans on a large scale, so the surplus military supplies would not gradually decrease, but would continue to increase. Corresponding to the large-scale surplus of military supplies, the armed personnel were seriously exceeding the standard. Take fighter pilots as an example, by the beginning of the year, the number of active fighter pilots in the Republic's Navy was the number of active fighter jets, namely, more ships, that is, more pilots than fighter jets.

Similar to the situation in the Republic, the United States also has a large amount of surplus military supplies and a large number of military personnel.

These provide both sides with a solid foundation for a large-scale war of attrition.

The air battles over the thousands of days and nights are the direct manifestation of the concentrated outbreak of this large number of gathering war forces.

According to some pilots who participated in this air battle, this was not a purposeful air battle, but an air battle for air battle. From the beginning, both sides focused their strength on seizing air supremacy rather than taking the initiative, as if only air supremacy obtained through air combat was air supremacy. And air supremacy obtained by attacking the other side's maritime base, air fleet, and ground airports was not air supremacy.

Extreme tactics naturally bring extreme consequences.

In this air battle that lasted only 5 hours, both sides lost a total of Blade Yu’s combat aircraft and occupied the disaster for participating aircraft.

Because the losses of support combat aircraft are much lower, the losses of the air-control fighter jets invested by both sides are above the skin.

It can be said that this is also the most cruel air battle in human history.

In the words of some veterans, it is already a lucky thing to survive.

Of course, this is definitely not an air battle for air combat.

The most direct impact of the large-scale tactical system of both sides is that the data exchange system of both sides is blocked by the tide of air combat information, making it difficult for both sides to take care of the more important combat direction, namely the battle on the sea.

Because both sides have very advanced tactical communication systems and battlefield data exchange systems, and they have been targeted for serious electromagnetic interference and commonly used forced electric collision interference. It is difficult to paralyze them through interference, so the only way to attack the opponent's information system is to use enough tactical information to crush the entire system, and the most direct way is to fight an air battle of a large enough scale.

It can be said that this reflects the drawbacks of the tactical communication system from one aspect.

Under the new tactical command system, that is, using advanced communication systems, senior generals can cross several intermediate command links and directly issue combat orders to the front-line officers and soldiers, and officers and soldiers fighting on the front-line can also directly react battlefield information to the decision makers in the rear through advanced communication systems. This "flat. Jianghui system has advantages and disadvantages, and the biggest disadvantage is that it requires sufficient data exchange capabilities to establish enough communication channels and to reflect the information mastered by all front-line troops to higher-level commanders.

Theoretically, as long as the communication channel is wide enough, the problem can be solved.

The problem is that in large-scale wars where tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of officers and soldiers are often invested, no matter how advanced the communication system is, it cannot meet the actual combat requirements.

More importantly, only in extreme cases will all terminals feedback information upwards, and in most cases, only a few terminals need to be fed back to the upper-level decision makers. That is to say, even if the communication system is built according to the highest standards, the utilization efficiency is usually unacceptable, and building a high-standard communication system requires huge funds. In the eyes of those Ministry of Defense officials and members of the Military Commission who are in charge of budgets, it is simply unimaginable to spend huge amounts of money to build a powerful communication system that is not used at all. Because in the wars of previous years, there were few tactical communication systems that were not limited by channels. In the end, it affected combat operations and even led to complete failure of combat operations. Therefore, during the war, this issue did not attract high attention from both sides. In fact, even by the beginning of the year, the tactical communication systems of the Republic and the United States had problems.

According to the standards of the Republic Navy, the tactical communication system can only support the old % of the front-line combat troops to feedback combat information to the rear at the same time. If this amount exceeds this limit, the number of terminals connected simultaneously can be increased at the cost of reducing the average information exchange capability by using time-dividing technology, frequency hopping technology, etc. to increase the number of terminals connected simultaneously. Theoretically, when the average information exchange speed is reduced to one-tenth of the normal situation, all terminals can send information to the rear. Because time-dividing technology, frequency hopping technology and other methods will reduce the information exchange efficiency of the communication system, when all terminals exchange data with the rear, the information exchange capability is only normal.

In this case, the most basic communication can only be guaranteed.

Relatively speaking, the situation of the US Navy is slightly better, but not much better.

Imagine that when thousands of combat aircraft on the battlefield and ten times the rear support force equivalent to combat aircraft need to be connected to the battlefield data exchange system and exchange tactical information with friendly forces or rear, there will definitely be problems with the communication systems of both sides.

The communication system that crushes the other party only creates favorable conditions for naval battles.

Obviously, when both sides' air force investment tends to be saturated, naval warfare is more beneficial to the Republic's Navy, because the Republic's Navy has more and more powerful main fleets.

Thanks to the navigation speed of the Gundam Festival (the US Navy's "Long Island" class main ships used a power system and propulsion system with greater output power, and the maximum navigation speed was increased from the "Long Beach" class calcium joint to the Blade Festival), without any secrets, the main fleets of both sides marched together, shortening the interval distance by about kilometer per hour on average, and only about 4 hours could enter the combat range of kilometers.

Relatively speaking, there is indeed no secret to this naval battle.

Although both sides tried their best to create pressure and burden on the other side's communication system, there was no challenge to grasp the specific whereabouts of the opponent's main fleet when both sides attached great importance to naval warfare. More importantly, the Republic's Navy only had two main fleets, while the U.S. Navy, which had the advantage in numerical power, did not have the performance advantage. The combat effectiveness of the three main fleets was not as good as the two main fleets of the Republic's Navy, so neither side had any plans to divide the troops. From the very beginning, the main force of the main force was concentrated in one direction and put on a decisive battle. Judging from the situation at that time, behind the main force of the Republic's Navy was the main force of the army that had arrived in the West Africa region. As well as several large maritime bases, the South Atlantic route just established, and behind the main force of the US Navy were the Cape Verde Islands, the maritime base group, the aviation fleet, and the wider North Atlantic Ocean.

Neither side had a way out and could only fight to the death.

According to the combat records of the Republic's Navy, the battle started at 2 a.m. Feng's first battle was the first to be put into battle. The main fleet mainly consisted of eight "Han" class main battleships, with a combat distance of up to 1,000 meters! According to the combat records of the US Navy, the first fire exchange time was 2:00. At that time, the battleships participated in the main fleets of both sides, Yixunshushushushushu: Xunsan) different body clams

Because it is certain that the maximum range of the main guns of the eight main battleships in another main fleet will not exceed 1,000 meters, and the naval guns on the escort warships that are equipped with it will be difficult to project "reconnaissance shells" to the point, such as 1,000 meters away, so letting the main fleet of the first lead fire become an ideal choice.

More importantly, at this distance, the large-caliber electromagnetic gun on the US Navy's main battleship is just a decoration.

In this battle, the maximum effective range became the key factor in winning.

Although there is reason to believe that the large-caliber electromagnetic gun of the "Changdao" class battleship can project shells to 1,000 meters away, due to other factors, especially the maximum effective range of the supporting "reconnaissance shells", it is difficult for the "Changdao" class battleship to be fired. It is unlikely that the range advantage of the main gun will be used. To put it bluntly, it is not the most important thing to hit far. It must be accurate! It can be said that this is why the Republic's Navy has developed supporting auxiliary warships for the main battleship.

In a sense, if the performance of the supporting warship, especially the performance of the naval gun, is advanced enough, and can complete some secondary tasks that do not need to be completed by the main battleship in naval battle, or even become the main force in naval battle, the combat capabilities of the main battleship can be maximized.

In a naval battle where one blow is sure to kill, whoever fires first and fires accurately will take the initiative.

Although the new US battleship is also equipped with a powerful defense system, it also targets the serious problems exposed by the "Long Beach Class battleship in combat and enhances its protection capabilities, in the face of armor-piercing bullets used by large-caliber electric horizontal cannons, any passive protection is useless. Theoretically, there is no need to use kilogram-class and knife-piercing electromagnetic guns, even if they are kilogram-class and four-pound-class electromagnetic guns, they can use armor-piercing bullets to penetrate the armor on any warship. Without reducing the combat effectiveness of the warship, if you want to block kilogram-class or four-pound armor-piercing bullets, you need to at least increase the displacement of the warship to more than 10,000 tons of blades. Obviously, this is very unrealistic.

In fact, in this naval battle, the auxiliary ships of the Republic's Navy also participated in the battle.

Although according to the battle report released by the Republic authorities, in the battle that night, only the main battleships participated in the battle, and the cruisers and destroyers in the fleet participated in defensive battles and did not open fire at the US fleet, according to some combat records of the US Navy, some cruisers and destroyers must have participated in the battle in the Republic's naval fleet at that time. Moreover, with kilogram-class armor-piercing bombs, they hit the wreckage of US warships found in the combat waters after the war. There were indeed many kilogram-class armor-piercing bombs that hit the US warships. It can even be said that the direct reason for the sinking of more than a few US warships was not related to the sacrificial kilogram-class armor-piercing bombs, but was caused by the young kilogram-class armor-piercing bombs.

This proves from one aspect that with the advancement of technology, the main ships have encountered unprecedented challenges.

To put it bluntly, are the roles of those super-large warships that cost more than 100,000 tons on the battlefield comparable to those ordinary warships with several smaller circles and displacement of only tens of thousands of tons?

From the perspective of combat use alone, if the range problem can be solved, without considering the survivability of the warship on the battlefield, the combat use range of the main battleship accounting for 10,000 tons will not be much larger than that of the Choukoutun-class cruisers. It can be said that the targets that the main battleship can deal with can be dealt with by cruisers.

This is the key, is it necessary to build so many battleships?

Although the status of the main battleship is still irreplaceable in actual combat, and a fleet led by cruisers is definitely not an opponent of the main battleship, in most cases, there are not many opportunities for the main battleship to take action, so the combat effectiveness of the fleet can be improved by enhancing auxiliary warships.

In a sense, the battleship is just a symbolic battleship that can come in handy when you are in Ni.

The battle in the second half of this naval battle just proves this problem.

After the first descent fleet was severely damaged, the US military immediately discovered that the firepower of the Republic Fleet far exceeded their expectations. Even if the entire firepower of the First Fleet and the Second Fleet were concentrated, they might not be able to gain an advantage, let alone a main fleet of the Republic Navy did not participate in the war.

If you can't beat the time-honored hand, the only option is to retreat.

At this time, the US Navy's air fleet left behind was sent to the service
Chapter completed!