Chapter 132: Offensive and Defensive Dilemma

According to the information released after the war, after the Battle of Micronesia, General French submitted a combat assessment report to Secretary of Defense McCarthy and Chairman of the Joint Conference General Marshall, which summarized the problems existing in the US fleet and the most important problems to be overcome. ○: ○Piao Astronomy Network○ Network○

The most serious problem here is the defense capabilities of large-caliber electromagnetic guns and the long-range artillery strike capabilities.

In fact, this is the same problem.

The reason is very simple. The large US Navy warships are equipped with orbital electromagnetic guns. Even if they have the performance that exceeds similar electromagnetic guns of the Chinese Navy, they are still not as good as coil electromagnetic guns. For example, the effective range of the large-caliber electromagnetic guns on the Bainbridge class cruiser is only 600 kilometers, and even the maximum range of the large-caliber electromagnetic guns on the Chicago class cruiser is only 800 kilometers.

It can be said that this is already the limit of orbital electromagnetic guns.

In French's view, the first thing he had to do was to have the same strike capability as his opponent, so he suggested that he immediately develop large-caliber coil electromagnetic guns and simultaneously develop long-range shells with a range of more than one thousand miles (later reduced to eight hundred miles, which is about one thousand three hundred kilometers).

In fact, the United States started to develop large-caliber coil electromagnetic guns not too late, and it was not much different from the Chinese Navy.

Unfortunately, in the initial stage, the US Navy's positioning of large-caliber electromagnetic guns was exactly the same as that of the Chinese Navy, and the United States' technology accumulation was stronger. The result was that the US Navy believed that the existing large-caliber orbital electromagnetic guns were sufficiently competent for ground strike tasks, and there was no need to invest too much research and development funds in large-caliber coil electromagnetic guns, and there was no need to develop large-caliber coil electromagnetic guns.

It was when the United States slowed down the development of large-diameter coil electromagnetic guns that China made major breakthroughs in this field.

Of course, this has a lot to do with some traditional understandings of the US Navy.

Although some visionary US Navy officers in the large-caliber coil electromagnetic gun project proposed that this large-caliber electromagnetic gun with no upper limit in theoretical range can replace carrier-based aviation at some point and become the main strike force of the navy. However, when discussing specific tactical uses, the US Navy failed to avoid a problem, namely, how to ensure that the electromagnetic gun can accurately hit targets more than a thousand kilometers away?

In actual combat, the Chinese Navy uses reconnaissance aircraft, or artillery observation aircraft.

At that time, the US Navy had a serious misunderstanding, that is, did the large-caliber electromagnetic gun be used when the artillery observation aircraft could reach the target? You should know that in this case, it means that the enemy has lost its air defense capabilities, which will allow the aviation force to play a role.

There is no doubt that in the short term, the range of electromagnetic guns will not reach the maximum combat radius of carrier-based fighters.

This leads to a new problem, that is, warships equipped with large-caliber electromagnetic guns have no chance to approach the enemy's fleet with aircraft carriers as the core.

It is precisely due to these factors that the US Navy is not very interested in large-caliber coil electromagnetic guns.

Interestingly, the US Army has invested a lot of money in this project, because the Chinese Army has equipped coil electromagnetic guns.

Of course, in combat use, there is a big difference between the army's artillery and the navy's naval guns.

In fact, it is the Army's efforts that left a lot of room for improvement when designing the "Chicago" class cruiser. For example, in the future, it can replace orbital electromagnetic guns with coil electromagnetic guns by replacing combat modules to improve the long-range strike capabilities of warships.

However, before 2053, the US Navy would definitely not have obtained large-caliber coil electromagnetic guns.

In other words, it will not be until 2054 that the US Navy will be able to obtain large-caliber coil electromagnetic guns and be used to equip large warships.

As for the issue of defense ability, I'm afraid it will take longer to wait.

You should know that in 2053, the Chinese Navy did not find an effective defense against large-caliber electromagnetic cannon shells. Although tests have proved that the 70-mm electromagnetic rapid-fire cannon cannon shells cannon shells, the interception efficiency is very low and the value is not great. In fact, it is necessary to wait until the end of the war, with China making a decisive breakthrough in "gravity field technology" to effectively intercept large-caliber electromagnetic cannon shells.

Of course, the U.S. Navy has not relaxed research on related aspects.

Based on the situation at that time, what the US Navy could do was to develop a terminal interception system with better performance, that is, to use the same method as the Chinese Navy to enhance interception capabilities.

In fact, the US Navy was facing a very fatal problem at that time, that is, the means of attack they had had were very limited threats to the Chinese Navy.

Actual combat has proven that the Chinese Navy is basically "immunized" to anti-ship missiles.

Although in theory, enough heavy anti-ship missiles still pose a sufficient threat to the fleet, this number standard has risen with the improvement of the performance of the last-stage defense system. Based on the tests conducted by the Chinese Navy, at least 2,400 heavy anti-ship missiles are needed when attacking an aircraft carrier battle group covered by four large comprehensive warships, that is, 200 strategic bombers are deployed. Even if the combat losses of the bomber are not considered, the value of 2,400 heavy anti-ship missiles is no less than that of an aircraft carrier battle group. If the missiles required to sink a warship are included, it is very unprofitable to attack the aircraft carrier battle group with heavy anti-ship missiles.

More importantly, there is little room for improvement in the performance of anti-ship missiles, and the final defense system is still being improved.

According to the information disclosed after the war, the US Navy made a prediction at that time that by 2055, the attack efficiency of anti-ship missiles on the fleet would be reduced by two-thirds. In other words, more than 7,000 heavy anti-ship missiles would be used to break through the air defense and anti-missile interception network of the aircraft carrier battle group.

There is no doubt that no matter how rich a country is, it cannot afford such a large amount of war.

You should know that the total heavy anti-ship missiles produced by the United States in 2053 were only 5,000, while China only had more than 4,000.

In fact, in addition to anti-ship missiles, the combat efficiency of anti-ship guided bombs has also been questioned.

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