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Economic changes are much slower and much more civilized than military changes. The encounter with the US military in Africa made the Military Commission and the General Staff very worried for a while, because in nature, although the scale of the battle in Africa was not too large, the taste in the middle was too intriguing. Although Dai Qiliang came up with a plan to point the fuse of the matter to the other side, the US military was not stupid. Whether it was the self-inspection of Lieutenant General Reilly at the African Command or the investigation from the Joint Chiefs of Staff, they all came to a consensus conclusion from the escaped pilots, that is, no one in the entire squadron said that he had taken the initiative to launch an attack.

Moreover, from the scene at that time, although the pilots of the F-15 squadron at that time were very arrogant, otherwise they would not have approached the range of the medium-range missile attack between the two sides, they also had some understanding of the strength of the PLA J-10C. In the face of the opponent's superior forces, no one was too stupid to launch a suicide attack. Moreover, they already knew that the F-35 squadron was refueling in the air not far away and was preparing to launch the first wave of attacks.

Therefore, whether from the confession or from the actual scenario deduction, the F-15 squadron did not have the necessity to launch an attack. It was just that the black box records were as proof, which made the US military unable to deny it. In addition, it was shocked by the destruction of the entire F-15 squadron, and when it was unable to mobilize more air forces to form an overwhelming advantage over the PLA flight regiment, Lieutenant General Reilly chose to temporarily endure it.

However, after Lieutenant General Riley re-mobilized a new F-15 squadron and F-35 squadron from Europe and the mainland to Nairobi, he suddenly found that the People's Liberation Army Air Force in Tanzania also had a new J-21 flight regiment. Compared with the fierce battle in Persian battlefield and the increasingly tense atmosphere in the Western Pacific War Zone, the US military was obviously much less important in Africa. Therefore, Lieutenant General Riley had to choose to continue waiting for fighter jets, but he was not idle, and began to concentrate the third mechanized infantry division of the US military scattered in Africa. Among them, the division headquarters of the Third Mechanized Infantry Division, the Armored Brigade and an Aircraft Infantry Brigade were placed at the Nairobi base in Kenya, and the other Aircraft Infantry Brigade was placed in Butale Province, Uganda.

This deployment just put direct military pressure on China's operations in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Tanzania. When the US African Command completed this dispatch, the Military Commission and the General Staff were very worried for a while. They asked Song Jihong's 86th Aircraft Infantry Brigade to fully monitor the US military's dynamics and maintain combat readiness.

Although in terms of air power, the two PLA's two flight regiments are stronger than the two squadrons stationed in Nairobi, since the US military can temporarily draw reinforcements from Gulf bases such as Saudi Arabia, while the PLA only has these two flight regiments in a short period of time, the Military Commission and the General Staff have always been worried that if the US military forcibly launches the African battle, the orphans, the 86th Aircraft Infantry and the Air Force, will be very dangerous.

Because even if the Air Force tied, the 86th Aircraft Infantry Brigade would never be able to withstand the attack of the US Third Mechanized Infantry Division. After all, the power gap between the two sides was too big. The US Third Mechanized Infantry Division, which has more than 20,000 people, is now far above the 86th Aircraft Infantry Brigade in terms of force and equipment. Even if the two newly adapted aircraft and infantry brigades were added to Tanzania, there was a big gap. It was not until the People's Liberation Army sent the so-called Gulf of Aden escort hybrid fleet to Seychelles that the General Staff breathed a sigh of relief. At the critical moment, this hybrid fleet could provide strong firepower support for the 86th Aircraft Infantry Brigade. As long as the Air Force can draw with the US military with the support of land-based air defense forces, the hybrid fleet can provide maritime firepower support in the waters near Dar es Salaam.

During these troubled and heart-wrenching days, time has passed day by day, and in the blink of an eye it is the fall of 2021. As the People's Liberation Army's new fighter jets continue to leave the factory, the situation has turned into a heart-wrenching situation. Their detection satellites have taken pictures of the PLA's four 10,000-ton 052E Chinese Aegis-II destroyers completed and launched. These four new warships joined the Pacific Fleet and the South China Sea Fleet, which are under the maximum combat pressure.

According to the General Staff’s plan, the Navy will finally form five aircraft carrier fleets, which will eventually form the pattern of the two ocean-going aircraft carrier strike groups, the Beijing and Shanghai, and the Liaoning, Chongqing and Tianjin.

In this process, the five major aircraft carriers have been built first, but they have been very reluctant in terms of supporting facilities, which has left the Pacific Fleet with two aircraft carriers. However, on the one hand, they are not equipped on the carrier-based aircraft, and on the other hand, they are also unsatisfactory in anti-submarine and air defense.

Now the main destroyers of the Pacific Fleet are still mainly the old Kidd-class and Modern-class. The newer destroyers have only 4 052D first-generation Chinese Aegis-I and 2 052E Chinese Aegis-II. That is to say, each aircraft carrier has only 3 destroyers with strong air defense capabilities. For territorial sea defense, it is not a big problem to have land-based fighter jets or missile support.

However, once it enters a long-distance ocean-based combat without land-based support, this strength is a bit stretched. Therefore, the General Staff formulated a plan for the two major ocean-based aircraft carrier strike groups of the Beijing and Shanghai to be equipped with 5 large 052E destroyers, 2 large 081 amphibious assault ships (i.e., helicopter aircraft carriers), 2 large amphibious landing ships, and a large supply ship. In addition, the anti-submarine power of 2-3 041B Yuan-class nuclear submarines, such an ocean-based aircraft carrier strike group has a powerful carrier-based aircraft attack wing and a land combat brigade to carry and strike capabilities. Whether it is to sea, air or ground strike forces, they will be the world's first-class aircraft carrier combat group, and are not inferior to any aircraft carrier combat group of the US military.

The three aircraft carrier formations used for territorial sea defense operations will eventually be equipped with combat groups of 3 large 052E destroyers, 2 Type 054B frigates, and 4 039 improved or Kilo-class improved submarines, giving the PLA Navy 2,000 nautical miles of defensive combat capabilities.

Therefore, according to this plan, the Navy needs at least 20 large 052E destroyers, and several major domestic shipyards are all working hard to build at a speed of 4 per year. After adopting the new G4 core super small aircraft, the combat performance of the China Aegis-II has been greatly improved by a large margin. More than 1,500 air targets can be tracked at the same time, and the 20 targets that can be judged as the most dangerous are also able to strike at the same time. Cooperate with the new 32-unit/64-unit universal vertical launch system and the Haihongqi-16C short-range air defense missile/Haihongqi-15B long-range air defense missile to form a strict air defense system that combines long and near.

After taking the photos, the CIA took some effort to obtain some performance parameters of this new missile destroyer. After seeing these performance parameters, the US Navy began to worry because the PLA's 052E destroyer has reached the capabilities of their main "Ticandroja" class missile cruiser, which is better than the "Ali Burke" class missile destroyer. More importantly, the PLA's 052E destroyer has achieved nuclear power, which greatly improves the ocean-going combat capability. The precious space originally needed to load fuel can now be used to load weapons and ammunition to cope with the ammunition demand for high-intensity combat in the ocean.

It can be said that the addition of four new 052E destroyers has made the USS Beijing and Shanghai aircraft carrier battle groups of the Pacific Fleet and the South China Sea Fleet each have 4 super-strong air defense and anti-submarine battleships, and their combat power has reached a higher level. Although compared with the nine aircraft carrier battle groups in which the US military gathers in the Western Pacific region, the overall strength of the PLA at sea is still relatively weak, at least in the South China Sea, the East China Sea and the eastern waters of Taiwan, the PLA, which has five aircraft carrier battle groups, has fully possessed the strength and qualification to compete with the US aircraft carrier battle groups.

If the 052E destroyer was in service, the US Navy felt a little worried, then if the 4 097A offensive nuclear submarines built in the water secretly built and launched into the water were leaked, the US military's senior management would no longer be able to sleep peacefully. The latest titanium alloy developed by Duca Heavy Industry has very similar performance to the excellent performance of titanium, but the cost is less than half that of titanium. Therefore, not only did the Air Force use a large amount of J-10D and J-11D manufacturing, but also fully adopted this new alloy in the construction of the second batch of nuclear submarines of 097A. With the single-boat hull structure, the practical submarine depth reached 700 meters, which is even better than the US military's Seawolf class.

But what is more important is not the depth of the submersible, but the noise control level and weapon device. After Kerry's optimized noise control simulation application, the appearance and anti-noise design of the 097A have been optimized to the extreme, and the 22-knot silent fast navigation capability is achieved underwater. That is to say, while maintaining a speed of 22 knots, the noise emitted by the new 097A offensive nuclear submarine is almost the same as the background noise of the ocean.

This ability greatly improves the survivability of 097A. Considering that the first generation of 097 has withstood the huge test of global submarine and has accumulated a large amount of US military bottom sonar signal data, the new generation of 097A has made highly targeted and avoidable designs for these characteristic data, so it will be an absolute ghost of the ocean when you get off the water.

After adopting a large number of automated operations, the demand for personnel on the 097A's ship was greatly reduced, from more than 150 people in the previous generation to more than 90 people. However, in terms of weapon loading capacity, it has been greatly increased from 36 of the first generation to 48. In addition, after using the fish school communication system, it can control missile launches on nuclear submarines through the headquarters. Two ballistic missile launch ports are installed on the 097A-class nuclear submarine, which can load and launch giant wave submarine-launched ballistic missiles carrying nuclear warheads, giving the 097A strategic deterrence capability.

Because compared with the 094 strategic nuclear submarine, the new 097A can have better survivability and stronger ability to approach the US locality. The separate conventional strike and nuclear strike command and control system design makes the 097A more flexible in its use. According to the existing typical weapon equipment, the 097A can carry 4 multi-warhead Giant-2C (JL-2D), 12 DH-10G submarine-launched cruise missiles and 24 Fish-6G heavy torpedoes. Or load all conventional weapons, carrying 48 DH-10G submarine-launched cruise missiles and Fish-6G heavy torpedoes.

When these four 097A offensive nuclear submarines were launched, the General Staff incorporated the six offensive nuclear submarines into the strategic deterrent force. Before the new 097 nuclear submarines were added, the Navy ordered the Navy to maintain a pattern of two in the Pacific Ocean, two on duty in the Atlantic Ocean, and two in the port to rest and recuperate.

If the 052E destroyer gradually gives the PLA's navy's conventional combat capability to compete with the US aircraft carrier combat group, then the 097A joins the active service to truly improve the PLA's strategic counterattack capabilities, and has the strongest survivability nuclear submarine ever, making the PLA's secondary nuclear counterattack power more reliable, and together with the Terminator's strategic bomber group, it forms a double-air insurance for sea and air.
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