Volume 12 Prelude to the Great War Chapter 107 Bold Vision
However, Pei Chengyi didn't need to consider technical issues, but he had to know whether Wawang Xiao could come in handy.
"It's a pity. Old Liu said that time is too tight. If you test it before the concubine is put into use, it may not be used until the end of the war." Zhang Xiaolong answered very directly, "Old Liu also asked me to tell you that the bureau has used computers to conduct simulation experiments. If it is used in a relatively calm closed sea area like the bay, the risk is not very large, and there will be basically no problem."
"But there is no guarantee that there will be no problems."
Since Pei Chengyi said it, Zhang Xiaolong did not waste his saliva.
"It seems that you are testing my courage."
"Anyway, this is an opportunity." Zhang Xiaolong and Pei Chengyi worked together. He knew that Pei Chengyi was a human being. "After the war started, we have been allocating information related to logistics support. Judging from the situation we have already mastered, the biggest problem is not the lack of delivery power, but the lack of ability, or in other words, the inability to use our troops to deliver power. In terms of the operation of the eighth combat unit in the air transport unit, if the distance of air transport can be shortened to less than 2,000 kilometers, the air transport efficiency can be increased by more than three times and the air transport time will be shortened by half. The problem of tactical air transport is also very prominent. When the army's capabilities cannot keep up, many tactical transport aircraft have to wait for supplies at the airport or air transport some irrelevant supplies."
Pei Chengyi sighed and said, "What do you mean is the problem between strategy and tactics?"
Zhang Xiaolong nodded and said, "There is no doubt that the two pounds are not connected well, which has greatly reduced our ability to deliver troops. Although I did not participate in the development of this project, as far as Wu knows, Lao Li agreed to participate in this project and was responsible for the system work. It is because the project can solve the most serious problem in our army's logistics support. The battles in the past few days have just proved this."
Pei Chengyi did not express any comment on Zhang Xiaolong's statement.
Of course, he could not deny the issues mentioned by Zhang Xiaolong.
Although the Republic was much luckier than the United States many years ago, it could not only borrow military bases from Iran and Iraq, but also make full use of several large ports in the two countries, which basically solved the problem of sea transportation. In addition, Iran and Iraq have relatively complete railway and road transportation systems. The problem is that transporting materials by truck is no longer the main means of support for the Republic's army. More importantly, in the combat operations in the mountains of Turkey, the risk of transporting materials from the ground is very high. In addition to allowing the Iran and Iraqi troops to undertake part of the logistics support work, the main combat materials still have to rely on air transport.
The problem lies in this place.
Whether it is the Port of Khomeini in Iran or the Port of Basra in Iraq, the transportation system from the port's terminal to the nearest airport is not perfect enough. To put it bluntly, the supplies delivered to the terminal are often not delivered to the airport in time, and they cannot be delivered to the logistics support forces that undertake air transport tasks in a timely manner.
If it was before the old New Year, even before the New Year, this was not a problem.
At that time, the Republic faced the most regional powers like India, not the United States.
The ground battle that only took several days since June Blade Day has proved that speed has become the key to victory in the war with the United States. It can be said that the situation on the battlefield changes rapidly, and it is often possible to determine the outcome of a major battle or even the outcome of a key battle in just a few hours. For example, when the battle to attack Kaval was not used for thugs, this battle ultimately determined the fate of tens of thousands of officers and soldiers from two US military brigades.
High-tempo combat puts higher requirements on logistics support.
The war is about logistics. As long as the logistics support work is completed with higher efficiency, you will be more confident to defeat your opponent. The address of this site has been changed to: Aigu, Zhou, please log in to read!
As the commander, Pei Chengyi could not have understood this truth.
In fact, the Republican army still maintained its advantage at this time because the efficiency of logistics support exceeded that of the US army.
The meaning of "sea platform" lies in this place.
As mentioned earlier, the "maritime platform" established by the Republic is not only a floating maritime airport that can be used for tactical transport aircraft to take off and land, but also a combat platform with comprehensive support capabilities. Among the eight delivery ships that make up the maritime platform, only 6 are used to connect the main part of the platform. In addition, the "moving dock" used to component platforms are directly pointed out that other transport ships will dock with these two delivery ships, and the broken ship will send the materials to the platform. With the first docking and sideways, the two delivery ships can transfer the materials from 6 cargo ships at the same time and deliver the materials to the platform with very high efficiency. Compared with the port, this is like building an airport next to the dock. After the cargo is unloaded from the ship, it can be loaded into the cargo hold of the transport aircraft, and the transportation efficiency can be imagined.
In a sense, this powerful material transport capability is the fundamental value of the "maritime platform".
If in order to support aviation operations, the efficiency of the "maritime platform" is definitely not as efficient as that of an aircraft carrier. After all, when it is necessary to consider the situation of an enemy attack, the survivability of the "maritime platform" is too questionable. If it is just to send combat troops, the "maritime platform" is far inferior to the amphibious assault fleet. No matter what, the "maritime platform" cannot move near the enemy's coastline like an amphibious assault fleet. If you compete for absolute material transfer capabilities, the "maritime platform" is not as good as a naval base with complete loading and unloading facilities. In any case, the "maritime platform" has very limited capacity. However, in this case, the position of the "maritime platform" is irreplaceable.
According to the data provided by Zhang Xiaolong, on the long runway of the thug, at least vertical take-off and landing transport aircraft such as the fart can be allowed to perform loading and unloading operations at the same time, and replenish the power when loading the cargo. In this way, when taking off according to the normal load capacity, as long as the air freight distance does not exceed kilometers, there is no need to replenish the power on the front line, which greatly shortens the transportation cycle. Because there are charging equipment nearby, complete material loading and unloading equipment, and special material transfer channels, a loading cycle does not exceed the blade minute. In other words, if there are enough transporters with one turn, a batch of goods can be delivered on average per blade minute. According to each cargo, 30 tons of goods can be transported once, and the average number of goods can be delivered per hour. Of course, this data is designed.
It was confirmed that, because it took about a week to unload all the supplies of six large freighters with a loading and unloading tools on the delivery ship, and the six delivery ships that make up the platform can accommodate about one-third of the goods, so the remaining goods are about tens of thousands of tons. If the transport aircraft is not considered, the entire platform has been working at the highest efficiency, and it takes about a week to deliver these supplies. Because before docking with the freighter again, the Ao Delivery ship needs to play time to carry out comprehensive maintenance of the loading and unloading tools, which takes about 3 and a half days. So when the material funds department stored in the platform is sent out, the second batch of freighters also began to unload. Of course, this is calculated based on the highest efficiency. And the actual combat efficiency can achieve the highest efficiency of combustion.
In fact, this will definitely make Pei Chengyi excited.
According to the ideal irrigation calculation, as long as the irrigation is put into force, 6 of which are allowed to perform transportation tasks and 2 are maintained, they can deliver combat materials to southeastern and southern Turkey at a rate of 3 acid stewed per day.
What is this concept?
The eighth combat unit thugs persuade to tons of supplies. That is to say, even when fighting with the enemy the most intense battle, the supplies supply capacity of 3 Tianshuo can meet the needs of 2 combat units. Including the supplies sent by the ground and strategic air transport, and the possibility of fighting fiercely with the enemy in several directions at the same time, ensuring that 6 to 8 combat units fight on the front line is not a problem.
Of course, the actual situation may be more ideal.
If the "Haiqi Platform" can be used more reasonably, that is, the tactical airlift time of gills can allow "old large transport aircraft that can take off and land on the thugs' cami runway to air transport or airdrop materials to the front line, the platform's delivery capacity can be improved to ideal conditions. Because it is impossible to land or take off at the same time, and it is even impossible to place the old one on the deck, the efficiency of using must-have airlift is definitely much lower than that of using a dish. The daily delivery capacity is increased to 4 pus stew, so as to ensure that 8 combat units fight on the front line. The address of this site has been changed to: Excuse me for the heart, please log in to read it!
In other words, as long as the "maritime platform" is used reasonably, even if all the main forces of the Republic Army come here, there is no need to worry about logistics support.
For Pei Chengyi, who had to always think of saving money due to the lack of soldiers and major generals, if he really could fundamentally solve the logistics support problem, he would probably take any risks.
After considering it, Pei Chengyi looked at Zhang Xiaolong and said, "If you take action immediately, when can you get the "sea base and invest in the operation again?"
“At the fastest time, you have to wait for a week
Hearing this, Pei Chengyi immediately frowned. If you really have to wait for a week, then there is no meaning. In fact, let alone a week, you can't even wait for three days. According to Pei Chengyi's estimate, Du Qiwei is arranging the second round of bombing, and two US Army ace divisions will be put into battle in the early morning of the 7th, and Jiang Wancheng's fifth combat unit will not be able to go to the battlefield until the early morning of the 8th. In other words, if the logistics support problem cannot be solved in the early morning of the 8th, no matter how powerful the delivery ability of the "maritime platform" is, it will be difficult to play a role.
“Of course, the prerequisite is that action is taken only now.
Under Pei Chengyi's surprise and confusion, Zhang Xiaolong said slowly, "The fast strategic delivery fleet did not participate in the previous few operations. It mainly required time to carry out necessary modifications and tests, such as checking whether the magnetic link system can work normally, whether the attitude control thruster is intact, and conducting connection tests in a simulated manner. After our comprehensive test, the six delivery ships were in very ideal condition and could reach the bay within twenty-four hours after receiving the order. Because the first transport fleet we sent could only reach Basra at the fastest time, it could only reach Basra in eight days, so it almost happened to catch up with the "maritime platform. When put into use, six of the large transport ships could dock with the platform."
"Wait, you only have six delivery ships you started talking about."
“Yes, there are only six ships in Gwadar Port.”
Pei Chengyi was stunned for a moment and realized that he was too anxious.
"The last two, that is, the roll-on delivery ships without the lower level of the cargo deck, were on the beginning of the year." Liu had expected that the two ships would come in handy. So the navy's morale, acceptance and testing work and the day the ground battle started, the two ships left the dock in the name of sea test. Four days ago, after completing all sea-style work, the two ships set off from the East China Sea and are expected to enter the bay at this time tomorrow."
“That is, “The offshore platform will be put into use tomorrow?”
Zhang Xiaolong nodded and said, "If everything goes well, the docking work will only take four hours, and then four hours to test, so it will be put into use tomorrow morning. However,"
"It's just what?" Pei Chengyi was a little impatient. In his opinion, intelligence personnel were all kind of virtue and never spoke directly.
"The two roll-roll-roll delivery ships that are responsible for the transfer work do not carry cargo, and have never conducted post-docking tests before, so even if the docking work is completed tomorrow morning, they can only wait until tomorrow night or even the early morning of the day after tomorrow."
“Transportation fleet?”
Zhang Xiaolong nodded and did not understand what Pei Chengyi meant.
"That is, as long as the materials are not transferred, you can still serve other aircraft."
"This is no problem. The runway of more than 1,000 meters long can take off and land freely outside the civil aviation aircraft."
"If I guess correctly, there should be a fuel system on the platform, right?"
"What do you mean?"
Pei Chengyi smiled and said, "When designing, it is impossible for the Navy to not consider the ability to support combat aircraft, so it should set up a refueling system and ammunition recharge system on the platform, right?"
Zhang Xiaolong nodded and said, "That's true. The platform's ability to support combat aircraft is stronger than that of aircraft carriers."
"That's good." Pei Chengyi paused for a moment and said, "I have been thinking about one thing these days. That is, what will happen if we attack the US Navy's aircraft carrier battle group?"
Zhang Xiaolong was stunned and said, "You don't want to fight a world war, do you?
"This is the problem I'm worried about." Pei Chengyi sighed. He said, "Although we are already in a state of war with the United States, we have not declared war on each other, nor even declared war on each other's allies. According to unwritten rules, in this case, we can at most make small moves under the sea. Unfortunately, until now, the US Navy's aircraft carrier battle groups are active within the cover of the shore-based aviation force, and the waters are not suitable for submarine ambushing, and our submarines cannot enter the Red Sea and the Eastern Mediterranean for the time being, so the submarine forces are useless. The problem is that if the US Navy cannot be paralyzed, it will not be able to force the United States to sit on the negotiating table, and it will not be able to end the war in a more favorable way for us, and thus lose completely."
When he heard Pei Chengyi say it, Zhang Xiaolong was not in a hurry to express his opinion.
"I also know that really using aviation to attack the US aircraft carrier battle group is equivalent to starting a war against the United States. Of course, we must admit that the US authorities do not want to start a war with us. That is to say, as long as we don't tear the face, the problem is not big. If there is such an opportunity that we can kill several US aircraft carriers and allow the US authorities to accept the fait accompli, we can quickly end this war without much nutrition."
“The problem is, there are almost no opportunities like this.”
Pei Chengyi smiled and said, "I understand what you mean. First of all, we have no reason, and secondly, we have no way to launch a surprise attack. No matter what, the US spy satellites are constantly monitoring our military bases and aircraft carrier battle groups. As long as our fighter planes fly together, they will be discovered. If we interfere with the US reconnaissance satellites, even if we don't kill the US aircraft carrier, the US authorities will put shit on our heads. In short, it is very difficult. Of course, whether we can solve the problem depends on whether we are willing to work in this direction."
Zhang Xiaolong also smiled and said, "So, we have found a solution." The new address of this site has been changed to: Aigu, Zhoujing, please log in to read!
"The reason for the attack is easy to solve. As long as the US military enters Syria or Iraq, these two pounds, the country has reason to attack any target of the US military, including the US aircraft carrier. In fact, at this point, the US military has entered Syria, and we have no need to worry about reasons at all.
Zhang Xiaolong nodded slightly, knowing that Pei Chengyi was talking about attacking the US aircraft carrier battle group as the Syrian Air Force.
"The key is where our fighter jets take off."
""Sea platform,?"
Pei Chengyi smiled and said, "If the United States didn't know that we had such a good thing, and we didn't plan to use this platform in this war, we would have reason to make the most of the only sneak attack opportunity."
"The question is, how to fight the next ground war?"
"If the United States loses several aircraft carriers, will it still need to fight the US military on the ground?"
Zhang Xiaolong frowned slightly and said, "This is a good idea, and it's best to discuss it with Lao Li.
"I will contact Lao Li. You are responsible for the transfer work of the platform and the intelligence collection work. When I think about how to fight, we will discuss the details."
Chapter completed!