The ground battle on Yipan Island ends...it does not mean that the battle on the ocean is also over."

From the perspective of the entire battle situation, as Saipan fell into the hands of the Republic, the situation in Mariana and Ukraine became clearer, that is, the Republic will gradually occupy the islands north of Saipan, and the United States will do its best to defend Tinian, Rota and Guam south of Saipan. For both sides, the front line will not change significantly until the Republic Marines organize enough offensive forces, or the US military organizes enough combat forces to counterattack Saipan, and the island battle enters a stalemate stage. The two sides will compete for sea control during this period and prevent the other side from using sea control. In other words, the main battlefields of the battle between the two sides have shifted from islands to oceans.

By the end of August, the U.S. Navy and the U.S. Navy had made adjustments to the deployment of troops.

First, the Republic Navy mixed the First Fleet with the Third Fleet and established the theater fleet, with the First Fleet commander as the commander of the theater fleet. The US Navy then carried out a similar reorganization, merged the Fifth Fleet and the Seventh Fleet, and drew three aircraft carrier battle groups from the Third Fleet to form the Western Pacific Fleet with aircraft carriers as the core. Although in terms of combat efficiency, it is impossible to fully utilize the theater fleet with aircraft carriers as the core or the Western Pacific Fleet with aircraft carriers as the core. After all, if hundreds of warships are combined together, they will definitely affect and interfere with each other, thus reducing the combat efficiency of each warship. Not to mention, dozens or hundreds of warships launch air defense radars at the same time, and the mutual interference between radars alone will have a serious impact on air defense operations. However, when the sea control efficiency of the aviation force is inefficient and there is no suitable alternative means, the fleet size is increased to increase the air force's dispatch rate. Compensating for quality with quantity becomes the only choice.

Of course, the actions of the Republic's Navy and the US Navy are the first to remind people of the decisive battle at sea.

At the beginning of the month, the US Navy launched a campaign offensive operation code-named "Catrina Storm", a hurricane that attacked New Orleans, USA at the beginning of the century. Although the US military set out to counterattack Saipan and drove the Republic's Marine Corps out of the Mariana Islands, the US Navy not only dispatched the Western Pacific Fleet, but also deployed a third maritime base in Micronesia to the south, and dispatched three land combat divisions to the Western Pacific War Zone, all of which were reserve divisions and hundreds of thousands of tons of combat supplies. However, at this time, the Republic had already sent land combat brigades with heavy casualties. Replaced it. With three land brigades with complete combat power, if the US military wants to capture Saipan, 3 land divisions are definitely not enough. You must know. In order to capture Saipan, which is guarded by more than 30,000 US troops, the Republic mobilized 4 land brigades and thousands of fighter jets, and it took three and a half months of precious time. If the US military wants to capture Saipan, which is guarded by more than 20,000 Republic Marines, it will definitely need to invest more troops and spend more time. Not to mention whether the US military has enough troops, from the perspective of time, it will not make much sense to spend another 3 and a half months to fight back.

There is no doubt that the purpose of the "Catrina Storm" campaign was not to counterattack Saipan, but to annihilate the Republic's fleet.

To be precise, it is to seize absolute control of the sea.

This is also easy to understand. If the US Navy can seize the power of sea control, even if it cannot return to Saipan, it can trap more than 20,000 Republic Marines to death on Saipan.

Faced with the challenges of the US military, the Republic's Navy launched a combat operation code-named "Pack".

It has to be admitted that the officers who named the battle must have no imagination. Although according to some people, the name "Bottle" comes from the typhoon that swept across Southeast Asia in Likou and caused serious damage to Taiwan, so it is a tit-for-tat code against the US battle, but who can remember the storm before the New Year, and who can associate the name of a fruit with the storm?

Of course, the scale of the "Nanzi" combat operation is not as planned. It will not only dispatch the war zone fleet. It will also allow three maritime bases in the Western Pacific to operate in a joint operation, namely "Taiwan Island" and "Hainan Island" to advance together, facing the Mariana Islands, and "Changxing Island" will be transferred behind two "big Macs", playing the role of an aviation transit station, and providing air cover for the two maritime bases. In this way, the Republic's Navy can invest near-red and fighter jets in the direction of the Mariana Islands to make up for the disadvantage of insufficient strength of the fleet.

More importantly, this time the Republic's Navy used all new combat aircraft.

Among them, there are air-controlling fighters specially developed for the Navy Aviation Corps.

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As we all know, in the era, the most popular tactical fighter was definitely the old Yingmu of the Republic. It is the legendary Xiaoliu heavy air combat fighter.

Affected by factors such as disarmament, Yibengshi became a legend, and even this code name became history and was not adopted by the Air Force and HNA. By Tiannian, HNA named the new generation of heavy air combat fighters used to replace the small old series of fighters as Zhi, not Xiaozhao. Because the Air Force had "disbanded" the heavy fighter troops at this time, all belonged to HNA, so the knife became the only heavy fighter in the Republic. Of course, the regiment was not a real aerospace fighter, so it was not valued by the Sky Army. It can be seen that Xiaoli is actually a product of emergency response in the arms race. No matter what, the Xiao6, which was set before the New Year, was already behind, and it would definitely not be able to meet the combat needs in previous years. The Republic's Navy urgently needed a replacement aircraft.

According to common sense, after small force, the Republic's Navy should cooperate with the Sky Army to develop naval-type aerospace fighter jets.

Of course, this is just common sense in peacetime.

Before the outbreak of the war, the military expenditure was probably too much to spend. When developing the next generation of fighter jets, the Navy and the Sky Army split into different ways. The former was responsible for developing fighter jets specifically for combating in the atmosphere, while the Sky Army was responsible for developing fighter jets specifically for combating outside the atmosphere. Of course, according to the agreement between the Navy and the Sky Army, the fighter jets developed by both sides must be open to the other side, that is, when designing, pay attention to the combat needs of the entire army, rather than the combat needs of a certain branch of the army.

That's how the knife was born.

As a new type of fighter project in a short year, it can be determined at the beginning of the year and completed mass production preparations by the end of the year, which is definitely almost the same as the mark. You should know that in the past years, the design cycle of any fighter with air control as the "healthy" mission was above the old year. The average design cycle was even longer than the old year. The design was completed in the clam. This can only be said that it is indeed a very purposeful fighter.

In the navy's words, Do is a pure air-control fighter.

More importantly, this is a fighter aircraft designed completely according to the air combat tactics of the mid-century

Because the normal takeoff mass is only 1 tons, and the maximum takeoff mass is less than 1 tons, the Joker is not even considered a heavy fighter, and is only a little larger than the light fighter between blunt and stew. According to the quality, it should belong to the ranks of multi-purpose fighter. The problem is that Blade is indeed a fighter with extremely strong air combat capabilities. When conducting tactical performance tests, it fights against Xiaojiu and achieves an amazing record of 2 points. The average simulated air combat battle record is also there.

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There is only one reason why air combat performance is so outstanding, that is, all designs serve air combat.

Take the power system as an example. The normal thrust of the spiral magnetic induction thruster equipped with is up to 10000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000

Of course, such powerful power performance also cost a lot of "price".

If Xiao Lao breaks the tradition and makes it difficult to associate it with "aircraft", then the teeth are completely less like an airplane. Fortunately, the chief designer of 22 must have a high appreciation level, at least the aesthetic view is consistent with the public, so the snarling, which is called "diamond darts", only looks like a very simple, or even smooth feeling. Like a metaphor, the knife is like a dart that is magnified hundreds of times, long and wide, and the thickest part is less than meter. Because all electronic devices

The observation window, communication antenna, radar antenna, and hatch door are all designed strictly in a shape-keeping manner, so there are no protruding parts on the outer surface of the entire aircraft. There are not even many obvious openings. The first impression is that it is very neat and has no extra parts. More importantly, this smooth outer surface is actually a layer of intelligent skin. To put it bluntly, this skin can adjust the shape and structure according to temperature and pressure, providing the fighter with the most ideal aerodynamic efficiency, thereby maximizing the maneuverability of the fighter.

If the exterior surface is still acceptable, then the inner design is incredible.

In terms of space occupancy, power systems mainly consist of spiral magnetic induction thrusters account for 20%, electronic equipment and fire control systems account for half of the total, life support systems and human-machine exchange systems account for half of the total, power supply systems account for 35%, self-defense interception systems account for 20%, structure and temperature control systems account for 20%, so attack weapon systems only grow half of the total! This has also become the most criticized part of Joker. You must know that the small-old attack weapon system accounts for 20% of the entire machine space, and even the attack weapon system, which is mainly composed of Ran air combat, also occupy the entire machine space. According to traditional air combat theory, in order to obtain sufficient remote interception firepower, this ratio cannot be lower than that.

It can be seen that Xiaodao basically gave up long-range intercepting firepower, that is, he gave up the battle outside the visual range.

Instead, it is powerful fighting ability and self-defense interception ability. Xiao 6 can intercept 8 air-to-air missiles in an air battle, which increases this number to the old. Xiao Ying's "interception index" means that at least a concave air-to-air missile can be intercepted in an air battle. More importantly, the Joker's power system uses an out-level composite battery that can work in a grid with the interception system, so without considering the combat radius, the interception ability of Yizhao to air-to-air missile is almost infinite. In order to exert the interception ability, Xiaodao has set up an ugly interception window around the fuselage.

And through the central optical separator, it can transmit high-energy lasers to 8 windows at the same time. In addition, the optical prism on each window can direct the laser beam to two targets, so it can intercept old missiles at the same time. According to this calculation, no matter how powerful the long-range interception capability is, the fighter jet has no choice. You should know that even if Xiaoli adds an external pylon, it can only carry the ugly interception missile at most at a time, and when only the missile is mounted in the bomb bay, it can only carry the old interception missile. That is to say, from a purely theoretical perspective, it is impossible to use the interception missile to shoot down the clown with an interception missile.

As mentioned earlier, Xiaodao's air combat maneuverability is almost 4 times that of Xiaojiu, and twice that of Xiaojiu. According to the more general air combat calculation method, in the combat air combat stage, if the maneuverability gap between the two sides reaches, it will be difficult for the weak side to win, for example, when fighting with Chou Air. The maneuverability gap is about Wei's chance of winning. In this way, as long as you enter the combat air combat stage, Xiaojiu and Zhao will not even have the chance to fight back.

It can be seen from this that the Joker is a fighter aircraft designed for combat air combat.

Of course, this is also in line with the trend of air combat. With the performance of self-defense interception systems becoming increasingly powerful and the number of interceptor missiles carried by fighters cannot be increased without limit, fighting air combat has become the main means, or even the only means, to compete for air supremacy.

In order to improve combat air combat capabilities, Xiaoying's weapon combination is also very special. The main combat weapon is two energy weapons, generally a door pulse laser cannon and a door particle beam weapon, which can also be replaced by an electromagnetic cannon. Although the clown also has a bullet bay, the capacity of the bullet bay is very limited, and it is mainly used to carry drag-and-drop bay or a bait missile specifically used to interfere with intercepting missiles. Instead of a fighting missile. In fact, in combat, corpse fighting missiles have little significance, and Bifang's interception system can easily be used to redirect missiles.

Compared with the control system, the weapon configuration of the knife is not quite terrifying.

As we all know, the 4-fold thrust-to-weight ratio, coupled with the aerodynamic efficiency provided by the smart skin, the extreme overload of the edge exceeds the edge, and even dives through 3 out during the test. What is this concept? One is the gravity acceleration of an object at the equatorial sea level, that is, the meter per square second is emitting image, that is, the speed of the object from stationary to emitting meter per second in seconds, then it is equivalent to the gravity acceleration of the force times. Cong is the gravity acceleration. Under normal circumstances, the human body can withstand the mouth at most, and at this time, even a trained pilot will have nausea, and physiological reactions such as black vision are mainly caused by the inability of the heart to send blood into the brain, causing the brain to lack oxygen. In the case of outflow, the pilot may die suddenly. It is precisely this. At the beginning of the century, the maximum overload of almost all fighters was only Gu, and the maximum overload of some fighters was even only 7 even if it was from

Since the beginning of the blade era, with the emergence of new anti-Dutch suits, they are mainly lighter and will not affect the normal behavior of the pilot after wearing them. As well as drugs that improve anti-overload ability in a short time, the maximum overload of the fighter has risen all the way, and when it reaches the blade, it has reached, ugly. The problem is that neither anti-Dutch suit nor anti-Dutch medicines can improve the pilot's own physical fitness, which brings a new problem, that is, at a certain limit, huge overload will make the pilot unable to move. For example, under the old overload, the pilot raises his hand, which is equivalent to lifting a four-kilogram object. This limit is, if the pilot increases it further, the physical fitness of the pilot is a problem. Of course, some people have thought of using the Army's exoskeleton system to improve the pilot's physical fitness, that is, to replace the human body with machinery. The problem is that the control accuracy of the exoskeleton system has not yet reached the level of precise control of the fighter, so it is useless.

In response to this problem, Shi chose the most direct method, which is to remove body movements and directly use the signals sent by the pilot's brain to control the fighter. This is the human-computer switching system, which is often called the human-computer control interface. Because similar systems have long been used on home computers and have achieved significant results in helping disabled people obtain normal behavioral abilities, the problem of using them on fighters is not very big. Of course, from a safety perspective, a set of manual control systems is retained so that in the event of a failure of the human-computer switching system, the pilot can control the fighter to fly back to the base with his hands.

In a sense, the significance of the human-computer switching system is not only to increase the maximum overload of fighter jets.

Because there is no need to control the aircraft through limbs, the fighter will do whatever the pilot thinks, so the fighter's reaction speed is greatly accelerated, coupled with the auxiliary control of intelligent computers. Its agility, especially in air combat, is far more than that of the drone.

It can be said that agility is the number one factor in the victory of fighting air battles.

When a pulsed laser cannon and particle beam weapon becomes a powerful air combat weapon, even if it is a millisecond gap, it can determine victory or defeat. You must know that for a laser with a speed of tens of kilometers per second, milliseconds can fly kilometers, while the distance of fighting air combat will not exceed force kilometers, and the duration of a pulse is only 100 milliseconds. Even for a particle beam with a slightly slower speed, "milliseconds can fly, four to vigorous kilometers, and the duration of a particle beam pulse is only about four milliseconds.

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In short, in an era when energy weapons dominate the sky, reaction speed determines everything.

For the Republic Navy, before sending the blade to the battlefield, there is only one biggest question. That is, in the fierce battle, can the assassin who only brings the daggers rush to the enemy?

Affected by this, before the month of mouth, the Navy sent a group of blades to the mainland battlefield to experience practical tests.

Although the Navy did not announce the battle situation on the mainland battlefield, and did not even admit that it had allowed 22 to participate in the mainland battlefield in the past year, it can be seen from some combat records of the Russian Air Force that Joker's performance is worth hundreds of billions of development funds. Not to mention, although the Russian Air Force believes that the Republic has used a fighter with extremely advanced performance. Moreover, in the report to the US Air Force, the appearance and air combat performance of this fighter were described very comprehensively, but the Russian Air Force did not provide any evidence, and even found the missile fragments used by the fighter in air combat. In other words, the fighter has not been shot down on the mainland battlefield!

With such a record, the Navy naturally has no reason to stay away from the Pacific Ocean.

According to the combat records of the Republic's Navy, a total of witch cake blades were used in the "Nanzi" combat operation. Among them, the knife holder was deployed on the "Taiwan Island" and the secret stand was deployed on the "Hainan Island". In other words, it was not deployed on the aircraft carrier. According to the explanation given by the Navy, it was mainly that the Xiaogong was the first fighter equipped with knife-level composite electric storage slack, and the charging equipment on the aircraft carrier was prepared for the old-level composite battery and was not equipped with the Joker. Only the sea base had a cool set.

The charging module can also be used to fully play. From the actual situation, the Navy is not deployed on the aircraft carrier. It is not that the charging equipment is not equipped. After all, the "Chongqing-class aircraft carrier was designed to provide support for fighters equipped with graded or even graded composite batteries. Therefore, the support capacity can be improved by replacing the charging module. There are two other reasons: First, the production is not large, and the total output by the beginning of the month will definitely not exceed the lock frame. Second, the Navy does not let such fighters follow the fleet to take risks.

It can be seen from this that the Navy's senior management does not have much hope for the battle zone fleet.

On the other hand, the U.S. Navy will not expect the Western Pacific Fleet to seize sea control.

After understanding this, it is not difficult to understand when both sides launched this battle. After the previous battle, the top leaders of the Republic's Navy and the U.S. Navy have realized that aircraft carriers are no longer the main battle to seize sea control. It is very likely that the upcoming warship will prove that the aircraft carrier is in a proof that the aircraft carrier is in a hurry, and make full use of the last opportunity to let the aircraft carriers use their remaining energy.

Of course, strategically speaking, the U.S. Navy has no way out.

If the new warships are put into service before launching a counterattack, I am afraid that the Republic Marines have occupied the entire Maria Islands, and the US military’s counterattack is not only meaningless, but also has to pay a greater price. Politically speaking, not to mention that the top leaders of the US Navy will not risk their military morale, nor will Duchwit risk their morale. Objectively speaking, even if the counterattack fails, it will be much better than doing nothing.

The U.S. Navy has no way out, and it also leaves the Republic's Navy with no way out.

To be more straightforward, the US Navy came to us. The Republic’s Navy could not leave behind the tens of thousands of Marines on Saipan and retreat to the East China Sea alone. It was the same as the problems faced by the US Navy. Before the new war came out, the Republic’s Navy could only allow aircraft carriers to continue to take on the main responsibility and shoulder the heavy responsibility of fighting for sea control.

To be honest, previous battles have proved that although aircraft carriers are no longer an ideal weapon for sea control, as a maritime combat platform, aircraft carriers still have a place to be used. Especially in assisting in landing operations, because of their more maneuverable and flexible and higher aviation combat efficiency, the role of aircraft carriers will not be lower than that of sea bases. The support capacity of an aircraft carrier battle group with three aircraft carriers as the core is definitely not under a large sea base. In some high-risk waters, especially when threatened by enemy submarines, aircraft carrier battle groups are still more reliable support forces.

In other words, both sides of the war have every reason to protect the aircraft carrier as much as possible.

The problem is that when there is no other choice, the aircraft carrier can only take risks.

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Similar situations have occurred in history. For example, during World War II, especially in the early stages of the war, because there were too few aircraft carriers, the US Navy and the Japanese Navy repeatedly asked battleships to take risks. When competing for Guadalcanal, the battleships, cruisers and destroyers of both sides fought dozens of times, and in the Battle of Surigao, there were even a very rare battleship bombing scene.

Of course, this also proves that any weapon is just a tool to achieve the purpose of war.

From the above analysis, it can be seen that the "Mariana Naval Battle" known as the "Aircraft Carrier Masterpiece" is not actually a decisive naval battle. Although both sides of the war paid a very heavy price in this battle, the Republic's Navy lost four aircraft carriers and flying escort warships, and many combat aircrafts in the war. The US Navy lost the aircraft carrier and the lead escort warships, as well as many combat aircrafts in the war, but neither side could be able to

The substantial benefits were obtained from it. The US military did not gain the coveted sea control power, and the Republic's Navy was not able to drive the US Navy out of the Western Pacific as it wished. According to the comments of war historians, this was a naval battle that had no meaning except for the consumption of a large number of naval officers and soldiers and elite pilots. Later, some people named the "Mariana Naval Battle" as one of the top ten most valuable wars of attrition in World War III, and ranked very high.

Objectively speaking, what exists always makes sense.

In any case, the top leaders of the Republic's Navy and the US Navy are not fools, and Pei Chengyi and Du Qiwei are not the kind of commander who fight for the sake of war without a clear purpose of the war.

Strictly speaking, "consumption" itself is the significance of this naval battle, or the purpose of both sides.

On the other hand, all the battles in the first year of the war, including ground battles on the mainland battlefield, often fighting with the goal of consuming opponents. This is easy to understand. World War III can be said to be the longest world war in human history. Although many people believe that the Republic started preparing from the Nian of Blade, even if it was a little further away, it also started preparing from the 42nd year of 1942, but from the perspective of the overall strategy of the Republic, especially the relationship between the leaders of the Republic, the Republic and the authorities were preparing for the Third World War long before the Nian of 1990s. Not to mention others, just looking at Wang Yuanqing, you can understand the meaning of this sentence. Even from the standpoint of the United States, it can be traced back to the Peninsula War in the early Blade era.

For a war that has been prepared for more than 10 years of blade, the war will not end without exhausting the other party's capital.

It can be said that this is the cruelty of World War III.

If "consumption" is regarded as the purpose of the war between the two sides, it is not difficult to understand the great significance of the "Mariana Naval Battle".

It can be said that after this naval battle, the Republican Navy and the US Navy both lost their money. After the naval battle, the Republican Navy had only the Second Fleet and the Complete Combat Forces. Most of the warships that were not sunk were injured. The US Navy only had the Third Fleet and the Second Fleet on the Atlantic Ocean. The two fleets had only 4 aircraft carrier battle groups in total, and they could not bear the heavy responsibility of combat in one direction.

Because of the loss of warships built before the war, both sides could only pin their hopes on the newly built warships.

That's why in the next few months, the largest tonnage of the navies on both sides was anti-submarine destroyers, and both were mainly anti-submarine warships. Affected by this, around the Mariana Islands, the navies on both sides fought dozens of large-scale naval battles mainly destroyers, and the main purpose of the naval battle was to be our own fleets or prevent the other direction from sending combat forces to the frontier islands.

Objectively speaking, the most influential one is not the fleet, but the aviation force.

Like other military branches, the Republic's Navy and the United States Navy both reserved a large number of talents before the war. Among them, the fleet officers and soldiers in the Republic's Navy reserve troops had a huge number of old ten thousand, which was enough to form a fleet of more than the old branches. The US Navy's reserve troops had no 10,000, and they had no 10,000, which was not much less than the Republic's Navy. In addition, in the Battle of Mariana, the casualties rate of officers and soldiers on both sides was not large, so the fleet officers and soldiers were not a big problem.

Because during the landing operation in Saipan, both sides lost nearly 4 four pilots. In addition, the famous pilots who lost in the Mariana Naval Battle. The total number of pilots killed on both sides is close to Wang. People are equivalent to 30% of the total number of pilots on both sides before the outbreak of the war. If calculated based on the number of fighter pilots, in the two battles, it is equivalent to half of the pilots on both sides before the war!

No doubt this is definitely not

Working in negligible proportions.

You should know that training a pilot who is promising is definitely not based on the practice time and the training hours of every year. According to the standards of the Republic's Navy Air Force, pilots who graduate from the aviation school must at least become captains after 3 years, and only after 3 years are qualified to become majors. Becoming a major is recognized, that is, the minimum recognition of the pilot's personal abilities is the minimum

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To be continued...