Volume Fourteen, Smoke of Gunpowder, Chapter 98, Rampage Tools
Judging from the military strength of the Workers' Republic, the only thing Leo talks about the army in Hawaii is crying... The only thing that lacks is the appropriate strategic platform, that is, it can provide support to hundreds of thousands of troops and become a large maritime base for the Republican team before boarding the main islands of the Hawaiian Islands.
Long before the outbreak of the war, the Republic had discussed many times on whether to march into the Hawaiian Islands and how to march into the Hawaiian Islands.
As we all know, the purpose of entering the Hawaiian Islands is to march into the North American continent and the United States. Because entering the Hawaiian Islands is not the only means, it is not a means that must be chosen. As early as the year of the fierce, when pre-war preparations were fully launched, the General Staff proposed several strategic plans for entering the United States, which were generally divided into three directions: southeast and west, namely, crossing the Pacific Ocean eastward, landing on the west coast of the North American continent, entering South America, and along China and the United States.
The state isthmus advances north to the United States, and advances westward to land in North America from the North Atlantic. Among these three plans, there are several plans. Take the eastward approach, and it is divided into three routes in North Central and South. To the north is from the Bering Strait to land in Alaska, along the western coastal plains of the Rocky Mountains, the middle route goes through the Hawaiian Islands, lands on the west coast of the United States, and the south route goes through the Central Pacific Islands, lands in Central America, and then heads north through Mexico to enter the United States.
Although among many plans, the Eastward Mid-line plan, that is, the attack on the Hawaiian Islands, was the most feasible, before the year, some people within the Republican team still believed that this line of entry was too traditional and difficult. It was not until the supercomputer group specially built for war preparations were put into use and the various strategic plan of entry was comprehensively simulated and analyzed. The results of the simulation analysis were very clear, that is, in extreme cases.
The cost and difficulty of attacking the United States through the Hawaiian Islands is the least, and it is the main route of entry, while other directions can only play an auxiliary role. Affected by this, the Republic's war preparations are basically related to this. Of course, during the war, the Republic's strategic offensive was also deeply affected. For example, after occupying the Kamchatka Peninsula and sweeping the Russian Far East, the Republic's ** team did not land in Alaska from the Bering Strait, or even advanced to the Bering Strait.
After confirming that you must attack the Hawaiian Islands, what is left is how to attack the Hawaiian group
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Before the war broke out, the Republican authorities also used supercomputers to simulate and analyze the combat operations against the Hawaiian Islands.
Although computer simulation analysis cannot be absolutely accurate, and in some cases there may even be large errors, the results of computer simulation analysis are still the most important, and sometimes even the only reference data. It can be said that in almost all decisions from strategic to tactical, the Republic and the United States have fully referenced the results of computer simulation analysis and used them to guide military construction. Facts have also proved that the impact of computer simulation analysis on both sides' combat operations is very significant.
It is undeniable that when the Republican authorities formulated a combat plan to attack the Hawaiian Islands, they fully referenced the results of computer simulation and analysis.
Although the Republic's authorities have never published any data from computer simulation analysis, it is reasonable to believe that before the outbreak of the war, the Republic's authorities determined that the Hawaiian Islands could not be captured through Wake Island and Midway Ukraine. The reason is very simple. The "maritime base group" that played a crucial role in attacking the Hawaiian Islands was proposed before the outbreak of the war and began to be implemented before the outbreak of the war.
"Maritime base group is not a large-scale maritime base. In nature, there is an essential difference between "Maritime base group" and "Maritime base base group", that is, the main value of the existence of a maritime base is to play an active and effective role in a war with clear purpose and provide strong support to combat troops. The main value of the existence of a maritime base group is to provide various support and cooperation for combat troops in a certain strategic direction, and become a strategic base for military operations at the theater level.
Of course, the maritime base group must have a core maritime base, and based on the maritime base, other functional maritime bases are added according to combat needs.
Those with this ability are naturally the fifth-generation maritime base.
It is precisely because the construction of the fifth-generation maritime base was completed and the combat effectiveness was formed. The possibility of implementation was not available until the construction of the fifth-generation maritime base was completed.
In fact, the fifth-generation maritime base did not first appear in the central Pacific waters.
This group of floating sea facilities with self-navigation capabilities is likely to be the largest group of sea floating facilities in human history, with self-navigation capabilities, first appeared on the southwestern Pacific battlefield, and before the end of the Tiannian year, it has always been the main base of the Republic's strategic bomber.
Let the fifth-generation maritime base go to the Southwest Pacific first to warm up, mainly because infrastructure cannot keep up with the needs.
Although according to the agreement signed between the Republic and France, the Republic could freely use Walpool Island during the war, that is, it could deploy strategic bombers to the island. Because most of the land in Noumea is private territory, and the French government's state-owned land in New Caledonia is mainly mountainous and is not suitable for building airports, the Republic agreed to this proposal and built a military base on Tyrpool Island. However, what the Republic did not expect was that this island composed of coral reefs was not suitable for building military bases, especially military bases that provide services for strategic bombers of the Sky Army. Affected by this, the progress of the project on Walpool Island was greatly delayed, and most construction plans were adjusted. According to the estimates of the Marine Corps Engineering Forces, the airport on Walpool Island was put into use not at the end of June, but at the end of the year, and may even be delayed until the end of the first quarter of the year.
The project progress can be delayed, but the bombing operation cannot be delayed.
In response to this issue, the Republic's authorities made two preparations: one was to negotiate with France to deploy bombers at Noumea Airport, and the other was to build more fifth-generation maritime bases and send the first fifth-generation maritime base to the southwest Pacific. Although before the Republic's Navy marched into the Fiji Islands, the French authorities made concessions and agreed to the Republic's Sky Army to deploy bombers at Noumea Airport. However, it clearly required that these bombers could only be used to perform pure military tasks, that is, they could not use them to carry out strategic bombings of Kazukawa and civil facilities for this impact. The first batch of strategic bombers deployed on the four old dogs on the ocean were all sent to support the combat operations of the attack on the Fiji Islands, while the bombers that carried out strategic bombings in Australia were all deployed in the Ryukyu Islands farther away from the battlefield and military bases in Southeast Asia.
It was not until the end of April of Tiannian that the first fifth-generation maritime base named "Pangu" arrived at the Coral Sea and was located in the northern waters of a small archipelago dominated by coral reefs and atolls in the northwest of Xinkoridonia in the Hueon Islands. This situation was fundamentally changed.
It has to be admitted that the fifth-generation maritime base does have unparalleled advantages in supporting strategic bombing.
Under standard circumstances, it is composed of a module ship, which is used to accommodate and support strategic bombers, and is used to carry and preserve ammunition and drug resources. The bomber is mainly used to carry and maintain large-scale maintenance. Basic maintenance can be completed on the bomber carrying module ship. The whip serves personnel, and the ship is also a variety of functional module ships. The specific number of bombers that can accommodate the bomber is determined by the model of the bomber mounted, and at the speed of the blade frame per minute, half of the bombers are dispatched in an attack cycle. That is to say, "a maritime base can undertake bombing tasks in a strategic direction. If calculated based on the capacity, the "a maritime base is equivalent to a large bomber base. If calculated based on the capacity, it is equivalent to an old airport. In fact, the most powerful place of the fifth-generation maritime base is not here.
Compared with military bases, the biggest advantage of the fifth-generation maritime base is its super high operating efficiency.
As we all know, most military bases are planar structures, especially aviation bases. Even if many key facilities are placed underground, such as ammunition depots, base command and control centers, power supply systems, etc., the operation of these military bases is still planarized rather than three-dimensional. In terms of supporting bombers, a bomber must undergo maintenance inspections before taking off, replenish coolant and other liquid gas, recharge ammunition, charge the power system, etc., and most of these must work cannot be carried out at the same time, and the reason why it cannot be carried out at the same time is not that it is not allowed, but that there is not enough space. In this way, the bomber must undergo maintenance and inspection before taking off.
The preparation time is often as long as several hours. Even in an emergency, if most of the preparations are made in advance, it will take several minutes to take off. On the fifth-generation maritime base, this problem is not so obvious. Except for some preparations that cannot be carried out simultaneously for safety reasons, such as replenishing liquid gas cannot be carried out simultaneously with charging, and must be carried out separately. All other preparations can be completed simultaneously in a three-dimensional way, so the preparation time before takeoff can be shortened to within minutes and reach the level of a fighter. If the strength and service life of the bomber fuselage are not taken into account, the bomber's dispatch rate can be increased twice!
To put it simply, let the boom bomber do the job of 4 four bombers.
Of course, if you want to fully exert the combat effectiveness of bombers, you must first cultivate more pilots. If the shortage of pilots in the Year of the Year and the Year of the Year of the Year of the Year of the Year, then by the Tian Year, as a large number of pilots recruited and trained after the outbreak of the war, this problem would be less prominent, or even not a problem. For example, by the end of the first quarter of the Tian Year, the ratio of bomber flight crews to bombers of the Republic's Sky Army had reached the peak. Even if the last round of rest, it would be guaranteed to have two units of bombers. If everything goes well, by the end of the year of the year of the Year of the Year, the proportion would be increased to the right of the dirty, ensuring that under any circumstances, the bomber pilots would have sufficient rest time.
Compared with more pilots, high-intensity bombing operations have higher requirements for the bomber itself. To put it bluntly, if the bomber's dispatch rate is doubled, the bomber's mission performed by Sun Bushi will be reduced from 2 to 4 times, and the service life of the bomber will be shortened to one-third of the normal situation. According to this calculation, "a bomber worth hundreds of billions of yuan can only fly for up to 3 years, which is equivalent to the flying year of peacetime. Even if it is modernized, it can only fly for up to 2 years.
This is the question. Can a bomber get enough rewards for tens of billions of investment in three years?
Fortunately, no one will calculate this economic account during the war. In any case, war is definitely not a matter of careful calculation, otherwise it would not be a bomb worth four yuan to destroy a tent worth four yuan.
The most important thing is that the arrival of the Pangu allows the strategic bombing to be carried out smoothly.
In April of Tiannian, the Republic's Heavenly Army used bombers deployed on the Pangu for the first time to carry out strategic bombing on the industrial area centered on Rockhampton in northeastern Australia. To be on the safe side, only more than 0 assists were dispatched during the bombing that day, and the bombers were divided into old aircraft groups and bombed separately. More importantly, the bombers mainly used long-range ammunition with a range of more than kilometers, and only 2 aircraft groups of Jinsou used tactical ammunition with a range of about kilometers.
There is no doubt that the greatest significance of this round of bombing is to prove that the efficiency of small-scale bombing is not high.
Although the bombers carrying out the mission were not under much threat during the entire bombing operation. Even the two aircraft groups close to Australia were not intercepted. Only three bombers had malfunctions during the mission. Two of them successfully flew to the emergency landing site on Walpool Island, and the other crashed on their way back. The failure rate of about one thousandth of the 1000th is normal. However, the results of this round of bombing were also not worth mentioning. Not only were most of the long-range ammunition intercepted, but even the missiles that broke through the interception system could not destroy many targets. Instead, the two aircraft groups using tactical ammunition achieved good results.
Ultimately, it's a matter of ammunition.
It is not that the penetration and defense capability of long-range ammunition is not good. However, when using long-range ammunition, the bomber's load capacity is very limited, so it is impossible to drop enough different body clams in a bombing.... Swing, from the overall perspective, the penetration and defense rate of ammunition can achieve better results, that is, the bombing puddle can shorten the interception time of the enemy's air defense system and interception system by shortening the range, the greatest significance is that the dense bomb drop can saturate the interception system. It will not be effective in time.
The new bomber invested by the Sky Army of the Little Old Republic can only carry a large number of long-range cruise missiles at most. However, it can carry as many as Wang Tactical ammunition under the same circumstances. Therefore, the four old can drop Jikou Cruise missiles in a bombing, or the tactical ammunition. Even if the combat efficiency of the enemy's interception system is 100%, it means that when using tactical ammunition, it can produce more ammunition, which can make the enemy's interception system lose its value.
In short, this method of increasing the penetration rate through ammunition throwing is very common in large-scale wars.
Affected by this, in the next few days, the bombers deployed on the Pangu adjusted their tactics and began to use tactical ammunition on a large scale.
Of course, this brings about a new problem, that is, the bomber's combat loss rate began to rise sharply.
This is also easy to understand. When it is necessary to drop bombs near the target, and most bomber groups have to take risks, the bomber groups are easily intercepted by fighters. No matter how advanced the couple is, they appear very fragile in front of the enemy's air defense fighter. For example, on the 3rd of the month, the bombers on the Pangu dispatched a total of Wangkou Yujia and were shot down by the US air defense fighter. Due to failure and unknown reasons, the total combat loss rate was as high as that of Jongnuo, which was more than 7 times the total combat loss rate of the Republic's Sky Army bombers in the two years before the war!
Faced with the blooming bomber damage rate, the Republic's Sky Army was not surprised and asked the Navy to provide escort fighter jets on the moon and Ri to provide bombers with escort fighter jets. Fortunately, the Republic's Navy had seized absolute sea and air supremacy in the waters of the Fiji Islands in the clear, so after receiving the request from the Heavenly Army, it immediately dispatched a tactical aviation team, such as multiple fighters, to return to Xinkoridonia. Two days later, the Republic's Navy returned to the Tasman Sea from the sea base of the "Kuye Island" that was fighting in the direction of the Fiji Island, and used the fighter jets to cover the bombers on the "Pangu".
At that time, the main reason why the Navy deployed the "Kuye Island" maritime base to the Tasman Sea was that the infrastructure of Xinkoridoniwa was indeed poor, and it could only accommodate a tactical air force at most. It could not guarantee full attendance. More importantly, as the bombing area extends southward, the combat efficiency of fighter jets deployed in Xinluoridonia will be rapidly reduced. Therefore, it is necessary to deploy a maritime platform here specifically equipped with escort fighters.
It can be said that this unintentional move has actually achieved the most effective bombing tactics.
Theoretically speaking, "the fourth-generation maritime base is enough to support thousands of fighter jets. Even if the fighter jets are deployed in a maritime base, the scale of the naval tactical air force is determined by the support capabilities of the fourth-generation maritime base, that is, under any circumstances, the smooth execution of combat missions of the concave fighter jets. According to the practical experience summarized by the Republic's Sky Army on the mainland battlefield, an escort fighter jet can ensure the safety of the 3-date bomber. It can be seen that even if the fighter jets deployed on the fourth-generation maritime base can only be released at a time
Half of the movement can also be used to cover objects, and the fifth-generation maritime base can only be used at one time, such as the Junkou bomber. Although there is no evidence to prove that when designing the fourth-generation maritime platform and the fifth-generation maritime platform, the technicians of the Republic Navy considered this situation, that is, to let the two maritime platforms be used in conjunction, but at least it is certain that the fifth-generation maritime platform was designed, and the fifth-generation maritime platform must refer to the proposal of the Sky Army. After all, this maritime platform with great significance, which is considered as a strategic bomber or even aerospace bomber when it was launched.
Of course, the Kuyewu maritime base also played a very important role in combat, which is to act as an emergency landing ground for damaged bombers.
Under light load, strategic bombers can land on the runway that is long in persuasion. If the lift thruster is not damaged, it can also land vertically under no load. Therefore, for some bombers that are damaged in combat or fail during the mission, they do not have to return to the Pangu, nor fly to the farther Noumea, and can land on the Kuye Island. More importantly, during the combat deployment, the Kuye Island must be in front of the Pangu. That is, it is closer to Australia, so some seriously damaged bombers, especially those that cannot throw away ammunition, must not land on the sea base at this time, and then they can make a landing near the Kuye Island and wait for rescue, without worrying that they will be finished if they cannot wait for rescue after a forced landing at sea. Of course, doing so will not affect the combat operations of the Kuye Island and Pangu.
In short, a much smaller, more eye-catching and more easily attacked fifth-generation maritime base is deployed in front of the fifth-generation maritime base that is much more flexible and can sail at the speed of Feng Jie when fully assembled, while the fifth-generation maritime base can only sail at the speed of the fallen knot, which is of great significance to improving the combat efficiency and security of the fifth-generation maritime base. In later battles, the Republic's Navy also extended and expanded this tactic, that is, if necessary, the third-generation maritime base that is about to be eliminated will exert residual heat, enhance the escort force of the bomber group, and at the same time improve the overall safety of the maritime base.
In fact, this combat mode with multiple sea bases joint operations is another way of embodying the combat idea of "maritime base group".
Tactically speaking, the biggest change brought by the "Kuye Island" sea base is the bombing mode.
On the first day of the battle between the Kuyewu maritime base and the tactical air force it carried, the Republic's Heavenly Army organized the first "Thousand-Air Bomb" on the Pacific battlefield.
In the morning and afternoon of the same day, the Lisi strategic bombers deployed on the Pangu were divided into two batches, respectively, and large-scale carpet bombed the southeastern region of the state centered on Brisbane and the core of the New South Way Ten State centered on Thani. The eight industrial areas with a total area of 20,000 tons of bombs were used to blow the eight industrial areas of the two areas with a total area of 20,000 square kilometers into ruins.
This day is also called "Disaster Tuesday".
After the end of World War III, Australian authorities have designated the day as the "Victims of the Great Bombing" anniversary."
In fact, this is just the beginning of the "big bombing". Not the end.
Of course, the birthplace of the "big bombing" is not Australia or the Pacific battlefield, but Russia on the mainland battlefield. As early as two years ago, in the mid-8 years, after helping the navy to enter the Mariana Islands, the Republic's Sky Army organized several large-scale bombings on the mainland battlefield. Of course, with the scale of equipment at that time, hundreds of bombers were dispatched to carpet bomb targets in a certain area with tactical ammunition, which was considered as a carpet-type bombing for targets in a certain area with tactical ammunition.
It was a "big bombing". It developed to 2 years ago, that is, before the "military restriction negotiations", the scale of the large bombing increased from more than four to persuading multiple aircraft. The one-time bombing area also increased from one to several. At the beginning of the year, before Russia announced its defeat and surrender, the Tianjun organized three large bombings on the mainland battlefield with a scale of more than the curved frame, and since then it kicked off the "big bombing of thousands of aircraft", making bombers the most violent war tools again.
You know, the bombers in World War III are not bombers in World War II
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Siduodong Fortune. When bombing Japan's mainland, prisoners who took off from Tinian Island generally can only carry loose ammunition, even if they use high-altitude routes, they can only carry up to 6 tons of ammunition, so they can only throw thousands of tons of bombs at a time. Because the US military could not deploy so many bombers at the Mariana Islands at that time, so the amount of bombs dropped in each bombing operation was mostly below the mouth. In comparison, the old extreme bomb load capacity of the knives tons of knives under normal circumstances was about 4 kg, and the 4 kg-level cruise missile or dent kilogram tactical ammunition. It can also reach the maximum combat radius with a load of dan tons of bombs, so the "8 can drop ten thousand tons of ammunition in a bomb, which is equivalent to multiple times the force of the prison aircraft group.
It can be said that such a large amount of bombs is no longer just for destroying the target.
From the day of its birth, strategic bombers are strategic weapons. As strategic weapons, their main value is to carry out strategic strikes on enemy countries. The most effective strategic strike is not to destroy the enemy's strategic military goals. Instead, it defeats the national foundation of the enemy countries, such as factories, cities, roads, airports, ports, etc. It can be said that the US military's strategic bombing against Germany and Japan in the Second World War explained the significance of strategic bombing in the most direct way, and also explained the basic tactics of strategic bombing very comprehensively.
It has to be admitted that the Republic is learning from the United States on how to use strategic bombing.
After tasting the benefits of the Thousand-Air bombing on the mainland battlefield, the Republic's Sky Army spent several months summarizing experience and making adjustments to the bombing tactics. In simple terms, after the bombing operation on the mainland battlefield, the Republic's Sky Army summarized the Thousand-Air bombing at the same time, "Arriving at the same time, theoretically, there is no Japanese standard worthy of launching the Order-Air bomber, even an international metropolis like Sydney, which is a population-oriented and ten thousand, cannot withstand the destruction of the Kar-Air bomber. More importantly, in tactical use, because the ammunition explosion will have an impact on the bombing operation, it is impossible to let the milk-Air bomber drop ammunition over the area at the same time.
Moreover, it is almost impossible to command and control four distillate bombers in a single airspace. In this way, the large-scale bombing of thousands of aircraft is actually dispatched, with four bombers bombing multiple targets. The only benefit of doing this is that it can prevent the enemy from intercepting all bomber groups. Either concentrate efforts to intercept bombers in a certain area. Or consume limited air defense forces on an infinite battlefield. In order to improve the survival rate of bombers, although the simple method is to allow bombers in all directions to arrive at Feng at one time and launch bombing operations at the same time. It can be seen that "arriving at the same time is not only experience, but also the most basic and simple combat tactics of large-scale bombing of thousands of aircraft.
Of course, to put it simply, it is just the tactic itself, not the specific implementation process. After the Republic's Sky Army gained experience in the large-scale bombing of thousands of aircraft on the mainland battlefield, it did not immediately implement the Pacific battlefield. The key is that it does not meet the conditions. You must know that on the mainland battlefield, the Sky Army does not lack strategic bases, and has enough places to deploy curved bombers. There are also enough channels to command and control, and concave bombers. In the Pacific battlefield, especially in the southwest Pacific battlefield, in addition to not having enough bases, there is also a lack of command channels. Of course, these problems have been solved with the arrival of the Pangu sea base, and after the arrival of the Kuye Island sea base, it has a more solid foundation.
What is involved here is the escort tactics of the 1,000-air bombing.
In any case, bombers are extremely vulnerable to attack, and when attacked, the bomber's self-defense capabilities and means are very limited. It can be said that the prerequisite for the large-scale bombing of Thousand-Aircraft is a strong enough escort force. Through combat operations on the mainland battlefield, the Sky Army summarized many escort tactics and summarized the effectiveness of various escort tactics, especially the adaptability in various situations, and then arranged the most effective escort combat methods to improve the efficiency of escort combat.
For a large-scale bombing of thousands of aircraft, the most effective escort combat is to use escort fighters to drive out the enemy's air defense fighters before the bomber group enters, at least to ensure that the enemy cannot concentrate enough air defense fighters in a certain direction, and then use a small number of escort fighters to accompany the bomber group to ensure that the bomber group completes the mission smoothly.
According to the escort combat tactics formulated by the Tianjun, when four old bombers were dispatched to deal with targets, the old brigade of fighters needed to carry out forward sweeping missions. In addition, a squadron of fighters needed to accompany the bomber group to move, so only
It can be seen from this that the arrival of the sea base of the Kuye Island has enabled the implementation of the Thousand-Aircraft bombings.
That's exactly that. On the first day of the "Kuyedao" participating in the battle, the Tianjun organized a large bombing of thousands of aircraft, and carried out two rounds of bombing in the sky, allowing all bombers and escort fighters to participate in the battle.
Because each bomber was equipped with two units, it was later developed to each fighter with a micro-unit, the Tianjun organized two rounds of 1,000-air bombings on the Yuekou day, so that all bomber pilots could familiarize themselves, or revisit the main tactics of 1,000-air bombings, especially the tactics of 1,000-air bombings after entering the war zone.
It is obvious that the bombing operations in these two days are just a warm-up campaign of the Republic's Sky Army. The Sky Army gave the front-line troops a day off, and asked the bomber troops to seize the time to solve the problems exposed during the bombing operations, and summarized the experience and lessons.
On the anal mouth day, the bombing operation began again.
Within the hour of this day, two work bombers carried out 4 large-scale bombings of major towns and industrial areas in the eastern and southeastern Australia in a total of 6 hours, dropping nearly 10,000 tons of ammunition.
The intensity of the bombing operation remained at this level for the next more than a month.
It has to be admitted that during the large-scale bombing of individual aircraft, the logistics support force was the most stressed.
As mentioned earlier, there are a total of ammunition module ships at the sea base of the Pangu. Each ammunition module ship can carry 10,000 tons of ammunition, so the self-sustaining force of the Pangu is Zhaotian. The problem is that to fill up ammunition for 48 ammunition module ships at sea, it is necessary to at least make the sky full of ammunition. Including the module ships must be regularly maintained and maintained, so there is almost no idle time during the good-day operation cycle. In fact, this is also a key factor restricting the efficiency of bombers' dispatch. You must know that the dispatching momentum of the Sun Bushi bomber can reach four ranks, rather than the order. In fact, this issue has been paid attention to when designing, but the sea base itself is also a combat platform with a planar structure.
Therefore, if we continue to increase ammunition module ships, it will only reduce the operating efficiency. Affected by this, the solution proposed by the Republic Navy is to build more ammunition module ships for the fifth-generation maritime base and let the ammunition module ships return to the rear port for loading operations, rather than building a separate ammunition supply ship. The carrying capacity of large ammunition supply ships is much higher than that of ammunition module ships, so it has higher operating efficiency under normal use. The problem is that because the demand for fifth-generation maritime bases is amazing, the construction capacity has not been drawn out to build more ammunition module ships, so it is impossible to equip each maritime base with a second ammunition module system, which naturally cannot improve the combat effectiveness of the maritime base.
This problem was not solved until late in the morning of Tian Nianming.
At that time, the second fifth-generation maritime base, the "Nest Prostitute", was about to enter service, and the Navy had decided to send the "Nest Obsolete" to the Hawaiian Islands and become the core of the maritime base group. Therefore, the 48 ammunition module ships belonging to the "Nest Mom" have no use at the moment.
In a sense, it was the strategic bombing operation of the Sky Army in the southwest Pacific that prompted the Republic's Navy to use the maritime base in its hands in the form of a "maritime base group", rather than following the previous plan. After controlling Wake Island and Midway Island, a fifth-generation maritime base was used to strengthen the presence of the Republic's Navy in the western waters of the Xiashengyi Islands and provide support for the march to Oahu.
On June 10,000, the ammunition module ship belonging to the "Female Milk" came softly.
On that day, the dispatch rate of the Sky Army bomber group reached the concave rank, and the target was aimed at New Zealand during the last round of 1,000-air bombing.
It has to be said that before this, the Republican authorities' estimates of strategic bombing seemed too conservative.
By late June, the bomber group of the Republic's Sky Army had thrown nearly ten million tons of ammunition at Australia, bombing almost all important targets in eastern Australia, and even bombing residential areas of some industrialized towns. By the time New Zealand was bombing, there were no more targets in eastern Australia worth hundreds of bombers, and there were not even many targets worth using bombers to deal with.
Of course, the Republic's authorities did not cancel the strategic bombing operation as a result.
Starting from the lunar month and day, the Sky Army bomber troops began to be dispatched at the highest intensity, that is, the daily order. According to the orders issued by the commander, the bombing range was also expanded from the eastern part of Australia to the entire Australia, and the main towns in New Zealand were bombed in a planned manner.
Although at this time, the Republic's Navy had already launched an attack in the direction of the Hawaiian Islands, and the focus gradually shifted from the southwest Pacific to the central Pacific. However, the strategic bombing of the Sky Army did not have much impact on the Pacific battlefield. Even if the monthly consumption rate of ammunition and other materials was close to Qu 10,000 tons, the military personnel involved in the bombing operation had to consume each month, and more than 40,000 tons of various materials would not have much impact on the supply of materials in other directions. More importantly, the most important ammunition transportation and supply work was the responsibility of the ammunition module ship, which did not occupy sea transportation power, and there was no need to provide too many transport ships for strategic bombing.
In fact, it is precisely because the Republic has mobilized enough war forces to fight three huge battles on the Pacific battlefield at the same time and move towards victory at a rate of more than 40,000 tons of materials per month. For the United States, this is undoubtedly the biggest nightmare. When the Republic has the strategic strength to use the consumption of a big model to support victory, any tactical means adopted by the United States for victory will appear weak and powerless. In any case, when the gap in strength is getting bigger and bigger, and it is no longer a tactical means to make up for it, there is no suspense of the outcome!
For the Republic Navy, the greatest benefit of strategic bombing is to give the navy more sufficient reason to believe that in the combat operations against the Hawaiian Islands, the aviation combat force supported by the maritime base is enough to provide air support to all combat troops, and among the sea offensive forces, the most important one is the main fleet.
Chapter completed!