Chapter 121: The Heavenly Army debuts
That's why the aerospace bombers that were put into actual combat before the New Year were actually not considered real aerospace bombers, or at least full-airspace combat aircraft. These aerospace bombers can only fight outside the atmosphere. After entering the atmosphere, their combat performance is not even comparable to those of the bombers before the New Year, let alone fighting with "ultimate" fighters like the Joker. Affected by this, the contribution of aerospace bombers on the battlefield is very limited, and they often rely on almost unlimited endurance. Take off from the local area, strike important targets within the enemy's territory, and mainly throw kinetic energy ammunition outside the atmosphere, and rarely enter the atmosphere above the target.
The use of combat is very limited. Therefore, the Republic's Sky Army and the US Sky Army have focused on developing a new generation of control systems. Instead of large-scale manufacturing of impure-mature aerospace bombers, and even making too high requirements for the performance of aerospace bombers. Affected by this, the aerospace bombers put into use before the New Year are more like heavyweight aerospace fighters, that is, the bomb load capacity is relatively limited, and they can only accurately strike important targets. The targets that can be hit by one can be very limited, far from being comparable to the real bomber. In a sense, quantum communication technology can be widely used in the heart years, and the number one hero is the Republic's Sky Army.
According to the information released after the war, in terms of developing quantum communication technology, the Tianjun provided the funds for the development of the field and undertakes the basic development of the field. The Navy only provided the funds for the wise and undertakes the development of the nephew (in addition, the funds for peas and the development of the gills are jointly undertaken by the Army and the Marine Corps). Because the development is very difficult, especially at the most basic level, the continuous failures have severely hit the morale of the scientific research team. Some people even thought that quantum technology was difficult to get out of the laboratory, so the Navy, which had a low demand for quantum technology, once planned to terminate the development and convert the scientific research success that had been achieved into technical reserves. Use valuable resources in other fields, such as the development of the more powerful electromagnetic gun (at that time, the Navy of the Republic had already started to develop the blades).
.Kg-class electromagnetic guns, and even proposed the development of blade kilogram and kilogram and kilogram electromagnetic guns. In order to make these crazy plans, they were supported by the Supreme Command. The Navy also invested huge sums of money in the spiral accelerator, and proposed to replace rockets with spiral electromagnetic add-ons to launch the state. Theoretically, launching aerospace equipment with electromagnetic guns can increase the efficiency of space launch by dozens of times and reduce the cost of space launch by more than 90%. If the Sky Army had not insisted and even threatened the Navy by ending all cooperative development projects, the development of quantum communication technology would have ended long ago, and it would have been impossible to develop a quantum communication equipment with practical value during the war.
Similarly, the supporting related technologies were also jointly developed by the Tianjun and the Navy.
Because quantum communication is not affected by space distance or even by any natural environment, there is no difference between quantum communication equipment used on remote-controlled fighters and on aerospace bombers. By the same token, the consciousness remote control system is just a control system that replaces the limbs and has no much relationship with the object being controlled. To put it simply, the consciousness remote control system used on remote-controlled fighters is used on aerospace bombers. Only control software is needed, and there is almost no special requirement for hardware. There is no need to make special adjustments.
The problem is. No one expected that the Republic's Navy could push the front to the Gulf of Mexico at the beginning of the year!
Affected by this, under the strong request of the Navy, the Supreme Command made the decision to give priority to ensuring the supply of the navy. The direct result was that the remote-controlled fighter jets were mass-produced in Yaonian and achieved major results in the "Christmas Naval Battle". Without the main ships fired, they wiped out the main fleet of the US Navy's Navy team, which had the most fruitful small results since the war started, and the last victory of the final maritime decisive battle. Of course, another result was that the Republic's Sky Army's first aerospace bomber with full airspace combat capabilities was not officially mass-produced in the fourth quarter of the short year. This was the result of the Sky Army's efforts. If the initial production arrangements were followed, the mass production of aerospace bombers would not be until the second quarter of the year!
That's why by the beginning of the year, the aerospace bombers received by the Republic's Sky Army were not in the recess, and half of them were still under debugging and did not have combat capabilities!
In order to demonstrate the strength of the Sky Army, especially the strength of strategic bombing, the Sky Army must take action.
Without the blade bomber, only the key bombing can be done.
Because the Navy first attacked the US space launch center, and seizing the control of the sky power was the mission of the Heavenly Army, not the Navy's mission, so the Heavenly Army had no choice but to target the space control center on the US mainland.
There is no doubt that strategic bombing is much more civilized.
According to the combat records of the Sky Army, the aerial space bombers participating in the bombing operation must reach the target smoothly (the other two returned in advance due to a failure during the flight), and dropped more than four types of ammunition, with a total amount of bombs dropped less than one percent of the Navy's ammunition for artillery bombing. Correspondingly, the aerial space bombers have hit a total of strategic targets and destroyed them all!
Judging from the efficiency of ammunition use, it undoubtedly far exceeds the navy's artillery virus.
Of course, the impact effect cannot be measured entirely from the amount of bomb drops. The reason is very simple. Aerospace bombers mainly use kinetic energy ammunition, which is much larger than shells of the same quality, and it has more significant effectiveness against reinforcement targets, especially targets hidden deep underground. For example, when attacking the underground command center in Casper, Wyoming, an aerospace bomber dropped five kinetic energy bombs in a series of seconds, completely destroying the base. Even if the range is not considered, the same electromagnetic cannon shells of the same kilogram level are used, and with the same hit accuracy, hundreds of them are needed to destroy all the targets. Because the accuracy of the shells is far less than that of the kinetic energy bombs, and the longer the range, the larger the spread range, the actual ammunition consumption will be increased several times, or even dozens of times.
More importantly, when dealing with military targets, the collateral damage caused by bombing is much lower.
In short, the combat efficiency of aerospace bombers is much higher than that of the navy's gunboats.
The problem is that this is a world war, not a local war. At some point, excessive combat efficiency and excessive civilized combat methods may not be beneficial. You should know that if a city can be moved to a flat ground overnight or even within a few dozen minutes, and the use of nuclear weapons with permanent pollution effects will definitely cause permanent mental trauma to the victims, especially those who have witnessed or experienced the blow, and will also cause a huge psychological blow to the enemies who are stubbornly resisting.
To put it simply, every devastating strategic strike is the last pie sent to the US authorities.
The "civilized bombing" of the Tianjun can be used to deal with military targets, especially those strategic targets that are far away from towns and protected by Yin Mi, but may not be used to deal with towns.
At this time, if it weren't for something that happened suddenly, I'm afraid that all the big cities in the United States with a population of more than 40,000 would be bombarded into flat ground by several main fleets of the Republic's Navy within the next six months. What happened suddenly was that the US military bombed the lock of the Panama Canal. It also used a huge explosion equivalent to a force of ten thousand tons, creating an earthquake with an intensity of no less than magnitude 6, completely blocking the Panama Canal.
It can be said that the biggest victim of this incident is the Republic Navy.
Although the US military's operations rescued thousands of Marine officers and soldiers, and also saved the navy from the combat operations of attacking the Panama Canal and capturing Central America, the Panama Transportation was like a mountain break! Later, the navy's logistics support was relied on the Blind Brotarard Airlines. There were not many transshipment points on one route, and the Suez Canal's navigation capacity was limited, so some materials must take the Cape of Hope route. The transportation pressure will not only not be alleviated, but will increase. What's more, the Republic's Navy must make a major decision, namely whether to retain a sufficiently powerful fleet in the Pacific Ocean to attack the targets of the US mainland's west coast.
Affected by this, at the end of the year, the Supreme Command of the Republic made a major decision, that is, the mission of attacking important military targets and major towns in the northwest of the United States was responsible for the Sky Army. After destroying the main naval bases and shipyards on the west coast of the United States, the Navy sent all combat fleets to the Atlantic Ocean.
There is nothing to say about this arrangement, neither the Heavenly Army nor the Navy.
At the beginning of the tsunami, the Tianjun took the lead in launching operations, using maritime bases deployed in the North Pacific and the Eastern Pacific to concentrate thousands of strategic bombers. The military targets and major towns of the mainland United States, namely Washington, Montana, Oregon, Idaho and Wyoming.
Because the output of aerospace bombers has not kept up and the number of retained remains very limited, the Republic's Sky Army had to use strategic bombers as its main force, and only dispatched aerospace bombers when dealing with some particularly critical targets and particularly dangerous military targets.
At the same time, the Navy also launched a strategic strike operation code-named "Broom" in the Pacific Dagger. It concentrated four main fleets and air fleets to carry out comprehensive strikes on naval bases such as Everett, Bremerton, Long Beach, San Diego, as well as major ports such as Seattle, San Francisco, Oakland, and Rossan to completely disintegrate the US military's combat capabilities in the Pacific region.
At this time, the focus of the Republic's Navy was not on the Pacific Ocean.
Due to the limitation of maritime transportation capacity, all combat fleets must be sent to the Atlantic Ocean. The first thing to solve is to enhance the transportation capacity on the route, especially the ability to transport ammunition and drug supplies to the front line. There is no doubt that this is a relatively complex problem that has plagued the Republic's Navy for several years.
What's more, the Republic's Navy must adjust its strategic strike plan.
Because the Supreme Command only lets the Sky Army be responsible for attacking the northwest of the United States, and does not let the Sky Army be responsible for attacking the western United States, that is, California and other places, after the Navy transfers its troops to the Atlantic Ocean, the first thing it must consider is to blow up the area west of the Rocky Mountains into flat ground and then deal with other areas. In this way, it is necessary to seize the sea control power of the Gulf of Mexico as soon as possible, so that the main fleet can penetrate deep into the bay and give full play to the power of the large-caliber electromagnetic cannon.
As a result, the Navy had to give up its plan to go north and turn its focus to the Gulf of Mexico.
It has to be said that this change had a very significant impact on the combat operations of the Republic's Navy and even on the development of the entire war.
No matter what, if you want to enter the Gulf of Mexico, you have to solve your worries first.
On February 2, the Republic's Navy concentrated almost all of its forces on the Atlantic Ocean, namely, eight main fleets, four aviation fleets and thousands of combat aircraft on two maritime base groups, and carried out a comprehensive strategic strike of the eastern core of the United States, which starts from Philadelphia in the north, passes Baltimore and Washington, and south to Virginia Beach.
This blow is not enough to describe as "shock".
According to the combat records of the Republic Navy, within this hour, about two large warships in the eight main fleets divided into two fleet groups carried out two shellings, and each time, according to the combat code, consumed about 60% of the ammunition. In other words, the ammunition sent by the eight main fleets was as high as 100 million tons! Among the four concave and remaining combat aircraft participating in the battle, in addition to the air-raid fighter jets and auxiliary aircraft, the other Jiangkou multi-purpose fighter jets performed a total of more than 100,000 tons of ammunition.
At the end of the strike, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington and Virginia Beach were almost turned into ruins.
In fact, it was this blow that forced the U.S. federal government to move to Denver.
Of course, the most severely hit was not these big cities, but the Norfolk Naval Base, known as the "cradle of the US Navy. The old 10,000 tons of ammunition that was thrown into this port almost wiped out the entire port from the ground. Not to mention the infrastructure and ships in the port, even the docks cast with concrete were blown to pieces!
Eliminated worries, the Republic's Navy officially entered the Gulf of Poison.
At this point, when he was a child, the Republic's Navy also had capital to penetrate deep into the Gulf of Mexico, because on the 3rd of the month, the Cuban authorities accepted the conditions issued by the Republic and participated in the war as an intensive group allies. They declared war on the United States, and then opened their territory, territorial waters and airspace to the Republic's army.
Chapter completed!