The emergence of aircraft has enabled aircraft carriers, which serve as aircraft take-off and landing platforms, to replace battleships and overlords."

The emergence of missiles has enriched the navy's combat methods and combat tactics.

Compared with the Second World War, although modern naval fleets still use carrier-based aircraft as their main strike force, the attack methods have increased a lot. Practical combat proves that aviation corps is only one of the long-range strike forces of the fleet. At some time or in some cases, the strike efficiency of missiles is no worse than that of aviation corps.

As an activity platform for aviation troops, aviation generally does not carry long-range missiles used to attack targets on the ground and at sea.

The escort warships in the fleet are the "combat platform" that has relatively large displacements and can carry a large number of weapons and ammunition.

After the first team completed the first round of strike mission, the escort warships in the battle group entered the battle.

The protagonist is not the second air defense cruiser with tonnage after the aircraft carrier, but the six multi-purpose destroyers with slightly smaller displacement.

Within just 15 minutes, the six destroyers launched a total of hundreds of cruise missiles.

As a "riser", when the Republic builds an aircraft carrier battle group, it can only try to absorb the methods and methods of other countries using aircraft carrier battle groups while fully summarizing combat experience. Of course, the main reference target is the US Navy. To be honest, the Republic's Navy does not know much about the tactics of aircraft carrier battle groups.

Before the Peninsula War, the Republic Navy's naval aviation battle group only participated in the South China Sea War, and its role was not obvious.

How to build a "both offense and defense" aircraft carrier battle group? No one in the Republic's Navy can give an accurate answer.

Apart from reference, you can only explore.

The most powerful place in the air is not its defense ability, but its unparalleled strike ability.

"The best defense is attack." This sentence is most suitable for aircraft carriers.

It can be said that all the design features of aircraft carriers are for attack rather than defense. For this reason, aircraft carriers may not be equipped with large caliber naval guns, do not carry long-range missiles, do not lay thick ground armor, and even have very limited self-defense weapons. In terms of air defense capabilities, aircraft carriers cannot compare to cruisers and destroyers. In terms of anti-submarine capabilities, aircraft carriers cannot compare to frigates. In terms of attack capabilities, they cannot even compare to missile speedboats.

Except for the former Soviet Navy's local aircraft carriers, all national aircraft carriers put carrier capacity first.

In order to carry more carrier-based aircraft and provide more powerful support for carrier-based aircraft, aircraft carriers can abandon other performances than necessary and adopt a weird appearance design.

In order to improve the survivability of aircraft carriers, escort warships must be provided.

The escort warships in the aviation battle group are not only the personal bodyguards of the aircraft carrier, but also the main strike platform of the battle group.

A truly powerful aircraft carrier battle group must have powerful escort warships.

In addition, in the issue of developing escort warships, the Republic's Navy encountered many difficulties.

Protecting aircraft carriers mainly solves two problems: air defense and anti-submarine.

Facing the aircraft carrier battle group, except for the aircraft carrier battle group, other surface fleets are vulnerable. The only things that can truly threaten the aircraft carrier are fighters and missiles in the air, as well as submarines and torpedoes under the sea.

If you face a not-so-strong opponent, such as a second-rate country like South Korea, multi-purpose destroyers can undertake most escort tasks. However, when facing a powerful opponent, multi-purpose warships are difficult to ensure the safety of aircraft carriers.

While deciding whether air defense cruisers need to be developed, the Republic's Navy conducted a confrontation exercise.

The naval and coast-based aviation simulating a carrier-based aviation force of a certain country launched a "sudden attack" on the USS Republic aircraft carrier combat group. When the carrier-based fighter jets had no time to strengthen the peripheral air defense network, the escort warship composed of 3 destroyers and 3 frigates could only intercept less than 60 anti-ship missiles. According to a fighter carrying anti-ship missiles, a wave dispatched 24 fighters in one wave, with a penetration rate of 80%, one round of attacks could severely damage the USS Republic aircraft carrier. If it faces an opponent with heavy bombers, the result would be even more terrible.

After the confrontation exercise, the Navy decided to design and build a "professional" air defense cruiser.

This is the origin of the "Qinling" class cruiser. The cruiser is named after mountains, probably because I hope that the cruiser can block all air threats like mountains and ridges.

As a "professional" air defense warship, the best thing about the "Qinling" class is its air defense capabilities.

It has an octagonal plane antenna, with a radiation unit on each plane antenna, with a air detection distance of 640 kilometers (the detection distance of low-altitude targets is only 120 kilometers), can track 420 air targets (surveillance of air targets), and provides relay guidance instructions for 36 air defense missiles. It can illuminate 16 air target ground fire control illumination radars at the same time in the "intermittent tracking and guidance" mode, with two sets of air defense missiles, a total of 128 units vertical launch system with a maximum range of 16 kilometers (the range of ground is 160 kilometers when dealing with ballistic missiles, and a range of 120 kilometers when dealing with low-altitude cruise missiles). It has a maximum height of 35 kilometers, and a maximum range of ultra-long-range air defense/anti-missile long-range carrier-based air defense missiles, giving the "Qinling" class a powerful and long-lasting air defense combat capability.

According to the announcement of the Republic's Navy

The Qinling class can intercept a total of three times in one air defense operation. When attacking one target with 2 missiles, the hit rate exceeds 96%. Based on this calculation, the Qinling class can shoot down an air target in a battle when using long-range air defense missiles.

Of course, practical efficiency is definitely lower than theoretical calculations.

Even so, the air defense combat capabilities of the "Qinling" class cruisers are still second to none in the Republic's Navy, and are considered a leader even among the global navy.

Compared with air defense destroyers, the "Qinling" class's air defense combat efficiency with an increase of about 2,000 yuan has been increased by at least 30%!

In addition to air defense combat capabilities, other combat capabilities of the "Qinling" class are comparable to those of destroyers and are not outstanding.

With the "air defense pillar", there must be "anti-submarine barrier".

Although there must be attacking nuclear submarines in the aircraft carrier battle group, or electric submarines whose speeds can keep up with the aircraft carrier battle group, as the last anti-submarine barrier of the aircraft carrier, the importance of anti-submarine warships cannot be underestimated.

Since the Fourth India-Pakistan War, many naval battles have proved that the anti-submarine combat effectiveness of multi-purpose warships is not high.

Anti-submarine warfare is different from air defense operations. Whether it is anti-submarine missiles or anti-submarine torpedoes, the range is not too far, rarely exceeding 00 kilometers, and generally within 20 kilometers. In addition, the discovery distance of submarines is not too far, so anti-submarine warfare is very "sudden". In this way, anti-submarine warships in the fleet need to be "covered in everything" and monitor underwater conditions in all directions.

Large warships are expensive and their combat efficiency will not increase with the displacement.

The most effective anti-submarine warship should be frigates with appropriate displacement, fast navigation speed and weak noise.

To this end, the "fully electric surface warship" first built by the Republic's Navy was a "professional" anti-submarine frigate.

The "Huaihe" class frigate was born.

As a "small warship" of only 2500~: ground, the "Huaihe" class has only point air defense system, only carrying anti-ship missiles, and equipped with a ship gun caliber of only 76 mm. The most outstanding thing about the "Huaihe" class is its powerful anti-submarine capability. Among the 2500~: class warships, the "Huaihe" not only adopts the "trima" type, but also is the only type that can carry 3 1c~class anti-submarine helicopters. What's more outstanding is the noise emitted by the "Huaihe" when sailing at 16 knots (the most commonly used navigation speed when searching for submarines).

There are only 1c4 beans. If you use towing sonar, you can find submarines with noise exceeding 95 beans within a kilometer. Unlike submarines, the main submarine search tool of anti-submarine warships is active sonar, not passive sonar. Using the "integrated power supply system", the "Huaihe" is equipped with a peak power of 75kww, which can search and track the active sonar in three different modes. Using anti-submarine helicopters, anti-submarine missiles with a range of kilometers, light anti-submarine torpedoes with a range of 20 kilometers, and the "Huaihe" class has three anti-submarine networks.

The performance of the "Huaihe" level has not been confirmed so far.

One thing that can illustrate is that the P33 multi-purpose frigate, based on the "Huaihe" class hull, specially sold to the outside world, received a total of 72 orders (and some intention orders), and settled in the navy of one country. In order to ensure timely delivery to users, Jiangnan Shipyard and Dalian Shipyard have also built two new ship platforms.

Although cruisers and frigates are the main escort warships to ensure the safety of aircraft carriers, no one can deny the important value of multi-purpose destroyers in aircraft carrier combat groups. When fighting against relatively weak enemies, if the enemy cannot pose a threat to aircraft carriers, then multi-purpose destroyers will become the "busy" warships in the fleet.

Like the U.S. Navy, the Republic positioned destroyers as a "multi-functional ground strike platform."

The so-called "multifunctional" of ground means that destroyers must have strong air defense, sea and anti-submarine combat capabilities, and can play a role in fleet defense operations. The "ground strike platform" requires destroyers to have the ability to strike ground targets, and in some cases, replace carrier-based aircraft and strike ground targets.

It can be said that the excellent surface of the "Zumwalter" class in the Iran war best proves the effectiveness of destroyers' ground strikes.

Based on this standard, the "Taihu"-class multi-purpose destroyer came into being.

Compared with the "Zumwalter" class, the "Taihu" class also has strong air defense and anti-submarine combat capabilities, with a total capacity of 96 ground-based "universal missile vertical launch system" that can carry air defense missiles, anti-ship missiles, anti-submarine missiles and ground-attack cruise missiles according to combat requirements. When facing opponents like South Korea, they generally carry cruise missiles, anti-submarine missiles, anti-ship missiles and air defense missiles.

It can be said that in the entire battle group, destroyers are the only warships that undertake strike missions except aircraft carriers.

This is true that when the aircraft carrier dispatched carrier-based aircraft to bomb military facilities on Jeju Island, the six Taihu class destroyers in the formation launched all cruise missiles in a intensive salvo.

120 missiles are enough to destroy dozens of important targets!

In terms of strike capabilities, 6 destroyers can match a carrier-based fighter wing! (To be continued,)
Chapter completed!