Although the counterattack launched by Liang Xia’s air force at night did not cause much loss, the impact on subsequent actions cannot be underestimated.

Because he was forced to transfer the strategic aviation and support aviation corps deployed in front, such as large early warning aircraft and tankers, and the withdrawn bombers would occupy the second-tier inland airports, the Newland Air Force was unable to continue bombing the Hovay Islands as per the combat plan.

This is the second day after the war begins!

Of course, Stark also had one move, or prepared his reserve force in advance.

8 Ohio-class cruise missile submarines of the Newland Navy's Eastward Fleet!

At the beginning, there were advisers to let these cruise missile submarines carry out strategic assault missions to attack the island's defense line, such as the Baizhizhan Military Port and Li Mingbo Naval Aviation Base on the island, or the military base on the Navy Island, or even the Liangxia local area.

In fact, this is also the main purpose of the Newland Navy's spending tens of billions of dollars to build and equip 16 cruise missile submarines.

Among all the navy's ships, cruise missile submarines are the real strategic assault forces.

Compared with strategic bombers, the biggest advantage of cruise missile submarines is that they can approach strategic targets invisibly and launch attacks before the enemy becomes alert.

In addition, the strike capability of cruise missile submarines is far greater than that of bombers.

The Ohio-class cruise missile submarine has 24 sets of 7-bar concentric vertical launch systems, and can also carry 38 lightning bombs in the front torpedo compartment. Therefore, in theory, it can carry up to 206 cruise missiles, and launch all 172 cruise missiles in the vertical launch system and the torpedo tube within a few minutes. If the planning is made in advance, it can hit 172 targets at the same time.

Send all 16 "Ohio"-class ships out, and can hit more than 3,000 targets at the same time!

Looking around the world, there is no country, even the Liangxia Empire, able to deal with 16 "Ohio"-class missile strikes.

In any strategic direction, there are less than 3,000 strategic goals worth hitting!

However, the "Ohio" class is far from perfect.

Although the performance indicators of the "Ohio" class were outstanding during the design, which was more advanced than any active cruise missile submarine at that time, and even surpassed attack submarines in some aspects, the defects were also prominent, and some of them were simply intolerable.

The most serious flaw is that the speed is too slow.

The fastest submersible speed of the "Ohio" class is only 24 knots, and when the speed exceeds 8 knots, very obvious noise will be generated.

The speed of the attack submarines of the same era is generally above 30 knots, and a few even exceed 35 knots.

In addition, Liang Xia Navy's "Nanjiang" class's fastest quiet speed exceeds 12 knots, and can even reach 16 knots, with outstanding quiet performance!

In front of the "Nanjiang" level, "Ohio" level has no chance to escape.

Of course, the Newland Navy did not think of letting the cruise missile submarine fight bayonets with the enemy's attack submarines.

Carrying nearly 200 submarine-launched cruise missiles, it also requires a longer range and stronger continuous combat capability. The displacement of cruise missile submarines is generally more than 15,000 tons, and some even exceeds 20,000 tons, while the drainage of attack submarines is basically within 10,000 tons.

The key is that the power system of cruise missile submarines is not better than attack submarines.

Usually, cruise missile submarines use the power system of the contemporary large attack submarines.

That's true, cruise missile submarines must have slower speeds.

In order to carry strategic cruise missiles, cruise missile submarines often have a prominent turtle back, which will produce more obvious fluid noise during navigation.

At the "Ohio" level, this issue is even more prominent.

The reason is also very simple: in order to launch an attack in a relatively safe place, that is, farther from the target, the Newland Navy insists that the submarine-launched cruise missiles carried by the Ohio class have a range of 1,500 nautical miles, preferably reaching 2,000 nautical miles, which is about 3,700 kilometers.

This requirement directly makes the underwater displacement of the "Ohio" class approach 20,000 tons, and has the most prominent turtle back among the cruise missile submarines of the same era.

At least compared with Liang Xia Navy's cruise missile submarine, the "Ohio" class seems very bloated.

Ironically, the strategic submarine-launched cruise missile, specially developed for the "Ohio" class and nicknamed "Trident", has not kept up with the progress of the submarine's development and construction.

This missile was only tested at the end of last year!

Although more than 10 consecutive test shots have been successful and the reliability is outstanding, I am afraid it will take more than half a year to officially serve.

The result is that all 16 Ohio-class equipment are submarine-launched cruise missiles code-named C4.

Logically speaking, this kind of missile should be called "Sea God" C4.

To put it simply, this is the fourth submarine-launched cruise missile officially purchased and installed by the Newland Navy. The previous three types were "Polaris" A1, "Polaris" A2 and "Sea God" C3, and "Sea God" C4 was actually improved on the basis of 3.

In other words, C4 has nothing to do with the new missile code-named "Trident".

But the problem is that in order to obtain grants in Congress, to deceive opponents, or to deceive themselves, the Newland Navy named it "Tredent" C4. As for the "Tredent" that is still under development, it was obtained the number D5 to distinguish it from this missile.

In fact, the performance of the "Trident" C4 is not bad.

The maximum range is 1,500 nautical miles, which is about 2,800 kilometers, barely meeting the requirements put forward by the Navy.

As for other aspects, I can only say that it is average.

For example, the entire flight can only be at high subsonic speed. Compared with the "Sea God" C3, warhead separation technology is used, which can throw away the bulky bullet body at the end of the flight, that is, the penetration stage, and the warhead relies on a small rocket engine to complete the final maneuvering flight.

In theory, if a high ballistic is used, the speed of the final dive stage can reach Mach 3.

But the problem is that strategic cruise missiles are easily shot down when flying at high altitudes, so in actual combat, almost all of them are super low altitude penetration.

In this way, the final speed of the "Trident" C4 is difficult to exceed the speed of sound.

In addition, the damage ability of the warhead is not strong enough.

Although in theory, the "Trident" C4 can carry a single warhead weighing up to 1 ton, and can use a drilling warhead that can penetrate 5 meters of reinforced concrete, and has the ability to strike strategic bunkers, there are many restrictions on combat use to achieve this ability. For example, because the drilling warhead is too heavy, fuel must be reduced, so the maximum range that can be achieved will be shortened to 1,100 nautical miles. For example, only by diving from a high altitude and the landing speed reaches Mach 3, the drilling warhead can meet the design indicators. If it is a normal ultra-low altitude penetration, the warhead landing speed is less than Mach 1, then the maximum drilling depth can only reach one-third of the design indicators.

In fact, most of the "Trident" C4s are equipped with high-explosion warheads.

This is also the most serious problem.

To put it simply, one "Trident" C4 can only deal with one target.

Liang Xia's second-generation strategic submarine-launched cruise missile can use the mother-child battle headquarters. The later-improved model is equipped with 3 tandem warheads, which can strike three targets in the same area. The third-generation strategic submarine-launched cruise missile, nicknamed "Shalang 3", is equipped with 10 combat units with independent search capabilities, which can launch strikes on 10 targets during flight, that is, near the route.

In theory, the bullet of the "Shalang 3" can fly 300 kilometers under the push of a small rocket engine, and the maximum allowable offset distance exceeds 150 kilometers.

The "Trident" D5 targets Liang Xia Navy's third-generation strategic submarine-launched cruise missiles.

When determining tactical performance indicators, the Newland Navy aims at "Hao Wave 3", and the main performance indicators require more than "Hao Wave 3". For example, it is required to carry up to 14 bullets, and each bullet must have maneuverable flight capabilities and can fly independently for 500 kilometers, so that the maximum allowable offset distance exceeds 250 kilometers and obtain a wider strike range.

In addition, each warhead is of no less than 500 pounds, which is about 227 kg.

In fact, this is a little worse. The bullet of "Shalang 3" is 250 kg.

Of course, "500 pounds" and "250 kilograms" are military units of measurement with similar caliber as guns, so they cannot be understood literally.

The broad sense of "500 pounds" means that the mass is between 375 pounds and 750 pounds, not that it must be 500 pounds.

The same is true for Liang Xia Navy, that is, when "250 kilograms" are used as bomb caliber, they refer to a range, not a specific value.

To be honest, it is that the tactical performance indicators set by the Newland Navy are too high, which has led to the repeated delay in the development of the "Trident" D5.

Otherwise, the "Trident" C4 would not be used to charge the numbers.

From another perspective, it is because the performance of the "Trident" D5 is too advanced, or in order to meet the indicators, the basic data has to be repeatedly modified, especially the diameter of the bullet body. Therefore, after all 16 "Ohio" class ships were completed, the Newland Navy suddenly discovered that the "Trident" D5 could not be installed in the "Ohio" class vertical launch system at all. If you want to load it forcibly, you have to use a new launch system.

In other words, by then, all 16 "Ohio"-class ships will return to the shipyard for major changes.

Because it cannot move the pressure-resistant shell, it can only use 7 concentric circle vertical launch systems to reduce a launch system to 3 tubes. In addition, the "Trident" D5 will definitely not be able to launch it with a 21-inch torpedo launch tube. Therefore, after the modification, the submarine-launched cruise missiles loaded by the "Ohio" class will be reduced from the previous 200 to 72, and the number of missiles will be directly reduced by 60%!

Even if the bullet has been relied on, the strike capability has been greatly enhanced, but the development progress of the self-seeking bullet is even slower!

Besides, by the time the Trident D5 was put into service, the Ohio had been in service for more than 10 years, so the significance of modernization and improvement was not very important.

That's why the Newland Navy did not purchase more "Ohio" class and started the development of the next generation of cruise missile submarines a few years ago.

This new submarine, code-named "SSCX", was developed for the "Trident" D5.

As far as Stark knows, SSCX is worthy of the word "strategy", and the Newland Navy will also gain reliable strategic strike capabilities through this submarine.

To put it simply, relying on the "Trident" D5, SSCX can carry out long-range strikes on the core areas of the Liangxia Empire in the waters east of the North Horse Islands and the Northeast Ocean. In other words, SSCX does not have to break through to the Sayi Island in the north, extend south to the southeast region, and finally reach the "local strategic security line" of the Throat Strait, so there is no need to worry about being sunk by the Liangxia submarine during the breakout.

If you want to say, this is also the ability that the Newland Navy has been striving for over the past few decades.

To some extent, it is to prove the value of the navy!

It has always been said that the navy is a strategic branch.

In addition, the Newland Navy was also very powerful in history, no worse than the Liang Xia Navy. The Newland Republic also has a unique geographical advantage.

Unfortunately, after the Second Global War, the Newland Navy never proved its value.

In other people's words, the contributions made by the Newland Navy, which has 600,000 officers and soldiers, is not as good as the State Council, which does not even have 60,000 people.

Over the past few decades, it was the State Council diplomats, not the naval fleet, that have safeguarded overseas interests!

Even the only few actions were dealing with the scorpion island countries in the Caribbean.

As for the "strategic" value that the navy promotes and claims, it has not only never been used, but it is also unreliable.

To put it bluntly, in the past few decades, Liang Xia submarines deployed in Zhenbao Port have been squatting outside the military port on the west coast of Newland to track and monitor the submarines of the Newland Navy. The Newland submarines, which have a strategic mission, rarely wander outside the ports of Liang Xia.

In fact, according to the control tactics adopted by Liang Xia Navy, as long as the cruise missile submarine of the Newland Navy leaves the port, the attack submarine of Liang Xia will definitely follow behind, and the best-performing attack submarines are usually carried out to ensure that the Newland submarine is sunk immediately after the war begins.

To this end, the Newland Navy had to use a large number of anti-submarine patrol aircraft and anti-submarine warships to build a "fortress area" outside the west coast of the local land, to be precise, the eastern waters of the Northeastern Ocean, to drive out the Liang Xia submarine that was trying to enter, and arrange attack submarines to escort the cruise missile submarines.

But the problem is that the fortress area is too far from Liangxia.

Even if the cruise missile submarine survives, it will have to sail thousands of kilometers westward to attack the strategic goals of the core area of ​​Liangxia.

Obviously, during the war, this is a task that is almost impossible to accomplish!

That's why the Newland Navy has not had a large number of cruise missile submarines in the past few decades, and only a few have been built at each level.

It was not until the Ohio class that there were more than 10 ships.

Unfortunately, because the development of the "Trident" D5 failed to be completed as planned, the "Ohio" class still does not have reliable strategic strike capabilities.

In the words of MPs, these are 16 "toys" worth more than $40 billion. The main value is to give the Navy a reason to retain the organization of 16 cruise missile submarines, allowing at least 5,000 submarine troops and 10 times more service personnel to earn a golden rice bowl.

However, the Newland Navy has no intention of retiring the Ohio class and the Trident C4.

Not only the 16 "Ohio" class can serve for more than 20 years, but it is also related to the "Trident" C4.

After the mid-term upgrade, the "Trident" C4 already has the ability to strike mobile targets and can act as a super long-range anti-ship missile!

Of course, there must be many restrictions.

However, for the Newland Navy, which faces the 15 aircraft carrier battle groups, a powerful anti-ship missile has extremely great temptation.
Chapter completed!