In the darkness, the blue fleet's fleet was all under blackout, but the communication lines were extremely busy.
Entering the range of the No. 2 island chain, the early warning aircraft moved forward, the strike group accompanying submarines moved forward, and the anti-submarine aircraft moved forward.
All warning directions are directed towards the red side.
Unexpectedly, in just three days, the yellow side lost more than half of its sea power and more than half of its air power. All bases, airports, military facilities, radar stations and other fixed positions except mobile equipment were lost to the south and east of the red side.
All were severely damaged.
At this time, the Yellow side had been forced to activate the northern highway as a temporary take-off and landing site. It can be seen that dealing with the Red side has made them extremely embarrassed. In a few days, it is estimated that the homeland will not be protected.
On the bridge of the CVN-68 aircraft carrier, the commander looked through the glass at the darkness in the distance with his hands behind his back.
There seems to be something hidden in the darkness, waiting for the arrival of the fleet with its mouth wide open.
This uneasy premonition always made the commander of CVN-68 a little uneasy. He couldn't help but pick up the microphone and contacted the commander of the CVN-76 strike group who was traveling with him, asking him if he had discovered anything there.
In fact, this kind of inquiry is redundant.
In modern joint operations, the data link is shared. As long as any ship or aircraft in a strike group, or even an early warning aircraft in the sky, or a satellite in space orbit, finds the slightest clue or the slightest bit of enemy information, it will be quickly
Communicate to the command center of each strike group.
"It seems too quiet."
The commander of CVN-68 raised his doubts.
"The red side didn't even take off bombers to deal with us?"
In his opinion, the red side must at least use bombers such as H-6K to carry the latest YJ-21 missiles, adopt a low-altitude penetration mode to approach itself, and then strike at itself unexpectedly.
The YJ-21 missile is the proud work of the red side and is by far one of the top anti-ship missiles on Blue Star.
There are rumors outside that this missile is amazing. Some people say it has a strike range of 1,000 kilometers, and some people say it has a strike range of 1,500 kilometers.
No matter what, this missile cannot be underestimated. It has completely exceeded the range of the AMG-158C and is an absolutely first-class anti-ship missile.
So this time the three blue formations were very careful when moving forward. The whole city was on alert all the way, and the early warning aircraft in the sky never stopped. Fighters rose and landed on the deck in batches, patrolling hundreds of kilometers around the fleet.
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The three fleets set up a formation, with the CVN-76 strike group as the vanguard, advancing in a straight line.
The advantage of this is that even if CVN-76 is hit by the red YJ-21, the other two strike groups can assist in air defense and at the same time distance themselves to avoid being sunk by the YJ-21.
At least within the warning range of one thousand kilometers, the red side will not be allowed to succeed.
At present, the instructions given by superiors are to divide the three strike groups into three directions, one north is responsible for the horizontal direction, one west is responsible for the flow direction, and one southwest is responsible for the direction of the green control area.
After entering the attack range of 600 kilometers from the green zone, they stopped advancing and took off a bomber group from Miyajima, and launched cruise missiles from the accompanying ships to attack the red side's landing troops and coastal missile launch bases.
The blue team also knows very well that the green team and the red team are very important. As long as the red team's military operations in the direction of the green team's control area are interrupted, it means that the final victory belongs to the blue team.
As for the yellow side, the blue side judged that the red side would never attack the yellow side's homeland rashly, and would at most win Liuqiu.
That is the territory of the yellow side. As long as the green side's control area is not lost, the yellow side's flow can make the red side vomit it out through other means.
That is based on this wishful thinking.
Therefore, the three fleets will travel together, and they will be more confident.
What's more important is that there are two aircraft carrier strike groups rushing here.
In order to deal with the red side, the blue side mobilized all the aircraft carriers that could be mobilized this time. Except for one aircraft carrier that was in the dock for maintenance and repair and that had to be maintained elsewhere, the rest were moved here.
However, when the nervous fleet arrived at the place where it was expected to be attacked, they found that there was no movement at all on the red side.
This is suspicious.
The commander of CVN-76 also had the same doubts. Their strike group was located at the front of the entire combined fleet, about 150 kilometers away.
However, according to satellite reconnaissance and radar scans in the direction of Miyajima, the direction of Yellow, and the direction of Indigo, no red bomber fleet was found to attempt to go to the direction of Miyajima to launch an attack on the blue fleet.
"It's very quiet here too. There's no movement from the red side at all. The submarines and anti-submarine aircraft that came out didn't notice anything. What's strange is that they didn't even dispatch a submarine?"
"Ignore them!" The commander of the CVN-68 aircraft carrier was the commander-in-chief of this operation. He felt that there would be no results if he continued to speculate like this, so he simply took it one step at a time: "Since they haven't found anything, maybe they are trying to
They don’t have the strength to deal with us. After several confrontations with the yellow side before, the red side is probably at the end of its game. It seems we have to seize the opportunity..."
Before he finished speaking, the early warning system on the aircraft carrier suddenly sounded a sharp alarm, and the red warning light on the wall began to rotate and light up.
This is a warning that the fleet is under attack!
"what happened!?"
He was stunned immediately.
The entire aircraft carrier moved up and down, and the sailors at various positions checked the instruments one after another to see where the attack had occurred.
The somewhat frustrated voice of the CVN-76 strike group commander came from the microphone——
"Oh! God! Ship No. 85 was attacked! Ship No. 85 was attacked!"
His voice had a slight vibrato.
Ordinarily, as a commander of an aircraft carrier strike group, he shouldn't be so panicked.
But as I said before, nothing was found. Suddenly, we were hit. We had no idea where the enemy was hiding, and so many early warning aircraft, anti-submarine aircraft, satellites, and radars found nothing.
This was what made his hair fall out in shock.
The No. 85 ship he mentioned was the USS McCampbell, DDG-85.
The ship is equipped with the Aegis combat system and SPY-1D phased array radar, with fleet air defense as its main combat mission. The ship is 155 meters long, has a full load displacement of 9,200 tons, a speed of 32 knots, a range of 4,400 nautical miles, and a crew of 370.
Equipped with a 127mm main gun, a 96-unit missile vertical launcher that can launch ship-to-air missiles and ship-to-ship missiles, and carries 2 SH-60B anti-submarine helicopters
Although this ship is not the top destroyer currently in service on the blue side, it is not weak at all. It is not so weak at all that it was hit without even seeing a person.
He quickly took another microphone and started calling DDG-85. After calling for a while, someone finally responded.
It turns out he's not the captain, but the first mate...
"The captain has been killed. We were hit by a torpedo... A big hole was opened on the right side of the bow..."