Chapter 347 High-level decision-making is problematic
Americans are still very concerned about the movements of the Black Sea Fleet.
The U.S. Navy has two major fleets, the Pacific Fleet and the Atlantic Fleet. During World War II, the Pacific Fleet had 13,579 fleets and the Atlantic Fleet had 4,680 fleets. However, due to subsequent changes in the world situation, the Pacific Fleet only retained
There are two fleets of 37. The No. 2 fleet seems to have been rebuilt in 1998 or 1999, mainly to deal with the Persian Gulf. The Atlantic Fleet retains two fleets of 26.
Its locations are: the Second Fleet is in the Atlantic Ocean, the Third Fleet is in the central Pacific, the Fifth Fleet is in the Indian Ocean, the Persian Gulf, and the Red Sea, the Sixth Fleet is in the Mediterranean, and the Seventh Fleet is in the Western Pacific.
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Except for the Fourth Fleet, which is commanded by a two-star rear admiral, the rest of the fleets are commanded by a three-star lieutenant general. The fleet is commanded by the regional command and is divided into Atlantic Fleet, Pacific Fleet, European Fleet, and Central Command (only commands the Fourth Fleet, which is equal to the Fourth Fleet.
There are two levels of mission groups such as Duplicate Command), and these four mission commanders are all four-star generals.
Among them, the number of the First Fleet existed as early as 1qm after World War II, but was adapted into the current Third Fleet around 1973. The Coast Guard will also act together with the First Fleet in emergencies; but such an emergency has never happened.
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From 1790 to 1798, the United States did not have a standing navy on the coast at all. There were only simple small boats that protected the coastal areas. Later, it evolved into the Coast Guard. This is why the Coast Guard was mostly small boats.
The large, complex and global U.S. Navy requires a large number of naval facilities to support its operations. In addition to the west and east coasts of the continental United States, the U.S. Navy also has a considerable number of facilities inland and overseas.
The unusual behavior of the Black Sea Fleet attracted serious attention from the U.S. Sixth Fleet, Second Fleet and Seventh Fleet. Warships from the Americans and their allies followed them all the way until the Black Sea Fleet ships left their jurisdiction.
The United States has also carefully analyzed the Black Sea Fleet's actions and believes that it is unlikely that they are acting strangely. It is probably because of domestic conflicts and their own difficulties that they want to rush out of the Mediterranean and instead go to Russia's Far East and Russia's Pacific Ocean.
The fleets converge.
However, as a result, the pressure on the Japanese and Korean U.S. forces became greater, so the U.S. Seventh Fleet also took action and mobilized the Kitty Hawk aircraft carrier battle group to prepare to curb the arrogance of the Black Sea Fleet.
The Atlantic Fleet has organized the USS Washington aircraft carrier into the battle group in advance and is paying close attention to the development of the situation.
The USS Washington is one of the largest aircraft carriers in the world. It was built in the 1980s with a displacement of 980,000 tons. It was launched in 1990 and serves in the Seventh Fleet.
The deck area of the aircraft carrier is three times that of a football field, and the height including the bridge is close to 20 stories, reaching 81 meters. The ship has multiple cabins and can accommodate multiple crew members. The ship carries more than 90 F18 "Hornet"
Fighters, Super Hornets, E20 early warning aircraft and helicopters.
Speaking of which, the Varyag is still a bit smaller than the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Washington. After all, the Varyag is only a medium-sized aircraft carrier with a displacement of 570,000 tons, and it is still a semi-finished product.
Of course, the Americans dispatched the USS Washington and USS Kitty Hawk not to prepare for war. They just wanted to show off their strong muscles. They meant to warn the Black Sea Fleet not to mess around. Even if you fly the flag of the Soviet Navy, you cannot afford to offend them.
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However, how could Admiral Meiro, the commander of the Black Sea Fleet who has been fighting against the Americans all his life, be afraid of this kind of formation? This time he came here, fully armed, with the Varyag aircraft carrier in the middle, which was basically completed, and carried
It has fifty carrier-based aircraft, 26 Su-33 carrier-based fighter jets, 20 Ka-28 anti-submarine helicopters, and 4 Ka-31 early warning helicopters. It is surrounded by as many as 22 warships and auxiliary ships. Its strength can
Said to be quite powerful.
On the bottom of the sea, there are two nuclear-powered submarines that came out together. Although they are not equipped with long-range ballistic nuclear missiles, they are not a force that the Americans can despise.
If we make a serious comparison, the USS Washington will definitely defeat the USS Varyag. Just from the fact that there are twice as many carrier-based aircraft, we can see how huge the USS Washington is.
But once a fight actually breaks out, the situation will be difficult to predict. There are many accidental factors, and one thing is that the Americans have no intention of taking action against the Black Sea Fleet. In that case, Russia and Ukraine will be offended.
Russia's nuclear power cannot be underestimated, and the Americans dare not provoke it. Ukraine intends to join NATO and is very influential in NATO's eastward expansion plan, so the Americans are not willing to provoke Ukraine.
Under such circumstances, the American fleet played a surveillance role and did not engage in any provocative behavior.
It was not until the Black Sea Fleet entered the Indian Ocean that this kind of surveillance was relaxed.
But the South Asian countries are a little scared and don't know what these Russians are planning to do.
At this time, the Military Commission sent a congratulatory telegram to Ye Kaifa. Of course, it was a secret telegram sent through the embassy, highly affirming and praising his performance in this secret operation.
"General Ye, you have received an award for your meritorious service again." Wang Luodan couldn't help but said with emotion after seeing the telegram in Ye Kai's hand.
"Actually, it's nothing. It's just that they sent congratulatory messages and commendation orders, and it's not without purpose." Yekai saw this clearly and was not blindly optimistic.
"What do you mean?" Wang Luodan expressed some confusion.
"It's nothing more than to express three ideas." Ye Kai explained, "First, this matter is basically settled, and they have expressed recognition of our work. Second, in the future, the implementation of this fleet is probably still a problem.
It’s up to me to find a solution. Third, they hope that I will retreat bravely and not take risks.”
The meaning of the Military Commission is very clear. The current harvest has been great enough. There is no need for Ye Kai to find any secret submarine base. The risk is too great and there are too many uncertainties. Once something goes wrong, Ye Kai will not be able to return.
Come on, who will support this fleet?
Military expenditures will exceed a lot, which makes the Military Commission feel very embarrassed.
Although there is one more basically completed aircraft carrier, 22 more advanced warships of various models, and almost an entire fleet, it costs a lot of money. The navy is already very money-burning.
As a branch of the military, the Soviet Union was dragged down, let alone the Republic, whose economic situation had just improved?
"In fact, in terms of economic strength, we have enough funds to maintain the daily work of one or two aircraft carrier fleets. In terms of practical needs, the complex situation our country faces does require aircraft carriers to be maintained." Ye Kai told Wang Luodan.
Said, "As for the debate about whether to build an aircraft carrier, the top management has actually reached a conclusion, that is, there is no need to build an aircraft carrier. First, it is not in line with the country's strategic policy. The current strategic policy is to go all out to develop the economy. Second, the country pursues active defense.
The third is the belief that developing a navy and air force with strong comprehensive strength can make up for the lack of aircraft carriers."
In fact, in Ye Kai's impression, this policy has lasted for more than ten years, influenced the thinking of naval construction for more than ten years, and also affected the aircraft carrier establishment for more than ten years. However, no country in the world needs it more than the Republic.
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"The new leadership believes that we have always advocated the path of peaceful development, and have always advocated the peaceful rise of the Chinese nation on the issue of rejuvenation. The most important role of an aircraft carrier is not the combat capability of the aircraft carrier itself, nor the aircraft on it.
Its main purpose is to serve as a sea, land and air combat platform to deter other countries, such as European and American countries, and the former Soviet Union, for this reason. However, in the long term, we only need offshore defense and do not need to interfere with other countries. As long as we
As far as the sea area is concerned, events occurring anywhere can be completed by offshore bases, which is destined to not require aircraft carriers." Ye Kai said, "But they did not consider that with the development of the energy economy, the East China Sea, South China Sea, Xisha Islands, etc.
The Nansha Islands and even the Diaoyu Islands in the East China Sea are the focus of national contention. Without an aircraft carrier battle group, we cannot suppress the ambitions of these barbaric countries that are ready to move."
"I seem to have heard from my dad that some people think that building an aircraft carrier is of little significance." Wang Luodan's father is a naval commander, so he naturally has some opinions on this. "And he also said that after building an aircraft carrier, it will easily cause more regional conflicts.
Rather than doing this, it is better not to build it.
"This statement is even more nonsense. If you have an aircraft carrier, others will attack you. If you don't have an aircraft carrier, wouldn't it be easier for others to attack you?" Ye Kai sneered at this, "The reason why I must firmly support it.
The reason for building an aircraft carrier immediately is because advanced aircraft carriers cannot be built just by thinking about it. They need to be built through practice. The first and second ships are definitely not that good. They can only be obtained by slowly improving and improving slowly. If we wait until we have money
It is a childish view to have mastered technological re-engineering! To use an inappropriate metaphor, now we are like the Manchu Qing Dynasty in the 1880s. We have money to build gardens but no money to build warships, and we have money to build office buildings.
And there is no money to build an aircraft carrier. It is nonsense to say that we have no money. The money is for food and drink, and the money is for office buildings. As long as we squeeze a little more, we will have several aircraft carriers. Even if we start to do it now, how long will it take?
We can only build better aircraft carriers in 20 years. If we build them in a few years, it will take more than ten years before we can build more aircraft carriers. When will we catch up with others! Since we have to build them, why not build them as soon as possible?
If we build the aircraft carrier early, we can catch up with others earlier. Besides, if we don’t build the aircraft carrier because we are afraid that it will become a target of attack by others, we would be really stupid. We might as well not have an army at all, and the enemy will have no target. Wouldn’t it be better?”
Wang Luodan looked at Ye Kai, who was a little excited, and suddenly felt that he was very manly. Ji...