So in modern times, there are always people complaining that the islands in the South China Sea were "stolen" by small neighboring countries, but our country has always had only protests.
This is the veritable "If you don't be in charge of your family, you don't know how expensive you are in your own business."
Of course, the reasons are many, the main reason is that our fighter jets could not reach the airspace at that time, which was beyond reach... You should know that the farthest island in the South China Sea is more than 2,000 kilometers away, let alone the J-7,
The combat radius of 800 kilometers of J-8 is no longer reachable. Even modern fighter jets such as the Modern Su-30 are required to refuel in the air to reach the designated airspace.
Of course, neighboring countries also do not have many fighter jets that can curb our warships, but the problem is that other countries can use the advantage of distance to play cat and mouse games with us... When our warships arrive, they will give in and wait until we leave and they will come up again.
, We are more than 2,000 kilometers away, which will take nearly two days for the warship to arrive, and the other party can reach it within a few hours. If we do this, we will be wrong from a strategic point of view.
"How is the performance of the Su22 that Vietnam has?" I asked.
Commander Zhang shook his head: "We only know that Su22 can launch air-to-ground missiles, but the rest know nothing."
I am not surprised by this. The war between China and Vietnam has always been a land war, and the air force has never participated in the war, so the spies we installed in Vietnam have not put much effort into the fighter jets. On the other hand, Vietnam uses
It is also Soviet-style equipment, and its production time is 76 years, and it is less than ten years, so the United States also knows nothing about it... It's just like the United States has never known that the MiG 25 is made of steel
, the United States and the Soviet Union were still very strict in intelligence during the Cold War.
"How is the air defense capability of our warship?" I asked while flipping through the information.
The most important thing in naval warfare is air supremacy. This has been well verified in the Falklands War.
So, since our fighter jets cannot reach the target airspace, we should consider using warships to curb the enemy's air supremacy.
This is not possible in general, because the air has unique advantages... Simply put, if the radar with the same performance is moved into the air, it will look farther, and stand high and look farther, so the fighter's
The detection range is always farther than that of warships, so in theory, the fighter can attack warships from the distance that warship radar can detect, that is, the fighter can attack warships but the warships cannot attack fighters.
On the other hand, it is the problem of the curvature of the earth. The earth is round, that is, curved, while the radar waves radiate outward in a straight line. In this way, the radar waves near the ground or near the sea level will be blocked by the ground and the sea surface.
Then, this is the blind spot of the mine radar.
Fighters often use this to fly low altitudes. For example, during the Cabernet War, Argentina's fighter jets flew ultra-low altitudes to avoid British radars and jumped at the right time to destroy the British most advanced "Sheffield" destroyer.
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But this is only under normal circumstances. If the performance of enemy fighters is poor and our warships have strong air defense capabilities, they can still gain an advantage in naval combat.
Commander Zhang couldn't help but sigh: "At present, our destroyer is a brigade-level class, and the air defense firepower of this kind of warship is small-caliber machine gun."
I was stunned when I heard this... Small caliber machine guns, this weapon can't play any role in supersonic fighter jets like Su22.
But this is nothing strange. You should know that the large-class destroyer of the brigade was built by ourselves based on the drawings of the "Kotlin Destroyer" left by some of the "Kotlin Destroyer" left by the Sino-Soviet relations when we evacuated experts. At that time, the air defense of the warships was mainly aimed at
The mainstream air defense mode for low-altitude and low-speed fighter jets is still... using dense air defense artillery fire to intercept fighter jets. At the same time, it can also attack maritime targets. If the muzzle is flattened, it can attack warships.
In other words, we don’t have enough equipment to deal with the Vietnamese Army Su22.
"British ship-to-air missile..." I couldn't help but feel strange at this time. Speaking of which, I had already asked the British for ship-to-air missiles during the Battle of the Horse Island, but why is it still in this regard?
"There are several sets of air missiles in the UK!" Commander Zhang said: "But it was not installed on the warship. The main reason was that we found many shortcomings when testing them, such as slow reaction speed and long preparation time.
, poor interception ability, etc., so we don’t plan to equip.”
I nodded. I also had a little understanding of the shortcomings of the sea javelin on the battlefield of the Horse Island. At that time, I only thought about filling the gap in domestic ship-to-air missiles, but now it seems that this is just providing a test object and a reference object
That's it.
However, the superior's consideration makes sense. First of all, China did not have much air defense demand before, and neighboring countries did not have a few aircraft, so who will go for air defense?
Secondly, we now have a lot of equipment to choose from... Americans are on our side, like France, Germany, etc. We can say that we have any equipment we want.
In other words, we don’t have to hurry up and choose slowly. Later I learned that we chose the French “Sea Rattlesnake”, which is the prototype of “Sea Red Flag 7”, but this is also a matter of 1987, just a few years later.
In fact, our country was also developing ship-air missiles at this time, and it can even be said that it started developing them since 1965. This is the Haihongqi 61... But like most of our army's equipment, it has been affected by ten years of development.
It was also a stop-and-go until 1975 when it was not launched on the ship for experiments, and finally it was finalized in 1986.
This made me fall into deep thought.
If we compare this kind of equipment comparison and the experience of the Malay Island naval battle, even if our navy is several times or even dozens of times stronger than the Vietnamese Japanese, it would be useless... because our warships can almost be said to be the Vietnamese military and Suzhou...
22 targets were opened in batches and they were blown up.
"You have cooperated with the British and fought the Battle of the Horse Island." Commander Zhang said: "What do you think?"
I shook my head: "If we use this data, we can say that we will definitely lose."
Although I am unwilling to admit this, sea and air combat is different from land combat... If land combat is insufficient in terms of equipment, you can also use people to fight with courage. It is not the case in sea and air combat at all. If the equipment is
If you are not as good as others, you are basically in a passive state of being beaten.
But everything is absolutely absolutely true, because the two Sino-Vietnam Naval Wars that occurred between China and Vietnam in history were both superior in overall equipment but were defeated miserably: the first was the Xisha Naval War in 1974, when Vietnam had several ships in its hands taken over from the United States.
The large destroyer, while our army only had a few minesweeper boats, but these small cannon boats made the Vietnamese cannon ships flee in panic, which was called a bayonet fight at sea.
Another time was the Nansha Navy Battle I had to face this time... Although the situation is so serious now, in fact, the Su22 of the Vietnamese army did not dispatch the entire battle, and even the Soviet Navy stationed in Cam Ran Bay did not respond.
"Can you think this way?" I said: "From a military perspective, we don't have much room for operation, but can we consider this from a political perspective?"
"Politics?" Commander Zhang looked at me unexpectedly: "Tell me."
"That's how I think." I said: "For Vietnam, I found that Vietnam has always been worried that we will launch another self-defense counterattack. This can be seen from the reactions of the Vietnamese army in the battles such as Laoshan and Zheyinshan.
Got it out.”
Seeing Commander Zhang nodding in agreement with my statement, I continued, "Then we can put pressure on Vietnam in this regard. Didn't China and Vietnam have a very tacit understanding before and did not join the Air Force? We can make a sound
Once Vietnam enters the air force, our army will immediately enter the air force."
"Well! This method may work!" Commander Zhang agreed: "Our Air Force can't fly on the sea but can fly. We can send a large number of military aircraft to the Sino-Vietnam border to put pressure on it. As long as the Vietnamese Japanese break the rules, they dispatched the air force.
, Whether it is for land or sea, don’t blame us for being rude!”
"Yes!" I continued: "On the other hand, it is the attitude of the Soviet Union. At this time, the Soviet Union was also suffering from internal and external troubles. While the Cold War with the United States, it was still in a quagmire on both sides of Afghanistan and Vietnam. In addition, we recovered from the Soviet Union at this time.
Indirectly traded blood to the Soviet Union, so the Soviet Union did not want to see another large-scale war between China and Vietnam. This would not only make it sink deeper and deeper in Vietnam, but also possible to cut off trade relations with China again.
, so the Soviet Union is likely to do cold treatment or even put pressure on Vietnam to prevent them from dispatching air forces.”
"It makes sense." Commander Zhang kept nodding: "If the Japanese Japanese Air Force did not participate in the war... then our maritime power would not be afraid of him."
After pausing, Commander Zhang continued: "But this is also a big risk. If our estimates of Vietnam and the Soviet Union are inaccurate, the consequences will be conceivable."
Of course I understand Commander Zhang's words. What I said before is right. Vietnam and the Soviet Union are unwilling to have another large-scale war between China and Vietnam, but isn't China the same? China is in the early stages of reform and opening up. When it is vigorously introducing foreign investment, if the border is unstable, the entire country is still in a state of full-scale war, how can investors be confident? What's more, the Soviet Union was also an importer of my country's light industrial products and heavy industrial products at this time.
But at the same time, I also know that there is no zero risk in any war, and now it is no exception. (To be continued, please search for Astronomy, novels are better, updated and faster!