Just look at the situation in the parallel world. In order to fight against the US Navy, the Red Empire maintained a huge force of an ocean-going navy + underwater fleet + shore-based aviation for a long time, especially a complete anti-ship missile combat system stationed on land. It has a total of hundreds of Tu-u-160 strategic bombers. However, even such a huge number of equipment cannot guarantee that every inch of the land on the long coastline is well protected, but can only ensure the defense of certain key areas, and the price paid is very huge.

To put it bluntly, the attacking side can choose the time, location, and defense side can only wait for the attack to be launched in all areas for 24 hours. The situation of attack and defense has been like this since ancient times. Otherwise, why did the Soviet military philosophy repeatedly emphasize that "offense is the best defense"?

It is neither advancing nor retreating. It is unsure of the decisive battle in the long sea, and landing in Japan is not feasible. The Far East battle that lasted for more than ten days seems to have no other way except to develop step by step towards the war of attrition.

Not only did the people present discuss such a difficult situation, but Long Yun naturally fell into a meticulous thought.

Yes, before the Eastern War broke out, he did not carefully consider the situation in the Far East, but simply believed that "as long as the Jasdf was eliminated, perhaps coupled with the US military stationed in Japan, the Americans were exhausted in the Far East, even if the battle goal was achieved." But now it seems that the situation is much more complicated. If the US Navy's aircraft carrier battle group is not eliminated in one day, the threat from the Far East cannot be eliminated. The war will be in a tug-of-war state and it is obviously unfavorable to the Soviet Union, but he can't think of any other way.

It is probably unrealistic to expect the Red Navy and the US Navy to confront each other head-on. It seems like a risk to transform the war from a sea-to-air battle to a landing battle. Is it just that I can only continue to take off every day until the Americans bow their heads and admit defeat due to unbearable war losses?

Thinking of this, the young man on the chair slowly shook his head.

He knew that as the number one power in the Western world, it was not an exaggeration to overestimate the potential of the United States' war. The geographical environment far away from the ocean also determined the security of the rear of this superpower; the current Oriental Group may be able to drag down such an opponent through a war of attrition, but the whole process can be imagined how long and cruel it would be. How many technical weapons and precious lives would have to be consumed to truly achieve this?

Humph, if you are planning to tug of war, it would be better to land in Japan in one go!

Long Yun naturally had no good feelings for Japan. If he had been the commander of the Red Empire and formulated a national combat strategy, he might have chosen to completely destroy the American's front pawn.

But now, to do this is beyond the Soviet Union's ability to war.

In the battle deduction room where the heated discussions were discussed, the thinking activities felt by consciously peeping was very complicated, and he sat in his own position without saying a word. Long Yun, who seemed to be an outsider, was observing around, and he could feel the anxiety in the hearts of the people present and some worries about the development of the battle situation.

If the battle develops into a protracted war, will the situation be very unfavorable to the Soviet Union?

There is no accurate answer to this question for a while, and the same is true for Long Yun’s own thinking. When it comes to protracted war, there are actually many types. The key is to see the role played by the two sides in it, whether they actively engage in the tug-of-war consuming the potential of the enemy’s war, or passively participate in a war that cannot see the end.

If it is the former, of course it is very good, but if the latter is very bad.

Since he came to the Far East and had been flying the su-27m2 to slaughtering enemy planes on the sky battlefield, Long Yun only realized now that in this battle where the army had no use, the Red Air Force was certainly the main force, but the final direction of the battle situation still had to fall on the showdown between the naval ships of both sides.

Or, to put it more accurately, it is the battle between the land-based and carrier-based aviation forces between the United States and the Soviet Union.

Battles on the ocean will be determined by the battles in the sky. This scene is no longer a rare thing in the history of human wars. This is the case in many famous war examples in World War II. The "Prince of Wales" was sunk by the Japanese army, the prelude to the death of the "Bismar" and the combat experiences of famous naval battles such as "Midway", "Coral Sea" and "Let's Bay" all ended with the victory of fighter jets over ships.

In the decades after World War II, missile weapons quickly emerged in the Cold War era, and the attack methods of fighter jets on surface ships have evolved from free-fall bombs and direct flight to guided bombs, self-guided torpedoes, and even later anti-ship missiles. The attack distance is getting farther and more difficult to defend.

Because of this, surface ships are in a more difficult situation in front of fighter jets. Even special air defense ships with high-level air defense firepower are a little restless in front of enemy aircraft that are approaching at high speeds.

One is "air defense" and the other is "anti-ship", and the obvious differences in Chinese vocabulary are very appropriate to summarize the status of air and surface combat platforms.

In this case, to fight the strong US Navy in the distance, for the Red Navy, which has relatively weak carrier-based aviation forces, performing tasks within the combat radius of the onshore-based aviation forces is a prerequisite; however, as Long Yun understands this matter, it is easy to say, but it is difficult to actually operate.

First of all, a very simple question: will the Americans be so stupid that they drive aircraft carriers offshore and compete with the Red Navy within the range of the Soviet shore-based aircraft?

This is certainly impossible. In fact, the U.S. Navy has always been conservative in its use of heavy aircraft carriers. Unless it is determined that the opponent has no means to attack the aircraft carrier battle group - just like the Gulf War in 1991, it will never allow the aircraft carrier to approach the enemy's coastline, which is very different from the radical style of the ocean confrontation.

On the other hand, due to the constraints of technical level and other aspects, the indicator of "combat radius" of shore-based aircraft is also uneven. The combat radius of fighter aircraft is often far lower than that of bombers, which will also cause some trouble.

For example, the armed forces of the Red Empire, even the Su-27s/p type fighter, which is known for its large range, have a combat radius of only 1,200 kilometers. Among the strategic bombers carrying heavy anti-ship missiles, the nearer Tu-22m3 has a combat radius of more than 2,000 kilometers. However, this number is almost meaningless to the US Navy. With the cooperation of the F-14 Tomcat and the E-2c Hawkeye, it is difficult for the Soviet strategic bomber without fighter escort to open the way to raid the US aircraft carrier battle group, and it is even close to futility.

The difference in combat radius between fighter jets and bombers is reflected in tactical schema, so the Americans basically just deploy the aircraft carrier battle group one thousand kilometers away from the coastline, and the variables increased by the Soviet shore-based aviation forces in a maritime confrontation can be ruled out.

Of course, in order to deal with the American aircraft carrier battle group, in addition to the shore-based aviation team, the Red Navy, which has developed "aircraft cruisers" for decades, has also had a certain strength in the carrier-based aviation team.

Specifically for the Pacific Fleet, two /6 "full-deck heavy-duty aircraft cruisers" (actually aircraft carriers), each can carry up to 34 Su-27k carrier-based fighter jets and twelve Ka-27 carrier-based anti-submarine helicopters. If the two ships form a combat group, it is basically equivalent to one fighter aviation division and an anti-submarine helicopter regiment. The strength of this type of carrier-based aviation can tackle the maritime combat forces of any other country, but it is a bit stretched in the face of the strong US Navy.

As a comparison, Long Yun came back to his senses and looked at the US Navy's ship deployment in the Pacific direction.

Perhaps considering that this sea area is too vast, the third and seventh fleet aircraft carriers belonging to the US military, except for the CV-63 Kitty Hawk, are all "Nimitz" class with an endurance of nearly infinite. Currently, the three aircraft carriers, "Abraham Lincoln", "Theodore Roosevelt" and "John Kennedy", are all in combat readiness.

Among them, the number of CV-63 "Kitty Eagle" aircraft carriers is the smallest, but even so, this giant ship with a full load displacement of over 80,000 tons is also equipped with the 15th carrier-based aircraft wing, with the total number of combat/attack aircraft being about 60.

The number of carrier-based aircraft carriers, the "Kitty Eagle" alone is close to the combat formations composed of "Tbilisi" and "Varyag". If the Red Navy formation encountered three US heavy aircraft carriers as set in the "Bulletin Deduction", then the strength of the carrier-based aircraft is about 1 to 2.5, which is obviously very unfavorable.

After reading some information, Long Yun knew how bad the situation was.

Although war is not simply about comparing the number of weapons, such a large gap is difficult to make up with tactical or other factors.

For the Red Navy, the only opportunity is at the strategic level. If the US military is induced to rashly advance and let the decisive battle break out within the combat radius of the Soviet strategic bomber, through the integrated combat strategy of sea-air, the carrier-based aviation forces are used to open up channels for the air-launched anti-ship platform, reach the missile launch position, and implement several rounds of dense heavy anti-ship missile volleys, plus the firepower projection of surface ships and cruise missile submarines, it can eliminate all the large-scale American aircraft carrier battle groups in one fell swoop.
Chapter completed!