dognovel Chapter 177: Essex-class aircraft carrier commissioned, Hurricane-class attack submarine launched
Chapter 177: Essex-class aircraft carrier commissioned, Hurricane-class attack submarine launched
After the Restoration Army won the Far East Campaign, John and Gaul, two countries with common interests in East Asia, maintained almost the same strategy.
In addition, the Renaissance Army not only took back the concession by force, but also extorted tens of millions of pounds from them.
Although most of these tens of millions of pounds were borne by those people themselves, it also made John lose face internationally.
This also made John and Gaul, two countries that have many interests in SAARC, feel a huge threat.
If the Renaissance Army defeated the Southern Alliance.
Then their interests in the ancient country will disappear just like the Tianjin Concession.
You have to know that their interests in the Southern Asian Association cannot be compared with those of the Tianjin Concession.
The Changhe River, which runs through the eastern and western regions of the ancient country, is their traditional sphere of influence.
They enjoyed a large number of privileges in the ancient country, such as concessions and consular jurisdiction.
This also allows them to gain huge benefits in trade, investment and other aspects.
It can bring hundreds of millions of pounds of income to John's country every year.
And this is just the apparent income.
The ancient country's huge market was almost unilaterally open to them. They could sell whatever they wanted, and there were almost no tariffs.
I don’t know how many factories are supported by this.
Therefore, they will never give up the interests of the Southern Association for Regional Cooperation.
This also forced them to continue to strengthen the strength of the Southern Allied Forces.
Give them the ability to resist the Restoration Army.
Therefore, the Southern Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) obtained large loans from John, Gaul, and the United States.
These loans can only be used to purchase various weapons and equipment.
Therefore, the Southern Alliance also took advantage of this rare opportunity to start shopping in the three countries.
Tanks and airplanes are too expensive, and the cost of training drivers and pilots is very high.
In addition, the aircraft of these three countries are no match for the Restoration Army.
So they simply purchased a large number of anti-tank guns, anti-aircraft machine guns, anti-aircraft guns, etc.
These things can be used for anti-tank and air defense, and are easy to train, and are inexpensive.
In addition, they spent a high price to purchase a batch of decommissioned and dismantled naval guns from John Country.
This thing is mainly used to strengthen multiple coastal defense fortresses along the long river defense line.
The largest caliber of them even reached 356 mm, and there were also a large number of 203 mm and 133 mm caliber naval guns, as many as dozens of them.
These naval guns alone cost a lot of money.
All that remains is to purchase various army firearms and artillery and carry out large-scale military expansion.
So far, the size of the SAARC army has exceeded two million, with more than 180 divisions registered.
The weapons and equipment on the SAARC side are mainly defensive.
Both the Southern Alliance and John and Gaul knew that when facing the Restoration Army, the Southern Alliance could only passively defend and was unable to launch a counterattack.
Moreover, John and Gaul also made promises.
If the Renaissance Army launches an attack on the Southern Alliance, they will send troops to intervene.
This also gave Wu Zhichang of the Southern Asian Association a shot in the arm.
With the strong support of these two countries, we will feel more confident when facing the Restoration Army.
It shouldn't be a big problem to hold back the Fuxing Army with the Changhe defense line.
Dividing the river and governing separately seems to be a good option for them.
The Southern Association for Regional Cooperation is the strategic goal of the Restoration Army in the next stage and also the main goal.
It is also one of the key infiltration targets of the General Military Intelligence Bureau.
The intelligence system of the Southern Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) was like a sieve when facing the General Military Intelligence Bureau. The two sides were simply not on the same level.
Therefore, a lot of important information will be delivered to Jiang Hua's desk as soon as possible.
Jiang Hua only took a quick glance at the information about the Southern Alliance and just had a general idea of it.
If it was before the upgrade, the Southern Alliance's collusion with John and Gaul might have caused some trouble for the Restoration Army.
But now these troubles are gone.
Because the two sides are no longer opponents of the same level.
November is definitely a good month for the Restoration Army Navy.
Because within this month, many types of advanced warships were put into service one after another.
There are two main core ships.
One is the Blackfish, also known as the Hurricane-class attack nuclear submarine.
With the naval base in full operation, six Hurricane-class attack nuclear submarines were built in less than two months.
The commissioning of the Hurricane-class attack nuclear submarine also means that the Type 21 submarine has entered the countdown to retirement from active service.
Basically, one ship is put into service and two are retired, and 12 ships have been retired so far.
The second core ship is the commissioning of two Essex-class aircraft carriers.
This is also the first type of aircraft carrier in service with the Restoration Army Navy.
In fact, the Essex-class aircraft carrier was about to be put into service in early October.
However, the Essex-class aircraft carrier at this time was still an aircraft carrier from the World War II era and could only be used to take off and land propeller fighters.
So these two aircraft carriers were sent back for renovation and upgrading.
So now it has been upgraded to a modern aircraft carrier capable of taking off and landing jet fighters.
The upgraded Essex-class aircraft carrier is equipped with an angled deck, MK7 arresting cables, C-11 steam catapults, etc.
This also caused the tonnage of the Essex-class aircraft carrier to surge by 10,000 tons, reaching the ton level.
It also allows the Essex-class aircraft carrier to carry nearly 60 jet carrier-based aircraft of various types.
Its main models are mainly four models.
The first model is the F8 Crusader supersonic fighter, which serves as the main carrier-based fighter of the aircraft carrier.
The second model is the F9F Panther subsonic fighter-bomber.
The third model is the A-4 Skyhawk carrier-based attack aircraft.
The fourth model is the AD-4W carrier-based early warning aircraft.
其中F-8舰载超音速战斗机数量12架，F9F黑豹舰载战斗轰炸机数量18架、A-4天鹰舰载攻击机搭载数量24架、AD-4W舰载预警机4架。
These are the types and numbers of carrier-based aircraft carried by this Essex-class aircraft carrier.
As for the means of attack, it is still iron bombs plus aerial torpedoes.
Because there are no mature air-to-ship missiles in this era.
It can be said that apart from the appearance of Exocet, the anti-ship means of aircraft carrier-based aircraft is still iron bombs.
In a war in the 80s in the original time and space, A-4 attack aircraft were still diving and dropping bombs.
Although the means of attack are still very primitive, with the installation of various avionics equipment, the accuracy of throwing iron bombs is very high, and is not inferior to that of dive bombers.
In fact, during this period, the biggest threat to surface ships was not only aircraft carriers, but also submarines.
Submarines were one of the main anti-ship means before the emergence of practical anti-ship missiles.
So after the "Big Black Fish" Hurricane-class attack nuclear submarine came out, Jiang Hua was eager to try it out, wanting to see how powerful the attack nuclear submarine's anti-ship capabilities were.
As for the big black fish, its target is naturally Fuso.
Although the Fuxing Army and the Fuso Army have been at peace since the end of the Battle of Saibei.
The Fuso Army did not dare to make any further moves, fearing that the Fusion Army would attack the Korean Peninsula and carry out strategic bombing on their cities.
This is also what everyone in Fusang fears the most.
Therefore, the Fuso army was very honest during this period.
They have also been enduring.
Of course, there are constant small actions in secret.
For example, they sought some technical cooperation with John, Gaul and even Citi.
This includes various aviation technologies.
John and other countries also hope to strengthen Fuso's aviation capabilities so that they can fight a war of attrition with the Restoration Army.
Therefore, more advanced aviation technology was also exported to Fuso.
This also enabled the Fuso army to achieve a leap forward in aviation technology.
Several advanced single-wing fighter jets have already begun their maiden flights.
They also developed a verification aircraft with an extremely powerful aerodynamic layout and inverted propellers.
Because air defense is extremely urgent.
The Fuso Army actually developed a low-wing fighter with pretty good performance, which was produced and designed by the Fuso Nakajima Aircraft Company.
They also named it the Nakajima Type 95 fighter. (Not the original Type fighter)
This Type 95 fighter jet went into mass production after a very short period of test flights.
They also saw hope in this fighter jet to fight against the Restoration Army Air Force.
This Type 95 fighter jet not only has an army aviation model, but also a naval carrier-based aircraft model.
It is very rare for the Fuso Army's army and navy to use the same fighter jet.
In addition to fighter jets, anti-tank guns, tanks, anti-aircraft artillery, etc. are also their research focuses.
Among them, anti-aircraft artillery has entered large-scale production, and even some of the navy's shipbuilding plans have been compressed to produce medium and large-caliber anti-aircraft artillery.
After these anti-aircraft artillery were produced, they were deployed in several major cities.
It can be said that during this period the Fuso Army has been working hard to deal with the Restoration Army.
In terms of forbearance, Fuso is still very patient.
But the fact that the Fuso Army did not provoke the Fusion Army does not mean that there is real peace between the two sides.
It was just that we didn't touch them at that time because we were dealing with Tsarist Russia.
Now that the big black fish has come out, we must verify it through actual combat.
There is no more suitable target in the entire world than Fuso.
The submarine formation consisting of six Hurricane-class attack nuclear submarines, with three submarines in each formation, headed to the waters east of the Fuso Islands and the South China Sea respectively.
The goal of the three Hurricane-class attack nuclear submarines going to the Nanyang is to cut off the waterway between Fuso and the Nanyang.
Attack Fuso merchant ships heading to Fuso mainland.
This is also to force out the Fuso army's fleet.
Then the first submarine formation heading to the waters east of the Fuso Islands will ambush them on the way, catching them off guard.
It would be best to sink a few more main battleships to weaken the strength of the Fuso Navy Combined Fleet.
If the Fuso Navy launches a large-scale counterattack, the aircraft carrier formation with two Essex-class aircraft carriers as the core can take the initiative to attack and engage in a naval battle with the Combined Fleet.
Completely defeat their combined fleet, and then we can blockade the Fuso Islands and completely trap them.
As long as we surround them, we can then use various means to deal with them.
Among them, strategic bombing is the main means to destroy their war potential and bomb them back to the Stone Age.
It would be best to get rid of the evil neighbor Fusang once and for all, so that they can no longer pose any threat to the ancient country.