The Pacific Rim military exercise is the largest international multinational maritime joint military exercise initiated by the US Third Fleet and has been held since 1971. The purpose is to ensure the safety of the maritime passages of the countries along the Pacific Ocean. After the disintegration of the Soviet Union in later generations, they also joined the joint counter-terrorism task.
This Pacific Rim joint military exercise has been held basically once a year in Hawaiian waters since 1971. It is led by the United States and mainly targeted the Soviet Pacific Fleet.
At this peak of the Cold War, the Soviet Union on the other side of the ocean is the greatest threat to the United States.
At present, the United States still has an advantage at sea. The US aircraft carrier fleet is its most powerful deterrent force. At the same time, the Soviet navy has also developed by leaps and bounds in recent years.
In particular, the Soviets finally learned their skills and started playing aircraft carriers. The construction of the first nondescript heavy-duty cruiser began. In this case, the U.S. Navy must also fully respond to the challenges of the Soviets. For the United States, the traditional mainland powers have begun to engage in maritime power, which is a serious challenge to US maritime power.
At this time, the U.S. Navy has to demonstrate its military presence in the Pacific Rim exercise.
The next day, Nathan was already sitting in the only flight preparation room on the island. As the flight squadron leader, he discussed the tactics of the exercise with the pilots of the entire flight wing.
"We will dispatch two aircraft carriers and more than a dozen destroyers to form a large formation. At the same time, there will be a few ships from Australia, island countries and other countries to participate, but we will still dominate." Flying Wing Captain Pietro Colonel Bowie said.
In fact, it is possible to mobilize more aircraft carriers to participate. However, after the Vietnam War has just ended, some aircraft carriers are in a period of repair, and the domestic anti-war sentiment is relatively serious, it is really not suitable to be too large.
"The focus of the exercise is still assuming an encounter with the enemy's fleet in the Pacific. We had a battle between our two sides. We used our own carrier aviation and underwater submarines to successfully kill the other party and finally obtain the dominance of the sea." Colonel Li introduced the content of this time.
Basically, each time is similar, as the navy, of course, is fighting at sea, as the naval aviation, of course, rely on the carrier-based aircraft on the aircraft carrier as the main force.
Next, it's time to assign tasks. The carrier-based attack aircraft will be deployed with anti-ship missiles. The carrier-based fighter jets will guard the sky and escort the attack formation.
This kind of routine is really lacking in new ideas.
"Nathan, do you have any comments?" Colonel Petrobori asked when he finished talking about his arrangement.
Sure enough, Nathan spoke: "So, when we exercise, the Soviets will definitely be on the sidelines, right?"
Of course, the Soviets would not give up such a good opportunity to observe. It was exactly the same as Nathan guessed. After Nathan asked, Colonel Petropaoli said: "Yes, generally speaking, the Soviet Union People will send out some aircraft to observe, and in many cases they will take out their early warning aircraft."
In this era, the Soviets have been equipped with their first-generation Tu-126 early warning aircraft, which was turned into a moss by NATO. They often come to monitor the United States, and the United States has nothing to do with them.
The most is that after they flew close, their own side will expel them, and the two sides will even have some rather unfriendly aerial actions.
Now, after hearing the words of the flying wing captain, he finally made up his mind: "Since there are Soviets to investigate, how about we show some housekeeping skills to the Soviets?"
If the Soviets want to see, let them see enough!
"Okay, Nathan, tell me something." Colonel Petrobori said, knowing that Nathan is eclectic and always good at whim, now Colonel Petrobori is waiting for Nathan Answered.
"Our Tomcat fighters can attack six targets at the same time, so we simply showed them to the Soviets to let them know that the fighters close to us are dangerous, and we can kill one of the other squadrons with one fighter." Nathan said : "Have an aerial target shooting to demonstrate our powerful interception capabilities."
In the past, a multi-target attack was something that I could not even think of. Needless to say, multiple targets were difficult to attack a single target. Over Vietnam, pilots often shot Sparrow missiles as rockets all at once. Hope Can blindly run into dead mice and get shot down.
However, the combination of the AWG-9 radar and the Phoenix missile gives the Tomcat fighter a powerful capability, which can simultaneously carry out multi-target interception!
Hearing Nathan's words, Colonel Petropaoli frowned: "What you said is feasible? Will it be jokes by the Soviets?"
Yes, at the time of design, the Tomcat fighter can control six powerful phoenixes at the same time and attack six targets at the same time, but in fact, with the technology of this era, it is still difficult to achieve.
When it was finalized, the Navy's senior officials observed this exercise. In order to ensure the smooth attack, all six missiles were gathered in a small airspace. The altitude and speed were strictly limited. Even so, only hits were made. Four target drones were taken, and two missiles missed the target.
It's simply impossible for Nathan to do that now.
Didn't this make the Navy go to the spotlight
I kept saying that I could hit six, but only four came. This is still an experimental state. In case the state is not good by that day, I will shoot down one or two in the end. Isn't this embarrassing
Multi-target attack is just a way of propaganda at the beginning. This set of weapons has been studied since F-111, and it is considered as a weapon system that has been cultivated to F-14. Multi-target attack is a tasteless one.
No one has used this tactic in actual combat, even in later generations, there are too many uncertain factors. Multi-target attack, ideal is full, reality is very skinny.
"Why do you see a joke?" Nathan said: "You can put explosives on the drone in advance, and if you fail to intercept it, you can detonate it remotely."
Nathan is right, will he cheat? Students who can't cheat are not good students.
"But the Soviets' early warning system can see it." Petrobori said.
On the early warning aircraft, the bright spots can be seen, and the two bright spots passed by, and the result also exploded? This cheating is too obvious.
"The AWACS of the Soviets is still very backward and easy to be interfered by us. As long as our missiles hit the target within a few seconds, we can interfere with them. When they eliminate the interference, our flying target It's all broken into pieces." Nathan said: "For us, it's definitely not difficult." (End of this chapter)