Great warships

Chapter 1289 Exercise Phase
This exercise is of great significance. How many years have we waited for this exercise? Everyone is full of energy and hopes to achieve the most outstanding results in this exercise.

The night was filled with darkness, but the Marines all wore night vision goggles on their helmets. Most people wore binoculars, while officers above the rank of squad leader wore quadrilaterals. No matter how dark the night was, they could observe the surrounding situation as if it were daytime.

The propellers on both sides began to rotate, and with the roar of the engine, the Z-30 rose from the deck and took off into the air. After flying to a certain height, the propellers on both sides slowly turned forward, switching from the vertical take-off and landing stage to the level flight stage. This posture change was very handsome, and people couldn't help but want to praise it when they saw it. This is our most advanced aircraft!

"I heard that the American Osprey has been finalized and put into service, but American soldiers just don't want to ride it. They would rather ride a Black Hawk than an Osprey because the crash rate of that thing is too high!"

"That's right. The whole rotating engine doesn't sound reliable. I don't know what the Americans are thinking. Look at us. It's so easy to just rotate the propeller!"

Perhaps to ease the tension, the soldiers on the Z-30 began to talk.

The Americans were the first to try out tilt-rotor aircraft, but after decades of experimenting, they still haven't matured because there is one biggest problem that they can't solve: reliability.

The engine is very heavy. The AE1107C turboshaft engine used on the Osprey can output 495 horsepower, which is quite powerful. At the same time, its own weight is as high as kilograms, or half a ton.

Is it easy to make this big guy spin?

Look at us, if we only rotate the propeller, the whole device will not exceed one hundred kilograms, so it can rotate faster. At the same time, the emergency response capability will be faster, and it will be easier to adjust the posture according to the sudden change of airflow to ensure safety.

"Our technology in the East is the most advanced!"

"Fuck!" At this moment, someone cursed: "Look, what's down there?"

Under the cover of pitch-black night, a big guy is coming at high speed. Its speed is definitely as fast as an airplane, at least 500 kilometers per hour, but its head is super big!
"Peace Dove IV." Someone present knew the goods: "It has a take-off weight of 2,000 tons and a carrying capacity of over 1,000 tons. If it is a 50-ton main battle tank, it can transport 20 at a time. The key is speed."

"A 50-ton main battle tank? No, we have to speed up, we can't let the army get ahead of us!" Everyone became nervous.

At this time, the amphibious ships had opened their mouths wide, and hovercrafts came out from them, rushing towards the opposite exercise target at lightning speed, but it was obvious that they were still not as fast as ground effect vehicles.

When it was a few kilometers away from the target, the ground effect vehicle began to descend. When it came to a complete stop, it was only half a kilometer away from the beach. Then, a hole opened under its nose, and a number of Type 63A amphibious tanks drove out.

Rush, rush, rush!
They were the last to set out, but thanks to their equipment advantage, they arrived first. At this time, they began their most brilliant exercise. Just like the previous exercises, their tanks floated on the sea, with only the turret exposed outside, and the entire vehicle body was immersed in water.

Is there a water leak?
Of course it will leak!

It is absolutely impossible for a tank to remain absolutely airtight, and seawater will seep in from all kinds of gaps. But don’t be afraid, we have water pumps under our feet!
There is a special water pump at the bottom of the amphibious tank. As long as water is not pouring in, it can pump out all the water that seeps in and will not sink.

Soon, the tracks touched the beach, the driver shifted into land gear, and the tank roared onto the beach.

Overhead, a group of planes also flew over.

Fighter jets flew high in the sky, ready to respond to any possible enemies at any time. Helicopters flew low in the sky, with the Marines inside rappelling or running down directly. Tanks drove up directly, and soon a beachhead was opened up.

What about the Blues?
Without the participation of the Blue Army in this exercise, wouldn't it just be a performance by our Red Army?
Everyone was still a little hesitant, but that didn't affect the speed of their actions, as everyone quickly pounced on their target.

Ports, airports, various bases...

The amphibious ship was empty, unloading the first wave of attack forces, and then returning to receive the second wave. When a roar was heard on the sea, they could only watch with envy. The doves of peace were flying too fast, and they could not keep up at all!

"No one thought that ground effect vehicles could be successful at the beginning, but I didn't expect that it would become such an advanced equipment now!"

"No, this thing has many flaws. For example, the weather requirements are quite high. If the weather conditions are not met, it cannot fly. Moreover, large ground-effect vehicles can only take off and land at sea. Even if they fly over land, they are useless if they cannot land."

"That's pretty cool."

During the Red Empire era, Chief Designer Alexei created the Caspian Sea Monster, but there were many technical problems that could not be solved. In addition, he was not valued by his leaders, and the funding he received became less and less.

Ultimately, by the time the Red Empire collapsed, the Caspian Sea Monster had not become practical.

And now, in the East, it has been reborn! With the speed of an airplane and the carrying capacity of a ship, this big guy can play a huge role in amphibious operations!

The eastern sky slowly began to turn pale, and in the command hall in Zhoushan, everyone felt their eyelids twitching.

"Okay, this second round of exercises is over. Next, we should go to rest."

"Yeah, I need to get some sleep."

Even Nicholas couldn't bear it anymore. When he felt sleepy in the middle of the night, he secretly drank a few sips of wine. Now he was sitting on a chair, snoring softly.

"Everyone, go and rest. There shouldn't be any major incidents during the day. We will continue the exercise tonight! Oh, and send out the lookouts. No ships are allowed to pass through our exercise area to avoid accidental injuries!"

In the past, no matter what we did, we did it during the day. But with the continuous improvement of technology, we switched from day to night. Especially when the opponent does not have the same technology but we do, there is a huge advantage at night.

The warships have been working all night. Those who should sleep have slept, and those who should be on duty have continued to be on duty. After all, the warships work in three shifts. The sailors on duty at night had a great night, and it is not known whether they can sleep during the day. The sailors who have slept all night are now very energetic and ready for the next exercise.

On the rear deck of the Russian Navy's Type 1144 cruiser Admiral Lazarev, an elevator slowly lifted up a Ka-27 ship-borne helicopter, and a few minutes later, the helicopter roared into the sky.

They were separated from the main fleet. After all, the main fleet was too large, and their Russian navy did not have a data link, making it inconvenient to communicate, so they simply separated into two exercise battlefields.

At this time, the helicopter began to take on the task of searching.

Although there are early warning aircraft and drone searches in the sky, there may still be various loopholes. After all, the ocean is too vast, and some ships may not be detected by radar.

For example, fiberglass yachts.

Shortly after the Ka-27 took off, it saw a current surging on the sea, and in front of the current was a high-speed yacht!
The yacht was not big, and looked to be only a few dozen tons in size. If it weren't for the large wake that exposed the target, it would have been difficult to spot with the naked eye. When the commander Ivanov saw it, he immediately shouted, "Fly over!"

On the yacht, several people looked at the sky in shock. When they saw the helicopter coming, despair appeared in their eyes.

"It looks like it's from the Russian Navy. I saw the logo on the side of the helicopter!" someone shouted.

"Ask them for help?"

"Of course not. Da Mao's position..."

At this moment, a horn sounded in the sky: "Listen to the yachts below, there is an exercise area ahead, please return immediately, please return immediately!"

"Don't worry about him, just keep going!"

"Don't they understand our Russian?" Ivanov thought for a moment, opened his mobile phone, started the translation software, and soon, the shouting turned into an oriental language.

"Listen, everyone down there. Return immediately. Return immediately!"

There was still no response from below, and the gun continued to move forward. Ivanov got angry and pulled the bolt with a snap.

Da da da!
The sound of machine gun fire rang out, hitting the sea in front of the yacht. In an instant, the people in the yacht were startled and raised their hands involuntarily.

"Haha, those idiots, look what they are doing!"

"That's right. They don't understand us when we talk. They don't get scared until we use guns. These people are so stupid!"

"But they don't have to raise their hands, right? Let's go around in a circle and see what they're going to do."

The people below were terrified, but after raising their hands for a long time, there was no movement from above. Finally, one of them spoke cautiously: "Is it true that they don't want to arrest us, but just want us to go back?"

"Let's go back first and see if we can get out at night."

So the fiberglass yacht started to move back.

Seeing the yacht leave, the Ka-27 helicopter also began to turn and fly in another direction. The safety of the exercise site must be ensured. These ignorant people cannot be allowed in. If they die, it will bring trouble to our side.

With this thought in mind, Ivanov continued to search the sea vigilantly.

Overhead, a reconnaissance satellite glided by, its camera pointed downward, taking a few photos before continuing forward.

According to the predetermined procedure, the photos should be sent to the communication satellite immediately, and then the communication satellite would transmit the information back. However, just as it was about to transmit the photos, it suddenly received a new instruction, so the original photos were deleted. Then, several photos were transmitted to it via radio waves, and then it transmitted them to the reconnaissance satellite.

When the photos were transmitted to the rear, a few people took a quick look and made a judgment: everything there was very normal. Although the exercise was very noisy, it was just an exercise and there was no need to be afraid.

"Over the years, they have never tired of exercises, and they have held a few exercises from time to time." An intelligence officer said with a sarcastic tone: "Unfortunately, they don't understand that exercises are meaningless. They only show that they are strong on the outside but weak on the inside."

"Yeah, look at Da Mao, even if he has no money in his pocket, he will spend money when he needs to, so they have never been able to develop."

"So, it's right to just use drills to show off your muscles?"

"Forget it, let's not discuss this. Since everything is fine here, let's turn the camera to the colonel. We have to find the damn colonel and kill him!"

The exercise continues.

When the amphibious ship completed its second trip, the Peace Doves had already made four trips. If it weren't for the time wasted on loading and unloading, they might have made more trips. There was only one 2,000-ton Peace Dove No. 4 and a dozen 500-ton Peace Dove No. 3. The delivery capability of these Peace Doves was almost the same as that of the entire amphibious ship.

However, they are no match for RoRo ships.

The real highlight is the RoRo ship!

The displacement of the roll-on/roll-off ship at the front is only 075 tons, which is about the same as the , but it does not carry carrier-based aircraft, has no hangar, no take-off deck, and does not need to carry a large number of personnel. The main cabin can be used entirely to load vehicles, so it can carry a large number of vehicles!
If ordinary cars are transported, a total of 7,500 cars can be transported!
However, now, since heavy equipment is to be transported, its space is not fully utilized, otherwise it will be completely overloaded. The two lower floors, which are also the cabins with the highest carrying capacity, are equipped with armored crawler tractors and clotheslines in front, a total of 400 vehicles. The upper third floor is equipped with other high-mobility off-road vehicles. This is considered a slight overload, but the impact is not very big. Anyway, the weight is concentrated on the bottom and the upper part is almost empty.

Behind this 40,000-ton roll-on/roll-off ship, there are other roll-on/roll-off ships with a displacement of 10,000 to 20,000 tons, as well as inland transport roll-on/roll-off ships with a displacement of several thousand tons. Since they are ships loaded from different docks, they can only gather into formations along the way. This fleet is moving towards the training ground in a mighty manner.

In the early morning, the fleet began to appear in the exercise area. After sailing for another two hours, the fleet finally arrived at the port. After docking steadily, the bridge deck was lowered and one car after another rumbled down from it.

The exercise has entered the third phase!

On the other side of the earth, the Mediterranean Sea.

After a long journey, the Charles de Gaulle finally reached the relevant waters.

Although the French really want to sit on the sidelines and watch the fight between the two tigers, they have no choice but to step up when they see the world police suffering such heavy losses. After all, they still have to remain consistent on many positions.

However, they were very cautious. After all, if their equipment was lost, no one would pay for it, so they had to be careful.

"They should no longer have the ability to attack." On the island, First Officer Maletel said, "After all, they only had two stealth aircraft, and they were all shot down."

"Who told you that they only have two stealth aircraft?" Captain Guillaume looked at the sea in the distance with complicated eyes and worry on his face.

"Do they have more stealth aircraft? The Mingzhou Group must not do this, otherwise... they will become the public enemy of the entire West!"

"There are many stealth aircraft. Even if the colonel has more stealth aircraft, can he say that they were given by the Minnesota Group?" Guillaume continued, "You need to use your brain!"

"Yes."

"Look, what is that?" someone suddenly shouted.

On the sea in the distance, the outline of a huge ship appeared. At this moment, one side of the ship had tilted, and it looked like it would sink into the sea at any time, but it seemed unwilling to do so and was struggling hard.

"That's an Aegis battleship." Martel said, "That kind of super battleship has ended up like this. We..."

What does the French Navy have? The equipment they have is not only inferior to that of the Americans, but even inferior to that of the British Navy!

There is one aircraft carrier, the Charles de Gaulle, and two amphibious assault ships, the Mistral-class, but these are offensive forces. What about the fleet’s defense?
During the Cold War, Europeans knew that their defense capabilities were not very good, so they decided to jointly develop. Unfortunately, three monks could not drink water, and they eventually parted ways. The British independently developed the Type 45, and France and Italy jointly developed the Horizon-class destroyer.

They still couldn't handle modern air defense ships with four-sided phased array radars, so they had to settle for the next best thing and develop a rotating antenna radar. Moreover, their radar was even worse than the Sampson radar on the Type 45.

Even such a warship cannot be built quickly by French shipbuilding companies.

The first ship of the Horizon-class, the Forbin, had its first steel plate cut in 02, was launched in March 05, and then began a long period of testing. It has not yet reached the state of being delivered to the troops.

The British only knew how to drag their feet in cooperation, and they came up with the Type 45, which was put into service after all, but it became a joke because of its frequent breakdowns.

As for the Aquitaine-class frigates jointly developed by France and Italy, the order has just been placed and their completion is even more distant. Therefore, the only air defense ships they can use at present are the outdated Casar-class destroyers. The Lafayette-class frigates were once dazzling, but now they are just so-so.

What is a fleet like this doing here? Looking for excitement?
But they had to come. The British Navy, whose ships had broken axles and sluice gates, had come, so the French Navy had to express its views as well.

"Report, we have received news from the United States that they are requesting to take over our command and direct our carrier-based aircraft to conduct ground attacks."

Upon hearing this news, Guillaume immediately shook his head: "Of course not! Our fleet can only be commanded by us, no one else has this power!"

What a joke, the Americans must have suffered heavy losses and are eager to save face. If they were allowed to command them, wouldn’t they be used as cannon fodder next?
"Humph, could it be that the Americans think that their strength has greatly weakened, so they want to weaken our strength?" Maletaire said: "We can't be fooled!"

"Tell them that they can give us attack missions, and we will assess the danger level of the target before deciding whether to launch an attack," said Guillaume.

(End of this chapter)