Red Soviet Union

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Sailing in front of the two aircraft carriers is also a warship with a displacement of tens of thousands of tons. This is another pride of the Red Navy, the Kirov-class nuclear-powered cruiser!

After Gorshkov served as the naval commander, he began to vigorously develop the Red Navy, trying to build an aircraft carrier formation that could compete with the US Navy on the ocean. At that time, the development of aircraft carriers experienced twists and turns, and the development of this cruiser, It was all smooth sailing.

The originally scheduled displacement rose and rose again. When it was officially finalized, the displacement of this cruiser was as high as 25,000 tons, second only to the aircraft carrier! After the battleships left the sea arena, this cruiser is the giant of the sea!

The combination of nuclear power and conventional power allows this cruiser to have a speed of up to 32 knots and almost unlimited endurance. As a powerful cruiser, this warship is comprehensive in anti-submarine, anti-ship and air defense, and is extremely powerful.

The pride of the Red Navy is its anti-ship capability! This Kirov class is equipped with twenty SS-N-19 Granite anti-ship missiles, which are large supersonic anti-ship missiles propelled by rocket ramjets, with a total length of 10.5 meters and a weight of 6.98 tons. They are launched by vertical launchers , the maximum range is 500-550 kilometers, the maximum flight speed is Mach 1.6, and it can be equipped with a 500kT equivalent nuclear warhead or a 750kg high-explosive warhead. It can be said that this is the nemesis of the Red Navy specially tailored for the US aircraft carrier formation!

It can be said that the Kirov cruiser is a Soviet version of the arsenal ship! In addition to anti-ship missiles, air defense missiles are even more dense.

The air defense system consists of three lines of defense, mainly composed of anti-aircraft missiles and close-in defense systems. Among them, the SA-N-6 air defense missile is the first line of defense, the SA-N-9 air defense missile is the second line of defense, and the SA-N-4 is used as an auxiliary. Plus close-in rapid-fire guns. It can be said that any enemy aircraft approaching a target within 100 kilometers of the Kirov class is quite dangerous!

Since there is no Aegis system like the United States, the air defense of the Soviet aircraft carrier formation has always been the focus, and this Kirov class was historically completed at the end of the 1980s, and then delivered to the Northern Fleet, but With the steady progress of the Soviet aircraft carrier formation plan, the need for escorting professional air defense ships is also urgent. Before the Soviet version of the Aegis system modified by the Dreadnought class is put into service, it can only rely on the powerful capabilities of the Kirov class for the time being. Therefore, This warship has been rushed to work. After the sea trial ended at the beginning of this year, it came to the Indian Ocean in the name of the trial all the way, and temporarily joined the aircraft carrier formation. After this operation, it will return to the base of the Northern Fleet.

The Kirov-class MP-800 early warning radar can detect air targets at a distance of 500 kilometers, and the long-range air defense missiles modified by the S-300 of the landing base have built an iron wall for the aircraft carrier formation!

As for anti-submarine capability, not to mention, relying on two Ka-27 helicopters,

The SS-N-14 anti-ship/anti-submarine dual-purpose missile system, as well as one 10-tube RBU12000 and two 6-tube RBU1000 rocket depth launchers, constitute an effective three-layer anti-submarine network.

In addition to this Kirov class, other warships in the entire formation were also bathed in the morning light. Two Kara-class cruisers, the latest service of a Hyundai-class and a Dreadnought-class destroyer, as well as several older destroyers and frigates, with a total tonnage of nearly 180,000 and 14 warships, continue to move towards the Gulf of Oman. sail.

On the Minsk, in the combat command room, the commander of the Pacific Fleet, Admiral Duarte Spilidnov, as the commander-in-chief of this formation, was looking at the huge chart. Just last night, his side The airborne troops have landed in southern Iran, and their responsibility is to provide air support to the landing airborne troops with carrier-based aviation forces during the few days when the ground troops have not arrived!

Airborne troops have few heavy weapons. Once surrounded by superior ground troops, the consequences will be disastrous. Therefore, air support is a must! At the same time, another responsibility of our own side is to resolutely fight back if the United States intends to intervene!

Yes, it's a counterattack! This is the Soviet Union's punitive war against Iran, and no one else is allowed to interfere. If the United States wants to interfere, then try the power of the Soviet Navy!

Right now, there is not much American airpower in Pakistan, that is, a fighter wing. The number of planes is about 60, of which, the main ones are ground attack forces. After all, the United States has disabled Iran’s air power. The main task of fighter planes is also ground support. There is an A-10 squadron and an F squadron. -16 squadron, the F-15 used to seize air supremacy has only one squadron and twenty aircraft.

Now, the most important task of our own aircraft carrier is to attack the ground and support our own airborne troops! Of course, this is not an ideal situation. In an ideal situation, our own airborne troops should have successfully defeated the Iranian border troops, reached the border between Iran and Pakistan, planted the flag of sickle and hammer there, and sent to the United States. It was announced that it was temporarily under Soviet control!

Report, I received a request from the 105th Airborne Division to provide ground support! At this moment, Lieutenant Colonel Andreyev, the first mate on the Minsk, said.

Take off four MiG-23Ks, ground attack mounts! Admiral Duarte said.

Four take off! Each aircraft carrier, each take off two on the line! The captain of the Minsk aircraft carrier, Colonel Viktor-Alexander-Gokinayev, immediately issued an order to his warship: Take off two MiG-23Ks and mount them for ground attack!

In the parking area on the side of the bridge, two MiG-23Ks that were already ready for launch were towed to the take-off position. Although they took off by ski-jumping by their own power, they still took off with the maximum bomb load!

One of the MiG-23s was full of bombs under the wing cover pylon and the belly. A total of 16 bombs of 100 kg had reached the maximum capacity. At the same time, two close-range combat bombs were also mounted. The R-60 is used for self-defense.

The other MiG-23 is equipped with four rocket launch nests, as well as four Kh-25 air-to-ground missiles, plus two self-defense R-60 missiles. These two MiG-23s are enough. The airborne troops of our own side were relieved, not to mention the two MiG-23s mounted on the other aircraft carrier Kyiv! (To be continued.)

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