All-people naval warfare: from patrol boats to aircraft carrier fleets

In addition to these phased out Ark Royal-class light aircraft carriers, Ye Bai also equipped the No. 308 Guard Fleet with five newly launched Essex-class medium-sized aircraft carriers, further strengthening the aircraft carrier strength of the Guard Fleet.

But similarly, the Ryūjō-class light aircraft carriers and Brave-class light aircraft carriers previously equipped in the garrison fleet have all been withdrawn from active service and have been mothballed for sale to German Island.

But on the escort aircraft carrier, Ye Bai was still a little hesitant at first. There were only about 20-30 carrier-based aircraft, which was simply not enough. According to his idea, they should have been eliminated directly. After all, these escort aircraft carriers originally had The tasks undertaken have already been undertaken by the more powerful Ark Royal class light aircraft carriers, and these escort aircraft carriers are no longer needed.

But later Nimitz took the initiative to provide suggestions, believing that these escort aircraft carriers should not be eliminated, but should increase construction efforts and build more escort aircraft carriers.

After the main fleet and the guard fleet have the Essex-class medium-sized aircraft carriers and the Ark Royal-class light aircraft carriers, they are indeed looking down on these escort aircraft carriers with a small number of carrier-based aircraft, but the defense fleets at various resource points are lacking air power..

Needless to say, the importance of resource points cannot be easily ignored by any force. Nowadays, many naval battles in the world of navigation almost all occur around resource points.

However, due to the limited size and strength of the fleet, the defense fleets assigned to various resource points by various forces were limited, including the wealthy Ye Bai.

In the waters near Yuntong Island and No. 308 Island, there are a total of 10 resource points. These occupied resource points are equipped with dozens of warships as defense fleets.

However, the strength of these defense fleets is not very strong. They almost use heavy cruisers as the main battleships, with some light cruisers and destroyers as auxiliary. When they are attacked, they can serve as an alarm and delay.

Such a defense fleet especially lacks aviation power. In daily defense, because the radar level is insufficient, the effective detection range is insufficient, and there are no reconnaissance aircraft, it is impossible to expand the reconnaissance range. The enemy fleet is often discovered only after it approaches a certain distance. enemy.

As a result, the time left for the defense fleet is very scarce. Even if support is requested in time, there is not so much time left for reinforcements - troops.

With the strength of the guard fleet and even the main fleet, although the enemy fleet that attacked the resource points can be defeated in the end and the resource points are regained, it will take a certain amount of time.

The key is that they are mined every day. The raw material resources temporarily stored in the resource points have long been plundered, and the mining sites and various mining equipment have either been robbed or completely destroyed.

After reoccupying the resource points, it is necessary to invest a lot of manpower and material resources to build new mining sites and resume the mining of the resource points.

The delay in this period is not just one or two days. There will be no output of raw material resources during this period, and the loss is also not small.

That is to say, during this period of time, other aboriginal forces have knocked their heads out, and no aboriginal force has yet launched an attack on Island No. 308 and Yuntong Island.

Only the NPC pirate fleets randomly refreshed by the system will attack these resource points from time to time, hoping to plunder the raw materials mined from the resource points.

Most of the NPC pirate fleets randomly refreshed by these systems are not very strong, and the defense fleets can basically cope with them, but there are also situations where they cannot cope with them, causing certain losses to resource points.

During this period of time, just the five resource points in the waters near Island No. 308 have been attacked by NPC pirate fleets no less than 20 times. In two of them, they defeated the defense fleet and plundered all the resource points. This put great pressure on Langsdorff.

If a few escort aircraft carriers can be assigned to the defense fleet, the defense fleet can be equipped with air power. With the excellent performance of the carrier-based aircraft equipped by the Chinese fleet, the carrier-based aircraft taking off from the aircraft carriers every day can even attack resources. Maintain sufficient reconnaissance in the 400-kilometer sea area around the point.

If there is another NPC pirate fleet that wants to attack the resource point, the defense fleet can discover the pirate fleet's movements a long time in advance. Whether it is to request support from the guard fleet or to deploy a defense system, it will have more time. , which can better protect the security of resource points.

As soon as this suggestion was put forward, Ye Bai was instantly attracted. The main fleet of the Chinese fleet is now in a stage of large-scale refitting, and due to the dilemma of raw material resources, it is unable to build more warships on a large scale.

Especially in terms of large main battleships, the long construction period and the horrific consumption of raw material resources have made the number of large main battleships quite limited.

In addition to meeting the needs of the main fleet, these limited large-scale battleships also need to be assigned to the guard fleets of Island No. 308 and Yuntong Island. These two guard fleets must also ensure the island's remaining fleet, escort fleet, and patrols. The demand of the fleet is that there are really no extra large main battleships to strengthen the resource point defense fleet.

In the case of a limited number of large main warships, the role of these escort aircraft carriers is reflected. The tonnage is not large, and the armor protection is relatively weak. Many spare parts are only civilian grade, and the consumption of raw material resources is not even as high as that of a A light cruiser.

The key is that the construction cycle is very short. Take the Borg-class escort aircraft carrier that the Chinese fleet has fully mastered the relevant construction technology as an example. From laying the keel to launching into service, it only takes a total of 5 days, which is equivalent to building a Fletcher. The time it takes for a class destroyer.

If the construction of escort aircraft carriers really starts, with the current output of raw material resources and the capabilities of the shipyards in the small space, a large number of escort aircraft carriers can be launched into service in a short time like dumplings.

You don't even need to build too many. By assigning 3-5 escort aircraft carriers to each resource point, you can ensure that the defense fleet has about 200 carrier-based aircraft.

With so many advanced carrier-based aircraft providing air support, the size of the defense fleet can completely resist the attack of a pirate fleet of about 100 warships for a long time.

NPC pirate fleets of this size are not that common. The NPC pirate warships randomly refreshed by the system are almost always around 20 in size. To form such a fleet, it takes a long time to integrate multiple fleets. possible.

In other words, NPC pirate fleets that can reach such a scale are always only rare in the sea area. Most NPC pirate fleets can handle it with the strength of the strengthened defense fleet. (To read Baoshuang novels, go to Feilu Novel Network!)

Unless Ye Bai no longer sends out patrol fleets to patrol the entire sea area, and clear out the NPC pirate warships randomly refreshed by the system in the sea area, he will be integrated into the sea area in a short time. Multiple large and powerful NPC pirate fleets.

When Nimitz made this suggestion, he took all aspects of the situation into consideration and gave Ye Bai a detailed explanation. Ye Bai nodded and couldn't find any reason to object.

This suggestion passed smoothly, but it was not that easy to implement. The shipbuilding plan Ye Bai had made before was quite huge, and Speer was almost driven crazy by Ye Bai.

Even if the Borg-class escort aircraft carrier does not consume much raw material resources, once the number of them is built, the consumption will also be a lot.

After the first round of construction of 30 Essex-class medium-sized aircraft carriers was launched into service, the second batch of 10-ship construction plans began again. A batch of raw material resources that the very foresighted Speer had reserved in advance were all transported to In shipyards and various ancillary factories.

The shipyard has laid the keel and officially started the construction plan. The raw material resources that Speer had finally stored were once again consumed.

At this time, if Ye Bai once again issued a construction plan to build a batch of Borg-class escort aircraft carriers, I am afraid that Speer could not help but rush to the war center and come to Ye Bai to fight for his life.

Speer tried his best and even yelled at Ye Bai until it was nothing. As the supreme commander of the Chinese fleet, Ye Bai was the prime minister and had enough stomach to support the ship.

But if Speer simply gives up his job, Ye Bai will be completely blind. After all, Speer's responsibility is too heavy. Among the many talents under his command, no one can replace Speer and take charge of the entire project. For small space industrial systems.

Zhou Guolai's ability is strong, even stronger than Speer's, but Zhou Guolai's strength is in macro control. If he is really responsible for the operation of the entire industrial system, his performance may not necessarily be better than Speer's.

Therefore, Ye Bai thought about it and still did not send the plan to build a batch of escort aircraft carriers to Speer. He asked him to take a breath and wait until he completed the first warship transaction with German Island and obtained the first batch of aircraft carriers. After sufficient raw material resources are obtained, it will not be too late to start construction.

At the same time, Ye Bai also believes that the strength of the Borg-class escort aircraft carrier is still weak. The number of carrier-based aircraft it can accommodate is only 28, which is really too few.

They are both escort aircraft carriers. Instead of building a Borg-class escort aircraft carrier with backward performance, it is better to build a Commencement Bay-class escort aircraft carrier with a larger tonnage and a larger number of carrier-based aircraft.

The Commonsmant Bay-class escort aircraft carrier has a larger displacement than the Borg class, reaching more than 23,000 tons. The armor value is also relatively thick and can accommodate 4 carrier-based aircraft.[]

If the hangar and flight deck of this escort aircraft carrier are further modified, the number of carrier-based aircraft can be further increased, reaching at least about 40 aircraft, which can even be comparable to some of the performance equipment of other indigenous forces. The lagging light aircraft carrier was dead..