1483 The two aircraft carrier battle groups in Kuwait Bay
"Your Excellency the President, it is normal to worry. But from the start of the war to now, what our team has done for the entire Iraq, you should see. The American fighter jet group began to enter Iraq, their missile sources, their grasp of the mobilization situation, etc...." Yu Ping raised his own protest to Saddam very seriously.
Professionalism must not be questioned.
Saddam was speechless, "Okay..."
Then he turned his head to Liu Suxue and said, "If we are fully prepared, we can take a risk! We must show the Americans our ability to retaliate!
"Don't worry, Your Excellency President, we will definitely force the Americans to stop their invasion, and even prevent their aircraft carrier fleet from entering the Persian Gulf waters again!" Liu Suxue said seriously.
This plan was planned for a long time. Fighters attacked aircraft carrier fleets from the air. There was no problem with those small warships, and even their destroyers. However, there was basically no possibility for aircraft carriers, especially modern aircraft carriers.
Damage is not a problem, and the possibility of sinking is basically very small.
The British Invincible aircraft carrier sunk by the Argentine Navy is not as heavyweight as the American aircraft carriers.
Saddam is also very much looking forward to overturning some of the US military's warships like Argentina. A batch of missiles they purchased from the Soviet Union were still at sea, and these missiles were specially prepared for the US aircraft carrier fleet.
It is difficult to get those missiles to Iraq now, or it is not very useful to get them back. After all, those missiles have been specially modified.
In the southern Iraq, Basra, the second largest city in the country, has been violently bombed by US military aircraft since the war, and most of its military targets were bombed.
This is an important industrial city in Iraq, and many refineries are concentrated here.
At the same time, there is the first steel plant established in Iraq, with an annual output of 400,000 tons.
However, at the beginning of the war, the US military did not bombard the place too much. Therefore, Iraq's most important industrial city and the second largest city in the country were also under retaliatory attacks, and the Americans were just bombing their oil refining facilities.
In the industrial area of Basra, especially around the papermaking industrial park close to the port, many factories have been established in the past few years, including ordinary factories, and many of them produce basic raw materials.
In these areas, the factory has a small number of workers, a huge area, and a very high output value. From the beginning of production, there are still many factories that have not started production yet.
Many people think this is a problem caused by corruption in Iraq.
After all, the roads in the entire industrial park are very spacious and the factory buildings are very large. US fighter jets often fly past this area, shaking their heads disdainfully, and even this area is used as a reference for them.
However, only a very small number of people know about these factory areas.
Many workshops connected to the outside roads have a full range of ammunition inside, and the J-11 with similar appearance to the US F14.
The paints of these fighters are all painted in the colors of fighters on US aircraft carriers. Without looking closely, you can't find the difference between these fighters and F14.
All the time, these fighter planes stayed honestly in the factory.
A few technicians appeared in these workshops to maintain that these fighter jets could rush out of the factory at any time and then take off from the road connected to the outside roads.
"Woo..." A group of fighter jets flew from this industrial park to the north. After the fighter jets flew past, many people began to gather in the open workshop of a processing plant below.
They are all dressed up by ordinary Iraqi people, but there are no elderly people or children inside, they are all strong.
They are part of the Iraqi Air Force, and the people here have been waiting for missions these days.
Especially since yesterday, everyone hopes to fly their fighter planes to fight and fight the US Air Force. Even if they die, it is better than hiding in industrial areas like this.
Once Americans discover that any bomb may be scrapped of their expensive fighter jets.
"All pay attention. Your superiors have orders, and you are on standby! Implement Plan A tonight!" A middle-aged man in an Arab robe said to everyone dressed in the worker in front of him.
"Yes!" Everyone began to get excited.
Ground crew members began to enter various workshops where fighter jets were stored through underground passages to inspect and repair the fighter jets, and also began to refuel the fighter jets.
There is still a long time to go to night.
This is not just in this area.
In Iraq and Kuwait, there have been many container freighters who cannot make a port due to war. Some have even been parked for several months.
The US aircraft carrier battle groups passed by these container freighters from time to time and did not find any danger.
Several container cargo ships have been parked outside the Gulf of Kuwait for more than three months. The Midway aircraft carrier battle group is only more than ten kilometers away from these containers. During the day, a huge aircraft carrier fleet can be seen from a distance on the ship.
After the war started, you could even see the warships of the aircraft carrier fleet firing at the Iraqi army on the shore, and you could also see the US fighter jets take off from the aircraft carrier.
Just this morning, the USS American aircraft carrier battle group, which was originally outside the Iraqi waters, also arrived in this area.
The convergence of the two aircraft carrier fleets made the US naval power in this area tremble.
There are two aircraft carriers, four of the most advanced Ticonderoga-class missile cruisers, and six missile destroyers. Among them, there is an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer that the US Navy had just entered service last year! Few people know how many underwater attack nuclear submarines and conventional submarines are.
This is a powerful aircraft carrier battle group.
Whether it is a missile cruiser or a missile destroyer, arriving in this area is the same as an aircraft carrier's combat mission, which is to strike the Iraqi army that is surrounded by Kuwait and provide air support to the troops they attack.
The USS Midway aircraft carrier is the first US Midway class aircraft carrier. It is a US aircraft carrier named to commemorate the Battle of Midway. At the same time, it is also an aircraft carrier that was only put into service after the end of World War II.
Since its launch in 1945, it has served in the U.S. Navy for nearly half a century.
This aircraft carrier will basically be retired after this war.
This is the oldest aircraft carrier in the US Navy. Even so, the attack ability of this aircraft carrier battle group is not weaker than that of other aircraft carrier battle groups.
The Midway aircraft carrier has a deck width of 44.2 meters, a total length of 298.4 meters, a draft depth of 10.9 meters, a full load displacement of 67,500 tons, a maximum speed of 32 knots, and 75 carrier-based aircraft.
Among them, it is mainly equipped with F14 fighter jets and A-7 ground attack aircraft.
The arrangement of this area is mainly to carry out attacks on Iraqi troops invading Kuwait.
The USS. American aircraft carrier is the third American Kitty Hawk-class aircraft carrier. The standard displacement is 60,100 tons, full load displacement is 81,123 tons, 323.6 meters long, 39.6 meters wide, 11.4 meters draft, carrying an aircraft carrier-based aircraft wing, 82 aircraft of various types, with 4 aircraft lifts and 4 steam catapults, and can eject one carrier-based aircraft every 30 seconds.
These two aircraft carriers are not the most advanced aircraft carriers of the US military.
Both are conventionally powered aircraft carriers, and I don’t know this area because these two aircraft carrier fleets are the most suitable to attack the Iraqi army.
It is far away from the Persian Gulf and the Arabian Sea, as well as the other four aircraft carrier fleets in the Red Sea, mainly provide carrier-based aircraft to strike Iraq.
Among them, more than ten carrier-based aircraft of the USS Kennedy have been killed...
The two aircraft carrier formations docked on an area of more than 20 nautical miles from Kuwait City. Destroyers and missile cruisers were constantly monitoring the movements around. The carrier-based aircraft on the aircraft carriers kept taking off and landing, and then refueled and bombed the Iraqi army.
The weak Iraqi Navy has not found any trace of its current location.
"Thomas, how about drinking together at night?" The two aircraft carriers, hundreds of meters apart, the captain of the USS. Onik, as the fighter plane landed on the deck of the aircraft carrier, called Thomas, a little bored. "It's so boring here. The Iraqi air force and their navy did not know which mouse hole they hid in..."
"Okay, Onik, what good wine do you have?" Thomas was also a little bored, "I'm just trying to talk to you about something."
They are not worried about the safety of the aircraft carrier fleet.
In this world, the only ones who can challenge the US aircraft carrier fleet are the Soviets.
However, now, there are no Soviet warships within a radius of thousands of miles.
Their submarines are even more afraid to come and find trouble at this time.
"Or what if we do another strike against Basra tonight?" The headquarters ordered their main target to be Basra.
In the Iraqi waters, the straight line distance from Basra is only 55 kilometers.
I am worried that Iraqis can also have anti-ship missiles.
"Basra still has a target? All the guys on land have killed them..." Thomas was very depressed about this.
Too many fighter jets were arranged on land, and their navy's ground attack aircraft followed behind and could not get too many valuable targets.
Chapter completed!