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In terms of the navy, the fleet's strength is still very limited. Even if the second batch of large "Heilongjiang"-class comprehensive warships can be put into service in advance, there are only sixteen, instead of the originally planned twenty, so there are only four battle groups for each aircraft carrier, which is comparable to Mu Haoyang's initial arrangement. More importantly, the second batch of "Taishan"-class aircraft carriers cannot be put into service in March, so the overall combat capability of the fleet will not be significantly improved.

The only thing that is thankful is that the large-caliber long-range shells developed by the Navy will definitely be mass-produced by the end of February.

This new type of shell was developed before the war, but the progress was not very fast. It was not until the outbreak of the war that the development progress was accelerated. Compared with ordinary large-caliber electromagnetic cannon shells, the main improvements of long-range shells were not only the use of bullet bodies with a larger length-diameter ratio, but also the installation of rocket booster engines, which increased the flight speed of the middle ballistic by 50%, thereby increasing the range to 1,200 kilometers.

Increasing range is the main purpose, but it also has negative effects.

There are two biggest impacts: one is that the power of the shell is greatly reduced, and the other is that the accuracy is reduced.

The power reduction is mainly due to the reduction of the payload of the shells and the charge volume is reduced by 70%. Even if the latest high-energy explosives are used, the power of the explosion is 50% lower than that of the ordinary. In this way, the strike ability of the extended-range shells to deal with the same target is significantly reduced. According to the tests conducted by the Navy, the impact power of the extended-range shells when dealing with large warships is only 30% that of ordinary shells.

The impact of the reduction of accuracy is more prominent. The spread range of extended-range shells is more than twice that of ordinary shells. Therefore, under the same circumstances, it is necessary to double the amount of ammunition throwing to achieve the same strike effect. If the impact of power reduction is included, it is necessary to increase the amount of ammunition throwing by more than six times to achieve the same damage effect, which undoubtedly reduces the combat efficiency of the naval gun.

In fact, this is also the main reason why the Navy does not pay much attention to extended-range shells.

You should know that before the war, the main task of the large-caliber electromagnetic gun was to bombard targets on the shore, especially military targets with stronger defense.

Of course, extended range shells also have very outstanding advantages.

In addition to having a longer range and allowing warships to fire in safer seas, the most prominent advantage is that the size of extended-range shells is further reduced and the penetration rate is greatly increased. Before entering the last ballistic, the shell's warhead will be separated from the rocket engine, making the last defense system more difficult to intercept. According to the Navy's test, the probability of extended-range shells being hit by the last defense system is only 40% of that of ordinary shells.

Of course, for the Navy, the main purpose of extended-range shells is to attack maritime targets.

Based on the experience of the Second Digo Garcia Naval Battle, Mu Haoyang ranked the production of extended-range artillery shells first, requiring the three arsenals responsible for the production tasks to deliver 20,000 in mid-March to ensure that in the next naval battle, a base amount of ammunition was provided for the sixteen large integrated warships.

It can be said that when the aircraft carrier is insufficient, Mu Haoyang has to rely on major and large integrated warships.

To this end, he also made adjustments to the eight large comprehensive warships in service.

After the task force returned to the Pacific Ocean, it was arranged to enter Jinlan Bay. Four large comprehensive warships including the "Heilongjiang" returned to their homeland under the cover of the anti-submarine warships in the South China Sea area, and went to Guangzhou Shipyard and Zhanjiang Shipyard for modification, that is, to replace the air defense module with the ground strike module.

However, it will not take until early March that these four warships will be modified.

The main point is that the first batch of eight ships were all built in accordance with air defense standards, and the Navy did not purchase unnecessary ground strike modules. It only purchased eight additional sets of ground strike modules when purchasing the second batch to transform existing large comprehensive warships when necessary.

According to Mu Haoyang's arrangement, there will be twelve large comprehensive warships that will have all ground strike capabilities, while the other four will be typical air defense warships.

In the next two months, other battleships in the task force will also be transformed.

There is only one major renovation project: adding the final defense system.

According to Mu Haoyang's requirements, the last-stage defense system of the "Taishan" class aircraft carrier will reach eight sets, which is also the limit of the last-stage defense system for this class aircraft carrier. When all eight sets of last-stage defense systems are activated, the aircraft carrier will not only stop supplying power to most electronic equipment, but also keep the speed within forty knots. The only benefit is more prominent, that is, the last-stage interception capability of the aircraft carrier will be enhanced by one-third.

These renovations are scheduled to be carried out in February.

Because the final defense system is a non-open access weapon system, that is, when installed, it does not need to destroy the hull structure of the aircraft carrier, so the transformation work can be carried out in any military port with the necessary infrastructure, without returning to the shipyard, nor will it occupy the shipyard's human resources.

Relatively speaking, the biggest problem is the ground troops.

Qi Kaiwei has made it clear that the army has undertaken enough combat tasks, and the head of state has ordered the increase of troops to Iran and the Middle East, so the army cannot provide assistance on the Western Pacific battlefield. To put it bluntly, Mu Haoyang should not expect to send the army to attack the Mariana Islands.

In this way, only the Marines can be mobilized.

Although Pang Yuelong has stated that the Marines will fully cooperate with the combat operations of attacking the Mariana Islands, at that time, the Marines could mobilize only four Marine divisions, and two of them were deployed on Okinawa, and only two Marine divisions were available.

Obviously, the two land divisions were obviously not enough for attacking the Mariana Islands.

At first, Pang Yuelong suggested postponing the offensive until the end of April, because by then, four reserve land divisions will complete the reorganization. However, Mu Haoyang asked to launch an attack at the end of March, and told Pang Yuelong clearly that the head of state would not postpone the offensive operation.

To put it simply, if it is postponed, the head of state will cancel the offensive operation.

By the end of January, the issue became more prominent.

According to intelligence provided by the Military Intelligence Agency, the United States is increasing its troops to the Southwest Pacific. By the end of March, more than half a million U.S. troops deployed in Australia, including about 150,000 ground troops. That is to say, the U.S. military is likely to attack Southeast Asia in April.

Of course, afterwards, the intelligence of the Military Intelligence Agency was proven to be incorrect.

The United States increased its troops to Australia not to attack Southeast Asia, but to strengthen defense in the Southwest Pacific, or to fulfill the promises of the US president. According to information disclosed after the war, in early 2053, the United States had no combat plan to launch an offensive in the Southwest Pacific.

The problem is that at that time, this piece of information played a crucial role.

To put it simply, if you cannot attack the Mariana Islands by the end of March and gain strategic initiative, the Navy and Marines will have to turn their focus to Southeast Asia in April to welcome the strategic offensive of the US military. The result is that Mu Haoyang will have to cancel the combat operations to attack the Mariana Islands.

As February begins, Mu Haoyang focuses all his energy on the upcoming strategic offensive.

On other battlefields, the situation in early February was also relatively calm.

On the Middle East battlefield, the US-Israeli coalition launched several tactical-level offensives after the Battle of Dela Holmes, but did not achieve much gain. According to Rollinson's combat plan, unless the US military is strengthened to ten divisions, the US-Israeli coalition will not launch an attack.

At this time, Rollinson was already the commander-in-chief of the coalition forces.

After the United States reached a compromise with the Israeli authorities, the coalition command was no longer a decoration, but the highest command of the US-Israeli coalition forces on the Middle East battlefield.

In other words, the Israeli General Staff must also obey the dispatch of the coalition command.

As a result, Baram was neglected. Although he proposed at the end of January that the coalition should launch an attack in February and focus on the Jordanian battlefield, and even believed that the IDF could take on combat operations against Saudi Arabia alone when the US military refused to contribute, with Rollinson's intervention, Baram's proposal was rejected by the Israeli Prime Minister, and the Israeli army must cooperate with the US military to fight.

This made Baram very dissatisfied and even threatened to resign.

On the battlefield of Iran, the Russian army was still besieging Tehran, which was guarded by hundreds of thousands of Iranian troops. Although it once broke through the outer defense line of the Iraqi army, it was unable to capture Tehran and instead lost tens of thousands of officers and soldiers. Brushilov once again proposed to give up the battlefield of Iran, but was rejected again.

On the mainland battlefield, the Chinese team's offense is very stable.

By February 1, the Chinese Army had controlled most of Russia's Far East. The vanguard troops advancing north reached near Magadan. However, due to the harsh climate, the offensive troops stopped in Ustiomchug and were expected to continue their advance until May. The 39th Army advancing west had reached the north shore of Lake Baikal, and the other troops reached the east of Chita. Although due to the influence of logistics supplies, the offensive speed of the 39th Army slowed down, Qi Kaiweizeng was planning to encircle and annihilate the 700,000 Russian troops in Chita.

On the Siberian battlefield, the 38th Army captured Novosibirsk for the third time, and for the third time it abandoned the city that had turned into ruins under the ravages of war, retreated to the defense line in Jurga, which added a list of nearly 50,000 casualties to the Russian army. With the assistance of the 38th Army, the 15th Airborne Army made full use of its powerful tactical maneuverability and raided important Russian strongholds within a radius of 300 kilometers, forcing the Russian army's large-scale counterattack in this direction to repeatedly postpone it.

In fact, by this time, Huang Hanlin basically fulfilled his promise, that is, to stabilize several major ground battlefields.

Of course, this is not much helpful for changing the strategic situation. After all, the mobilization power of both sides in the war is very limited, and the ground battlefield does not have the importance of deciding victory or defeat.

On February 1, Mu Haoyang signed an important order to start the navy's strategic counterattack.
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