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"Comrade Smirev, it's up to you to explain our ocean tracking system to the General Staff and the Ministry of Defense." Yanayev said.

All the eyes in the conference room were focused on Smirev, to be reasonable, there were more people with higher ranks than him in the conference room, but if anyone knew more about the Navy's marine monitoring system, I am afraid that Smiryev was the only one, because he was a figure from the Navy, and everyone else belonged to the situation of interlacing like mountains.

"The Soviet Union's monitoring of American aircraft carriers was manifested in four aspects, in addition to space monitoring, there was also a land monitoring system, an ocean monitoring system and an air monitoring system. Land Detection SystemThe system is mainly composed of radar stations, radio direction finding stations, listening stations, etc., deployed in coastal areas. The biggest disadvantage of this monitoring system retained by the Red Navy of the Soviet Union at present is that the detection range of the coastal radar stations is short, and passive positioning facilities such as radio direction finding stations can only carry out rough positioning. And there is also a risk of sabotage by the American electronic jamming system. ”

"The marine monitoring system consists of surface ships, submarines and civilian vessels of the Navy. Among them, nuclear submarines are the main force for tracking US aircraft carrier battle groups for a long time, while surface ships are not ideal wartime tracking platforms due to poor concealment. However, surface ships are equipped with well-developed electronic reconnaissance equipment, which is suitable for tracking American aircraft carriers in peacetime, collecting intelligence on their electronic signals. Our Navy has also deployed a large number of ocean-going fishing vessels equipped with electronic reconnaissance equipment in the Pacific Ocean to track US aircraft carriers at any time and collect a large amount of intelligence. Of course, the disadvantage of distant-water fishing vessels with electronic reconnaissance equipment was already exposed at the time of the Barents Sea incident in 1981, and as long as the United States uses electronic jamming, our reconnaissance fishing vessels will completely lose their targets. ”

At this point, the rest of the older generation of Soviet military leaders were already sitting upright, listening to Misreev continue.

"There is also our air monitoring system, and the trump cards of the Soviet naval aviation in tracking the US aircraft carriers are the Tu-95RT reconnaissance aircraft and the Tu-142 patrol aircraft. Both aircraft are modifications of the famous Tu-95 bomber, with a maximum range of 15,000 kilometers. Among them, the Tu-95RT is equipped with a long-range surface search radar, a long-range anti-ship missile guidance radar, and an electronic signal intelligence reconnaissance system. It is mainly responsible for searching for and locating the US aircraft carrier battle group and guiding anti-ship missiles to launch attacks. In the absence of interference, the Tu-95RT can detect the US aircraft carrier at an altitude of 12,000 meters and 675 kilometers away. The Tu-142 patrol aircraft is mainly responsible for long-range anti-submarine patrols, and also has reconnaissance capabilities against US aircraft carriers. At present, it is the main force of the Soviet Union in reconnaisance and surveillance of US aircraft carriers. However, it is only in the absence of interference that the US aircraft carrier fleet will not wait for us to discover them, and they will inevitably adopt all kinds of anti-reconnaissance means to violently deduct electronic interference. ”

After Smirev's introduction, the entire conference room fell silent, and several staff members asked, "That is, if the U.S. aircraft carrier fleet wants to deal with our navy, the inspection system may only be half effective?" ”

"Yes, the so-called integration of land, sea, sky, space is nothing more than an idealized proposal, and in reality it is quite possible that we will only have one or two to really monitor the movements of American aircraft carriers. And it's still a fact. Otherwise, we would not have been in a passive state in our previous actions. ”

Smirev's words silenced everyone present, and Yanayev's words about the Asia-Pacific region that were destined not to be calm and calm, many people felt an unprecedented sense of crisis coming head-on. It seems that something earth-shattering is destined to happen in the Pacific Ocean in 1996, otherwise Yanayev would not have convened a group of high-level officials to sit here and discuss the future direction of the Navy's development.

"In 1982, the United States held Operation 82 in the North Pacific, and the subject of the exercise was an attack on the Soviet homeland. The US Navy's aircraft carrier squadron used various covert means to advance the aircraft carrier formation all the way to the predetermined strike area, and the vicinity of Sakhalin Island was not discovered by the Soviet military forces. ”

Yanayev's intelligence surprised everyone, but Yanayev ignored their attitude and continued to say to himself, "While the US aircraft carrier formation is moving, the electronic reconnaissance system is connected to the active radioactive source of the radar and communication system, so that the entire fleet does not emit any radio waves. They have a comprehensive understanding of the enemy's satellite orbits in space, they can predict when spy satellites will appear, and they are well aware of the enemy's satellite reconnaissance capabilities. ”

Defense Minister Comrade Yazov could not hold his breath anymore, and he changed his sitting position several times before he could continue to listen to Yanayev. This information was really difficult for him to accept.

"The routes of an aircraft carrier formation in a single operation are varied, and the weather factor is also predicted and calculated before the operation, which is convenient for concealment. They also avoid approaching international shipping routes during the voyage to avoid detection; In night navigation, the night navigation lights are turned on according to the layout of the merchant ship, rather than sailing in the dark, and the arrangement of the night navigation lights is exactly the same as that of international merchant ships; The actions of combat aircraft on board aircraft carriers and helicopters on amphibious assault ships are strictly controlled against the radiation of wireless sources. ”

"In the North Pacific 82 military exercise, the aircraft carrier formation used the above covert means and some other tactical means to advance the formation all the way to our noses. And they took off helicopters during the operation to carry out anti-submarine missions and used UHF communications, but the carrier formations remained undetected, since these operations were carried out outside the horizon of our radar radiation. Our reconnaissance satellites also did not detect the aircraft carrier formation, and their formation continued to advance. ”

"In the end, the U.S. aircraft carrier group entered the sea area within 2,000 kilometers of the Soviet mainland and remained undetected. In this area, aircraft carrier formations conducted limited air operations. During the operation, the aircraft carrier newspaper radio radar was silent; The fighter does not turn on the radio and radar devices after takeoff; The fighter remained outside the Soviet radar horizon and flew to an area of two hundred nautical miles from the coastline; The E2 electronic warfare aircraft maintains a passive flight state. This information comes from the KGB, and I think it's time for all of you to recognize the facts. The Soviet Union did lose to the other side in terms of surveillance. ”

The strategic significance of a strategic strike force being within the range of an adversary's strategic base strike for four whole days without being detected and punished can be imagined.

Seeing that some people in the General Staff were still indignant, Yanayev made up for it and said, "I wonder if some comrades here still want to say that our Kuznetsov is an air supremacy aircraft carrier, and the air defense capability of the more than 30 SU-33 carrier-based aircraft on it is not a joke, and their role is to protect Soviet submarines and ships of all types at a distance of 600 kilometers from the US aircraft carrier, not to attack, and at a distance of 600 kilometers from the Americans, then the losers will be the Americans." Because we have the most powerful naval saturation offensive strategy, don't we? ”

"Even if the Soviet surface fleet is completely destroyed, the Soviet nuclear submarines only need 2 SS-N-19s to launch a saturation attack on the American fleet, and the Soviet army has hundreds of nuclear submarines, right? But have you ever thought that from the very beginning, they will strike at our most important military command posts and other strategic units, and will we still have the strength to fight back? ”

Seeing that the goal of fighting blind confidence had been achieved, Yanayev was ready to encourage everyone present, he waved his hand, the curtains of the conference room were closed, and the whole conference room suddenly went dark. The staff next to him opened the slide, and in the faint light of the slide, others saw an incredible scene on the screen.

The additional figures on the screen overwhelmed Miseryev.

"Is this true? How can the supplementary budget reach such a level? Smiryev looked at the nine-digit zero in the back, the corners of his mouth twitched, the construction of naval aviation alone has far exceeded his imaginary expectations, Smiryev suddenly remembered why Yanayev reduced the huge army forces in the Far East from the beginning, it turned out to be a foreshadowing for the later air force and naval aviation units on the Pacific coast.

"Quantity is not everything that decides, Comrade Smirev, the USSR had to be qualitatively able to cope with the threat from the American fleet. So, I think it's necessary to get rid of the last big burden of the Navy. ”

The last big burden, others only thought of the Kyiv-class aircraft carrier that was still in the port and had not been sold, and they didn't know which country General Secretary Yanayev was going to pit next.

Looking at everyone's expectant eyes, Yanayev spread his hands and said, "Don't think too much, it's good that we can throw out the price of the last Kiev-class fire sale this time." And now there are no more potential unjust buyers. After seeing what happened to India, do you still think that someone will spend a lot of money to buy a Kiev-class? Definitely not, and now there is more than one Kiev-class ship that has been eliminated, and there are a large number of old ships that need to be dealt with at a special price, and this money alone is enough to make up for our financial problems in the construction of the vine system. ”

"But when the general secretary said this, I think you had already thought of which country you were going to sell to, right?" Comrade Yazov, who had not spoken all this time, asked.

Yanayev nodded, and no longer hid it, he said bluntly, "Yes. ”

While everyone was engrossed, Yanayev uttered the name that none of them could believe.

"This aircraft carrier will be sold to China at a very low price. And China must be very happy to accept it, after all, in 1996, a certain sea area in the Asia-Pacific region was not very calm. (To be continued.) )