, the moon blade is about a kilometer away from the "Lizard Whale". 【Full text reading】A three-dead eh, the station net fighter is fast and reads the most "Verat." On the aircraft carrier, Admiral Thomas Wildert was listening to the staff officers discuss combat operations.

As the commander of the Western Fleet, it was Admiral Waitett's job to lead the Western Fleet on combat missions, but like most Indian admirals who had similar experiences to him, Waitett was opposed to war with China from the beginning, and even more opposed to a decisive battle with the Chinese Navy. Although Wildert and others have very clear reasons, such as the Chinese fleet is more powerful, China's submarines are more advanced, China's strategic aviation is extremely threatening, and so on, the fundamental reason for Wildett's opposition to war with China and a decisive battle with the Chinese Navy is still the struggle of interests of the Indian Navy.

After the Fourth Indo-Pakistani War, the Indian Navy was wiped out and faced with a difficult reconstruction.

The "Russian faction", which previously dominated the Indian Navy. Along with the "Vikramaditya" aircraft carrier "Admiral Gorshkov" of the former Soviet Union, the aircraft carrier "perished". Instead, there are "American" and "European."

In the following years, "American School." With "Oppai." The struggle intensified.

During this period, the representatives of the "European faction" were generals like Fernandez who went to England to study for further studies, and with the move of "Queen Elizabeth." The number of the class aircraft carrier is "Vikramaditya" and the number "Vikrant" is mute. and its supporting escort warships, including the Qianyan-class air defense destroyer, the skimming-class air defense destroyer, six out-of-class ocean-going frigates and the Kuwan-class multi-purpose frigates, have settled in the Indian Navy, and the "British fundamentalist naval school" has flourished, and the vast majority of Indian Navy personnel believe in the "British model".

In contrast to the "Continental European Naval Thought." of quietly growing.

The fact that the naval schools of France, Germany, Italy, and other countries can take root in the Indian Navy is not unrelated to the naval equipment that India procures from these countries. In the United Kingdom, it is impossible to build conventional submarines with advanced performance, and Britain's nuclear submarine technology is derived from the United States, amphibious warships, and multipurpose destroyers, and the seedlings are multipurpose destroyers, but the air defense performance is more prominent, and the performance of the advanced frigate 10,000-type frigate is only at a medium level in the era of gravitational forces. In the era when the United States' all-electric submarines were unable to enter service for a long time and refused to sell advanced warships to India, India once proposed to the United States to purchase large surface warships such as the Fighter and the Koukou, but they were all rejected by the US Congress, and the Indian Navy had to purchase weapons and equipment from other countries that had the ability to produce advanced warships. Including the conventional submarines of France and Germany, the German multipurpose frigate Chimney class, with a full load displacement of nearly tile mouth stew, has reached the standard of multi-purpose destroyers, and the multi-purpose destroyers jointly developed by France, Germany and Italy are exhibited from the "European Joint Destroyer" project.

In contrast to the development of warships on their own, the purchase of warships from the outside world will certainly "introduce" naval ideas.

Battleships can be said to be the largest "single" weapon in human history, and even a coastal frigate with a displacement of only many tons is a huge system project, from project establishment, design, development, construction, to final service, the span is as short as several years. Decades long. With the exception of a very small number of warships specifically for export, countries that have the ability to develop warships will determine the technical and tactical indicators of warships according to their own defense needs, and will not target other countries.

Even warships that are specifically intended for export. It will also target the needs of general customers, not a specific customer.

Herein lies the problem.

Battleships are huge systems engineering, and combat power from air defense, sea control, and antisubmarine warfare must always be emphasized, and no warship can do everything in its entirety. For example, the US Navy's. The Zumwalt-class destroyers ensure air defense while emphasizing the right strike capability, and the requirements for anti-submarine are not very high; The "Qinling" class cruisers of the republic, while ensuring air defense capabilities, strengthened their ground strike capabilities, and still paid less attention to anti-submarine warfare; Germany's Knife-class frigates, on the other hand, attach great importance to anti-submarine warfare and require only limited air defense and sea dominance capabilities.

This is true for surface warships, and it is also true for submarines. Especially conventionally powered submarines.

Both French and German conventional submarines emphasize sea dominance and do not emphasize anti-submarine capabilities. The all-electric submarines of the Republic's conventional submarines require sea dominance while ensuring anti-submarine capabilities.

Different design indicators determine different naval ideas.

"Zumwalt. The reason why destroyers-class destroyers and "Qinling"-class cruisers attach importance to ground strike capability is that both the US Navy and the Navy of the Republic attach importance to carrying out combat missions alone in areas far from their homeland, and the warships of France and Germany attach importance to antisubmarine capabilities, which is directly related to the importance they attach to coastal defense capabilities.

India introduced warships from different countries. It will inevitably lead to confusion in the minds of the Navy.

Just from the warships of European countries that it purchased. All have produced serious ideological conflicts.

Britain has a vast overseas territory, and although most of the area is calm and there are no major problems, the sovereignty dispute between Britain and Argentina over the Malvinas Islands has not been resolved, and the exploration results show that the waters around the Falklands are not only rich in oil resources, but also very rare and rare mines on the seabed, with a total economic value of trillions of dollars. The British Navy was built with the goal of a small and strong fleet capable of winning a medium-sized naval battle on its own. For this reason, the British Navy is not only "Queen Elizabeth." The class aircraft carrier is equipped with electromagnetic catapults, making it a medium-sized aircraft carrier capable of carrying conventional take-off and landing fighters and fixed-wing carrier-based early warning aircraft; Special attention is also paid to nuclear submarines, hybrid submarines, and less attention is paid to conventional submarines; Large water surface

The "Japanese" warships also pay special attention to air defense and antisubmarine capabilities, and do not have any requirements for sea dominance capabilities

France, Germany, and Italy are all continental countries. Although France also has a large overseas territory, it has no territorial disputes with other countries. The German Navy and the Italian Navy were even more limited to the waters near Europe, and there was no pressure to go to the ocean. And so it goes. The French, German and Italian warships pay more attention to the ability to fight in the near sea, that is, the ability to carry out anti-submarine missions and sea domination tasks under the cover of shore-based aviation. For example, France's "Mitterrand" aircraft carrier did not use nuclear-powered missile launchers like the "Charles de Gaulle," but developed into a multi-purpose maritime combat platform with powerful amphibious combat capabilities. In terms of submarines, except for France, which has nuclear submarine hybrid submarines in order to maintain its status as a nuclear power, Germany and Italy have only conventional submarines.

Whether to go to the open ocean or stay in the near sea, the Indian Navy has no clue at all.

The "British" generals, represented by Fernandez, insisted that the Indian Navy must go to the open sea. Overcoming obstacles for India's hegemony in the Indian Ocean. The "Lu School" represented by Wildert. The generals believed that the Indian Navy should stay in the offshore waters and focus on the defense of the homeland.

Everyone knows that hidden in the "struggle of consciousness." The latter is the "conflict of interests".

Fernandes studied in the UK. Wildert, on the other hand, studied in Germany. According to outside rumors, Wydt and the German Ministry of Defense 、... The company, the Bremen shipyard, the Donbass Steel Group, Germany's largest shipbuilding group has close ties with the Ship Poison Steel Production Group. As for Fernandez's relationship with England, the idiots know that it is extraordinary; When Fernandez graduated from the Royal Naval College in the United Kingdom, he was not only received by the British Secretary of State for Defense, but also was in the same class as the then British prince who became the king of the United Kingdom.

Anyway, different naval thinking. Let the Indian Navy waver on the road of exhibition.

After the war in Japan, the situation changed. In order to contain China, the United States began to win over India, and not only promised to sell large surface warships, including the "Aunt Zhuwalt"-class destroyers, to India. It also agreed to provide India with all-electric submarines, and even promised to help India build a large aircraft carrier.

In a while, the "American faction" became the sworn enemy of the "British faction" and the "Lu faction".

It was also at this time that the internal forces of the Indian Navy changed, and some of the generals of the "British faction" defected to the "American faction", while some of the generals joined the "continental faction" to form the "European faction." "The leaders of the two factions are still Fernández and Wildett.

In the battle for the Indian Navy's chief of staff, equivalent to the previous naval commander, Wildet was defeated.

Fernández, who defected to the "American faction" and became the leader of the "American faction", successfully sat on the throne of chief of staff of the navy. Later the Indian Navy "procured from the United States." Major projects such as the three mothballed "Nimitz" class aircraft carriers, several large surface warships, all-electric attack submarines, Ma-4 carrier-based fighters, 4 2 inclined rotary-wing early warning aircraft, and 4 long-range antisubmarine patrol planes were all handled by Fernandez.

As a loser in the struggle, Wydt lost his soul and was sent to the Western Fleet.

This change came too quickly, and the impact on the Indian Navy was also great.

Although part of the "British" generals were united. But the "European faction" is still crushed to death. Under the influence of the "American faction," the Indian Navy quickly embarked on the "road to the open sea."

Of course, European countries also suffered a lot.

As the United States increases the level of arms sales to India. European arms, which were once very popular in India, have become unsalable. In the case of Germany's conventional submarines, India originally signed a large contract with Germany in the year of teeth to order four and intend to purchase eight Ying-class conventional submarines. As a result, after the United States was willing to sell all-electric attack submarines, the Indian Navy canceled the female intention order, which cost German shipbuilders nearly 10 billion euros.

Of all the European countries, the only one who can smile is the United Kingdom.

As the threat in the South Atlantic intensified, the British Navy urgently needed a more powerful large aircraft carrier, and at that time, Britain received information that Argentina was trying to build or buy a large aircraft carrier before the previous year, so as to build the most powerful fleet in South America, and it would have to eliminate the "Queen Elizabeth" class aircraft carrier, which was already outdated. The result was with the strong support of Fernández. The Indian Navy not only bought a "surplus aircraft carrier." "It also came up with a lot of money, so that the British Navy made a lot of money from it.

Wildert was disappointed and wanted to watch.

In addition to the struggle of interests, as a member of the Navy, Wildert knows very well that the Indian Navy's "pulling out the seedlings to help them grow" exhibition method is unlikely to achieve good results. The construction period of the navy is the longest among the major branches of the armed forces, and the training of personnel is the most difficult. No navy can dominate the world overnight. According to the most optimistic estimates, a strong navy needs to be at least a year-long exhibition period. And a navy that can dominate the world needs at least four fighters. Historically. Whether it is the British Navy in the past, the US Navy after World War II, or the current Chinese Navy. They all went through the exhibition time of falling to the old calloused before they had the strength to defy the enemy.

From the Fourth Indo-Pakistani War to the Year of Force, there is only one year.

With two generations of naval personnel at most, is it possible for the Indian Navy to go to the ocean in such a short period of time?

A powerful warship alone is by no means a powerful navy.

The strength of the navy lies in its advanced military thinking, excellent officers and men, and finally a powerful fleet.

““２。 There is no way for the navy to guide the thought of the navy. There is even a lack of fighters, even if they can buy advanced warships with huge sums of money. Having built a fleet that ranks third in the world, the Indian Navy is not a powerful navy, at most a navy waiting to be slaughtered.

From the point of view of "European" generals such as Wildert. It will not be until the beginning of the year that India will have the strength to dominate the Indian Ocean.

Although this view was scoffed by Fernandez and other "American" generals, it was completely in line with the reality of the Indian Navy. Judging from the strength of the Indian Navy in the year of the sword, even if it has the strength to challenge the Chinese Navy in terms of fleet size, it is at least one year behind the Chinese Navy in terms of naval ideology, and it is even less comparable in terms of the quality of officers and men. China's navy has grown from small to large, from weak to strong, and has gradually developed from a regional navy to a global navy. The time used is not a force year, nor is it a fierce year. It's a whole year of milk. After the Fourth Indo-Pakistani War, the Chinese Navy participated in a number of wars. All officers with more than one year of service have actual combat experience, and the vast majority of non-commissioned officers also have actual combat experience, and non-commissioned officers are no less important than officers. It can be said that the Chinese Navy grew up on the battlefield of blood and fire, and not only has a deep family background, but also has an exceptionally clear idea of army building. On the other hand, the Indian Navy, except for a complete defeat in the Fourth Indo-Pakistani War, has never participated in any war, not even a military operation. During the conflict in southern Tibet. The Indian Navy even hid in the Bay of Bengal, and did not even have the courage to face it.

What hope does the Indian Navy have in this situation?

The fact that the Navy cannot win does not mean that the Navy is not important.

Whether it is "American" or "European". They all firmly believe that the navy is the backbone of India's national defense. Although India is fundamentally a continental country, and the proportion of its defense strength in the army and air force also exceeds that of the navy, India's rationale is very unique, otherwise it is located in the "Indian Peninsula." Deep into the Indian Ocean, the Andaman and Nicobar Islands in the east guard the choke point of the Indian Ocean and the Pacific Ocean, the southern part of the sea lanes from Europe, the Middle East, East Africa, South Africa, South America to East Asia, and the Arabian Gulf of Persia and the Gulf of Aden to the west. It can be said that India is in the middle of the Indian Ocean, and it can easily control the Indian Ocean and be defeated by enemies from the sea.

The sea is both the direction of India's development and India's defensive barrier.

To make the sea an insurmountable barrier. India must have a strong navy.

Any act of risking the navy is a traitorous move to bury India.

It is precisely because of this that Wedert and others resolutely oppose a war with China, and even more so a decisive battle with the Chinese Navy.

In Wildett's view, as long as the Indian Navy is still active, it can still pose a threat to the Chinese Navy. can resist the threat from the sea.

This mang's thought is completely consistent with Fernandez's "British school" thought.

According to traditional naval thinking, the "existing fleet" is the main guarantor of national security. Even in the 2nd century, this idea is still useful. In practice, as long as the Indian Navy is still active, it can still pose a threat to the enemy. The Chinese Navy would not dare to rashly blockade India. It is even more impossible to obtain absolute sea supremacy. As a result, the Chinese Navy will inevitably try to find ways to annihilate the Indian fleet and fall into the trap of the Indian Navy. In a battle that is backed by a network of local military bases to ensure maritime supremacy in the near sea, the defending side has more advantages.

It's just that the rapidly expanding naval power. Many Indian admirals, including Fernandez, lost themselves.

In the eyes of many Indian naval generals, with six aircraft carrier battle groups, the Indian Ocean has become an Indian inland sea and a "training ground" for the Indian Navy.

On July, after learning of the departure of China's East China Sea Fleet, the Indian Navy Command conducted a war game, with the "American faction" led by Fernandez leading the offensive and the "European faction" led by Wildett leading the defense. The result of the deduction did not change Fernández's claim, and it can even be said that he advocated Fernández's idea of a decisive battle, because the deduction itself was unfair and the defending side did not receive the support it deserved.

Based on this deduction, Fernandez made the decision to fight a decisive battle with the Chinese navy.

Although Whitet and other "European" generals resolutely opposed it, the ideas of Whitet and others were not adopted in the general situation in which the "Europeans" lost power.

What made Wildert feel even more incomprehensible. Fernandez went so far as to let him lead the Western Fleet to the eastern Indian Ocean.

According to common sense, in the case of Wildt's resolute opposition to a decisive battle, Fernandez should have let the chief of staff of the Western Fleet command the fleet to fight, rather than let a general who did not want a decisive battle lead the fleet to the decisive battle. After all, when it comes to the battlefield, how to fight is not decided by the chief of staff of the Navy, but by the commander of the front. If Wildert is determined to avoid war, it is quite possible that the Western Fleet will avoid the Chinese fleet and will not appear on the battlefield at all.

Within a few days, Wildert understood what Fernandez meant.

Things weren't as simple as Wildert expected. Fernandez had long anticipated Wildert's thoughts.

On the combat mission assigned to the Western Fleet. Fernandez left Wynd particularly without a choice. If Wydt does not carry out the orders of the command of the Navy, he will bear all the consequences. If Wydt had carried out his orders, the greatest contributor to the victory would have been Fernandez, and the greatest responsibility for the defeat would have been the fleet commander.

The order is: go forward and lure the enemy.

An order that looks absurd, but fits the real situation.