Judging from Zhu Cixi's own experience after receiving the big gift package, only a quarter of the weapons and equipment for twelve months, that is, three months, can be used for a long time.
The remaining three-quarters must become organ donors, otherwise the other quarter of weapons and equipment will have to be paralyzed due to lack of ammunition and spare parts.
Main battle tanks such as Challenger III and Leopard II-E use Rheinmetall's 120mm smoothbore cannon, which is the same type of gun installed on Kimchi's K-2 main battle tank.
Therefore, we obtained the same type of ammunition. Otherwise, if we use up all the ammunition we carry, we can use it as a tractor...
Now the British First Army, the Western First Army, and the Russian First Army are all fighting in eastern Persia with a group of heavy equipment that will soon be turned into tractors.
Although Persia has a plateau terrain, there is also the Alborz Mountains in the north as a natural barrier.
However, the northeastern part belongs to the open area of the plateau, and the hinterland is the Kavir Salt Desert. To the northwest of the salt desert is the capital Tehran.
It can be said that it is very difficult to capture the entire territory of Persia, but it is not difficult to capture only northern Persia and capture Tehran.
Hussein also realized this and ordered the construction of three lines of defense in the northeastern border area to block the enemy's attack.
In general, it is to use hills, trenches, and bunkers to combine natural and artificial geographical advantages.
Deploy anti-tank missiles, anti-tank guns, rocket launchers, howitzers, anti-aircraft guns, and anti-aircraft missiles in these available locations.
A large area of minefields is laid out in the forward position, while the armored troops are hidden in the rear, cooperating with the aircraft group, waiting for opportunities to carry out counterattacks. This is a typical defensive counterattack tactic.
There is nothing that can be done about this. Persia wants to resist the Ming Empire in the east and unite with Israel in the west to deal with the Ottoman Empire.
The price of a two-front war is to disperse the troops, not to mention that there is a long coastline in southern Persia, which is not conducive to full-line defense.
The advantage is that the southward waters are the Persian Gulf with relatively winding waterways, which is not conducive to the deployment of the large fleet. On the contrary, the small ships of the Persian Navy seem to be at ease.
But from a macro perspective, even if Hussein formed an alliance with King David and Shiren, he would still have to face the trio of Zhu Cihong, Ibrahim, and Louis XIV.
The latter are almost the three most powerful countries in the world, and now Persia and Israel have actually been offended...
Originally, neither the Ming Empire nor the French Empire participated, but as Hussein's strength expanded rapidly.
Not only did it seize the western region of French India, it also protected Zhu Cihong's enemies.
This means that Persia harmed the interests of the Ming Empire and France at the same time, and the other side would naturally use military means to seek justice.
The happiest person is Ibrahim. It was originally difficult to fight one against two, but now he has two powerful helpers.
Even if Shiren is added, it will be three against three. However, the combination of these three giants on our side will definitely relieve Ibrahim.
The last time Ming, France, and Austria joined forces was when they destroyed the Holy Roman Empire.
Louis XIV never thought that he would encounter such a thing for the second time in his lifetime.
The Ottoman Empire and the French Empire were informal allies before the rise of the Ming Empire.
Because French senior officials regard the Spanish Empire controlled by the Habsburg family as the number one threat. Counting the Holy Roman Empire to the east, France is geographically flanked by the Habsburg family.
If you offend the Ottomans, there will basically be no good end, so secretly colluding with the Ottoman Empire is inevitable.
Now that France has moved to East Asia, it has no actual interest entanglement with the Ottoman Empire. It is natural for them to become allies in order to deal with the same group of enemies.
At first, Louis XIV did not believe that there was such a thing in the world, but first Leopold and his son, and then Hussein, he had no choice but to believe it.
No matter how weak France is, it is still stronger than Persia. Persia took advantage of the rebellion in French India and seized the western region, which was simply a treasonous act.
Now that my old friend has finally reached the end of his patience, he has avoided a large number of casualties among his own troops.
Being able to recover the western part of French India at the lowest cost was something that Louis XIV really wanted to see.
In return, he was also willing to let Tourville lead the French main fleet to participate in the military operation to blockade the Arabian Sea.
Although the Persian navy had a large number of small boats, it was very difficult to pack them up.
But with the Ming Empire's navy standing in the way, Tourville would have an easier time.
In order to prevent the Ming army from landing on the southeastern coast of the country, the Persian Navy dispatched thousands of 265-ton "Sina" class missile boats and 50-ton class high-speed missile boats.
The former has a 76mm naval gun and two twin anti-ship missiles, while the latter is equipped with a 12.7mm machine gun and two anti-ship missiles.
These missile boats can fire nearly 4,000 anti-ship missiles at a time and have extremely strong damage capabilities to maritime targets. The average fleet cannot withstand an attack of this scale.
However, the assault by the Persian missile boat fleet did not achieve miraculous results, let alone the brilliant results imagined.
Because they faced a huge fleet with forty-six aircraft carriers and thirty amphibious assault ships.
The Ming Empire's expeditionary fleet has more than 2,000 carrier-based fighter jets and helicopters, and its air defense, anti-ship, and anti-submarine capabilities are extremely balanced and outstanding.
Not only that, there are also more than 400 destroyers and frigates, and nearly 100 submarines.
In addition, Zheng Chenggong also sent 240 patrol ships and missile boats.
These small and medium-sized ships play a very good role in protecting the main battleships and auxiliary ships.
At around 11 a.m. on April 5, the two sides engaged in a naval battle with the largest number of warships in human history in waters about 100 nautical miles southeast of Chabahar.
If calculated in terms of tonnage, New Zealand's naval battle ranks first in the world.
However, because there were more than a thousand Persian naval boats participating in the battle, the battle became the first in terms of quantity.
The "Sinna"-class missile boat can launch anti-ship missiles when it is more than fifty kilometers away from the target. However, since the anti-ship missile range of the high-speed missile boat is less than fifty kilometers, it has to rush closer to fire.
But they were simply unable to enter the predetermined firing distance. The presence of the Ming Dynasty Expeditionary Fleet meant that the air superiority over which waters was in the hands of the Ming fleet.
Before these missile boats could get close to their targets, they were besieged by Ming army carrier-based fighter jets.
It's not that the Persian Air Force didn't want to provide fire cover, but hundreds of fighter jets dispatched were shot down by the long-range anti-aircraft missiles of the Ming fleet.
The "Prom" shore-to-ship missile system, the "Fortress" shore-to-ship missile system, and the "Tomahawk" -5B cruise missile jointly attacked.
Both shore-to-ship missiles are carried by commercial ships, as are land-based air defense systems.
This move will not only increase the fleet's ground strike capabilities, but also improve its air defense capabilities to a certain extent.
Nearly half of the 385 merchant ships that followed the fleet on the expedition became weapons launching platforms.
Even if they are sunk, the cost is very low. Jiexuan can mobilize hundreds more merchant ships at any time to make up for the gap.
Sinking these merchant ships was not easy either, as they sailed just inside the fleet.
Not to mention anti-ship missiles, even torpedoes launched from submarines are difficult to hit them.
In addition to their own standard short-range defense systems, the escort ships of the expedition fleet also have many external close-range defense guns.
The fleet can carry thousands of anti-submarine helicopters and advance on a rolling basis in eight shifts of three hours each. Each shift can have hundreds of anti-submarine helicopters performing tasks outside the fleet at the same time.
The chances left to Persian submarines and missile boats are very slim. It's not that they can't achieve some results, but they just want to achieve a brilliant victory, which is impossible.
In particular, there are many warships in the fleet equipped with Russian 130mm double-barreled naval guns and Western 127mm naval guns. Large-caliber naval guns can destroy a missile boat with almost one shot.
It doesn't matter if the hit rate is impressive. The expedition fleet has enough naval guns and a large number of 76mm rapid-fire cannons that can be used to plug the firepower gap.
On the sea-sky boundary thirty kilometers away, the impact points of numerous naval gun shells formed an extremely wide and astonishing water curtain.
Prior to this, the Ming Army's carrier-based aircraft forces had destroyed nearly 900 missile boats.
These gadgets are flexible on the sea and are very difficult to destroy with anti-ship missiles.
Therefore, carrier-based aircraft pilots use air-to-air missiles with faster speed and greater overload to kill their prey.
For example, a high-speed missile boat with a displacement of only 50 tons is actually a kind of small fragile ship on the sea.
No matter how small the charge of an air-to-air missile is, one can blow it into a pile of fragments.
But the hit rate cannot be guaranteed because there are too many targets on the sea and it is easy to interfere with each other.
The Ming army pilots had no choice but to attack with a double salvo.
At the same time, the flight altitude must be lowered, which gives the opponent an opportunity to counterattack.
More than a hundred "King Vulture", "Typhoon" and "Rafale" were directly shot down by 76mm naval guns.
But the mission of the Persian missile boat force is not air defense, but anti-ship.
Before destroying the Ming fleet, the results of air defense were almost negligible.
This is a true maritime assault operation, and the level of danger can be regarded as a narrow escape.
The remaining more than 300 missile boats showed no signs of turning back and rushed towards the target without hesitation.
Before the enemy's warship could be seen with the naked eye, it was frantically blocked by the opponent's naval guns.
Pillars of water suddenly rose next to the missile boat. This was the most dangerous signal.
It means that it has entered the range of the naval gun, and it is possible to be shattered to pieces at any time.
An unfortunate missile boat was directly hit by a cannonball and instantly turned into a gorgeous fireworks.
This was no accident. Soon, missile boats were smashed into flying fragments by shells one after another.
The close-in defense artillery of the Ming Dynasty's expeditionary fleet had already started working, and the first batch of anti-ship missiles launched by the enemy had already flown in front of them.
Medium and long-range air defense missiles intercepted about 80% of the interception, and the remaining 20% could only be left to short-range missiles and close-range anti-aircraft guns.
The total number of incoming missiles exceeded 800, and they were greeted by more than 200 "RAM", "Kashtan", "Phalanx" and other close defense systems.
On average, a close defense system only needs to intercept less than five anti-ship missiles, and they are all subsonic missiles, so the pressure to destroy them is not great.
Although the warships from the four countries of Britain, Russia, India, and Spain summoned from the gift package have their own strengths, the only similarity is that their close defense capabilities are not much different.
It's not very outstanding and has no obvious shortcomings.
It is actually not easy to use four or five anti-ship missiles to destroy a warship in one direction.
As long as it is not attacked from the front or back, the close-in defense artillery does not need to make a 180-degree turn at all.
The shorter the muzzle adjustment time, the higher the efficiency of intercepting the target.
During the New Zealand naval battle, the coalition used a large number of anti-ship missiles and cruise missiles to witness the powerful air defense capabilities of the Japanese fleet. This was even when the opponent did not have external close-in anti-aircraft guns.
Since the warships of the Ming Dynasty did not care about stealth performance, they all installed external close-defense cannons, and their close-defense capabilities were naturally more outstanding.
The four gift packages, plus the warships made by oneself, made the warships in the Ming fleet as diverse as dumpling stuffing. There was no need to pursue stealth capabilities at all.
Jiexuan's view is the same as that of a certain emperor. If you want to win the current naval battle, you must proceed from reality.
Good-looking is only pleasing to the eye, practicality is the way to win.
Therefore, the two batches launched by the Persian missile boat fleet, adding up to thousands of anti-ship missiles, only achieved one destroyer, three frigates, and nine merchant ships.
Although the Ming Dynasty's expeditionary fleet did not escape unscathed, this level of casualties was insignificant and was completely within the tolerance of Jiexuan.
On the contrary, the opponent's missile boat force has been completely wiped out. Less than a hundred boats have returned, and most of them have been eaten by fish.
The helicopter fleet responsible for anti-submarine warfare has also achieved certain results. It has been confirmed that 45 enemy submarines were sunk, and about 88 more are still being verified.
Jiexuan could guess that if the opponent dispatched a missile boat, it would definitely make some moves underwater.
The submarine either cooperates with the missile boat or creates a time lag with the missile boat.
Let the submarine take the lead, and when the Ming fleet is busy anti-submarine, the missile boat will come over.
Let the missile boats take the lead, and when the Ming fleet is tired of dealing with anti-ship missiles, the submarines will launch torpedoes underwater.
In the end, the submarines achieved greater results than the missile boats. Eight destroyers, 15 frigates, and 31 merchant ships were severely damaged or sunk.
Jiexuan doesn't know exactly how many submarines Hussein has in hand, but judging from the current fighting situation, it will definitely not be less than 300.
Optimistically speaking, the battle destroyed about half of the opponent's submarines.
On the contrary, Hussein may have more than 200 submarines that can be put into combat.
This thing poses a great threat to our own fleet, so Jie Xuan requested that the EMP-145MP, PC-235, and P-1 maritime patrol aircraft previously obtained, together with the same type of aircraft manufactured by our own side, be put into anti-submarine operations in the northern Arabian Sea. .
These patrol aircraft can fly faster than helicopters, and have longer endurance and longer time in the air than helicopters.
With fleet protection, the patrol planes don't need to worry about being shot down by enemy planes, they can just concentrate on anti-submarine warfare.
Even if Hussein wants to use the "air, stealth, and speed" tactics, he still has to see who his opponent is!
Not to mention the French fleet commanded by Tourville on the outside. It would be even more interesting if they were negligent.
Sure enough, it didn't take long for the careless French fleet to sink four destroyers and three frigates...
