Reborn South Africa as a police officer

Chapter 1510
The amphibious landing ship looks like an aircraft carrier from the outside. The upper deck can park carrier-based aircraft, but the hangar is not equipped with aircraft but amphibious tanks. Other countries are still groping for the best way to use tanks. At that time, all navies in southern Africa had armored forces.

There are planes and tanks. You southern Africans call this a navy?

Seeing the black-smoky amphibious tank roaring out of the amphibious landing ship, Roger Case's three views were almost subverted.

It wasn't just the amphibious landing ships that surprised Roger Keyes. By the standards of the Royal Navy, the auxiliary ships of the Indian Ocean Fleet had reached another level.

In addition to the amphibious landing ship, there is also a medical ship and a supply ship participating in the exercise.

Needless to say, the medical ships in southern Africa benefited from the developed medical level in southern Africa. The medical ships in southern Africa participated in the world wars and played an important role. They also had a major impact on the medical ships of the Royal Navy.

The tonnage of the supply ship is also more than [-] tons. The various booms on the ship are made like a small dock. The supply ship is not an invention in southern Africa, but it has been carried forward in the southern African navy.

In 1899, the U.S. Navy's "Magulusi" collier used the "Miller" cableway method to conduct a sea voyage replenishment test on the "Massachusetts" battleship.

In 1906, the tanker of the British Navy conducted a longitudinal refueling test on the battleship "Victor Rees".

Have you noticed that the supply ships of the United States and the United Kingdom are either coal carriers or oil tankers, and their functions are relatively simple, and they do not carry much coal or fuel, so they are not valued by the British and American navies.

The supply ships in southern Africa have developed from a single oil tanker, munitions ship, and food ship to a comprehensive supply ship. The variety of supplies has expanded from supplying fuel oil, lubricating oil, and fresh water to food, ammunition, and even personnel transportation. The supply methods include dry goods. and liquid cargo horizontal replenishment device; longitudinal replenishment device for replenishing liquid cargo, and a helicopter platform that can replenish dry cargo vertically; cranes are arranged on both sides for anchoring replenishment and drifting replenishment.

In addition, the supply ship in southern Africa also has a certain scale of medical facilities and repair equipment.

In short, apart from not participating in direct attacks, the supply ship can do almost anything, and become a logistics base accompanying the fleet.

For the Royal Navy, the beach landing procedure was simple and rough. First, several rounds of indiscriminate bombardment of the target position were carried out with naval guns, and then sailors with rifles swarmed up, and the beach landing was considered complete.

This is due to the super sea power of the Royal Navy. There are not many countries in the world that can confront the Royal Navy. Countries that are capable of confronting the Royal Navy have not directly fought each other. During the World War, the Royal Navy suppressed After joining the German Navy, he once made a plan to land in Germany, but in the end it was not implemented due to various reasons.

In the view of Jackson Marshall and Garfield, if the Royal Navy landed on the German mainland in this way, it would be a disaster waiting for the Royal Navy.

The exercise in the morning was like a farce. The performance of the Royal Navy was quite different from that of the legendary Armada. There was also a big problem with the cooperation between the ships. The sailors had already landed on the beach. Without extension, a shell exploded directly in the advancing sailor team. Although this was not a large-caliber shell, it still killed more than 20 sailors and injured nearly 60.

Then the exercise was suspended urgently, and the medical ship of the Indian Ocean Fleet finally came into use, and the helicopters taking off from the aircraft carrier and amphibious landing ship opened Roger Case's eyes again.

I have to say that after this exercise, the Royal Navy needs to make up too many lessons.

The exercise in the afternoon will focus on the Indian Ocean Fleet.

Like the Mediterranean Fleet, the Indian Ocean Fleet's beach landing also carried out fire strikes first. At this time, the difference between the two armies was already seen. The Indian Ocean Fleet's fire strikes were carried out by carrier-based bombers.

Compared with naval guns, carrier-based bombers' attacks are more accurate, and their power is not much worse than that of large-caliber naval guns.

The problem is that the aerial bombs used by carrier-based aircraft are different from the shells used by naval guns. The shells are either armor-piercing shells or grenades. They are not very useful when dealing with Yonggu fortifications. Unless they hit directly, they will not damage Yonggu fortifications. cause a devastating blow.

To deal with permanent fortifications, the best effect is the napalm bombs dropped by carrier-based aircraft.

The main component of napalm bombs is jelly gasoline, which is as thick and burnable as lard paste. After being contaminated with jelly gasoline, if you pat it with your hands, the more you pat it, the bigger the fire will be. If you roll it on the ground to put out the fire, it will It makes the whole body full of fire, and once there is a lot of fire on people, the people next to them should stay away as much as possible, because the crazy struggle of the person on fire can easily throw the burning oil lumps to other people to form a secondary killing effect.

If humanitarian considerations suggest that it is better to use a gun to end the life of the person on fire, for the victims of napalm, death may be the greatest relief.

Most of the bombs used by the carrier-based aircraft of the Indian Ocean Fleet are napalm bombs. Although the number is small, the effect is excellent, and soon a wall of fire is formed in the landing area.

Under the cover of the fire, the amphibious tanks of the landing force rushed to the beach. The marines used the tanks as the fulcrum to establish a beachhead. The engineers then began to build simple trestles, and more supplies were sent to the beachhead.

There are no crowd tactics, no outflanking and detours, and no accidents caused by man. It's just the wide open and close push all the way, the generation gap caused by advanced weapons, and the tacit cooperation between the various arms, let Roger · Case couldn't say a word.

Impeccable!

After watching the exercise of the Indian Ocean Fleet, the bridge of the "Queen Elizabeth" battleship was silent.

During the joint exercise between the Royal Navy and the Southern African Navy two years ago, the Royal Navy was still the main force, and the Southern African Navy was in a subsidiary position.

Now the situation has undergone a fundamental reversal. Compared with the increasingly professional southern African navy, the crappy Royal Navy is like a mob, farther and farther away from the performance that the "Invincible Fleet" should have.

"It's really time for the generals of the War Department to take a look at the performance of the southern African navy. Maybe the southern Africans are right—" Roger Case was in a heavy heart. The current war is no longer the previous war. , The powerful battleships hardly play any role except for the firepower attack on the shore. There are aircraft carriers for attacking the fleet, and destroyers and cruisers for anti-submarine and escort. In addition to being used to display the image, the expensive battleships are playing more and more roles. smaller.

Although already aware of this problem, it involves the Royal Navy's army building ideas, and Roger Case has no decision-making power.

This is the crux of the problem. Those who discover the problem do not have the right to decide, but those who have the right to make sure are in offices far away from the front line. If this continues, the Royal Navy will sooner or later be like the British Empire——

Can't say, dare not say, can't say.

"Which aspect are you referring to?" Cunningham asked casually.

Roger Case smiled wryly, yes, only from this exercise, the gap between the Royal Navy and the Southern African Navy is not in any aspect, but behind in all aspects, which is really unacceptable.

In the evening, Cyprus arranged a routine dinner. Regardless of how the fleet performed during the exercise, a luxurious and luxurious dinner is essential.

The generals of the Mediterranean Fleet were not in the mood to participate, and they were absent collectively. Roger Case called the generals of the Mediterranean Fleet to resume the daytime exercises.

"We need to strengthen the tacit understanding between the fleets. The mistakes in the morning are really unreasonable. We also need to strengthen our medical strength. Why can the Indian Ocean Fleet transfer the wounded to the medical ship in just half an hour? If we How long will it take to be responsible for the transfer?" Although Roger Case was unwilling, he still had to face reality.

"We need helicopters from the Indian Ocean Fleet—" Cunningham's idea was still to spend money. Without advanced equipment, there would be no strong combat effectiveness.

"I'll talk about this later. Even if there is no helicopter, we should do our best under the existing conditions. Have we achieved this?" Roger Case is not superstitious about equipment. Could it be impossible to fight without advanced equipment? Is it a battle?

The Royal Navy is actually not short of money. Even if the British finances are so tight, the annual allocation to the Royal Navy is still tens of millions. If you really want to use the money wisely, it can actually solve many problems.

The problem is that the Royal Navy is also hard to return now. I am used to a coffee cup that costs 100 pounds, and I always feel uncomfortable when I use a coffee cup that costs [-] rand. Even the coffee is not so delicious.

If small things like coffee cups are insignificant, then in terms of large equipment, the Southern African Navy also has a huge advantage. Whale Bay Shipyard offered a price of 50 for a ghost submarine, and the purchase by the Southern African Navy is definitely not so expensive.

Who made it impossible for the local British shipyards to even imitate U-shaped submarines.

Perhaps it is because of this little money that British shipyards look down on them. After all, the cost of a "Nelson" class battleship is tens of millions, and the profit is casually several million. The profit of the ghost submarine is only so much.

Of course, this problem cannot be calculated in this way. After all, only two "Nelson" class battleships are built, but the number of submarines can reach hundreds. Even if the profit of a single submarine is too low, the number can make up for it. It was the generals of the War and Admiralty departments, and the bosses of the local shipyards were equally short-sighted.

If it's a question of combat effectiveness, Roger Case can still work hard.

But how to solve technical problems?

This question is beyond the scope.

(End of this chapter)