Girls und War

When designing an aircraft carrier, a series of issues such as logistics support, take-off and landing, and maintenance of carrier-based aircraft must be taken into consideration.

Therefore, when designing a ship, it must be equipped with special equipment such as lifting platforms, duplex hangars, maintenance stations, catapults, etc.

Although some large amphibious assault ships can take off and land some fighter jets, their compatibility is not good, just like a 1.8-meter-tall man wearing size S underwear.

At the same time, many amphibious ships were originally designed simply to launch helicopters, and their decks are far less heat-resistant and durable than aircraft carriers.

If you force an amphibious ship to take off and land vertical take-off and landing fighter jets, do you believe that two holes will be burned on your deck in minutes?

There is also a third point.

This is the combat mode of an aircraft carrier, which is to serve as an ocean-going base for fighter jets to achieve the effect of range control.

In other words, aircraft carriers are used to seize air superiority and have little to do with the sea or land. Other tasks will be handled by other ships in the aircraft carrier battle group.

What about amphibious ships?

Look at their functions - air defense, sea control, anti-submarine, landing, support, command... It seems like they are all-rounders who can do a little bit of everything.

But is it better to know more?

In modern warfare, it is more reliable to specialize in one thing.

So in fact, the ultimate role of amphibious ships is to assist in near-shore landing operations.

For this reason, amphibious ships have one more feature than aircraft carriers: they will be equipped with a dock - that is, they can give birth.

During combat, by cooperating with amphibious landing ships, releasing large hovercraft and amphibious armored vehicles, and adding air support from armed helicopters, a beach landing can be completed.

But the design space required for a dock is really too large.

Therefore, aircraft carriers will definitely not be designed with docks and landing bays.

The helicopter carrier in Xia Shu's hands is closer to a real aircraft carrier in terms of design and function.

——She has a lift, supporting cabins, a large hangar capacity, and no dock for giving birth.

Even with a slight modification, replacing the helicopters with vertical take-off and landing carrier-based aircraft, it would be a medium-sized aircraft carrier of neither too big nor too small.

As for why Xia Shu chose to order an aircraft carrier instead of a large amphibious assault ship - the reason is also very simple.

Although amphibious assault ships have their own advantages - such as being able to deploy armored vehicles for landing operations; or performing air defense and anti-submarine operations in one go, without the need for frigate assistance.

But these functions are of no help to special forces.

What is the mission of their special forces?

Quick response, long-range delivery, and precise strike.

Which of these tasks requires the help of amphibious ships?

Even the hangar capacity of an amphibious ship is sufficient for helicopters?

Can they accomplish large-scale airpower projection using amphibious ships?

You know, the current organization of the special forces is all highly mobile troops, and they don’t even have an armored vehicle.

So in this case, a dedicated ocean-going aircraft carrier for helicopters becomes very important.

Six take-off points can quickly complete the take-off of a large number of helicopters.

Combat, communications, and medical, three special operations departments were instantly deployed to the battlefield.

Add to that the air fire support from combat-type armed helicopters - do we still need tanks?

No need at all.

This is not to say that tanks are no longer needed in modern warfare. In fact, tanks are still the core of the army's defense line on the front battlefield.

However, special forces have already separated themselves from the ranks of ordinary armies. Their mission is not to conduct offensive operations, but to use their high mobility and stealth to quickly and effectively destroy the enemy's most important rear-line high-value units.

Therefore, helicopter carriers and a large number of helicopter formations are all built according to their own mission requirements.

These were the main topics that the officers on the helicopter carrier talked about with Xia Shu.

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Soon, Xia Shu on the aircraft carrier, together with the officers from various combat units, reached a strategic consensus with the naval officers operating the aircraft carrier.

As for the consensus on management, Yixian and other middle-level officers had long understood that they were there to support the special forces and provide protection for them.

Lieutenant General Yanjie had made this very clear to them before sending them here.

So at this time, they did not show any implicit attitude of taking over the role.

Soon, Xia Shu and they made plans to prepare for loading various equipment onto the ship.

It was getting late at this time, and in order to save some money for dinner, Xia Shu decided to withdraw from the imaginary battlefield with his combat team members.

The subsequent arrangements will be the same outside.

So everyone unanimously decided to talk about it slowly after they got out.

After a while, after Xia Shu and his team members withdrew from the imaginary battlefield, they saw that all the girls were excited.

It seems that they also began to imagine the scene of sailing across the ocean on their own aircraft carrier.

So, it is comfortable to use your own car.

No matter how good your relationship is, you will still be nervous when someone lends you their car.

But at this time, there is one thing worth mentioning.

That is the name of the aircraft carrier, what should it be called?

You can't keep calling "Hangqi, Hangqi" all the time, right?

970. Special Forces Internal Reference Report

Xia Shu still didn't decide on the name of the aircraft carrier herself this time, because she knew that any name she chose would be met with fierce opposition.

So she put the naming rights to the collective meeting for discussion and let everyone vote to decide on a name.

Moreover, the people participating in the vote this time are not just from the special forces and several land warfare departments.

After receiving the aircraft carrier, the officers from the Navy Department were also transferred from the Navy Headquarters to their special forces camp.

Since we will be a family from now on, there is no reason not to bring them along to play the important task of naming the aircraft carrier.

So in the end, everyone voted unanimously to officially name the aircraft carrier "Seacat".

Although Xia Shu felt that this name was a bit too low-key compared to the names of the great aircraft mothers such as Holy Qilin or Phoenix King, after all, the current name was what the people wanted, so Xia Shu agreed to the final name.

By the way, there are three other names for voting, namely "Big Cat", "Paving Cat" and "Cat God".

I don’t know why they are so fond of the concept of cats - shouldn’t it be dolphins, whales or something like that?

It's quite weird anyway.

In the following days, as various types of helicopters gradually boarded the ship and the navy's two escort destroyers arrived in succession, the special forces' "maritime military base" battle group formed real combat effectiveness.

But even so, Xia Shu has not planned the next step.

Because this year's admiral meeting will soon begin.

At this time, Xia Shu received a task assigned by the young commander - to write an internal reference report for the Hua District Headquarters.

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The so-called internal reference report is the abbreviation of internal reference information.

As the name suggests, this is a report for internal research and not released publicly.

Generally speaking, this kind of information is submitted to the highest department only after professionals conduct detailed data analysis and scientific research on a certain industry.

Basically every year, the top staff officers of each staff group will submit a large number of internal reference reports to the headquarters of each theater.

Now that the special operations forces have been formalized, they naturally have to submit internal reference reports that professionally analyze the special operations forces.

And who is the most professional person in the special forces?

Without a doubt, it was Xia Shu.

However, the report submitted by Xia Shu alone does not seem to be comprehensive enough.

So the young commander also assigned two other people, namely Jiamei and Doragon.

As for taking a nap, needless to say.

As a mid-level military officer with a strong strategic vision, writing internal references is basically something I have to do every year.

But this guy Doragon.

Haha, I won’t say much unpleasant words. In short, she is a complete gangster.

Although the special forces training camp cannot be without a core mascot like her, everyone knows that Xia Shu is the only one in the special forces who has the real right to make the training camp course arrangements.

And Doragon, the camp commander, her words are not even as effective as those of the ordinary physical trainers in the training camp.

But in principle, Doragon is still the direct superior of the training camp, so he still has to pay attention to matters of face.

Although Doragon is a big jerk, her opinions, in principle, still represent the overall training ideas of the training camp.

Therefore, she had to be included in the list of people who submitted internal reference reports.

After figuring this out, Xia Shu knew what he should write.

It is nothing more than organizing the development history of the special operations forces and making a detailed explanation of the future planning direction of the special operations forces in accordance with the overall construction ideas in the future.

Xia Shu usually talked a lot about these things with the young commander, so the young commander knew the details of the report without even reading it.

But the young commander knew it, but the other generals didn't.

So these internal reports, after all, are for other people in the Generals' Council to see.

But it is easier said than done.

It’s like a scientific research project has been completed, the data has been obtained, the overall project progress is very perfect, and even an excellent result has been obtained.

But if you can't write a paper, no matter how good the data is, it will be useless.

It’s like those industry giants who are not very professional but have high titles. Is it really because they are so capable and their research level is comparable to Einstein?

No, actually it’s because they write good papers and are particularly good at it.

Many of the papers and reports required for professional titles are fabricated.

As long as you can learn how to split the research results of a project into three papers and send them out, you can also experience an academic experience as refreshing as diarrhea.

So even though Xia Shu has a lot of things in his mind that he can write about, if he doesn't know how to polish them, the benefits he will get won't be very high.

However, an internal report on special forces will not allow those arrogant generals to remember me deeply.

So, in order to make a good impression at this admiral meeting, Xia Shu went to ask for advice from his classmate Jiamei who was quite good at this.

After arriving here, I happened to see Doragon there too.

Xia Shu didn't need to say much, as he knew the reason for her coming here.

So I directly taught them some experience in writing a water paper, oh no, writing an internal reference.

"...So, Xia Shu, your report must focus on the future of special forces development. You don't need to write about management methods, because I'll be doing that. Then, Dragon, you can just write about how to arrange targeted training. What? You don't know how? Just find a few instructors and copy their plans. It's not that hard."

After listening to Jiamei's explanation of the internal reference reporting method, Xia Shu couldn't help but nod repeatedly.

I never thought that these few words could be turned into a 7,000-8,000-word essay. He's really good at pretending to sleep, really amazing.

But Doragon still looked a little strange, so he asked, "Is this even possible? I don't understand this, what if I make a mistake?"

"It's a mistake, so what? It's no big deal," Fake Sleep said impatiently. "The Special Operations Forces is a new department. You don't understand it, and those generals don't understand it even more. Just look professional, and they won't delve into it."

"Is this okay? Then... I'll go back and copy the plan." Doragon touched his head and left the office in a daze.

Xia Shu looked at her back and couldn't help but sigh.

But don't be fooled by her current appearance. Judging from her resume, she is indeed very capable.

Because she was appointed as the battalion commander of the special operations training camp, she was about to be promoted from major to lieutenant colonel.

It seems that the progress is even faster than Chunxiang's.

But Haruka is really not good at strategic planning, so Natsuki also feels that promoting her to a higher rank is not a good choice.

This situation is already very good.